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GitHub Actions: Using GitHub Script

The GitHub Training Team This course covers how to use GitHub Script to quickly use octokit/rest in a GitHub Actions workflow. Start free course Join 2167 others! social preview

GitHub Script is a special action that allows using octokit/rest.js directly in a workflow file. Over the duration of this course you will learn the skills needed to begin using the GitHub Script action to interact with your repository which will save you from creating full blown actions that carry unnecessary overhead.

What you'll learn

In this course you will learn how to: ●Use GitHub Script in your workflow ●Comment on issues using octokit ●Add issues to a project board using octokit ●Use the workflow expression syntax to filter when jobs run in a workflow.

What you'll build

In this course you will automatically generate a comment on every new issue using a templated response. Additionally, if this issue is labeled as a bug it will be automatically added to the "needs triage" column of a project board.

Prerequisites

We first recommend taking the following courses: ●Hello, GitHub Actions! to learn the basics of how GitHub Actions work ●GitHub Actions: Continuous Integration to dive deeper into a workflow file

Projects used

This makes use of the following open source projects. Consider exploring these repos and maybe even making contributions! ●GitHub Script, a unique action that provides an authenticated octokit client and allows JavaScript to be written directly in a workflow file.

Audience

Developers, DevOps Engineers, students, teams

Steps to complete this course 11

Start here!

Create a pull request to add a workflow

Merge your first pull request

Make the workflow available to the repository by merging the pull request

Add another GitHub Script action

Use GitHub Script to place this issue into a project board

Modify your workflow file

Create a pull request to add changes to your workflow

Merge the updated workflow into the main branch

Make the workflow available for use on the repository

Break your workflow into multiple steps

Separate the workflow concerns by adding more steps

Create better comments

Use a templated repsonse as the comment body

Use a templated response

Create the comment body from a template using the Node.js file system module

Merge the updated workflow

Merge the worklow to the main branch

Another workflow run

Observe the results of an enhanced workflow run

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23 minutes

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Latest release

February 11, 2021

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