Tag Archives: github

Run your GitHub Actions locally with act

When you run act it reads in your GitHub Actions from .github/workflows/ and determines the set of actions that need to be run. It uses the Docker API to either pull or build the necessary images, as defined in your workflow files and finally determines the execution path based on the dependencies that were defined. […]

Webmentions on a static site with GitHub Actions

Sebastian his website supports Webmentions. To show these on his website he used a tad of JS to display them underneath each page. Not being 100% happy with that flow, he sought a better way to implement these … After some tinkering, I came up with an alternative: a cron-based GitHub Action that queries webmention.io […]

RSS Feeds for GitHub Project Releases and User Activity

As an extra to RSS feed for youtube channels and GitHub projects, Pawel notes that it’s also possible to get a feed for the releases published in GitHub Projects. GitHub gives us RSS feeds for project releases and tags. Thats my preferred way of finding out about my followed projects fixed bugs and new features. […]

Easily Build and push Docker images with the `build-push-action` GitHub Action

The Docker folks have released their first GitHub Action build-push-action which builds and pushes Docker images and will log in to a Docker registry if required. Building and pushing an image becomes really easy: uses: docker/[email protected] with: username: ${{ secrets.DOCKER_USERNAME }} password: ${{ secrets.DOCKER_PASSWORD }} repository: myorg/myrepository tags: latest Amongst other options you can also […]

Draft your next release notes as pull requests are merged into master with Release Drafter

Now this looks handy: a GitHub action that builds release notes for you: As pull requests are merged, a draft release is kept up-to-date listing the changes, ready to publish when you’re ready You configure the release notes contents using a .github/release-drafter.yml file in your repo: template: | ## What’s Changed $CHANGES More advanced templates […]

Getting started with GitHub Actions and Laravel (~PHP)

Ruben Van Assche from Spatie: When GitHub released its new product: GitHub Actions a whole new world opened for developers. Let’s dive right in and see what it brings for the Laravel community. In How to set up PHP for use in a GitHub Action I’ve layed out how to use shivammathur/[email protected] in GitHub Actions. […]

How to set up PHP for use in a GitHub Action

To use PHP in a GitHub action there’s the magnificent setup-php action. It also allows for installing extensions and setting several php.ini directives. steps: – name: Checkout uses: actions/[email protected] – name: Setup PHP uses: shivammathur/[email protected] with: php-version: '7.4' extensions: mbstring, intl #optional, setup extensions ini-values: post_max_size=256M, short_open_tag=On #optional, setup php.ini configuration coverage: xdebug #optional, setup […]

Use a Github repository branch or commit as a dependency in package.json

Recently I needed to test a branch of a forked GitHub repository inside a project. Instead of cloning the fork and symlinking the package locally, I installed the remote dependency directly into the project. To achieve I used the following command: Using NPM: npm install user/repo.git#branchname Using Yarn: yarn add ssh://[email protected]:user/repo.git#branchname 💡 If you’re targeting […]

GitHub CI Workflow for PHP applications

Mattias Geniar has shared his GitHub Workflow to make GitHub do the CI work for PHP applications: on: push name: Run phpunit testsuite jobs: phpunit: runs-on: ubuntu-latest container: image: mattiasgeniar/php73 steps: – uses: actions/[email protected] with: fetch-depth: 1 – name: Install composer dependencies run: | composer install –prefer-dist –no-scripts -q -o; – name: Prepare Laravel Application […]