Deploy Storybook to GitHub Pages

bitovi/github-actions-storybook-to-github-pages builds and deploys a Storybook application to GitHub Pages.

This action uses the new GitHub Actions publishing method which allows you to create an artifact that contains the result of the build and serves the files in the artifact on the Pages site. There’s no need to check files back into your repository, keeping it nice and clean.

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This action deploys Storybook to Github Pages. The build process should create static files and put them into a build direcory that will be moved into your Pages hosting location.

If you would like to deploy a backend app/service, check out our other actions:

Action	Purpose
Deploy Docker to EC2	Deploys a repo with a Dockerized application to a virtual machine (EC2) on AWS
Deploy static site to AWS (S3/CDN/R53	Hosts a static site in AWS S3 with CloudFront

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Basic Use

**Note: ** Be sure to set up your project for actions deployed pages.

For basic usage, create .github/workflows/deploy.yaml with the following to build on push.

on:
  push:
    branches:
      - "main" # change to the branch you wish to deploy from

permissions:
  contents: read
  pages: write
  id-token: write

jobs:
  deploy:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
    - id: build-publish
      uses: bitovi/[email protected]
      with:
        path: build # change to your build folder

Set up your project for Actions deployed Pages

• In the project repo in GitHub, go to Settings > Pages.
• For the source, select GitHub Actions
• No further configuration is needed.

Note: Your Repository must be set to public for GitHub Pages to serve content.

Inputs

The following inputs can be used as step.with keys

Name	Type	Description
checkout	T/F	Set to false if the code is already checked out (Default is true) (Optional)
path	String	Path of output files, Default is dist/storybook (Optional)
build_command	String	Specifies the command to run after npm ci for the build, Default is npm run build (Optional)

Customizing

Repository Environments

To surface published url to the root of the repo via a GitHub Environment, add the following to your workflow:

# ...etc
jobs:
  deploy:
    environment:
      name: github-pages
      url: ${{ steps.build-publish.outputs.page_url }}
    # ...etc

Note: This is helpful when you have a custom domain

Full example with environment

on:
  push:
    branches:
      - "main" # change to the branch you wish to deploy from

permissions:
  contents: read
  pages: write
  id-token: write

jobs:
  deploy:
    environment:
      name: github-pages
      url: ${{ steps.build-publish.outputs.page_url }}
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
    - id: build-publish
      uses: bitovi/[email protected]
      with:
        path: build # change to your build folder

External Blog Posts

• How to Deploy Storybook to GitHub Pages with GitHub Actions

Contributing

We would love for you to contribute to bitovi/github-actions-storybook-to-github-pages. Issues and Pull Requests are welcome!

License

The scripts and documentation in this project are released under the MIT License.

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