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Github Build & Deploy Action

v1.0.1 Pre-release

Github Build & Deploy Action

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Github Build & Deploy Action

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

Installation

Copy and paste the following snippet into your .yml file.

              

- name: Github Build & Deploy Action

uses: jeoy/github-deploy-actions@v1.0.1

Learn more about this action in jeoy/github-deploy-actions

Choose a version

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: jeoy_z@126.com
                  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