A GitHub action for building a Writerside docs artifacts in a Docker container

This action creates a zip-archive with HTMLs converted from markdown or semantic markup files.

Environment variables

Change these variables with the values from your project.

INSTANCE

Represents the module name and instance ID, separated by a slash.

When you create a new Writerside project or add an instance in an existing project, the default module name is Writerside and the default instance id is hi. So, in this case, set INSTANCE: Writerside/hi.

ARTIFACT

The name of the archive is webHelpXX2-all.zip where XX gets replaced by the capitalized instance id.

For example, if the module (folder with documentation) is Writerside, and its ID is hi, then should be set to ARTIFACT: webHelpHI2-all.zip.

DOCKER_VERSION

The Writerside docker tag. Change the DOCKER_VERSION to the corresponding version published with the plugin update. To check the corresponding version, read the What's new section in our documentation.

Example usage: Building HTMLs Only

name: Build documentation

on:
  push:
  # To trigger the workflow once you push to the `main` branch
  # Replace `main` with your branch’s name
    branches: ["main"]
  # Specify to run a workflow manually from the Actions tab on GitHub
  workflow_dispatch:

env:
  # Name of module and id separated by a slash
  INSTANCE: Writerside/hi
  # Replace HI with the ID of the instance in capital letters
  ARTIFACT: webHelpHI2-all.zip
  # Docker image version
  DOCKER_VERSION: 241.15989

jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Checkout repository
        uses: actions/checkout@v4
        with:
          fetch-depth: 0
      
      - name: Build Writerside docs using Docker
        uses: JetBrains/writerside-github-action@v4
        with:
          instance: ${{ env.INSTANCE }}
          artifact: ${{ env.ARTIFACT }}
          docker-version: ${{ env.DOCKER_VERSION }}
      
      - name: Upload artifact
        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
        with:
          name: artifact
          path: artifacts/${{ env.ARTIFACT }}
          retention-days: 7

Example Usage: Building and Publishing to GitHub Pages

name: Build documentation

on:
  push:
    # To trigger the workflow once you push to the `main` branch
    # Replace `main` with your branch’s name
    branches: ["main"]
  # Specify to run a workflow manually from the Actions tab on GitHub
  workflow_dispatch:

permissions:
  id-token: write
  pages: write

env:
  # Name of module and id separated by a slash
  INSTANCE: Writerside/xx
  # Replace XX with the ID of the instance in capital letters
  ARTIFACT: webHelpXX2-all.zip
  # Docker image version
  DOCKER_VERSION: 241.15989

jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    
    steps:
      - name: Checkout repository
        uses: actions/checkout@v4
        with:
          fetch-depth: 0

      - name: Build Writerside docs using Docker
        uses: JetBrains/writerside-github-action@v4
        with:
          instance: ${{ env.INSTANCE }}
          artifact: ${{ env.ARTIFACT }}
          docker-version: ${{ env.DOCKER_VERSION }}
        
      - name: Upload artifact
        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
        with:
          name: docs
          path: |
            artifacts/${{ env.ARTIFACT }}
          retention-days: 7

  deploy:
    environment:
      name: github-pages
      url: ${{ steps.deployment.outputs.page_url }}
    # Requires build job results
    needs: build
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
      - name: Download artifact
        uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
        with:
          name: docs

      - name: Unzip artifact
        run: unzip -O UTF-8 -qq ${{ env.ARTIFACT }} -d dir

      - name: Setup Pages
        uses: actions/[email protected]
      
      - name: Upload artifact
        uses: actions/[email protected]
        with:
          path: dir
      
      - name: Deploy to GitHub Pages
        id: deployment
        uses: actions/[email protected]

For more information, please read the deployment guide — Build and publish on GitHub.