hexo-to-s3

Deploy your hexo site from your build server directly to S3!

Why use hexo-to-s3?

hexo alreday offers a mechanism to deploy your site to various targets. But this mechanism involves generating the files from hexo before deploying them. If you want to follow a staging process, you want to generate your files once and deploy them to various servers. A typical process could look like this:

• Generate a new version of your site using hexo generate
• Publish the public folder as artefact
• Deploy your site to a test environment
• Verify the new version
• Promote this version to your production site

How to use it?

Install hexo-to-s3:

npm install hexo-to-s3 --save-dev

You have multiple options to execute a deployment.

As an entry in your package.json

Add this entry to your package.json:

    {
        "scripts": {
            "deploy": "hexo-to-s3"
        }  
    }

Execute this npm command to deploy:

    npm run-script deploy --bucket YOUR_BUCKET_NAME

Directly from node_modules

Execute this npm command to deploy:

    node node_modules/hexo-to-s3/bin/hexo-to-s3.js --bucket YOUR_BUCKET_NAME

Parameters

bucket

Mandatory parameter that defines the upload target

region

Optional, defines the region that is used for the upload. If this parameter is not set, hexo-to-s3 tries to read the environment variable AWS_DEFAULT_REGION.

Configure your AWS account

hexo-to-s3 uses the Amazon AWS SDK underneath. You can use the usual means to load credentials. More information can be found here.