📅 5/25 @ 11am PT - 30 Minutes to Merge: Automating nose booping using Actions with @github

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💁🏻 30 Minutes to Merge: Automating nose booping using Actions
📅 Tuesday, May 25, 2021
🕐 11:00am Pacific Time (in your timezone)
🎙️ hosted by @github (github.community event)
🏷️ Automation, Actions

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This will be a a follow to the show on learnwithjason.dev: https://www.learnwithjason.dev/github-automation-with-octokit (video, see also #11)

Together with @jlengstorf, we created a CLI to bump a nose-boop counter on Jason's GitHub profile page at https://github.com/jlengstorf/. We created a CLI and published it to npm. You can run it with npx boop-jasons-nose. It will create an issue in https://github.com/jlengstorf/jlengstorf.

We then created a GitHub App and deployed it to Netlify functions. The app receives webhook requests for new issues, and then is using its own credentials to bump the nose-boop counter (function source code).

We planned to use GitHub Actions, but Actions experienced problems at the time of the show, so we skipped that part and used a GitHub App instead.

Outline

• Quick recap of what we did during the Learn With Jason show. See gr2m/boop-gregors-nose. The relevant bit we want to automate with GitHub Actions is: for each newly created issue, bump the nose-boop counter by one.
• Create a GitHub Action with Node.js + Octokit
  • pull request: feat: GitHub Action boop-gregors-nose#7
  • create .github/workflows/boop.yml and run cli.js
  • replace cli.js with action.js and authenticate using GITHUB_TOKEN
• Make the action available to others
  • Create action.yml - use personal-access-token input
  • Bundle code and all dependencies using https://github.com/vercel/ncc
  • Setup continuous deployments using @semantic-release
• Publish the action to the Marketplace

Recording

Shownotes

• Find the action we created and published during the show at https://github.com/marketplace/actions/boop-gregor-s-nose
• Source code: https://github.com/gr2m/boop-gregors-nose
• Test repository: https://github.com/gr2m/boop-gregors-nose-test
• GitHub Documentation:
  • Events that Trigger GitHub Actions
• We used octokit for sending requests to update the README and to create issues.
• We used @octokit/auth-oauth-device as the authentication strategy in the CLI
• We used @actions/core to read the personal-access-token input from GitHub Actions Workflows
• We used @semantic-release for release automation (see workflow)

Todos

• Prepare a repository with a nose boop counter
• re-create the CLI to bump the counter as we did with Jason in https://www.learnwithjason.dev/github-automation-with-octokit
• schedule a start of show tweet
• tweet when recording is available

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The recording is now archived on YouTube: https://youtu.be/H7CRtal714Q

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