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AWS Amplify Pull-Request Previews for Public GitHub repository

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AWS Amplify Pull-Request Previews currently only supports private GitHub repository. This amplify-preview-actions GitHub action enables the ability to deploy AWS Amplify Pull-Request Previews for your open source and public GitHub repository.

With this amplify-preview-actions GitHub action, you can define your own rule to deploy the Pull-Request branch to the AWS Amplify console app page for a preview. For example, you can setup a rule only a pull request is labeled with Ready for review and is assigned to a reviewer; and clean up the previews after the pull request is merged or closed.

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This action deploys your AWS Amplify pull request preview for your public repository

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AWS Amplify Pull-Request Previews currently only supports private GitHub repository. This amplify-preview-actions GitHub action enables the ability to deploy AWS Amplify Pull-Request Previews for your open source and public GitHub repository.

With this amplify-preview-actions GitHub action, you can define your own rule to deploy the Pull-Request branch to the AWS Amplify console app page for a preview. For example, you can setup a rule only a pull request is labeled with Ready for review and is assigned to a reviewer; and clean up the previews after the pull request is merged or closed.

Getting Started

You can include the action in your workflow as actions/amplify-preview-actions@master.

Basic workflow.yml Example

Deploy a PR preview branch to the Amplify console App page (not the Previews page) after a reviewer is assigned.

Place in a .yml file such as this one in your .github/workflows folder. Refer to the documentation on workflow YAML

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Installation

- name: amplify-preview-actions
  uses: yinlinchen/amplify-preview-actions@v1.0

An example of how to use the Action:

name: 'Amplify PR Preview'
on:
  pull_request:
    types: [review_requested]

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

    - name: set branchname env
      id: setenvname
      run: |
        # use GITHUB_HEAD_REF that is set to PR source branch
        echo "##[set-output name=setbranchname;]$(echo ${GITHUB_HEAD_REF})"

    - name: deploy PR preview
      uses: yinlinchen/amplify-preview-actions@master
      with:
        branch_name: ${{ steps.setenvname.outputs.setbranchname }}
        amplify_command: deploy
      env:
        AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID: ${{ secrets.AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID }}
        AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY: ${{ secrets.AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY }}
        AmplifyAppId: ${{ secrets.AmplifyAppId }}
        BackendEnvARN: ${{ secrets.BackendEnvARN }}
        AWS_REGION: 'us-east-1'

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daltonfury42

I just tried it out, and works like a charm. You can add github.com/SimplQ/simplQ-frontend to your list if you want to :P

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Yinlin Chen

Thank you!! added.