blog

How do I deploy on Github pages?

Demo & Source

  1. Follow the section on creating a static build in the main README and test it locally to ensure that it works.
  2. Specify the base path in next.config.js to match your repository name e.g. basePath: "/tailwind-nextjs-starter-blog".
  3. Modify component/Image.tsx to use the correct base path for the image source:

    import NextImage, { ImageProps } from 'next/image'
    
    const Image = ({ src, ...rest }: ImageProps) => (
      <NextImage src={`/tailwind-nextjs-starter-blog${src}`} {...rest} />
    )
    
    export default Image
    
  4. To automate deployment, here’s a Github action that you could use
# Sample workflow for building and deploying a Next.js site to GitHub Pages
#
# To get started with Next.js see: https://nextjs.org/docs/getting-started
#
name: Deploy Next.js site to Pages

on:
  # Runs on pushes targeting the default branch
  push:
    branches: ['test-gh-pages-static']

  # Allows you to run this workflow manually from the Actions tab
  workflow_dispatch:

# Sets permissions of the GITHUB_TOKEN to allow deployment to GitHub Pages
permissions:
  contents: read
  pages: write
  id-token: write

# Allow only one concurrent deployment, skipping runs queued between the run in-progress and latest queued.
# However, do NOT cancel in-progress runs as we want to allow these production deployments to complete.
concurrency:
  group: 'pages'
  cancel-in-progress: false

jobs:
  # Build job
  build:
    name: Build Nextjs Blog
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v3
      - name: Detect package manager
        id: detect-package-manager
        run: |
          if [ -f "$/yarn.lock" ]; then
            echo "manager=yarn" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
            echo "command=install" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
            echo "runner=yarn" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
            exit 0
          elif [ -f "$/package.json" ]; then
            echo "manager=npm" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
            echo "command=ci" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
            echo "runner=npx --no-install" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
            exit 0
          else
            echo "Unable to determine package manager"
            exit 1
          fi
      - name: Setup Node
        uses: actions/setup-node@v3
        with:
          node-version: '18'
          cache: $
      - name: Restore cache
        uses: actions/cache@v3
        with:
          path: |
            .next/cache
          # Generate a new cache whenever packages or source files change.
          key: $-nextjs-$-$
          # If source files changed but packages didn't, rebuild from a prior cache.
          restore-keys: |
            $-nextjs-$-
      - name: Install dependencies
        run: $ $
      - name: Build project assets
        run: $ build
      - name: Upload artifact
        uses: actions/upload-pages-artifact@v2
        with:
          path: ./out

  # Deployment job
  deploy:
    environment:
      name: github-pages
      url: $
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    needs: build
    steps:
      - name: Deploy to GitHub Pages
        id: deployment
        uses: actions/deploy-pages@v2