GitHub Actions: Writing JavaScript Actions

Inspiration

I managed to finished the first challenge so I kept going

What it does

How to consume actions within a workflow file, create custom JavaScript based actions and publish your newly created action to the marketplace.

How we built it

Configuring a workflow

Actions are enabled on your repository by default, but we still have to tell our repository to use them. We do this by creating a workflow file in our repository.

Don't forget to set up your workstation

• Node.js -Vs code -Git

Creating a Joke action -Configure Your Action

Creating a metadata

• Action metadata

Creating required files

• joke.js //using joke API
• main.js

Customizing your workflow Creating an issue

Creating the main module of the file

Challenges we ran into

• Creating an issue ## Accomplishments that we're proud of

What we learned

A customized JS workflow

What's next for GitHub Actions: Writing JavaScript Actions

Built With

• github
• javascript
• node.js
• yml