bitovi/github-actions-react-to-github-pages builds and deploys a React application to GitHub Pages.

This action uses the new GitHub Actions publishing method which allows you to create an artifact that contains the result of the build and serves the files in the artifact on the Pages site. There’s no need to check files back into your repository, keeping it nice and clean.

This action deploys React/Javascript to Github Pages. The build process should create static files and put them into a build direcory that will be moved into your Pages hosting location.

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**Note: ** Be sure to set up your project for actions deployed pages.

For basic usage, create .github/workflows/deploy.yaml with the following to build on push.

on:
  push:
    branches:
      - "main" # change to the branch you wish to deploy from

permissions:
  contents: read
  pages: write
  id-token: write

jobs:
  deploy:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
    - id: build-publish
      uses: bitovi/github-actions-react-to-github-pages@v1.2.4
      with:
        path: build # change to your build folder

• In the project repo in GitHub, go to Settings > Pages.
• For the source, select GitHub Actions
• No further configuration is needed.

Note: Your Repository must be set to public for GitHub Pages to serve content.

The following inputs can be used as step.with keys

checkout-filter: description: Partially clone against a given filter. Overrides checkout-sparse-checkout if set. maps to actions/checkout inputs.checkout-filter required: false

checkout-sparse-checkout: description: Do a sparse checkout on given patterns. Each pattern should be separated with new lines. maps to actions/checkout inputs.sparse-checkout required: false

checkout-sparse-checkout-cone-mode: description: Specifies whether to use cone-mode when doing a sparse checkout. maps to actions/checkout inputs.sparse-checkout-cone-mode required: false default: true

To surface published url to the root of the repo via a GitHub Environment, add the following to your workflow:

# ...etc
jobs:
  deploy:
    environment:
      name: github-pages
      url: ${{ steps.build-publish.outputs.page_url }}
    # ...etc

Note: This is helpful when you have a custom domain

on:
  push:
    branches:
      - "main" # change to the branch you wish to deploy from

permissions:
  contents: read
  pages: write
  id-token: write

jobs:
  deploy:
    environment:
      name: github-pages
      url: ${{ steps.build-publish.outputs.page_url }}
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
    - id: build-publish
      uses: bitovi/github-actions-react-to-github-pages@v1.2.4
      with:
        path: build # change to your build folder

• Deploy Your React Project to Github Pages with Github Actions

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