– TL;DR a bit more background if helpful –
The goal here is to provide the simplest way for our devs to publish quick demos to a single known URL w/ password, that the whole company can have access to and continue to reference when new demos go up.
Currently we have to create separate Netlify projects and link them to the repo(s), plus set up two LFS environment variables and password protection on each one. Managers have to get involved in these admin tasks which makes it tedious and cumbersome for small one-off projects.
In the olden days it was quick and easy to just FTP a folder to a protected url and send out a link – this is an attempt to get back to that level of ease for quick demos, but with efficient build automation.
The reason I need the build artifacts is that later when there’s 10 or 20 demos, I want a way to perform a partial build of just the demo that changed, while leaving the rest of the site intact. If it requires an extra step of generating a build artifact and then sending it to secondary Netlify project, that would be fine.
If Netlify can’t do this we could solve the problem some other way by pushing built files to a cloud service or something…