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Deploy Gatsby to Netlify

We saw on a previous post how to set up a blog with Gatsby and the WordPress API. We will see in this post how to deploy our project to Netlify.

Creating a Git repo

To be able to deploy our project we need to put it on GitHub or Gitlab in order to connect it to Netlify.

github-add-repo

Connect the project to Netlify

After connecting the project to Netlify, all we have to do is to add a new site as shown in the screenshot.

new-site-netlify-git

By clicking on this button we are asked to choose the Git Provider, in our case it is GitHub. We then choose from the list the project

netlify-projects

We now move on to the configuration of the project

netlify-gatsby-configure

We can now deploy the project!

deploy-netlify

Our site is now online

gatsby-index-posts

Auto trigger deploys to Netlify

Basically, if we want to update our site we will have to redeploy the project once again and this becomes a recurring task. Netlify has set up what are called triggers deploy which allow us to redeploy the project at each push/change.

trigger-deploy

And in order to be able to redeploy the project simply by updating articles we use build hooks. At the creation a link is provided to us, it is by executing a POST request on it that the project is redeployed.

auto-deploy-netlify

Trigger deploys from the WordPress API

In order to be able to redeploy the project without using Netlify it is necessary to make a POST request on the link provided at the time of adding, editing a post (only if it is published). Here is the piece of code to put in the functions.php file of our theme. Several other WordPress functions exist for this type of case, it’s up to you to see which ones are right for you.

add_action('publish_post', 'post_published_notification', 10, 2);
function post_published_notification() {
  wp_remote_post('https://api.netlify.com/build_hooks/XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX')
}

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