Deploy Site workflow (wenzhixin/bootstrap-table)

The Deploy Site workflow from wenzhixin/bootstrap-table, explained and optimized by Latchkey.

What it does

This is the Deploy Site workflow from the wenzhixin/bootstrap-table repository, a real project running GitHub Actions. It is shown here with attribution under its MIT license.

Below, Latchkey shows a faster, safer version produced by its optimization engine.

The workflow

name: Deploy Site

on:
  push:
    branches:
      - master

jobs:
  deploy:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4

      - uses: actions/setup-node@v4
        with:
          node-version: 24
          cache: 'yarn'

      - name: Build page with Astro
        run: |
          cd ${{ github.workspace }}/site
          yarn install --frozen-lockfile
          yarn build
          # Disable Jekyll, otherwise _astro folder will be ignored
          touch dist/.nojekyll

      - name: Upload to Algolia
        run: |
          cd ${{ github.workspace }}/site
          yarn install --frozen-lockfile
          ALGOLIA_APP_ID="${{ secrets.ALGOLIA_APP_ID || 'FXDJ517Z8G' }}" \
          ALGOLIA_API_KEY="${{ secrets.ALGOLIA_API_KEY }}" \
          ALGOLIA_INDEX_NAME="${{ secrets.ALGOLIA_INDEX_NAME || 'bootstrap-table' }}" \
          yarn algolia

      - name: Checkout gh-pages branch
        uses: actions/checkout@v4
        with:
          ref: 'gh-pages'
          path: './gh-pages'

      - name: Move versions to target folder
        run: |
          mv gh-pages/versions site/dist
          rm -rf gh-pages

      - name: Deploy to GitHub Pages
        uses: JamesIves/github-pages-deploy-action@v4
        with:
          branch: gh-pages
          folder: site/dist

The same workflow, on Latchkey

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name: Deploy Site
 
on:
  push:
    branches:
      - master
 
concurrency:
  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}
  cancel-in-progress: true
 
jobs:
  deploy:
    timeout-minutes: 30
    runs-on: latchkey-small
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
      - uses: actions/setup-node@v4
        with:
          node-version: 24
          cache: 'yarn'
 
      - name: Build page with Astro
        run: |
          cd ${{ github.workspace }}/site
          yarn install --frozen-lockfile
          yarn build
          # Disable Jekyll, otherwise _astro folder will be ignored
          touch dist/.nojekyll
 
      - name: Upload to Algolia
        run: |
          cd ${{ github.workspace }}/site
          yarn install --frozen-lockfile
          ALGOLIA_APP_ID="${{ secrets.ALGOLIA_APP_ID || 'FXDJ517Z8G' }}" \
          ALGOLIA_API_KEY="${{ secrets.ALGOLIA_API_KEY }}" \
          ALGOLIA_INDEX_NAME="${{ secrets.ALGOLIA_INDEX_NAME || 'bootstrap-table' }}" \
          yarn algolia
 
      - name: Checkout gh-pages branch
        uses: actions/checkout@v4
        with:
          ref: 'gh-pages'
          path: './gh-pages'
 
      - name: Move versions to target folder
        run: |
          mv gh-pages/versions site/dist
          rm -rf gh-pages
 
      - name: Deploy to GitHub Pages
        uses: JamesIves/github-pages-deploy-action@v4
        with:
          branch: gh-pages
          folder: site/dist
 

What changed

• Run on Latchkey managed runners with one line (runs-on), which apply the fixes below automatically and self-heal transient failures. This example uses latchkey-small; pick the runner size that fits the job.
• Cancel superseded runs when a branch or PR gets a newer push.
• Add a job timeout so a hung step cannot burn hours of runner time.

1 third-party action is referenced by a movable tag. Pin it to the commit SHA (Latchkey resolves and applies this automatically) so a repointed tag cannot change what runs.

What Latchkey heals here

This workflow has steps that commonly fail on transient issues (network, registries, flaky browsers). On Latchkey managed runners they are detected, retried, and self-healed instead of failing your build:

• Dependency installs

This workflow runs 1 job per trigger. On Latchkey the same minutes cost up to 58% less than GitHub-hosted, with zero queue time.

Actions used in this workflow