This is a template repo which where I am testing and building solution for automated publishing of my articles/blog posts to dev. It’s just a lot of work to post the same article across places and hence I decided to automate publishing my posts to dev and eventually any other personal blogs. Here is how I made it easier for myself to publish blog posts from github to dev.to

Dev exposes API through which you could do a lot of things. I am currently only creating articles which will be in your drafts.

Publish blog posts from github to dev.toApproach

• Clone this repo, cleanup the files and arrange your blog posts.
• Create a markdown file for your blog post. You can check the folder structure in the repo.
• Setup your DEV TOKEN in your repo with the name as GIT_TO_DEV
• Commit the changes made to your .md files.
• Voila after the workflow is complete, you can see the blog posts created in draft.
• Also, I am persisting the json payload of the article with the id populated.

Next steps

• Identify new files and modified markdown files
• For new files, create new articles
• For modified, update the articles
  • Read the json and call the Update api
  • Publish posts to WordPress as well?

Thanks

• Ana María Martínez Gómez – Tracking changed files
• Stefan Zweifel – Committing the changes file from a workflow
• Maxime – For the triggering a thought
• Chris Amico – For parsing front matter from Markdown file

Bugs/Changes

Please modify any typos or corrections in git and create a pull request to make this better. Here is an older blog post of mine.