Example Action

Example Action is a companion to Package GitHub Actions automatically with GitHub Actions which describes how to automatically package GitHub Actions using GitHub Actions, as an alternative GitHub's recommended strategy.

Project Structure

Workflows

• package-action.yml Package Action using ncc to create a single dist
• sync-release-branch.yml Synchronise To Release Branch on push to main
• test.yml Test Action with jest for unit and GitHub Workflow for integration
• validate-tag.yml Limit Tags To Distributable Commits by removing tags on commits without dist

How To Demo

• Fork the repository
• Create a release branch from main
• Add a commit key (secret, deploy key)

Synchronising

• Push changes to main and observe release is updated with changes

Packaging

• Push changes to greeter.ts on main and observe release is updated with a new dist build

Tag Validation

• Tag a release on main and observe it is removed
• Tag a release on release and observe it is persisted

Greet With Action

on: [push]

jobs:
  greet-people:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - id: greeting-actor
        uses: ./
      - name: Greet the user that initiated the workflow run
        run: echo {{ steps.greeting-actor.outputs.greeting }} # Hello, shrink!
      - id: greeting-person
        uses: ./
        with:
          name: "Alice T. Ester"
      - name: Greet the person identified by name
        run: echo {{ steps.greeting-person.outputs.greeting }} # Hello, Alice T. Ester!