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Publish Docs

Publish Docs #2

Workflow file for this run

name: Publish Docs
on:
workflow_dispatch:
workflow_call:
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@v4
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@v4
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@v4
- run: mkdir -p ./docs
- name: Download the existing documents artifact
uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
with:
name: documentation
- run: tar -xf documentation.tar ./docs -C ./docs
- name: Build
uses: actions/setup-node@v4
with:
node-version: lts/*
cache: npm
- run: npm ci
- run: npm run build # set up 'build' script in your package.json
- name: Build documents
run: npm run build:docs #set up 'build: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@v4
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@v4
with:
ref: gh-pages
- run: mkdir -p ./docs
- name: Download the new documents artifact
uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
with:
name: newdocumentation
- run: tar -xf newdocumentation.tar ./docs -C ./docs
- name: commit
run: |
git config --global user.email "[email protected]"
git config --global user.name "GitHub Actions"
git add .
git commit -m "Updated the docs"
git push