ci: compile for distribution, remove node_modules

[mchenryc]

• Use ncc to create single-file action: dist/index.js, as recommended in:
  https://docs.github.com/en/actions/creating-actions/creating-a-javascript-action#commit-tag-and-push-your-action-to-github
  • Remove node_modules from repo (48M)
  • Add dist/index.js as a singlle file replacement (656K)
  • Point action.yml at dist/index.js
• Add a job to workflows/test.yml to ensure dist/index.js is updated.
• Remove unused express and mocha dependencies

This PR removes the unnecessary node_modules dir from the repository, instead providing an npm script to build a single .js file for distribution, as recommended for GitHub .js actions.

Changes after this will will need to be built (npm run build), and the generated files (in dist) added to the commit. This is so it can be used by other GitHub projects.

I added a test job to verify that the dist files are built and committed with each change - this just builds the PR, and ensures the results are the same as in the commit. It would be good to require the build status check to pass before merging (see GitHub Docs about status checks). This will avoid confusion between a forgetting to build and commit the distribution, and the test cucumber-report checks that intentionally "fail".

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Note that updating dependencies (and sometimes just running npm install locally) will update package-lock.json which also needs to be committed - this ensures the CI build uses the same dependency versions as were used to build the committed distribution locally.

Of the workflow jobs, only the test job installs node modules, to use cucumber. All tests still use dist/index.js to run tests, and the direct-from-repository-test job ensures the action works as is, without having to install node modules.

[deblockt]

Hi, Thank for this contribution 👍
I started actions, but it seem that there is an issue, I will try to understand what is going on:

HttpError: Resource not accessible by integration
    at /home/runner/work/cucumber-report-annotations-action/cucumber-report-annotations-action/webpack:/cucumber-report-annotations-action/node_modules/@octokit/request/dist-node/index.js:86:1
    at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:96:5)
    at /home/runner/work/cucumber-report-annotations-action/cucumber-report-annotations-action/webpack:/cucumber-report-annotations-action/index.js:[17](https://github.com/deblockt/cucumber-report-annotations-action/runs/6721338625?check_suite_focus=true#step:3:18)0:1

[deblockt]

Ho I see that is a permission issue using forks. I will merge this PR.

Thanks a lot