How GitHub Actions 10x my productivity

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11 ай бұрын

Learn how to use GitHub actions continuous integration and delivery in a software development project. In this quick tutorial, we look at 7 powerful ways to automate code with CI/CD.
#programming #automation
- My GitHub Actions in SvelteFire github.com/codediodeio/svelte...
- GitHub Actions Docs github.com/features/actions
- act cli github.com/nektos/act

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@StefanoV827 11 ай бұрын

Great video! I didn't know about Act, I'm gonna install it RN. I would like to add: I recommend using paths-ignore (inside push and below branches) to trigger a specific workflow only when a specific path is involved. For example if the docs folder is another project, if you push a readme update inside the project, all the workflow will run test again wasting you free minutes. With paths-ignore you can specify which path to ignore.

@querela92 11 ай бұрын

Yes, I found this trick recently and this was great for only building/testing those modules that changed.

@marty0678 11 ай бұрын

Act doesn't run 1:1 to GitHub Actions, doesn't support all third party actions, and is missing a few feature parity things that will crash with Act but works fine on Actions but it's still a huge life saver when testing 80% of things. Act also exposes act specific env variables so you can skip steps when running locally for example, which helps getting around some of these issues.

@ServetTonga 11 ай бұрын

@@marty0678 I agree, something may fail in act but work in actions.

@sungjuyea4627 11 ай бұрын

I tried it several times but it seems like they don't work on macOS? I might be missing sth but from my experience act didn't work for me.

@ServetTonga 11 ай бұрын

@@sungjuyea4627 I use it on macOS

@snowdane3920 11 ай бұрын

The timing of this tutorial... I've been meaning to use GitHub actions to maintain a npm package... This couldn't have come out at a better time

@YuriG03042 11 ай бұрын

He already did a smaller video about it on the main channel 2 or 3 years ago. The only difference is that he used Node 12 back then which is either deprecated or downright removed now (can't remember what the Github blog post mentioned).

@user-py8mr3be5e 11 ай бұрын

What’s your package about ?

@snowdane3920 11 ай бұрын

@@YuriG03042 I seem to have missed that video somehow 🙈

@snowdane3920 11 ай бұрын

@@user-py8mr3be5e it's a fork of unmaintained calendar library for vue which I am slowly modifying for my office's needs

@neutron417 11 ай бұрын

I've just used it to add latest blogs to my readme lol

@kevinandeleven 11 ай бұрын

Hosted runners are life savers.. I basically use them for all my server work.. Once🎉 I push code, a self hosted runner running on the servers pulls the changes and restarts the server

@waldemarperalta2204 11 ай бұрын

I configured a self hosted runner on digitalocean. Do you know if it's possible to have multiple self hosted runners on the same VM? maybe with containers or something like that?

@kevinandeleven 9 ай бұрын

@@waldemarperalta2204 no idea

@paologaleotti8478 3 ай бұрын

@@waldemarperalta2204 it is, simply start multiple and make sure they are named differently

@roaringfork 11 ай бұрын

Github Actions actually spins up a whole vm. There are very specific circumstances in which this is important as I spent two weeks learning.

@ZeroYT 11 ай бұрын

What circumstances?

@uuu12343 11 ай бұрын

TIL in theory, you can self-hosted github actions if there's a way to redirect the builder To be fair, that would mean you are not using github lmao

@Bash70 11 ай бұрын

It doesn't have to use a whole vm. I configured a docker container to act as a runner so I could run nested docker containers inside of it.

@thekwoka4707 11 ай бұрын

@@Bash70 it still uses a full VM to run your action container.

@Bash70 11 ай бұрын

@@thekwoka4707 Like I said, it depends on how the runner is setup. The runners that Github itself uses are full VMs but you can setup up your own self-hosted runners that are just containers.

@Sefton. 11 ай бұрын

This is my favourite type of content, covering stuff nearly every developer uses or should be using and showing tips, tricks etc.

@NaveenKumar-nw4re 11 ай бұрын

Currently working on setting CI/CD on a project. what a time to upload the video👌

@arjix8738 11 ай бұрын

@Beyond Fireship Actually, if the project repo is public, then the workflows are free w/o limit (other than the 6 hour limit that all workflows have) the 2000 free minutes are for private repositories

@alanscodelog 11 ай бұрын

I've been using this setup (actions/act) but with semantic-release for a while. It's perfection. Don't even have to think about bumping versions / changelogs / publishing. Also you can create a little workflow badge to put on the repo or to keep a link to. Nice for having an overview of the state of several repos.

@JavArButt 11 ай бұрын

Within the first 16 seconds, I had to laugh/smile multiple times. Your sense of humor is great. Also, the time and deep thoughts you spend int this work is clearly visible.

@mattd5419 11 ай бұрын

I had no idea something like act existed, you just saved me a shit ton of time!

@abhishekshah11 11 ай бұрын

I had act but never knew how to use it right! Thanks for showing us!

@georgiosmylonas3892 3 ай бұрын

Love it! Straight and concise! Thank you!

@pedrosantos4368 11 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing! I started looking a bit more into GitHub actions, yesterday

@DevOpsBoss 11 ай бұрын

Top-notch tutorial, as always 👏

@emanuelescarsella3124 11 ай бұрын

I would have liked a video like this when I first learned GitHub actions, but still now I have to configure a new more complex project so that's still a good timing for me❤

@tomchapman128 11 ай бұрын

The selfhosted runners are super easy to set up, i did it and that way you also dont hsve any rate limits!

@Bash70 11 ай бұрын

It depends. For me, I have a M1 laptop and it wasn't functioning properly when I set it up as a runner so I had to go about configuring a docker container as a runner so I could then run nested containers inside of it, which was excruciating.

@bryce.ferenczi 11 ай бұрын

As long as you recognise the warning they include with the option, if someone makes a pr on your public repo and it triggers some test, then whatever code they submitted will be run on your machine which may include malware.

@tomchapman128 11 ай бұрын

@@Bash70 oh yeah I hadn't considered Macs, I ran mine on Linux but yeah I guess other OSs could definitely make things more difficult

@flyingpanhandle 11 ай бұрын

I like to use Volta in my projects, handily you can then use Volta in your GHA pipeline. No need to specific node or npm/pnpm/yarn versions any more. It will use exactly the version the project was developed on. Which is fantastic when upgrading node version.

@vasiletolea7586 11 ай бұрын

Best video, so far !!!

@wsollers1 Ай бұрын

Great video! Taught me enough to get automation on.

@thesleepykoala 11 ай бұрын

I like that fact he is smart and advertises his products.

@alexanderryndin6686 11 ай бұрын

Super awesome 😎 and informative. Thanks a lot!

@psychonek 11 ай бұрын

Thank you for nektos/act.

@CosasCotidianas 11 ай бұрын

The github YAML files look beautiful, very intuitive.

@boro057 11 ай бұрын

Cool, I understood some of the words in this one!

@StudyStreamPlus 6 ай бұрын

Love your videos bro. Thanks.

@travel.tales.official 11 ай бұрын

I just love your content. ❤

@vishalgaurav4411 11 ай бұрын

right when i needed it!

@geeshta 11 ай бұрын

I knew about GH actions but I never knew about act! Thanks

@jenewland1999 11 ай бұрын

Great video, Jeff! 🔥 Was so great to learn about act - I looked for a solution like this a while back and couldn't find anything. Quick question though: Is there any specific reason for using v2 over v3 of actions/checkout and action/setup-node?

@GamesterTheBest7 11 ай бұрын

Yuh much agreed. @v2 is going to give a deprecation warning for node 12.

@wlockuz4467 11 ай бұрын

Calling it life-saver is an understatement to be honest.

@GeneticsGuy 11 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for this

@tyreldelaney 11 ай бұрын

I did not know about the act package, that's a pretty nifty tool

@Malephex 11 ай бұрын

I can't tell you how much time I've wasted in the past, pushing 1 byte changes to make a CI pipeline run while debugging the flow, all the time wishing I could just run the damn yaml/json/whatever file locally to simulate the CI/CD server ... thanks for the "act" tip!

@frittex 11 ай бұрын

very wise indeed

@ivandimitrov4410 11 ай бұрын

I've been doing some GitHub actions with install-nix-action and then running 'nix build' which covers all dependencies and declaratively builds the project. Maybe you can make a video on nix next.

@devabdultech 11 ай бұрын

watched it now, got the basic idea but im currently not using or planning to use or learn it now. I'll be back soon :)

@VaibhavShewale 11 ай бұрын

ooh damn, thats very cool!

@PeterKlausSchmelzer 11 ай бұрын

tx! awesome video..

@blackjackjester 11 ай бұрын

Master branch keep the faith brother

@ExpensivePizza 11 ай бұрын

I didn't know about `act`. That's cool.

@slob5041 11 ай бұрын

Beyond programming

@09487abc 4 ай бұрын

謝謝分享

@islamouda356 11 ай бұрын

I will debug myself to learn more from you

@FauzulChowdhury 11 ай бұрын

Wright timing. ✅

@illegalsmirf 11 ай бұрын

For an 'automated' solution that sure sounds complex and convoluted.

@whichmann9617 11 ай бұрын

This is truly great but I just wish there was a feature that would automate that one thing I need to manually do every day at my current project

@kirillpenkin1535 11 ай бұрын

Hey) The video is awesome))) Thank you. I have a question thought: In a github issue page there s a button "create branch" (inside the Development section of the right panel). Is there a way to trigger an action that changes a state of the corresponding issue to inProgress when a branch is created using this button? I use github project to manage issues. Its awesome too)

@Kaszanas 6 ай бұрын

I use a slightly different approach where I run a container inside GitHub Actions and run all of the commands against that container which acts as a development container too. So I achieve a couple of things at the same time. I do not need act to test my actions because all of the logic behind my actions is containerized anyway.

@oktopus_prime 11 ай бұрын

Have you had any experience shortening that feedback loop earlier on the process, let's say at the pre-commit timeframe? I ask because we would commit things up to the repo to fire off a pipeline and then get fredback a few minutes later. It felt nicer (to me) to abort our commit if our tests, or linting failed. Yes there is always the option to force it through, but I liked that immediate feedback locally before something small and dumb was sent up.

@thekwoka4707 11 ай бұрын

Yeah, unit tests and linting and formsttkng should be pre-commit since they should be very fast. Then they can also be in the PR and the PR can also have the longer processes like e2e tests, builds, etc.

@Pscytlk 11 ай бұрын

svelte is gold but react is gem!

@muhammadumarsotvoldiev8768 4 ай бұрын

Thanks

@JackNytely 11 ай бұрын

8.5k views, 685 likes but only 25 comments (as of the time writing this) I really appreciate your videos and content, so here, take this free comment to sacrifice to the algorithm gods.

@TheSmokedDog 11 ай бұрын

I open these videos out of routine, sometimes I don't even watch, they just play in the background. I like his voice. Sometimes I learn something, but usually I don't.

@duhby 4 ай бұрын

7:58 a use case for self-hosted runners is if you run docker containers on a vps and want to automate the creation of images without having to git pull and run the commands yourself every time

@sofuno863 5 ай бұрын

so many fancy names and tools

@ra2enjoyer708 11 ай бұрын

6:13 I fucking love cron magic strings, this for sure won't backfire in the future.

@cariyaputta 11 ай бұрын

Thanks. Didn't know Act before, so every time I want to change the workflow I have to wait for the whole run like an idiot.

@Bash70 11 ай бұрын

Act is pretty limited though. Doesn't work for trigger inputs and in my case, I had to actually run a nested container for my tests so Act was pretty much useless.

@DanniDuck 6 ай бұрын

Good enough for me

@VintageCOD 11 ай бұрын

sick

@sigstackfault 11 ай бұрын

Do GitLab next? Would help a lot of us which have Corporate GitLab servers

@lawrencedoliveiro9104 11 ай бұрын

All these features are not compatible between the different services. That’s why I try to stick to common functionality.

@offantik 11 ай бұрын

hi I noticed that you use v2 actions that produce tons of warnings about nodejs deprecating, can you use v3?

@shateq 11 ай бұрын

0:06 is my life motto

@stephenson127 11 ай бұрын

How do you automate versioning? Do you have to version bump manually in yml with each release?

@dandogamer 11 ай бұрын

Use semantic versioning, it looks at your conventional commits to determine version based off the commit message

@stepansigut1949 11 ай бұрын

Versioning with commit messages is a bad idea - you will run into conflicts during merges. Use git tags to version and inject tag values into your project files during build if you need to access the version from code. Git tags can be also used to trigger special actions which do not get triggered otherwise (e.g. run deploy, build docs, run database migrations…)

@nandertga 10 ай бұрын

Assuming you're using semantic versioning and conventional commits in your project, you can use a tool like semantic release to automagically determine the next version number.

@SoreBrain 11 ай бұрын

I can't believe I didn't know about act

@tannercampbell 11 ай бұрын

you mean you don’t have like dozen of commits “CI TEST”? would love a breakdown on that act tool!

@wiiznokes2237 11 ай бұрын

Please make a video about auto merging

@iqmal 11 ай бұрын

Github action ftw

@sevdalink6676 11 ай бұрын

I have used github actions to trigger tests on every push. But I experienced very slow behavior. Even for a very small small project it took tens of minutes to complete. Is it normal to take so long?

@magicking3888 11 ай бұрын

Is it possible to configure github actions to auto deploy to a custom server instead of big company servers like azure or aws?

@vincentnthomas1 11 ай бұрын

Ansible?

@Medik_0001 11 ай бұрын

If you can do it from the command line, yes

@vitalysuper3193 11 ай бұрын

0:00 that sound make subwoofers hit me in the back. aa

@nemanjazivaljevic1656 11 ай бұрын

Could you do some dewops stack?

@Kingside88 11 ай бұрын

Please make a video about web componend

@AmodeusR 11 ай бұрын

Where was written the playwright test code? I only saw you linking it to the actions or something like that, but you never made the code that makes the test. I don't get it.

@netlemon 11 ай бұрын

what I don t like about Github Actions is that it doesn t support yml aliases which makes the file quite cluttered for big ci cds pipelines

@thekwoka4707 11 ай бұрын

I disagree with npm CI for these. I use pnpm and cache the store (and even node modules itself) to speed up actions (cache key is the package-lock hash) Npm is slow, and CI prevents any caching options.

@Raress96 11 ай бұрын

You have both main and master branches? What is this madness branching strategy? :))

@uuu12343 11 ай бұрын

Brb gonna write-up a guide on Github Actions, am not gonna plow through life without a CI/CD engine

@thantzinoo938 11 ай бұрын

I wonder how firebase functions are work with GitHub actions?

@samuelmorgan-tyghe9136 11 ай бұрын

I gave up on making some ai that reads the code / commit messages and finds relevant memes to it and adds it to the or description

@Offe2246 4 ай бұрын

If I give gpt the link of the video can build the app automatically?

@mohsinejaz6882 11 ай бұрын

Hey fireship do tutorials on legend state for react

@metaorior 11 ай бұрын

~kiiji

@henrycullen950 11 ай бұрын

Could you please do a video on free tools and services? It would be very handy after the death of heroku

@Hermesiss 11 ай бұрын

I think I heard the basement slaves at 7:32 doing animations for the daily code reports

@baychaoz 11 ай бұрын

Please make a video about nx

@sizur 11 ай бұрын

Dude, I need your jokes workflow!!!

@plaguemusic9104 11 ай бұрын

Im starting with CI/CD

@llFike 11 ай бұрын

is act stable now? I had so many bad experiences with it in the past :(

@kazaakas 11 ай бұрын

All good practices, but these can be achieved with a number of SaaS CI/CD tools, not just github actions.

@yousifakbar 11 ай бұрын

I don't think it's technically true that GitHub spins up a container when you start a workflow. I believe they connect you to a full VM.

@dingus4138 11 ай бұрын

They use microvms and spin up containers inside them for certain action types. But a lot of it can be done using the base VM.

@MrAjiii 11 ай бұрын

They're all containers!

@pieter5466 11 ай бұрын

I wonder whether anyone has setup completely standardized projects for use cases like "Python3 in a Docker image", including GitHub actions, linting and testing and whatnot.

@wolfeygamedev1688 9 ай бұрын

Python in docker, what a nightmare!