Automating with GitHub Actions

GitHub Pages is another place where we can host static sites by creating a GitHub repository. In order for this to work, all you need is a GitHub account and a repository for your project. We will be using GitHub Actions to automatically build and deploy our Flutter web application to GitHub Pages. First, we will start by creating a GitHub action that will build and deploy our application.

Writing a GitHub action for deployment

We define the configuration for a GitHub action in a .yml file inside the .github/workflows directory in our repository. Let’s create deploy.yml inside .github/workflows in our repository and add the following configuration:

name: Deploy to GitHub Pages
on:
  push:
    branches: [ main ]
jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
     ...