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GitHub Action for Docusaurus

· 2 min read
Evan Tay

I got tired of deploying my Docusaurus website to GitHub Pages manually, and decided to do something about it using GitHub Action.

Initially, I was planning to follow the official guide on doing so. However, it was actually much more complicated than I liked. I did not really want to generate and store a SSH key on GitHub. Too much effort man.

I decided it was better off for me to write my own script. Here it is:

deploy-docusaurus.yml

caution

The script below assumes that your Docusaurus website resides at /website of your repo. If that is not the case for you, you will need to:

  • Change cd website to cd <docu_site_root>, or delete the entire line if your Docusaurus website is at the root of your repo /
  • Change build_dir's value from website/build to <docu_site_root>/build, or build if your Docusaurus website is at the root of your repo /
name: deploy-docusaurus

on:
push:
branches: [main]
pull_request:
branches: [main]

# Allows you to run this workflow manually from the Actions tab
workflow_dispatch:

# A workflow run is made up of one or more jobs that can run sequentially or in parallel
jobs:
publish:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
# Checks-out your repository under $GITHUB_WORKSPACE, so your job can access it
- name: Check out repo
uses: actions/checkout@v2
# Node is required for npm
- name: Set up Node
uses: actions/setup-node@v2
with:
node-version: "12"
# Install and build Docusaurus website
- name: Build Docusaurus website
run: |
cd website
npm install
npm run build
- name: Deploy to GitHub Pages
if: success()
uses: crazy-max/ghaction-github-pages@v2
with:
target_branch: gh-pages
build_dir: website/build
env:
GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
note

GitHub will automatically add GITHUB_TOKEN to Secrets. You need not do so. See this for more information.

To see this script in action, visit my personal website repo.