main.yml

name: Deploy to GitHub Pages

# Run workflow on every push to the master branch
on:
  push:
    branches: [ master ]

jobs:
  deploy-to-github-pages:
    # use ubuntu-latest image to run steps on
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
    # uses GitHub's checkout action to checkout code form the master branch
    - uses: actions/checkout@v2

    - name: Setup .NET SDK
      uses: actions/setup-dotnet@v3
      with:
        dotnet-version: 9.0.x

    - name: Clear NuGet package cache
      run: dotnet nuget locals all --clear

    - name: Restore NuGet packages
      run: dotnet restore

    - name: Build
      run: dotnet build

    # publishes Blazor project to the release-folder
    - name: Publish .NET Core Project
      run: dotnet publish BlazorBlog/BlazorBlog.csproj -c Release -o release --nologo

    # copy index.html to 404.html to serve the same file when a file is not found
    - name: copy index.html to 404.html
      run: cp release/wwwroot/index.html release/wwwroot/404.html

    # add .nojekyll file to tell GitHub pages to not treat this as a Jekyll project. (Allow files and folders starting with an underscore)
    - name: Add .nojekyll file
      run: touch release/wwwroot/.nojekyll

    - name: Commit wwwroot to GitHub Pages
      uses: JamesIves/github-pages-deploy-action@v4
      with:
        branch: gh-pages
        folder: release/wwwroot