NuxtJS and Github User Pages - github-pages

Question

Github has two kind of pages:
User
Projects
I have a User page. So I want to publish from the master branch. I want to use NuxtJS. NuxtJS generates a CI file when you install it. Following https://nuxtjs.org/docs/2.x/deployment/github-pages I also set up a CD file whereas I went for npm instead of yarn.
So I have
ci.yml
name: ci
on:
push:
branches:
- main
- master
pull_request:
branches:
- main
- master
jobs:
ci:
runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
strategy:
matrix:
os: [ubuntu-latest]
node: [14]
steps:
- name: Checkout 🛎
uses: actions/checkout#master
- name: Setup node env 🏗
uses: actions/setup-node#v2.1.2
with:
node-version: ${{ matrix.node }}
check-latest: true
- name: Cache node_modules 📦
uses: actions/cache#v2
with:
path: ~/.npm
key: ${{ runner.os }}-node-${{ hashFiles('**/package-lock.json') }}
restore-keys: |
${{ runner.os }}-node-
- name: Install dependencies 👨🏻‍💻
run: npm ci
- name: Run linter 👀
run: npm run lint
cd.yml
name: cd
on: [push, pull_request]
jobs:
cd:
runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
strategy:
matrix:
os: [ubuntu-latest]
node: [14]
steps:
- name: Checkout
uses: actions/checkout#master
- name: Setup node env
uses: actions/setup-node#v2.1.2
with:
node-version: ${{ matrix.node }}
- name: Install dependencies
run: npm ci
- name: Generate
run: npm run generate
- name: Deploy
uses: peaceiris/actions-gh-pages#v3
with:
github_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
publish_dir: ./dist
Now if I understood it correctly: Those actions will generate and create the static sites i.e. the dist directory. In the cd.yml file we then set:
name: Deploy
uses: peaceiris/actions-gh-pages#v3
with:
github_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
publish_dir: ./dist
So everything seems okay but we did use peaceiris/actions-gh-pages#v3 which seems to create a gh_pages branch, so it seems my cd.yml file might be wrong?
If I go to my user github page I just see the readme.md displayed. What do I do wrong?

Answer 1

Specify the publish_branch parameter for the actions-gh-pages action (see docs):
- name: Deploy
uses: peaceiris/actions-gh-pages#v3
with:
github_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
publish_dir: ./dist
# new
publish_branch: master