GitHub Tips & Tricks

Karl Bielefeldt

June 26th 2020 Tech Talk

This has been one of my favorite relatively new features. It is coming to Enterprise later this year. I don't know how exactly it is going to work, but I've been impressed by its stability so far for my personal projects like this talks site. Here you can see I have set up an action to publish the website when I push to master. This is necessary because the slides require an npm installed library. A lot of sites can be made without any actions at all. One thing I really like is the cache feature. Here the npm install takes under a second, because it was restored from cache and my package-lock.json did not change. If you look at the code, you can see that there are a number of triggers available, and it is a relatively simple yaml file. Unlike Jenkins, where you have one Jenkinsfile, you can have multiple workflows, each with different triggers. For example, if you have a repo with a website for its documentation, you can create a workflow that only runs when the documentation folder changes.