feat: Deploy to gh-pages branch instead of using GitHub Pages artifacts

Author: splitbrain

.github/workflows/deploy.yml

@@ -6,16 +6,11 @@ on:
       - main
 
 permissions:
-  contents: read
-  pages: write
-  id-token: write
+  contents: write # Allow writing to the repo (pushing gh-pages branch)
 
 jobs:
   build-and-deploy:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    environment:
-      name: github-pages
-      url: ${{ steps.deployment.outputs.page_url }}
 
     steps:
       - name: Checkout repository
@@ -24,27 +19,20 @@ jobs:
       - name: Set up Node.js
         uses: actions/setup-node@v4
         with:
-          node-version: '23' # Specify your Node.js version
+          node-version: '23'
           cache: 'npm'
 
       - name: Install dependencies
         run: npm ci # Use ci for cleaner installs in CI
 
       - name: Build project
-        run: npm build
+        run: npm run build
 
       - name: Build SVGs
         run: node public/dist/cli.js public/pinouts
 
-      - name: Setup Pages
-        uses: actions/configure-pages@v5
-
-      - name: Upload artifact
-        uses: actions/upload-pages-artifact@v3
+      - name: Deploy to gh-pages branch
+        uses: peaceiris/actions-gh-pages@v4
         with:
-          # Upload entire directory
-          path: './public'
-
-      - name: Deploy to GitHub Pages
-        id: deployment
-        uses: actions/deploy-pages@v4
+          github_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+          publish_dir: ./public