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      The benefits of automation
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      <p>I've been working on a project with a client, using <a href="https://fractal.build">Fractal</a> for our component library. I've been working on it locally but yesterday I needed to make it public for the client to review the work I've done.</p>

      <p>I recently added <code>node</code> support to my <a href="/daily/2023/03/04/why-i-built-a-tool-to-generate-configuration-files">build configuration file generator</a> and used that to generate and use a consistent set of configuration files for a Fractal project.</p>

      <p>I've used Terraform in <a href="https://github.com/opdavies/rebuilding-acquia">some codebases</a> to create and configure AWS resources like S3 buckets and Cloudfront distributions, so I was able to use that to create what I needed as well as adding the DNS record for a new subdomain to access Cloudfront.</p>

      <p>I use a <code>justfile</code> to automate tasks such as generating production assets from Fractal and uploading it to the S3 bucket, so I can do this in a single command instead of multiple and in a consistent and reproducible way.</p>

      <p>I started with a standalone project on my laptop and finished with a consistent cloud-based environment for my client and their project to review their component library, and because of the automation that I've built and used, this only took a few minutes to do.</p>

              
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      <p>I've been working on a project with a client, using <a href="https://fractal.build">Fractal</a> for our component library. I've been working on it locally but yesterday I needed to make it public for the client to review the work I've done.</p>

      <p>I recently added <code>node</code> support to my <a href="/daily/2023/03/04/why-i-built-a-tool-to-generate-configuration-files">build configuration file generator</a> and used that to generate and use a consistent set of configuration files for a Fractal project.</p>

      <p>I've used Terraform in <a href="https://github.com/opdavies/rebuilding-acquia">some codebases</a> to create and configure AWS resources like S3 buckets and Cloudfront distributions, so I was able to use that to create what I needed as well as adding the DNS record for a new subdomain to access Cloudfront.</p>

      <p>I use a <code>justfile</code> to automate tasks such as generating production assets from Fractal and uploading it to the S3 bucket, so I can do this in a single command instead of multiple and in a consistent and reproducible way.</p>

      <p>I started with a standalone project on my laptop and finished with a consistent cloud-based environment for my client and their project to review their component library, and because of the automation that I've built and used, this only took a few minutes to do.</p>

              
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