setup auto publish

Author: basicBrogrammer

.github/workflows/publish-to-dev-to.yml

@@ -4,12 +4,17 @@ jobs:
   build:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+    - name: Checkout Code
+      uses: actions/checkout@v2
+      with:
+        fetch-depth: 3
+
     - uses: actions/setup-node@v1
       with:
         node-version: '12.x'
         registry-url: 'https://registry.npmjs.org'
-    - run: npm install -g axios
+    - run: npm install -g @github-docs/frontmatter node-fetch
+    - run: npm link @github-docs/frontmatter node-fetch
     - run: node dev-to.js
       env:
         DEV_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.DEV_TO }}

dev-to.js

@@ -1,3 +1,50 @@
-// const axios = require('axios');
-console.log('hello world')
-console.log(`The Dev token is ${process.env.DEV_TOKEN}`)
+const { execSync } = require('child_process')
+const fs = require('fs')
+const fetch = require('node-fetch')
+const frontmatter = require('@github-docs/frontmatter')
+
+const publishArticle = (path) => {
+  try {
+    const markdown = fs.readFileSync(`./${path}`, 'utf8')
+    const { data } = frontmatter(markdown)
+
+    if (data.published) {
+      console.log(`Article ${data.title} published. Deploying to dev.to`)
+
+      const body = {
+        article: {
+          body_markdown: markdown,
+        },
+      }
+
+      fetch('https://dev.to/api/articles', {
+        method: 'post',
+        body: JSON.stringify(body),
+        headers: {
+          'Content-Type': 'application/json',
+          'api-key': process.env.DEV_TOKEN,
+        },
+      })
+        .then((response) => response.json())
+        .then((json) => console.log(json))
+    } else {
+      console.log(`Article ${data.title} NOT published. Skipping.`)
+    }
+  } catch (err) {
+    console.error(err)
+  }
+}
+
+const files = execSync(
+  'git diff --name-only HEAD HEAD~1 -- ./content/articles/'
+)
+  .toString()
+  .split('\n')
+  .filter((f) => f.length > 0)
+  .map((f) => f.trim())
+
+if (files.length > 0) {
+  files.forEach((f) => publishArticle(f))
+} else {
+  console.log('No Articles.')
+}