Github-deploy-actions

This action will auto build and deploy to target branch when it get triggered.

Also it can preserve the history of gh-pages and convenient for rolling back to previous version.

And it will compare deployment file to previous version by using git status --porcelain, it will not to deploy if nothing change.

How to Use

name: deploy

on:
    push:
        branches:
            - master

jobs:
    build-and-deploy:
        runs-on: ubuntu-latest
        steps:
            - name: Checkout
              uses: actions/checkout@master

            - name: Build and Deploy
              uses: ./.github/actions/deploy
              env:
                  COMMIT_EMAIL: [email protected]
                  COMMIT_NAME: jeoy
                  ACCESS_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.ACCESS_TOKEN }}
                  BASE_BRANCH: master
                  DEPLOY_BRANCH: gh-pages
                  BUILD_SCRIPT: yarn && yarn build
                  FOLDER: build

Environment variable

param	description	required	default
COMMIT_NAME	The name who commit this deployment	false	${GITHUB_ACTOR}
COMMIT_EMAIL	The email who commit this deployment	true	-
ACCESS_TOKEN	github token can acess repo	true	-
BASE_BRANCH	The branch you want to build	false	master
DEPLOY_BRANCH	The branch you want to deploy	false	gh-pages
BUILD_SCRIPT	e.g. npm install && npm run build	true	-
FOLDER	The folder generated by build script	true	-

How It Works

When push to master branch

This Action will run yarn && yarn build

Then push build folder as a new commit on gh-pages branch

note: mark sure build folder is on your gitignore list

deploy page:

gh-pages demo

what exactly is done during the action

checkout this entrypoint.sh