Jekyll Github Action

I’ve realised that in order for the Blog Editor to be useful I need to streamline the publishing process. Due to some plugins I’m using I need to run the build locally then manually push the generated static files to gh-pages branch.

GitHub provides a lightweight CI system called GitHub Actions that should be able to run the build for each commit to master and push the static files to the gh-pages branch automatically. Surprisingly I have not tried GitHub Actions yet so this is a good opportunity to try them out.

I found this existing custom Jekyll Action here that would do the job.

It’s very simple to implement, just add the following config to .github/workflows/github-pages.yml.

name: Build and deploy Jekyll site to GitHub Pages

on:
  push:
    branches:
      - master

jobs:
  github-pages:
    runs-on: ubuntu-16.04
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
      - uses: helaili/jekyll-action@2.0.3
        env:
          JEKYLL_PAT: ${ { secrets.JEKYLL_PAT }}

Now all I need to do is push changes to the markdown files and it’ll all get deployed automatically.

My next problem is, how do I make a git commit from an iOS app? 🤔