8 August 2026

My Simple Astro Publishing Flow: GitHub to Cloudflare Workers

The small deployment workflow behind this site: test Astro locally, push to GitHub and let Cloudflare build the production site.

One of my requirements for this site was simple:

Write locally, test locally, push to Git, and let the hosting platform do the rest.

The workflow is:

Astro on my local machine
          ↓
      npm run dev
          ↓
      npm run build
          ↓
        Git
          ↓
       GitHub
          ↓
Cloudflare Workers Build
          ↓
     newcombe.dev

My normal publishing commands are:

npm run build
git status
git add .
git commit -m "Describe the change"
git push

Cloudflare is connected to the GitHub repository, so a push to the production branch triggers the configured build/deployment process.

This keeps the source of truth in Git and avoids manually uploading a website after every change.

It also gives me a useful separation:

Local development → experiment
Git commit         → record the change
GitHub             → source of truth
Cloudflare         → build and hosting

For a small technical site, that is about as much deployment machinery as I want.