writing git hub actions

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Inspiration

After being able to accomplish the github Actiions challenge, I had to try this one.

What it does

I consumed actions within a workflow file, created custom JavaScript based actions and published newly created action to the marketplace.

How we built it

step 1:

I initialized a new javascript project. Basically, I used npm to install request, request-promise and @actions/core dependencies and git for my repository updates.

step 2:

I created a action.yml file to enable configuring the action.

step 4:

i created a metadata by updating my action.yml file with the following code:

name: "my joke action"

description: "use an external API to retrieve and display a joke"

outputs: joke-output: description: The resulting joke from the icanhazdadjokes API

runs: using: "node12" main: "main.js"

step 4:

I created joke.js and main.js files for fetching and consuming data via the joke API. For fetching data I had the following code(joke.js)

const request = require("request-promise");

const options = { method: "GET", uri: "https://icanhazdadjoke.com/", headers: { Accept: "application/json", "User-Agent": "Writing JavaScript action GitHub Skills course." }, json: true };

async function getJoke() { const res = await request(options); return res.joke; }

module.exports = getJoke;

To consume the data i had:

const getJoke = require("./joke"); const core = require("@actions/core");

async function run() { const joke = await getJoke(); console.log(joke); core.setOutput("joke-output", joke); }

run();

finnally, I added action to the workflow file and triggered the joke action for testing.

Challenges we ran into

No challenges

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Finishing up the project

What we learned

How to create javascript form action to workflow.

What's next for writing git hub actions

Built With

• github