Gatsby GitHub Deployment Script

Bash script that automatically builds and deploys a static Gatsby site to GitHub Pages.

How do I use it?

1. Move all of your code to a new directory called code inside the root directory (root should be empty)
2. Copy the deploy.sh script to the code directory
3. Run the script using ./deploy.sh

What does it do?

1. Installs all the required dependencies using npm install and then does a build using gatsby build
2. Copies all of the generated static files to the root dir from the code dir
3. Creates a new temp branch with the build number, ignores the code dir, and pushes all the other files
4. Merges the temp branch with main
5. Deletes all the files in the root dir in your local
6. Deletes the temp branch

Assumptions

These are the default values present in the script, feel free to change any of these to suit your needs.

1. Your release branch is called main (this is the branch that GitHub Pages is deployed from)
2. Your latest changes live in a branch called develop

PS: Make sure the script is executable by running chmod +x deploy.sh if you're not able to run it