📅 4/26 @ 5pm PT - Create a cowsay GitHub Action with JavaScript

[gr2m]

💁🏻 GitHub Enterprise repository auditing
📅 April 26, 2021
🕐 5pm Pacific Time (in your timezone)
🎙️ no guests
🏷️ Action

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The goal is to create a GitHub Action with JavaScript from scratch and to publish it to GitHub's marketplace.

Outline

1. Create a new repository based on gr2m/hello-world-js-action
2. Update all mentions of hello-world-js-action to cowsay-action
3. Install the cowsay package
4. Update the tests
5. Publish to GitHub Marketplace

[gr2m]

Going live right now at https://www.twitch.tv/gregorcodes

[gr2m]

We are done!

The repository: https://github.com/gr2m/cowsay-action
The action on marketplace: https://github.com/marketplace/actions/cowsay-js

Here is the recording on twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/gregorcodes/video/1002124938

Feel free to ask any questions you have about the stream!

[oscard0m]

Nice session once again. Super useful to consolidate and discover some concepts not clear to me 😄

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I didn't know about:

• GitHub Actions branding
• @vercel/ncc

Some small research inspired by this video:

• GitHub issue with more details on why GitHub Actions are not supporting node14 yet
• GitHub Actions in JS do not support require / import files. This only applies to node_modules but for regular relative paths it works right? I have seen examples working.

[gr2m]

Thank you for adding the links, much appreciated!