Using npm packages with Actions

It is very easy to set up a release workflow for packages with GitHub Actions. You can use GITHUB_TOKEN to authenticate and the native clients of your package managers. To try it out with npm, you can follow the step-by-step instructions here: https://github.com/wulfland/package-demo.

You can create the package using npm init if you have installed npm on your machine. Otherwise, just copy the contents of package.json and package-lock.json from the aforementioned repository.

The workflow to publish the package is simple. It gets triggered every time a new release is created:

on:

  release:

    types: [created]

The workflow consists of two jobs. The first one only builds and tests the package using npm:

  build:

    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:

      - uses: actions/checkout@v2

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