Pipeline artifacts not deployed

[Jacob Leech]

Hi there, I have a bitbucket-pipeline.yml file setup as below:

definitions:
  caches:
    node: wp-content/themes/$THEME_NAME/node_modules
  steps:
    - step:  &npm
      name: Build frontend
      image: node:16
      caches:
        - node
      script:
        - cd wp-content/themes/$THEME_NAME
        - npm ci
        - npm run build
      artifacts:
        - wp-content/themes/$THEME_NAME/dist/**
    - step: &deploy
      name: Deploy to staging
      deployment: staging
      script:
        - pipe: atlassian/rsync-deploy:0.7.1
          variables:
            USER: $FTP_USER
            SERVER: $FTP_STAGE_ADDRESS
            REMOTE_PATH: $FTP_STAGE_PATH
            LOCAL_PATH: $BITBUCKET_CLONE_DIR
            EXTRA_ARGS: "-rvz --exclude=.vscode --exclude=.htaccess --exclude=.gitignore --exclude=wp-config.php --exclude=wp-includes/ --exclude=wp-admin/ --exclude=wp-content/uploads/ --exclude=wp-content/languages/ --exclude=node_modules/ --exclude=wp-content/themes/*/node_modules/ --exclude=.git/ --exclude=wp-content/themes/*/src/ --exclude=wp-activate.php --exclude=wp-blog-header.php --exclude=wp-comments-post.php --exclude=wp-config-sample.php --exclude=wp-cron.php --exclude=wp-links-opml.php --exclude=wp-load.php --exclude=wp-login.php --exclude=wp-mail.php --exclude=wp-settings.php --exclude=wp-signup.php --exclude=wp-trackback.php --exclude=xmlrpc.php --exclude=*.scss --chown=www-data:www-data"

pipelines:
  branches:
    develop:
      - step: *npm
      - step: *deploy

The pipeline runs successfully, but the compiled artifacts defined in the npm step aren't deployed with the rest of the required files. 

Just wondering why this might be happening? The artifacts file path is relative to the $BITBUCKET_CLONE_DIR.

Cheers.

JL

UPDATE:

To update, I have also tried using this:

artifacts:
- dist/**

still no artifacts are generated... but if I run 

script:
- cd wp-content/themes/$THEME_NAME
- npm ci
- npm run build
- ls -l dist

it prints out the contents of the dist directory.. confusing

[Theodora Boudale · Accepted solution]

Hi Jacob and welcome to the community.

I think the issue is that the file path in the artifacts block cannot render variable names.

We have a bug report about this in our issue tracker:

• https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/BCLOUD-20207

Until this is this fixed, you can either replace $THEME_NAME in the artifacts path with the actual value of the variable or use a path like the following:

artifacts:
  - wp-content/themes/**/dist/**

The latter one will work well if there is only one directory in wp-content/themes (the $THEME_NAME directory) with a subdirectory named dist. If there are more directories in wp-content/themes with a subdirectory dist, then they would all be uploaded as artifacts, so you may want to use the value of the variable instead.

Kind regards,
Theodora