Surge PR Preview

A GitHub action that preview website in surge.sh for your pull requests.

Pros

Compare to Netlify/Vercel?

It is free.
It supports multiple preview jobs.

Usage

Add a workflow (.github/workflows/preview.yml):

name: 🔂 Surge PR Preview

on: [pull_request]

jobs:
  preview:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    permissions:
      pull-requests: write # allow surge-preview to create/update PR comments
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
      - uses: afc163/surge-preview@v1
        id: preview_step
        with:
          surge_token: ${{ secrets.SURGE_TOKEN }}
          dist: public
          build: |
            npm install
            npm run build
      - name: Get the preview_url
        run: echo "url => ${{ steps.preview_step.outputs.preview_url }}"

The preview website url will be https://{{repository.owner}}-{{repository.name}}-{{job.name}}-pr-{{pr.number}}.surge.sh.

Multiple Jobs

name: 🔂 Surge PR Preview

on: [pull_request]

permissions:
  pull-requests: write # allow surge-preview to create/update PR comments

jobs:
  preview-job-1:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
      - uses: afc163/surge-preview@v1
        with:
          surge_token: ${{ secrets.SURGE_TOKEN }}
          dist: public
          build: |
            npm install
            npm run build
  preview-job-2:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
      - uses: afc163/surge-preview@v1
        with:
          surge_token: ${{ secrets.SURGE_TOKEN }}
          dist: public
          build: |
            npm install
            npm run build

The preview website urls will be:

https://{{repository.owner}}-{{repository.name}}-preview-job-1-pr-{{pr.number}}.surge.sh
https://{{repository.owner}}-{{repository.name}}-preview-job-2-pr-{{pr.number}}.surge.sh

Teardown

When a pull request is closed and teardown is set to 'true', then the surge instance will be destroyed.

name: 🔂 Surge PR Preview

on:
  pull_request:
    # when using teardown: 'true', add default event types + closed event type
    types: [opened, synchronize, reopened, closed]
  push:

jobs:
  preview:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    permissions:
      pull-requests: write # allow surge-preview to create/update PR comments
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
      - uses: afc163/surge-preview@v1
        with:
          surge_token: ${{ secrets.SURGE_TOKEN }}
          dist: public
          teardown: 'true'
          build: |
            npm install
            npm run build

Inputs

surge_token: Getting your Surge token.
github_token: Defaults: github.token. It is used to create Pull Request comment, so it requires the pull-requests permission set to write permission. Possible value: secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN.
build: build scripts to run before deploy.
dist: dist folder deployed to surge.sh.
failOnError: Set failed if a deployment throws error, defaults to false.
teardown: Determines if the preview instance will be torn down on PR close, defaults to false.

Outputs

preview_url: The url for the related PR preview

afc163/surge-preview

afc163

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