Migrate from App Engine to Firebase Hosting

.firebaserc

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+{
+  "projects": {
+    "default": "httparchive"
+  }
+}

.github/workflows/deploy.yml

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 ## Custom HTTP Archive GitHub action ##
 ######################################
 #
-# Deploys the website to Google App Engine (production) on every push to main.
+# Deploys the website to Firebase Hosting (production live channel) on every push to main.
 # Requires a GCP service account key stored as the GCP_SA_KEY repository secret.
 #
 name: Deploy to Production
@@ -12,9 +12,13 @@ on:
     branches:
       - main
 
+permissions:
+  checks: write
+  contents: read
+
 jobs:
   deploy:
-    name: Build and Deploy to App Engine
+    name: Build and Deploy to Firebase Hosting (Production)
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     if: github.repository == 'HTTPArchive/httparchive.org'
     steps:
@@ -24,21 +28,19 @@ jobs:
       - name: Setup Node.js for use with actions
         uses: actions/setup-node@v7
         with:
-          node-version: '24'
+          node-version: '26'
+          cache: 'npm'
 
       - name: Install dependencies
-        run: npm ci || npm install
+        run: npm ci
 
       - name: Build website
         run: npm run build
 
-      - name: Authenticate to Google Cloud
-        uses: google-github-actions/auth@v3
+      - name: Deploy to Firebase Hosting (Live)
+        uses: FirebaseExtended/action-hosting-deploy@v0
         with:
-          credentials_json: ${{ secrets.GCP_SA_KEY }}
-
-      - name: Set up Cloud SDK
-        uses: google-github-actions/setup-gcloud@v3
-
-      - name: Deploy to App Engine
-        run: echo "Y" | gcloud app deploy app.yaml --project httparchive
+          repoToken: '${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}'
+          firebaseServiceAccount: '${{ secrets.GCP_SA_KEY }}'
+          channelId: live
+          projectId: httparchive

.github/workflows/linter.yml

@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ name: Lint Code Base
 on:
   - workflow_dispatch
   - pull_request
+
 jobs:
   lint:
     name: Lint Code Base
@@ -20,13 +21,15 @@ jobs:
         with:
           # Full git history is needed to get a proper list of changed files within `super-linter`
           fetch-depth: 0
+
       - name: Set VALIDATE_ALL_CODEBASE variable to false
         # Only run the full workflow for manual runs or if upgrading the super linter
         if: |
             github.event_name != 'workflow_dispatch' &&
             startsWith(github.event.pull_request.title,'Bump super-linter/super-linter') != true
         run: |
           echo "VALIDATE_ALL_CODEBASE=false" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+
       - name: Lint Code Base
         uses: super-linter/super-linter/slim@v8
         env:
@@ -42,33 +45,3 @@ jobs:
           VALIDATE_JSON: true
           VALIDATE_MARKDOWN: true
           VALIDATE_YAML: true
-
-  dependabot:
-    name: Dependabot auto-merge
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    needs: lint
-    if: |
-      github.event.pull_request.user.login == 'dependabot[bot]' &&
-      github.repository == 'HTTPArchive/httparchive.org'
-
-    permissions:
-      contents: write
-      pull-requests: write
-
-    steps:
-      - name: Dependabot metadata
-        id: metadata
-        uses: dependabot/fetch-metadata@v3
-        with:
-          github-token: "${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}"
-
-      - name: Enable auto-merge for Dependabot PRs
-        if: |
-          contains(steps.metadata.outputs.dependency-names, 'super-linter') && (
-            steps.metadata.outputs.update-type == 'version-update:semver-patch' ||
-            steps.metadata.outputs.update-type == 'version-update:semver-minor'
-          )
-        run: gh pr merge --squash --auto "$PR_URL"
-        env:
-          PR_URL: ${{github.event.pull_request.html_url}}
-          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN}}

.github/workflows/predeploy.yml

@@ -24,7 +24,14 @@ jobs:
     - name: Setup Node.js for use with actions
       uses: actions/setup-node@v7
       with:
-        node-version: '24'
+        node-version: '26'
+        cache: 'npm'
+    - name: Install dependencies
+      run: npm ci
+
+    - name: Build website
+      run: npm run build
+
     - name: Run the website
       run: ./tools/scripts/run_and_test_website.sh
     - name: Update timestamps

.github/workflows/test-website.yml

@@ -2,18 +2,24 @@
 ## Custom HTTP Archive GitHub action ##
 #######################################
 #
-# This generates snd tests the website when a pull request is
+# This generates and tests the website when a pull request is
 # opened (or added to) on the original repo
-#
+
 name: Test Website
 on:
   workflow_dispatch:
   pull_request:
+
 jobs:
   build:
     name: Build and Test Website
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     if: github.repository == 'HTTPArchive/httparchive.org'
+    permissions:
+      checks: write
+      contents: read
+      pull-requests: write
+
     steps:
     - name: Checkout branch
       uses: actions/checkout@v7
@@ -24,26 +30,34 @@ jobs:
     - name: Setup Node.js for use with actions
       uses: actions/setup-node@v7
       with:
-        node-version:  '26'
+        node-version: '26'
+        cache: 'npm'
+
+    - name: Install dependencies
+      run: npm ci
 
-    - name: Run the website
+    - name: Build website
+      env:
+        SOURCE_MAPS: true
+      run: npm run build
+
+    - name: Run the website and test
       env:
         KEEP_SERVER_RUNNING: true
         SOURCE_MAPS: true
       run: ./tools/scripts/run_and_test_website.sh
 
-    - name: Use more complete checks for generated HTML linting
-      run: cp -f .github/linters/.htmlhintrc_morechecks .github/linters/.htmlhintrc
+    - name: Deploy to Firebase Hosting Preview Channel
+      if: github.event_name == 'pull_request' && github.event.pull_request.head.repo.full_name == github.repository
+      uses: FirebaseExtended/action-hosting-deploy@v0
+      with:
+        repoToken: '${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}'
+        firebaseServiceAccount: '${{ secrets.GCP_SA_KEY }}'
+        projectId: httparchive
 
     - name: Lint Generated HTML
-      uses: super-linter/super-linter/slim@v8
-      env:
-        ENABLE_GITHUB_PULL_REQUEST_SUMMARY_COMMENT: false
-        FILTER_REGEX_INCLUDE: .*static/html/.*
-        FILTER_REGEX_EXCLUDE: .*node_modules/.*
-        GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-        VALIDATE_HTML: true
-        USE_FIND_ALGORITHM: true
+      run: npm run lint:html
+
 
     - name: Set the list of URLs for Lighthouse to check
       env:
@@ -86,10 +100,8 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Enable auto-merge for Dependabot PRs
         if: |
-          (
-            steps.metadata.outputs.update-type == 'version-update:semver-patch' ||
-            steps.metadata.outputs.update-type == 'version-update:semver-minor'
-          ) && !contains(steps.metadata.outputs.dependency-names, 'super-linter')
+          steps.metadata.outputs.update-type == 'version-update:semver-patch' ||
+          steps.metadata.outputs.update-type == 'version-update:semver-minor'
         run: gh pr merge --squash --auto "$PR_URL"
         env:
           PR_URL: ${{github.event.pull_request.html_url}}

.gitignore

@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
 .idea/
 node_modules/
-public/static/js
-public/static/html
 templates/sitemap.xml
 *.log
 **/.DS_Store

.nvmrc

@@ -1 +1 @@
-24
+26

README.md

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 ## Run Locally
 
-This is an Astro-based web application for HTTPArchive.org. It requires **Node.js >= 24.0.0**.
+This is an Astro-based web application for HTTPArchive.org.
 
 1. Install the NPM dependencies: