ci: compile the project using GitHub actions

[zanna-37]

With this new action the project is compiled every time a new release is published and the output file is attached to it. No need to compile manually and create a commit for it.
If you decide to use this I suggest you to delete the dist folder from the repo and add it to the .gitignore.

No changes for HACS, everything continue to work.

[dbuezas]

This is awesome!

[dbuezas]

I think this will also put a download counter in hacs.

[zanna-37]

I think this will also put a download counter in hacs.

Yes, a counter for the earliest release. ☺️

[dbuezas]

Yes, a counter for the earliest release. ☺️

What do you mean with "the earliest" ?

[dbuezas]

BTW, my manual workflow was to call npm version patch(or minor or major) and an npm hook builds it. This is better, but it wasn't that bad

[zanna-37]

What do you mean with "the earliest" ?

The download counter in HACS resets at every new release.

This is better, but it wasn't that bad

Yeah, not saying it was bad. The advantage is that you avoid having a commit just for the built library.
By the way, I created the action so that I could test your latest changes by creating a release in my private fork without the need to compile it myself (and needing a computer). 😂 Then I thought you might appreciate it as well, so I PR it. 👍🏻

If you don't need it, feel free to reject the PR, no offense. I literally almost copied the action I use for mine, so a 5 minutes effort for me.

[dbuezas]

If you don't need it, feel free to reject the PR, no offense.

I don't need this. I want it! :)

I wanted to do this for a long while, but never broke the "have to learn first" barrier.

Where did you learn how to do this?

[zanna-37]

Same way I learnt ~90% of what I know. I want it and I'm not giving up until it's done. 😂

Jokes aside, github can be a wonderful place, people usually share a lot of problems and some solve them before others. It's just a matter of getting lost in projects and being curious.
And internet is full of good documentation and guides.

The only thing difficult is having free time, because "getting lost" requires a lot of it. 😂

TL;DR
I'm a very curious person, and I like to discover how people (more knowledgeable than me) do stuff and then take inspiration. 😉

[dbuezas]

Same as me. So copy & paste? 🤣

[zanna-37]

In my experience, it rarely is that easy.
It's:

• copy
• paste
• StackOverflow
• search on GitHub to see if someone is doing the same
• realize that you'd better read the docs
• accept that you need to understand the pasted code
• doing a better version that fits your needs

It always starts as a "well, it can't be that difficult" and ends with "I made so many mistakes that I'm now an expert" 😂