Switch to Github Actions and F Travis CI

Fxxk Travis Ci stopped generating my page

One day, After I updated some blog and there was no update on my Github page blog, then I checked the Travis-CI, it showed Builds have been temporarily disabled for public repositories

Then, whatever, F it. I spent more than 2 hours setting up my Credit Card to activate the Travis-CI service, and now It just down and without any notifications.

Back to GitHub actions

Luckily, Github provides the workflows with actions.

sequenceDiagram
participant LA as Local
participant RM as Repo Master Branch
participant RP as Repo gh-pages Branch
participant GA as Github Actions
LA ->> LA: hexo new page
LA ->> LA: hexo s, setup preview server
LA ->> LA: http://127.0.0.1:4000 preview
LA --> LA: add github actions workflow yaml
LA ->> RM: Push to Master
RM ->> GA: Trigger actions
GA ->> GA: Setup node
GA ->> GA: Install package
GA ->> GA: Generate static blog page
GA ->> RP: Push to Repo publish branch

Github workflow yaml setting

Code talks firstly

# This workflow will do a clean install of
# node dependencies, cache/restore them,
# build the source code and run tests across different versions of node
# For more information see:
# https://help.github.com/actions/language-and-framework-guides/using-nodejs-with-github-actions

---
name: Node.js CI

on:
  push:
    branches:
      - master

jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v2
      - name: Setup Node
        uses: actions/setup-node@v2
        with:
          node-version: '14'
      - name: Setup Env
        run: |
          npm install -g hexo-cli@4.0.0
          npm install
          hexo generate
      - name: Deploy
        uses: peaceiris/actions-gh-pages@v3
        with:
          deploy_key: ${{ secrets.HEXO_DEPLOY_PRI }}
          publish_dir: ./public
          publish_branch: gh_pages  # deploying branch

Workflow detail

Setup basic Node based on ubuntu

on:
  push:
    branches:
      - master

jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v2
      - name: Setup Node
        uses: actions/setup-node@v2
        with:
          node-version: '14'

Install hexo to CI system and build

- name: Setup Env
  run: |
    npm install -g hexo-cli@4.0.0

if we do not install this version globally, then the CI will not find the hexo command.

Install other packages and generate the static page

npm install
hexo generate

Deploy to Repo gh-pages branch with deploy tools

- name: Deploy
  uses: peaceiris/actions-gh-pages@v3
  with:
    deploy_key: ${{ secrets.HEXO_DEPLOY_PRI }}
    publish_dir: ./public
    publish_branch: gh_pages  # deploying branch

It will deploy your Ci public directory to your repo gh_pages branch.

Actions Related Resource

If you need more help, just peaceiris/actions-gh-pages@v3 pages for more help.

This actions support many tokens

If you just need https, choose github_token, and if you prefer to ssh, you can use deploy_key(it’s my style)

Last, DO NOT forget to update your page setting to your gh-pages branch