action-netlify-cli

This action enables arbitrary actions with the Netlify CLI

This action is a replacement for netlify/actions/cli@master without the docker layer that incurs an extra 30-50s of runner time (which seems result in an average deploy time of ~1m 30s).

This action usually completes in under a minute (and in best cases, 30s).

Secrets

NETLIFY_AUTH_TOKEN - Required The token to use for authentication. Obtain one with the UI
NETLIFY_SITE_ID - Optional API site ID of the site you wanna work on Obtain it from the UI

Outputs

The following outputs will be available from a step that uses this action:

NETLIFY_OUTPUT, the full stdout from the run of the netlify command

Recipes

Simple publish

on: [push]
jobs:
  publish:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      # build your site for deployment... in this case the `public` folder is being deployed

      - name: Publish
        uses: South-Paw/action-netlify-cli@v2
        id: netlify
        with:
          # be sure to escape any double quotes with a backslash
          args: 'deploy --json --dir \"./public\" --message \"draft [${{ github.sha }}]\"'
        env:
          NETLIFY_AUTH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.NETLIFY_AUTH_TOKEN }}
          NETLIFY_SITE_ID: ${{ secrets.NETLIFY_SITE_ID }}

      # and access outputs in other steps with ${{ steps.netlify.outputs.OUTPUT_ID }}

GitHub deployments

on: [push]
jobs:
  publish:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Start deployment
        uses: bobheadxi/deployments@v1
        id: deployment
        with:
          env: production
          step: start

      # ... steps to build your site for deployment

      - name: Deploy to Netlify
        uses: South-Paw/action-netlify-cli@v2
        id: netlify
        with:
          # note that the --json flag has been passed so we can parse outputs
          args: deploy --json --prod --dir './public' --message 'production [${{ github.sha }}]'
        env:
          NETLIFY_AUTH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.NETLIFY_AUTH_TOKEN }}
          NETLIFY_SITE_ID: ${{ secrets.NETLIFY_SITE_ID }}

      - name: Finish deployment
        uses: bobheadxi/deployments@v1
        if: always()
        with:
          env: ${{ steps.deployment.outputs.env }}
          step: finish
          status: ${{ job.status }}
          deployment_id: ${{ steps.deployment.outputs.deployment_id }}
          env_url: ${{ fromJson(steps.netlify.outputs.NETLIFY_OUTPUT).url }}

Parse `--json` flag

on: [push]
jobs:
  publish:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      # ... steps to build your site for deployment

      - name: Deploy to Netlify
        uses: South-Paw/action-netlify-cli@v2
        id: netlify
        with:
          # note that the --json flag has been passed so we can parse outputs
          args: deploy --json --prod --dir './public' --message 'production [${{ github.sha }}]'
        env:
          NETLIFY_AUTH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.NETLIFY_AUTH_TOKEN }}
          NETLIFY_SITE_ID: ${{ secrets.NETLIFY_SITE_ID }}

      # You can parse the `NETLIFY_OUTPUT` output with `fromJson` function for the following information:
      - name: Parse NETLIFY_OUTPUT JSON
        run: |
          echo "The URL where the logs from the deploy can be found"
          echo "${{ fromJson(steps.netlify.outputs.NETLIFY_OUTPUT).logs }}"
          echo ""
          echo "the URL of the draft site that Netlify provides"
          echo "${{ fromJson(steps.netlify.outputs.NETLIFY_OUTPUT).deploy_url }}"
          echo ""
          echo "the URL of the "real" site, set only if `--prod` was passed"
          echo "${{ fromJson(steps.netlify.outputs.NETLIFY_OUTPUT).url }}"

Issues and Bugs

If you find any, please report them here so they can be squashed.

License

MIT, see the LICENSE file.

South-Paw/action-netlify-cli