Pawel Grzybek has set up a workflow that uses GitHub Actions’ Scheduled Events to automatically update his profile README.md. It runs every 6 hours and pulls in his RSS feed to populate the README.md import fs from "fs"; import fetch from "node-fetch"; import parser from "xml2json"; const FEED_URL = "https://pawelgrzybek.com/feed.xml"; const TAG_OPEN = `<!– FEED-START […]
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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 […]
GitHub acquires npm
It was suggested that Microsoft/GitHub should have bought npm back in the day, instead of launching their own registry. Today is the day they’ve actually done it: We at GitHub are honored to be part of the next chapter of npm’s story and to help npm continue to scale to meet the needs of the […]
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 […]