Temidayo Omoniyi provides an introduction to GitHub Actions workflows:
In today’s fast-paced development cycles, the demand to ship high-quality code quickly is more important than ever before. However, several tedious, labor-intensive, and prone to mistakes procedures that stand between producing code and releasing it to consumers frequently slow down teams.
Every Developer faces these common issues:
- Repetitive Checks: Before each push, unit tests, linters, and build scripts are manually executed.
- Inconsistent Environments: Code that passes locally in one environment but fails in another is known as the “it works on my machine” dilemma.
- High-Stakes Deployments: Deploying code by following a meticulous, manual checklist in which even one mistake could result in downtime.
- Slow Comments Loops: The review process is prolonged when you wait for a coworker to pull your branch, run tests, and provide comments on a pull request.
I like GitHub Actions workflows a lot. Once you’ve put together a workflow or two, it’s pretty easy to see what’s going on. On top of that, there is a huge amount of functionality and an enormous number of third-party templates to extend it even further.