Creating a Continuous Integration Pipeline

In this chapter, we’ll learn how to create a continuous integration (CI) pipeline with GitHub Actions for our task manager application. We’ll start by learning about CI and why it’s important in the context of GitHub Actions. Then, we’ll learn how to create a GitHub repository to host our project and how to push our local files to the new repository. Finally, we’ll learn how to create a GitHub Actions pipeline to build and test our project and understand how this fits in a CI and deployment software development practice.

By the end of this chapter, you should have a basic overview of GitHub Actions, and know how to implement CI workflows and pipelines for your projects. Being able to create CI pipelines for your project will allow you and your team to adopt agile software development practices while guaranteeing that your application doesn’t break with each small change.

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