GitHub Action to automatically rebuild and redeploy a website to ZEIT Now whenever content is edited in the CMS.

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build-and-deploy-prod.yml

name: Build & Deploy to Production

# Run when a dispatch event is created (e.g. from a CMS Webhook)
# See https://developer.github.com/v3/repos/#create-a-repository-dispatch-event
on: [repository_dispatch]

jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@v1 # Equivalent to `git checkout master`
    
    - name: Install dependencies
      run: yarn
    
    - name: Build
      run: yarn build
    
    - name: Deploy
      run: now _build/ --prod -t ${{ secrets.ZEIT_TOKEN }}
      
      # The `_build/` argument is optional. In my case it's the directory where `yarn build` puts the final code to
      # deploy. If you want to deploy the current directory instead, just remove this argument.