\n Learn what GitHub actions are and how they can be used. You\n might be surprised, but you can do more than just running CI\n scripts!\n
\n\n Learn where Actions live on GitHub, what files are required\n and how to build your first action by following a\n step-by-step guide\n
\n\n Build a workflow that runs the action that you built in\n response to events on GitHub. Learn how to handle events\n such as pull_request and push and\n understand the information available\n
\n The commit, push, wait cycle gets repetitive very\n quickly. Run your actions locally to reduce the time it\n takes to get feedback and iterate on your workflows\n
\n\n Understand how things work under the hood by building an\n action that interacts with the GitHub API and data in{\" \"}\n event.json to automatically add comments when\n pull requests are merged\n
\n Reimplement the Action from the previous chapter using\n Node.js, taking advantage of @actions/core and{\" \"}\n @actions.github to reduce the amount of code\n you have to write\n
\n Make the most of the GitHub Actions ecosystem, using third\n party libraries to reduce the amount of code you need to\n write even further!\n
\n\n Your action's working, congratulations! But how do you know\n it'll continue to work? How does it handle the edge cases?\n Learn how to write unit tests for your action by mocking\n both the event.json and GitHub API\n
\n You can run your action using either the JavaScript or\n Docker runtimes. Learn about the pros and cons of both\n options and what the best option is for you\n
\n\n Writing an action isn't where the story ends. Once your\n action is built, it's time to publish it! Learn what you\n need to make your action official and publish it in the\n GitHub Marketplace\n
\n\n Extra bonus action! Learn how to build an action that runs\n on a schedule to create an issue every week summarising the\n activity in a repository\n
\n\n I learned the hard way so that you don't have to. Learn\n about debugging, semantic versioning, secret management and\n more!\n
\n\n Congratulations, you made it to the end! By now you'll know\n that Actions are for more than just Continuous Integration.\n You've built multiple actions, configured workflows and\n released them to the marketplace. I'll leave you with some\n ideas for even more actions to build to enhance your skills\n
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