GitHub Actions for GitHub Pages 🚀 Deploy static files and publish your site easily. Static-Site-Generators-friendly. https://github.com/marketplace/actions/github-pages-action
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GitHub Actions for deploying to GitHub Pages with Static Site Generators

GitHub Actions for deploying to GitHub Pages

A GitHub Action to deploy your static site to GitHub Pages with Static Site Generators (Hugo, MkDocs, Gatsby, GitBook, etc.)

Table of Contents

Getting started

(1) Add ssh deploy key

Generate your deploy key with the following command.

ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C "$(git config user.email)" -f gh-pages -N ""
# You will get 2 files:
#   gh-pages.pub (public key)
#   gh-pages     (private key)

Next, Go to Repository Settings

  • Go to Deploy Keys and add your public key with the Allow write access
  • Go to Secrets and add your private key as ACTIONS_DEPLOY_KEY

(2) Create .github/workflows/gh-pages.yml

Repository type - Project

An example yaml file with Hugo action.

peaceiris/actions-hugo - GitHub

peaceiris/actions-hugo latest version peaceiris/actions-gh-pages latest version

name: github pages

on:
  push:
    branches:
    - master

jobs:
  build-deploy:
    runs-on: ubuntu-18.04
    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@master

    - name: build
      uses: peaceiris/actions-hugo@v0.58.1
      with:
        args: --gc --minify --cleanDestinationDir

    - name: deploy
      uses: peaceiris/actions-gh-pages@v2.2.0
      env:
        ACTIONS_DEPLOY_KEY: ${{ secrets.ACTIONS_DEPLOY_KEY }}
        PUBLISH_BRANCH: gh-pages
        PUBLISH_DIR: ./public

The above example is for Project Pages sites. (<username>/<project_name> repository)

Repository type - User and Organization

For User and Organization Pages sites (<username>/<username>.github.io repository), we have to set master branch to PUBLISH_BRANCH.

on:
  push:
    branches:
    - source  # default branch

PUBLISH_BRANCH: master  # deploying branch

Options

Pull action image from Docker Hub

You can pull a public docker image from Docker Hub. By pulling docker images, you can reduce the overall execution time of your workflow. In addition, latest tag is provided.

- uses: peaceiris/actions-gh-pages@v2.2.0
+ uses: docker://peaceiris/gh-pages:v2.2.0
- uses: peaceiris/actions-hugo@v0.58.1
+ uses: docker://peaceiris/gha-hugo:v0.58.1

PERSONAL_TOKEN

Generate a personal access token (repo) and add it to Secrets as PERSONAL_TOKEN, it works as well as ACTIONS_DEPLOY_KEY.

- ACTIONS_DEPLOY_KEY: ${{ secrets.ACTIONS_DEPLOY_KEY }}
+ PERSONAL_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.PERSONAL_TOKEN }}

GITHUB_TOKEN

NOTES: This action supports GITHUB_TOKEN but it has some problems to deploy to GitHub Pages. See #9

- ACTIONS_DEPLOY_KEY: ${{ secrets.ACTIONS_DEPLOY_KEY }}
+ GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

Examples

Static Site Generators with Node.js

Next.js, Nuxt.js, gatsby, hexo, gitbook, vuepress, react-static, gridsome, etc.

Premise: Dependencies are managed by package.json and package-lock.json

peaceiris/actions-gh-pages latest version

name: github pages

on:
  push:
    branches:
    - master

jobs:
  build-deploy:
    runs-on: ubuntu-18.04
    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@master

    - name: build
      uses: actions/setup-node@v1
      with:
        node-version: '10.16'
    - run: |
        npm install
        npm run build        

    - name: deploy
      uses: peaceiris/actions-gh-pages@v2.2.0
      env:
        ACTIONS_DEPLOY_KEY: ${{ secrets.ACTIONS_DEPLOY_KEY }}
        PUBLISH_BRANCH: gh-pages
        PUBLISH_DIR: ./public

Vue and Nuxt

An example for Nuxt.js (Vue.js) project with create-nuxt-app

peaceiris/actions-gh-pages latest version

name: github pages

on:
  push:
    branches:
    - master

jobs:
  build-deploy:
    runs-on: ubuntu-18.04
    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@master

    - name: setup node
      uses: actions/setup-node@v1
      with:
        node-version: '10.16'

    - name: install
      run: npm install

    - name: test
      run: npm test

    - name: generate
      run: npm run generate

    - name: deploy
      uses: peaceiris/actions-gh-pages@v2.2.0
      env:
        ACTIONS_DEPLOY_KEY: ${{ secrets.ACTIONS_DEPLOY_KEY }}
        PUBLISH_BRANCH: gh-pages
        PUBLISH_DIR: ./dist

Static Site Generators with Python

pelican, MkDocs, sphinx, etc.

Premise: Dependencies are managed by requirements.txt

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name: github pages

on:
  push:
    branches:
    - master

jobs:
  build-deploy:
    runs-on: ubuntu-18.04
    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@v1

    - name: Set up Python
      uses: actions/setup-python@v1
      with:
        python-version: '3.6'
        architecture: 'x64'

    - name: Install dependencies
      run: |
        pip install --upgrade pip
        pip install -r ./requirements.txt        

    - name: Build
      run: mkdocs build

    - name: Deploy
      uses: peaceiris/actions-gh-pages@v2.2.0
      env:
        ACTIONS_DEPLOY_KEY: ${{ secrets.ACTIONS_DEPLOY_KEY }}
        PUBLISH_BRANCH: gh-pages
        PUBLISH_DIR: ./site

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