sp-dev-fx-webparts/.github/workflows/merge-sample-json.yml

name: Merge Sample JSON

# on:
#   push:
#     branches:
#       # When someone push to `main` branch
#       - main
#       # When someone pushes to `develop` branch
#       - develop
#       # When someone pushes to a branch within the `features` folder
#       - 'features/**'

# Controls when the action will run. Workflow runs when manually triggered using the UI
# or API.
on:
  workflow_dispatch

# A workflow run is made up of one or more jobs that can run sequentially or in parallel
jobs:
  build:
    name: 'Merge all sample.json files to samples.json'
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Join samples
        uses: actions/checkout@v2
        with: 
          path: './'      
      - run: |
          jq -s '[.[][]]' samples/**/assets/sample.json > samples.json
     
      - name: Commit updated file
        uses: EndBug/add-and-commit@v6
        with:
          message: 'Updated samples.json'
          add: 'samples.json --force'
          cwd: './' 
          token: ${{ secrets.TOKEN }} 
      - name: Copy to the pages
        uses: planetoftheweb/copy-to-branches@v1
        env:
          branches: gh-pages
          files: samples.json