Github Actions Deploy Angular to Server
Hello All,
As a developer, it will always be a repetitive task for us to run deploy command and then zip the files and connect to sftp > upload > unzip. some times we find it hard to do so. and some cases it will be slow may be of various reasons like pc configurations, Internet speed and other
So recently GitHub has launched Github Actions which will help us to automate tasks
So now we are going to see how to build an Angular project then deploy it to a server using ssh
Let’s get started
Let's prepare our project in GitHub and ready to deploy
Configure GitHub workflow
Once our project is ready we need to configure our GitHub workflow
To configure create a folder named .github inside it workflows now inside this workflows directory, we are going to create a new file which will hold our yml code to build and deploy
The first line of code will tell the Workflow name
Code on > push > branch will tell on what action you want to run the job for more details about that visit this link Workflow Syntax
In above code initially, we create a job and tell it to which operating system to be used and what is your working directory if your project code is in a subdirectory
Her we are going to use ubuntu and setting my work-directory to ./ as it's completely optional but I am leaving it here as some may face a problem with it
Once we are done with this we create steps to perform one by one
so in these first two steps we are using two actions first one uses full to clone your project. the second one is used to set us nodejs environment for us in the allocated space for us
We setup cache for our node modules using actions/cache@v1 action
in these lines of code we install dependencies from our packages.json and then we install @angular/cli finally, we run ng build --prod to build our code
next, we delete any files in the server from our hosting location so we can write new files
here if you see we have some variables ${{ secrets.SSH_PASS }} we are coming from GitHub secrets you can add them in the project settings > secrets
In the above lines of the code, we execute some Linux commands which will compress our files to app.tar.gz then connect to the server via SCP and upload it to our hosting location then uncompress the file and finally delete the app.tar.gz
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