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GitHub Actions Cookbook

You're reading from   GitHub Actions Cookbook A practical guide to automating repetitive tasks and streamlining your development process

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781835468944
Length 250 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Michael Kaufmann Michael Kaufmann
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Table of Contents (10) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: GitHub Actions Workflows FREE CHAPTER 2. Chapter 2: Authoring and Debugging Workflows 3. Chapter 3: Building GitHub Actions 4. Chapter 4: The Workflow Runtime 5. Chapter 5: Automate Tasks in GitHub with GitHub Actions 6. Chapter 6: Build and Validate Your Code 7. Chapter 7: Release Your Software with GitHub Actions 8. Index 9. Other Books You May Enjoy

Using github-script in a composite action to add a comment to an issue

In this recipe, we will use an action called github-script to leverage the power of the toolkit inside a composite action.

How to do it…

  1. Remove the run step with the bash script from the action.yml file and replace it with a github-script action:
    - name: Awesome github script action
      uses: actions/github-script@v6
      with:
        script: |
  2. Use the toolkit to read the input parameter, write a greeting to the log, and set the output parameter. This should be familiar from the Creating a TypeScript action recipe:
    var whoToGreet = core.getInput('who-to-greet')
    core.notice(`Hello ${whoToGreet}`)
    core.setOutput('answer', 42)
  3. Now, we want to add some additional functionality. If the workflow was triggered by an issues event, then we want to add a comment to that issue. Check that the event that triggered the workflow was in fact issues and that...
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