Tales of the 16th Week Intern
Dec. 01, 2023 · 2 min readNow that I have finally finished making my Jekyll project, this week was dedicated to deploying the project online using GitHub pages and implementing an action workflow for it.
Wednesday (2023-11-29)
So this day would finally be the day where I would deploy the project using GitHub pages. The last time I deployed using GitHub pages was back when I was in my first year in 2019. It was a simple static website which is like a gallery for wallpapers for desktop and mobile screens.
Just like the GitHub workflows folder, GitHub also looks out for certain named entities, in this case, it is not a file, but a branch. If a gh-pages branch is present, Github knows that it can make its website and deploy it within its own server. So after watching the short tutorial on GitHub pages, I was successfully able to have my blog up and running on a live server.
At the end of the day, I caught up on my latest weekly reflection after not having finished the ones two weeks prior.
Friday (2023-12-01)
During our daily standup meeting, after my fellow interns and I said what we had done and what we planned to do, our supervisor guided us on instead of having our action be run on every push on a certain branch, what we could do instead is to apply version tagging to our Git pushes.
What version tagging does is that a tag is associated with a push these could be a version tag like “v2.*” or “v1.0”. If the workflow is looking for a certain tag when a push is made to a branch and if that push associated has the corresponding tag together with it, the workflow will start operating.
