Write your own GitHub JavaScript Action and automate customized tasks unique to your workflow.
Write your own GitHub JavaScript Action and automate customized tasks unique to your workflow.
- Who is this for: Developers, GitHub users, users new to Git, students, managers, and for teams.
- What you'll learn: How to consume actions within a workflow file, create custom JavaScript based actions and publish your newly created action to the marketplace.
- Prerequisites: Before you start, you should be familiar with GitHub, GitHub Actions, and Continuous Integration with GitHub Actions.
- How long: This course takes about 1 to 2 hours to be completed.
In this course, you will:
- Initialize a JavaScript project
- Configure an action
- Create a metadata file
- Create JavaScript files
- Add actions to workflow file
- Trigger action
- Right-click Start course and open the link in a new tab.
- In the new tab, most of the prompts will automatically fill in for you.
- For owner, choose your personal account or an organization to host the repository.
- We recommend creating a public repository, as private repositories will use Actions minutes.
- Scroll down and click the Create repository button at the bottom of the form.
- After your new repository is created, wait about 20 seconds, then refresh the page. Follow the step-by-step instructions in the new repository's README.
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