Write JavaScript Actions

Write your own GitHub JavaScript Action and automate customized tasks unique to your workflow.

Step 2: Configure Your Action

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Now that we have the custom action pre-requisites, let us create joke-action action.

All of the following steps take place inside of the .github/actions/joke-action directory.

We will start with using the parameters that are required and later implement some optional parameters as our action evolves.

Add the following contents to the .github/actions/joke-action/action.yml file:

name: "my joke action"

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

runs:
  using: "node16"
  main: "main.js"

Commit the changes and push them to the main branch:

git add action.yml
git commit -m 'create action.yml'
git pull
git push

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