grunt-gh-deploy

Grunt plugin for easy deployment to ghPages branch.

Getting Started

This plugin requires Grunt ~0.4.5

If you haven't used Grunt before, be sure to check out the Getting Started guide, as it explains how to create a Gruntfile as well as install and use Grunt plugins. Once you're familiar with that process, you may install this plugin with this command:

npm install grunt-gh-deploy --save-dev

Once the plugin has been installed, it may be enabled inside your Gruntfile with this line of JavaScript:

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-gh-deploy');

The "ghDeploy" task

Overview

In your project's Gruntfile, add a section named ghDeploy to the data object passed into grunt.initConfig().

grunt.initConfig({
    ghDeploy: {
        // Task options go here
    },
});

Options

options.repository

Type: String Default value: null

A path to Git repository to deploy to. Can be local file system repository (absolute path) or remote URL.

options.branch

Type: String Default value: 'gh-pages'

The name of the branch in the repository to deploy to.

options.deployPath

Type: String Default value: null

Path to the folder with build files to deploy, relative to Gruntfile. Typically this is a result of previous build task.

options.message

Type: String Default value: 'Deployment ' + grunt.template.today()

Commit message to deployment branch.

Usage Examples

Default Options

The minimum configuration must include the path to repository and path to directory with files to deploy. For example:

ghDeploy: {
    options: {
        repository: 'https://github.com/dfsq/angular-google-tasks.git',
        deployPath: 'dist'
    }
},

Other options

There are several additional configuration options: name of the branch to push deployed files and optional commit message.

grunt.initConfig({
    ghDeploy: {
    	repository: 'https://github.com/dfsq/angular-google-tasks.git',
    	branch: 'release-branch',
    	deployPath: 'dist',
    	message: 'Auto deplyment ' + grunt.template.today()
    }
});

Notes

Depending on your system git setup you may be asked to input github username and password before pushing to remote repository.

Contributing

In lieu of a formal styleguide, take care to maintain the existing coding style. Add unit tests for any new or changed functionality. Lint and test your code using Grunt.

Release History

2014-11-14  v0.1.0 Initial basic version is released.