This is a plugin for Strapi headless CMS. It lets you trigger a GitHub Action workflow when the site is ready to be published.

When using Strapi as a headless CMS for a statically built website you need a way to trigger the site to rebuild when content has been updated. The typical approach is to setup a Strapi managed webhook to trigger a CI/CD pipeline whenever content changes. This approach has it's issues. For example when making many changes to content, builds are triggered multiple times and deployments can fail due to the site being deployed concurrently.

This plugin tackles the publishing flow a different way. The site administrators can take their time and make many changes and once the content update is complete they can trigger a single build.

This plugin also checks to see if an in_progress build is active or if anything is in the queue and not allow the user to trigger another. Also, when a build has been triggered the user can wait on the plugin page to see when the build and deployment has completed.

Install this plugin with npm or yarn.

With npm:

npm install strapi-plugin-github-publish

With yarn:

yarn add strapi-plugin-github-publish

Generate a config file at config/plugins.js or config/development/plugins.js etc...

module.exports = ({ env }) => ({
  "github-publish": {
    owner: "username", // The gothub organisation or user
    repo: "reponame", // The name of the repository
    workflow_id: "rebuild.yml", // The workflow_id or filename
    token: env("GITHUB_TOKEN"), // The GitHub personal access token with access to trigger workflows and view build status
    branch: "master", // The branch the workflow should be triggered on
    inputs: {
      // Optional inputs to pass through to the GitHub workflow
      some_input: "Some value",
      some_other_input: "Some other value",
    },
  },
});

Make sure you have variable in your .env file

GITHUB_TOKEN=XXXXXXX

When the plugin has been installed correctly just click on GitHub Publishing in the sidebar under plugins then click "Publish".