Trigger a build commit on push to master

[tpenguinltg]

Set up Travis CI so that when commits are pushed to the master branch, the project is built and the result is pushed back to master. This should make pull request diffs easier to read and it will prevent branches from being polluted with "Build project" commits every time a change is requested.

[jdan]

Happy to set this up, but didn't know that was possible! Figured I needed to use the GitHub API to do any committing and pushing. Got docs for this handy?

[tpenguinltg]

I don't have any experience with doing it in Travis myself (or with Travis in general), but you might find this Gist useful. The basic idea is to create a personal access token for authentication, but otherwise do your normal Git operations after setting Git's user details. You can see the Gist for details.

As for invoking this only on master, you can make use of a conditional stage or job.

[ghost]

I wonder if there is an equivalent in github actions through https://help.github.com/en/actions/reference/events-that-trigger-workflows. I just started playing around with this myself so it caught my eye.

I am not too experienced myself with this either, but I wonder if there are certain advantages between both of these 😄

[tpenguinltg]

I saw a Travis CI config and thought that that was what was being used, but I see now that there are GitHub actions set up that actually do something. I'd recommend doing this with GitHub actions instead of Travis if that's what's being used.

[jdan]

We don't check in dist anymore and have vercel running on commit :) Gonna close this as a no-op.