Push to Github Pages with Github Actions

release.yaml

name: Build and Deploy
on:
  push:
    branches:
      - master
jobs:
  build-and-deploy:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Checkout 🛎️
        uses: actions/checkout@v2 # If you're using actions/checkout@v2 you must set persist-credentials to false in most cases for the deployment to work correctly.
        with:
          persist-credentials: false

      - name: Install and Build 🔧 
        run: |
          echo 'TODO build here'
      - name: Deploy 🚀
        env:
          ACCESS_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.TOKEN }} # This token has to be generated as shown in https://help.github.com/en/github/authenticating-to-github/creating-a-personal-access-token-for-the-command-line
        run: |
          set -ex
          # use the generated token to autheticate the action
          git remote set-url origin https://mircohaug:${ACCESS_TOKEN}@github.com/mircohaug/reddit-compiler.git 
          # split of the subtree at frontend/dist (or wherever your frontend is located) and force push it to the gh-pages branch
          git push origin `git subtree split --prefix frontend/dist master`:gh-pages --force