Romain Lespinasse

    Actions Hackathon: Keeping Your draw.io Diagrams in Sync Within Your Repository

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    This post is link to a submission on Dev.to Github Action Hackathon This post have been published first on dev.to .

    My Workflow

    You have Draw.io diagram files on your repository? You export them manually to have them as images (png, jpg) or pdf?

    You can keep your diagrams as exported images (png, jpg) or pdf and keep them synchronized when the diagram files are updated.

    Submission Category

    Example to keep your draw.io files exported as PNG files with associated Asciidoctor pages.

    name: Keep draw.io export synchronized
on:
  push:
    branches:
      - master
    paths:
      - "**.drawio"
      - .github/workflows/drawio-export.yml
jobs:
  drawio-export:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Checkout sources
        uses: actions/checkout@v2
        with:
          token: ${{ secrets.GH_TOKEN }}

      - name: Export drawio files to asciidoctor and png files
        uses: docker://rlespinasse/drawio-export:v3.x
        with:
          args: --fileext adoc --folder drawio-assets --transparent --on-changes

      - name: Get author and committer info from HEAD commit
        uses: rlespinasse/git-commit-data-action@v1.x

      - name: Commit changed files
        uses: stefanzweifel/git-auto-commit-action@v4.1.6
        with:
          commit_message: "docs: sync draw.io exported files"
          commit_user_name: "${{ env.GIT_COMMIT_COMMITTER_NAME }}"
          commit_user_email: "${{ env.GIT_COMMIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL }}"
          commit_author: "${{ env.GIT_COMMIT_AUTHOR }}"

    Additional Resources / Info

    Learn more about the drawio-export docker image.

    Contributions welcome.