Merge pull request #7510 from layer5io/fix/blog-ci-always-full-build

fix(ci): always use full production build in CI workflows

Author: leecalcote

.github/workflows/build-and-deploy-site.yml

@@ -28,10 +28,18 @@ jobs:
       #     restore-keys: |
       #       ${{ runner.os }}-gatsby-
 
-      - name: Install and Build 🔧
-        run: |
-          make setup
-          make clean
+      - name: Install 🔧
+        run: make setup
+
+      - name: Build 🏗️
+        # Always run the full production build explicitly.
+        # Do NOT use `make clean` here — that target is a developer convenience
+        # command whose recipe has changed multiple times, causing blog posts and
+        # other collections to be silently excluded from the deployed site when
+        # it ran a lite/dev build instead of the full production build.
+        # `npm run build` is the canonical, stable production build command:
+        #   cross-env BUILD_FULL_SITE=true gatsby build
+        run: npm run build
 
       - name: Deploy 🚀
         uses: JamesIves/github-pages-deploy-action@v4

.github/workflows/build-and-preview-site.yml

@@ -14,10 +14,18 @@ jobs:
           persist-credentials: false
           fetch-depth: 1
 
-      - name: Install and Build 🔧
-        run: |
-          make setup
-          make clean
+      - name: Install 🔧
+        run: make setup
+
+      - name: Build 🏗️
+        # Always run the full production build explicitly.
+        # Do NOT use `make clean` here — that target is a developer convenience
+        # command whose recipe has changed multiple times, causing blog posts and
+        # other collections to be silently excluded from the deployed site when
+        # it ran a lite/dev build instead of the full production build.
+        # `npm run build` is the canonical, stable production build command:
+        #   cross-env BUILD_FULL_SITE=true gatsby build
+        run: npm run build
 
       - name: Broken Link Check 🔗
         uses: technote-space/broken-link-checker-action@v2

Makefile

@@ -39,8 +39,8 @@ site-fast:
 build:
 	npm run build
 
-## Empty build cache and run layer5.io on your local machine.
-clean: 
+## Empty build cache and rebuild layer5.io on your local machine (developer use only; CI uses `npm run build` directly).
+clean:
 	npm run clean && make build
 
 ## Run Eslint on your local machine.