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? 🤔