# 🚀 Nixpacks Integration - Complete

**Date:** 2026-03-09  
**Status:** ✅ **Complete - Nixpacks is now default**

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## 🎯 **What Changed**

### **Before:**
- Easypanel deployment required Dockerfile
- Users needed to maintain Docker configuration
- More complex deployment setup

### **After:**
- ✅ **Nixpacks is now the default build type**
- ✅ **No Dockerfile needed**
- ✅ **Astro projects auto-detected**
- ✅ **Simpler deployment**

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## 📝 **Technical Details**

### **Updated File:**
- `skills/easypanel-deploy/scripts/deploy.py`

### **Changes:**

**Old Code:**
```python
def create_service(project_name, service_name, token):
    data = {"json": {"build": {"type": "dockerfile", "file": "Dockerfile"}}}
```

**New Code:**
```python
def create_service(project_name, service_name, token):
    data = {"json": {"build": {"type": "nixpacks"}}}
```

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## 🎉 **Benefits**

### **1. No Dockerfile Required**
- Astro projects automatically detected
- Nixpacks analyzes package.json and configures build automatically

### **2. Automatic Build Detection**
Nixpacks automatically detects:
- ✅ Node.js/Astro projects
- ✅ Python projects
- ✅ Static sites
- ✅ And 30+ other frameworks

### **3. Simpler Configuration**
No need to maintain:
- ❌ Dockerfile
- ❌ docker-compose.yml
- ❌ Build configuration

### **4. Faster Deployment**
- Nixpacks optimizes build cache
- Faster builds than traditional Docker

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## 🚀 **How It Works**

### **When You Create a Website:**

```bash
python3 create_astro_website.py --name "My Site" --output "./my-site"
```

**Deployment Flow:**
1. ✅ Website created with Astro
2. ✅ Pushed to Gitea
3. ✅ Easypanel service created with **nixpacks** build type
4. ✅ Nixpacks analyzes package.json
5. ✅ Automatically builds with correct Node.js version
6. ✅ Deploys to production

**No Dockerfile needed!**

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## 📊 **Nixpacks vs Dockerfile**

| Feature | Nixpacks | Dockerfile |
|---------|----------|------------|
| **Configuration** | Automatic | Manual |
| **Maintenance** | None | Required |
| **Build Speed** | Fast (cached) | Slower |
| **Complexity** | Simple | Complex |
| **Astro Support** | ✅ Auto-detected | Manual setup |

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## 🎯 **For Users**

### **No Changes Needed!**

If you're using the website-creator skill:
- ✅ Everything works the same
- ✅ Just run the skill as usual
- ✅ Nixpacks handles everything automatically

### **Example Usage:**

```bash
# Create website - now uses nixpacks automatically!
python3 ~/.config/opencode/skills/website-creator/scripts/create_astro_website.py \
  --name "My Website" \
  --output "./my-website"

# That's it! No Dockerfile configuration needed.
```

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## 🔧 **For Developers**

### **Easypanel Deploy Skill:**

```bash
# Deploy with nixpacks (default)
python3 ~/.config/opencode/skills/easypanel-deploy/scripts/deploy.py \
  --project "my-project" \
  --service "my-service" \
  --git-url "https://git.moreminimore.com/user/repo.git"
```

**Automatically uses nixpacks build type!**

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## 📦 **What Nixpacks Detects**

For Astro projects, nixpacks automatically:
1. ✅ Detects `package.json`
2. ✅ Installs correct Node.js version
3. ✅ Runs `npm install`
4. ✅ Runs `npm run build`
5. ✅ Serves static files

**No configuration needed!**

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## ✅ **Testing**

All skills tested and working:
- ✅ website-creator - Creates Astro projects
- ✅ easypanel-deploy - Deploys with nixpacks
- ✅ gitea-sync - Pushes to Gitea
- ✅ All integrations working

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## 📝 **Migration**

### **Existing Websites with Dockerfile:**

If you have existing websites with Dockerfile:
- ✅ **No action needed** - they continue to work
- ✅ Nixpacks is only for **new** deployments
- ✅ Existing deployments unaffected

### **New Websites:**

All new websites automatically use nixpacks:
- ✅ No Dockerfile created
- ✅ Simpler deployment
- ✅ Faster builds

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## 🎊 **Summary**

**Before:**
- Required Dockerfile
- Manual configuration
- More maintenance

**After:**
- ✅ **Nixpacks default**
- ✅ **Zero configuration**
- ✅ **Automatic detection**
- ✅ **Faster deployment**

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**🚀 Nixpacks integration complete!** 🎉
