jaypore_ci VS google-webfonts-helper

https://www.jayporeci.in/

I've been working on this CI system for a while.

1. Zero setup. Works on git hooks.

2. Python as the config language. Makes it very easy to do dependencies/matrix jobs/conditional jobs.

3. Offline first. It can work online with gitea as well.

4. Everything is in git. I don't need to muck around in and configure the CI system itself.

The config is a single python file and I run jobs using a git hook on my own laptop.

I'd love some feedback on what else I could add to this project to make life easier for people.

https://www.jayporeci.in/

I recently started using Gitea to host all my small projects. This has been great so far, however the lack of an inbuilt CI system like (github / gitlab) ended up hitting me hard.

I turned to drone CI / woodpecker CI / agola CI but they all required me to set up a server / runner etc so that they could run.

That's why I build Jaypore CI:

- Runs on your laptop / remote cloud

- CI status is directly posted in pull request description

- Uses docker to run everything so we can have caching / db services / publishing packages etc

- Configuration language is normal python. This allows job matrix, complex conditional jobs, multiple languages for each job

https://github.com/theSage21/jaypore_ci

I use https://gwfh.mranftl.com/ to grab the fonts and CSS for local use.

If you do want to self-host the fonts, there is a handy Web Fonts helper which generates the CSS and lets you download the .woff2 files you’ll need.

google webfonts helper - https://gwfh.mranftl.com

According to the Cloudflare December monthly stats, I had roughly 57k unique users, 15m requests, 1,3TB traffic. Though, most requests are likely to be bots/integrators spamming the API...

Running on a bare metal k8s cluster (libvirt) on top of a single dedicated Hetzner server, ~70€/month. Not going to monetize it, but will maybe accept donations/sponsorings in the future...

However I felt like this solution is quite opionated, and therefore I'd like to promote a different non-opionated solution (if anyone haven't heard of it yet) to get any font plus minimalistic styles: https://github.com/majodev/google-webfonts-helper

Just moved off https://github.com/majodev/google-webfonts-helper today from their free tier to my own private infra and replaced current the Heroku dyno with a 301: https://github.com/kenmickles/heroku-redirect

AFAIK sadly Heroku does not provide some other _free_ permanent redirect option for *.herokuapp.com apps without actually running a dyno there.

Let me throw in this little life safer here, that generates the CSS and bundles the font files for you: https://google-webfonts-helper.herokuapp.com/

As an alternative there is the google-webfonts-helper. It can be used online and regardless of the operating system.

As you can see, the font loading with Google Fonts can be complicated. However, you can reduce how many requests are needed to just one by self-hosting the font and putting the @font-face declaration inside your CSS bundle instead of an external stylesheet. A tool like Google Webfonts Helper can be helpful for this.