How-to: How to auto-deploy my website with GitHub Action?

How to auto-deploy my website with GitHub Action?

It is not always necessary to build the site manually and push it to a GitHub repository.

We can ask GitHub to build and deploy when an update appears in the source.

Step 1

On GitHub, create a new public repository named username.github.io where username is your username on GitHub.

Then go to Settings > Pages and select "GitHub Actions" in the "Build and deployment" section.

Step 2

From Stapy root directory, we add a deployment workflow file (static.yml) in a .github/workflows directory:

.github
+------ workflows
        +-------- static.yml

name: Deploy static content to Pages

on:
  push:
    # Update with the live branch name (main, master...)
    branches: ["main"]
  workflow_dispatch:

permissions:
  contents: read
  pages: write
  id-token: write

concurrency:
  group: "pages"
  cancel-in-progress: true

jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v3

      - name: Setup Pages
        uses: actions/configure-pages@v2

      - name: Setup Python
        uses: actions/setup-python@v4
        with:
          python-version: "3.10"

      - name: Install Python dependencies
        # Update with necessary dependencies in plugins
        run: pip3 install Markdown pymdown-extensions

      - name: Create environment directory
        run: mkdir -p './web/prod'

      - name: Build
        run: python3 stapy.py build

      - name: Upload artifact
        uses: actions/upload-pages-artifact@v1
        with:
          path: './web/prod'

  deploy:
    environment:
      name: github-pages
      url: ${{ steps.deployment.outputs.page_url }}
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    needs: build
    steps:
      - name: Deploy to GitHub Pages
        id: deployment
        uses: actions/deploy-pages@v1

Update the main branch name with your live branch. When a commit is pushed the build will be executed.
Update the Python dependencies step, or remove it if you don't need it.

Step 3

Remove the web directory. We only need the following Stapy files and directories:

.github
plugins
source
stapy.py

Configure Stapy with the full host as the base URL for the prod environment:

source
+----- layout
       +----- common.json

{
  "url.local": "http://127.0.0.1:1985/",
  "url.prod": "https://username.github.io/"
}

Step 4

We initialize the repository, commit and push:

git init
git remote add origin https://github.com/username/username.github.io.git
git add -A
git push

Step 5

Wait a few minutes and go to https://username.github.io.