@dougkulak/semantic-release-gh-pages-plugin

gh-pages publishing plugin for semantic-release

Step	Description
verifyConditions	Verify the presence of the GH_TOKEN set via environment variables.
publish	Pushes commit to the documentation branch

Install

yarn add @dougkulak/semantic-release-gh-pages-plugin --dev

or

npm add @dougkulak/semantic-release-gh-pages-plugin -D

Usage

Describe plugin configuration in package.json / .releaserc.js

{
  "release": {
    "branch": "master",
    "verifyConditions": [
      "@semantic-release/changelog",
      "@semantic-release/npm",
      "@semantic-release/git",
      "@dougkulak/semantic-release-gh-pages-plugin"
    ],
    "publish": [
      "@semantic-release/npm",
      "@semantic-release/github",
      [
        "@dougkulak/semantic-release-gh-pages-plugin",
        {
          "msg": "updated",
          "branch": "docs"
        }
      ]
    ]
  }
}

or even shorter if default settings are used:

{
  "release": {
    "branch": "master",
    "plugins": [
      "@semantic-release/release-notes-generator",
      "@semantic-release/changelog",
      "@semantic-release/git",
      "@semantic-release/github",
      "@semantic-release/npm",
      "@dougkulak/semantic-release-gh-pages-plugin"
    ]
  }
}

Configuration

Environment variables

Variable	Description
GH_TOKEN or GITHUB_TOKEN	Required. The token used to authenticate with GitHub.

Options

Option	Description	Default
msg	Commit message template	docs updated <%= nextRelease.gitTag %>
src	Documentation directory	docs NOTE don't forget to run docs builder (yarn docs, yarn typedoc, etc) as a part of your build step or any other way
dst	Destination directory	. (root)
branch	Docs branch to push	gh-pages
repositoryUrl	Repository url	inherited from .git
enterprise	Disables host assertion for GitHub Enterprise domains	false
pullTagsBranch	Target branch for tags fetching hook. If '' empty string, skips this action	globalConfig.branch || master
dotfiles	gh-pages dotfiles option	false
add	gh-pages add option	false