Deploy a subdirectory in your NodeJS Git project to GitHub pages.

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Deploy a subdirectory in your NodeJS Git project to GitHub pages.

1. Make sure node build outputs some static files to _built.
2. npm run deploy.

This eventually became this blog post and this module

package.json

{
  "scripts": {
    "build": "node build",
    "commit-built": "git add _built -A && git commit -m \"_built files at `date`\" -n > /dev/null 2>&1; exit 0",
    "ghpages": "git subtree split --prefix _built/ -b gh-pages && git push -f origin gh-pages:gh-pages && git branch -D gh-pages",
    "deploy": "npm run build && npm run commit-built && npm run ghpages"
  }
}

This is so simple, thanks! I also wanted to give myself a reminder that all outstanding changes need to be committed (duh) so mine looks like this in a shell script:

#!/bin/bash
if [[ $(git diff --shortstat 2> /dev/null | tail -n1) != "" ]]; then
    git status
    echo "---------------------------------------------------------"
    echo "You need to commit all changes first"
    echo "---------------------------------------------------------"
    exit 1
fi
git subtree split --prefix www/ -b gh-pages && git push origin gh-pages:gh-pages && git branch -D gh-pages