Saturday 10th October, 2020 #
- If you are looking to build some custom content based workflows, feel free to get in touch with me anytime, as well as web development, I have years of experience building workflows for big media companies
- automerge-action - Another auto-merge action that looks interesting
- merge-me-action Automatically merges Pull Requests - It’s possible to implement some pretty neat workflows that use pull requests and repo branches as sort of queues for inbound content, to be reviewed and approved by real people, then published into statically rendered sites, this action auto-merges PRs
- awesome-actions - A curated list of awesome actions to use on GitHub - Be careful here as it’s where the overwhelm sets in, I wouldn’t go too deep into these until you have built several simple workflows, still though it’s nice to see some of the possibilities
- Triggering GitHub Actions across different repositories - After reading this post you start to see a lot more of the power of these workflows, you get all sorts of webhooks with payloads in each repo, and the payload is available to use inside the triggered workflow, which runs in a container, and you can easily build up whichever runtime environment you need, be it NodeJS, Bash, Perl, Java, Python, Ruby etc...
- Publishing actions in GitHub Marketplace
- Deploying to Heroku from GitHub Actions
- How to Manually Trigger a GitHub Actions Workflow - The manual triggers seems to have been introduced quite recently, and makes it possible to launch your workflow from the web UI after filling out a form with the workflow inputs
- Building Gatsby with GitHub Actions and deploying to Netlify - A good example of how to deploy your app to Netlify
- I’ve been doing a lot of work using GitHub Actions the past few days - It’s really quite a cool automation framework geared specifically around developer workflows, so anything that involves source code repos, but what’s really surprising is the variety of things you can implement, and it doesn’t have to be just for code, but it can also support all kinds of interesting content workflows - The volume of published workflows is a little overwhelming though, what follows is some of the links I found useful