Pete's S3+CloudFront GitHub Action Deploy Script

release.yml

# Heavily borrowed from https://gist.github.com/neftaly/6390a8b3bfc278113d1a42303532d9b2

name: Build and Deploy

# Controls when the action will run. 
on:
  # Triggers the workflow on push or pull request events but only for the main branch
  push:
    branches: [ main ]

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

# A workflow run is made up of one or more jobs that can run sequentially or in parallel
jobs:
  # This workflow contains a single job called "build"
  build:
    # The type of runner that the job will run on
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    
    steps:
      # An action to check out code from GitHub
      - uses: actions/checkout@v1
      
      # Setting up node to build (you probably want to use a more recent version of Node)
      - uses: actions/setup-node@v1
        with:
          node-version: '14.x'
          
      # Not sure this helps much, but maybe it makes things faster sometimes.
      - uses: actions/cache@v1
        with:
          path: ~/.npm
          key: ${{ runner.os }}-node-${{ hashFiles('**/package-lock.json') }}
          restore-keys: |
            ${{ runner.os }}-node-
      
      # Install the Node dependencies
      - run: npm install
      
      # Run tests (all code needs tests!)
      - run: npm test
      
      # Build the distribution package
      - run: npm run dist
      
      # This is optional. But it can be nice to track test coverage.
      - name: Upload Coverage
        uses: codecov/codecov-action@v1
        with:
          token: ${{ secrets.CODECOV_TOKEN }}
          fail_ci_if_error: true

      # The following is pinned to a known-good commit for safety purposes
      # https://github.com/jakejarvis/s3-sync-action
      - uses: jakejarvis/s3-sync-action@c33d061a8f4bddd78d8b5f9f4e5d2fd40a556980
        with:
          args: --acl public-read --follow-symlinks --delete
        env:
          AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID: ${{ secrets.AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID }}
          AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY: ${{ secrets.AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY }}
          AWS_S3_BUCKET: 'SET TO YOUR S3 BUCKET NAME' 
          AWS_REGION: 'us-east-1'
          SOURCE_DIR: 'dist' # This is the directory that my your code builds to. No preceeding slashes needed.
          DEST_DIR: '' # The directory in the S3 bucket to put the code in (empty is probably fine in most cases)

      # Invalidate Cloudfront
      # Because of how my code is built, JS and CSS files will get new names when their content changes. 
      # But the index.html page keeps the same name which means that I need to tell CloudFront to invalidate
      # the old version. If you're not using CloudFront, then this step can be removed.
      - name: invalidate
        uses: chetan/invalidate-cloudfront-action@819473e1ccf40ea3178b75c8f31ae375fb45d388
        env:
          DISTRIBUTION: ${{ secrets.AWS_CLOUDFRONT_DISTRIBUTION }}
          PATHS: '/index.html'
          AWS_REGION: 'us-east-1'
          AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID: ${{ secrets.AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID }}
          AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY: ${{ secrets.AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY }}

This is plamoni's script for deploying from github pages via github actions (to S3+Cloudfront hosting).