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Update, a few hours later: I re-thought this and went back to the GitHub Actions-enabled deployment method; I decided that, at least for now, it simply offers too many conveniences to blow it off, especially in favor of the slower development process required by using the Node.js Sass package mentioned below. Will keep you advised.
“The best-laid plans of mice and men,” and all that.
I had high hopes for the GitHub Actions method I recently proposed for installing the Embedded Dart Sass binary during the build process so Hugo could access it. At first, it seemed to work like a charm on both the site’s hosting vendors: Cloudflare Pages, the default; and Vercel, the backup.
Unfortunately, only half of that continued to be true during the last week. Although Vercel’s more mature build platform never flinched, I soon noticed that CFP suffered an error in nearly half of the attempts and had to have the job re-run (whereupon it would always build the second time).
The CFP error messages implied the problem was on Cloudflare’s end, during the process when the built site is being sent out to the various nodes of the Cloudflare CDN, so I couldn’t very well do anything about that.
I put up with it for a few days; but, today, I’d finally had enough. I reverted to not only the normal push-to-deploy method but also the Dart-Sass-with-Hugo-method about which I first wrote in March, which was installing the Node.js Sass package and working with that.
Yep, back came the node_modules, but at least this involved only two outright Node dependencies (as long as I can avoid worrying about everything else that comes over with npm init): sass and the rimraf cross-platform tool I use to keep stuff clean.
It began as a noble cause, but ended up not being worth the aggravation of keeping it going. At least I learned a few new things in the process of trying it.
Just thought I’d let you folks know.
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