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How to Create Your Own GitHub Actions?

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Content

• Demo
• Build JavaScript GitHub Action
• Test JavaScript GitHub Action

Build JavaScript GitHub Action

• Create GitHub repository increment-git-tag for JavaScript GitHub Action. Keep it public to allow other repositories to use this action. Also, add a README.md file, gitignore, and select MIT Licence.

• Clone repository

git clone git@github.com:antonputra/increment-git-tag.git

• Initialize the project and install dependencies

cd increment-git-tag
npm init -y
npm i @actions/core
npm i @actions/exec

• Open Project

code .

• Create action.yml

• Create index.js

• Install vercel/ncc

npm i -g @vercel/ncc

• Compile JavaScript code into single file

ncc build index.js -o action

• Create git_update.sh
• Make git_update.sh executable

chmod +x chmod +x action/git_update.sh

• Commit and push

git add .
git commit -m 'init commit'
git tag -a -m "increment git tag" v1
git push --follow-tags

Test JavaScript GitHub Action

• Create GitHub repository lesson-088 (private)

• Clone repo

git clone git@github.com:antonputra/lesson-088.git

• Create .github/workflows/main.yaml (patch)

• Commit and push

• Increment major version, commit and push

Links

• Creating a JavaScript action
• @actions/core
• @actions/exec