A while ago I wrote detailed tutorial on how to deploy Serverless applications using Github Actions.
In this article I'm going to share my deployment flow I use to deploy my personal website built on Jigsaw to Github Pages.
The deployment process consists of several sequential steps:
- Checkout a repository;
- Install NPM dependencies;
- Install Composer dependencies;
- Buid a website using npm run production command;
- Add and commit build_production branch to local repository;
- Push build_production branch to gh-pages branch on remote repository;
You may see entire deployment script on the gist below:
A few other notes:
- If you're willing to use custom domain name, you also need to create a CNAME file containing your domain name;
- Deployment process is triggered automatically each time I commit something to master branch;
To allow deployment script push build_production to remote gh-pages branch, you need to go to your Github Settings → Personal Access Tokens and create a new token. Then you need to add this token to repository's Secrets. Then, you can access that token in deployment script as variable stored under secrets keyword, for example: ${{secrets.DEPLOY_KEY}}
Feel free to modify this deployment script as needed.