@Khan/actions

A monorepo for shared github actions.

Currently only composite actions are supported, although supporting nodejs actions probably wouldn't be too hard. If your script is simple, you can do a composite action that uses actions/github-script, see the filter-files action for an example.

How does the monorepo work?

Github doesn't support putting actions in subdirectories, so we need to do some fancy work here. Inspired by gitpkg, we "publish" versions of our actions to 'bare tags' in this repo. So the tag filter-files-v0.0.1 would only contain the files for the filter-files action, and thus github is perfectly happy for us to reference it as uses: @Khan/actions#filter-files-v0.0.1.

Actions that depend on other actions within this repo (with e.g. uses: filter-files) will have the references automatically converted to the appropriated pinned reference (e.g. Khan/actions#filter-files-v0.0.1) as part of the publish process.

How does changeset play in?

Changeset helps us track what needs to be published, and automatically produces a changelog so we know what changed in a given release.