Skip to content

Build and Deploy to GitHub Pages #250

Build and Deploy to GitHub Pages

Build and Deploy to GitHub Pages #250

Workflow file for this run

# filepath: .github/workflows/deploy.yml
name: Build and Deploy to GitHub Pages
on:
# Run three times daily to catch release peaks (01:00, 09:00, 17:00 UTC)
schedule:
- cron: '0 1,9,17 * * *'
# Run on push to main branch
push:
branches: [ main ]
# Allow manual trigger
workflow_dispatch:
# Sets permissions for GitHub Pages deployment
permissions:
contents: read
pages: write
id-token: write
actions: write
# Allow only one concurrent deployment, skipping runs queued between the run in-progress and latest queued.
concurrency:
group: "pages"
cancel-in-progress: false
jobs:
build-and-deploy:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
environment:
name: github-pages
url: ${{ steps.deployment.outputs.page_url }}
steps:
- name: Keep workflow alive
uses: silverstripe/gha-keepalive@v1
- name: Checkout repository
uses: actions/checkout@v4
- name: Setup Node.js
uses: actions/setup-node@v4
with:
node-version: '20'
cache: 'npm'
- name: Install dependencies
run: |
echo "Installing build dependencies"
npm ci
# actions/cache saves automatically at job end when the primary key is a miss.
# Since key uses run_id (always unique), it always saves the updated cache.
# restore-keys prefix match finds the most recent previous cache.
- name: Restore activity cache
uses: actions/cache@v4
with:
path: data/activity-cache.json
key: activity-cache-${{ github.run_id }}
restore-keys: |
activity-cache-
- name: Prime GitHub stats cache
env:
GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
run: node scripts/prime-stats-cache.js
- name: Wait for stats computation
run: sleep 30
- name: Build site
env:
GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
run: |
echo "Building site for deployment"
npm run build
- name: Verify build output
run: |
echo "Verifying build output..."
ls -la dist/
echo "✅ Build verification complete"
- name: Setup GitHub Pages
uses: actions/configure-pages@v4
- name: Upload Pages artifact
uses: actions/upload-pages-artifact@v3
with:
path: './dist'
- name: Deploy to GitHub Pages
id: deployment
uses: actions/deploy-pages@v4