create build before deploy

[samkirkland]

create build before deploy

[senner007]

Sorry, I was wrong. It is using the the right folder. The above code is working!

[SamKirkland]

Each action does a single task, if you'd like to build a project I'd recommend you use a npm build action.
After the build action completes you can run the FTP Deploy Action to deploy the built files :)

[senner007]

Sorry, but can you show how to do that in code?

[SamKirkland]

You can start by copying the Node,js continuous integration starter
This will run "npm install", "npm build", then "npm test"
Once you have that working you can have that action trigger the FTP deploy action.

[senner007]

Ok. Do I need a workflow file AND a yml file?

How do I combine the Node,js continuous integration starter with my workflow?

workflow "ftp deploy" {
  resolves = ["FTP-Deploy-Action"]
  on = "push"
}

action "FTP-Deploy-Action" {
  uses = "SamKirkland/FTP-Deploy-Action@master"
  secrets = ["GITHUB_TOKEN", "FTP_SERVER", "FTP_PASSWORD", "FTP_USERNAME", "LOCAL_DIR", "REMOTE_DIR"]
}

I tried this also :

name: CI

on: [push]

jobs:
  build:

    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    
    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@v1
    - name: Project setup
      run: npm install
    - name: Run unit tests
      run: npm run test:unit
    - name: Compile and minify for production
      run: npm run build
    - name : FTP-Deploy
    - secrets : 
      - GITHUB_TOKEN
      - FTP_SERVER
      - FTP_PASSWORD
      - FTP_USERNAME
      - LOCAL_DIR
      - REMOTE_DIR
    uses: SamKirkland/FTP-Deploy-Action@master

[senner007]

Ok. This appears to be the translation to yaml setup:
The only problem is that the LOCAL_DIR which is set to 'dist' is looking for /dist in the github repo and not in the /dist created with 'npm run build' command

name: CI

on: [push]

jobs:
  build:

    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    
    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@v1
    - name: Project setup
      run: npm install
    # - name: Run unit tests
    #   run: npm run test:unit
    - name: Compile and minify for production
      run: npm run build
    - name : FTP-Deploy
      uses: SamKirkland/FTP-Deploy-Action@master
      env: 
       GITHUB_TOKEN :  ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
       FTP_SERVER :  ${{ secrets.FTP_SERVER }}
       FTP_PASSWORD :  ${{ secrets.FTP_PASSWORD }}
       FTP_USERNAME :  ${{ secrets.FTP_USERNAME }}
       LOCAL_DIR :  ${{ secrets.LOCAL_DIR }}
       REMOTE_DIR :  ${{ secrets.REMOTE_DIR }}