.github/workflows/docs.yml
name: PUBLISH DOCS
on:
push:
branches: [ main ]
permissions:
contents: write # allows the 'Commit' step without tokens
jobs:
get_history: # create an artifact from the existing documentation builds
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- name: get the gh-pages repo
uses: actions/checkout@v3
with:
ref: gh-pages
- name: tar the existing docs
run: |
mkdir -p ./docs
tar -cvf documentation.tar ./docs
- name: create a document artifact
uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
with:
name: documentation
path: documentation.tar
build: # builds the distribution and then the documentation
needs: get_history
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- name: Checkout src
uses: actions/checkout@v3
- run: mkdir -p ./docs
- name: Download the existing documents artifact
uses: actions/download-artifact@v3
with:
name: documentation
- run: tar -xf documentation.tar ./docs -C ./docs
- name: Build
uses: actions/setup-node@v3
with:
node-version: 18.x
cache: 'npm'
- run: npm ci
- run: npm run build # set up 'build' script in your package.json
- name: Build documents
run: npm run docs #set up 'docs' build script in your package.json
- name: tar the new docs
run: tar -cvf newdocumentation.tar ./docs
- name: create a new document artifact
uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
with:
name: newdocumentation
path: newdocumentation.tar
commit: # commit the old and new merged documents to gh-pages/docs
needs: build
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- name: checkout the gh-pages repo
uses: actions/checkout@v3
with:
ref: gh-pages
- run: mkdir -p ./docs
- name: Download the new documents artifact
uses: actions/download-artifact@v3
with:
name: newdocumentation
- run: tar -xf newdocumentation.tar ./docs -C ./docs
- name: commit
run: |
git config --global user.email "username@users.noreply.github.com"
git config --global user.name "Continuous Integration"
git add .
git commit -m "CI updated the documentation"
git push