catho-node-composite-action

A custom action to use in node applications.

Why

The jobs of github actions don't give support to reuse steps between them, so the alternative is build a composite action to reuse on every steps. Instead to write 4 or 5 steps in every jobs of your pipeline you cand just use this custom action.

Featrues

• use actions/setup-node@v3;
• does application checkout using actions/checkout@v3;
• create a .npmrc file in case you pass npm-token parameter;
• run npm install.

Inputs

• npm-token: Used to create .npmrc file in case you have some private dependency

Outputs

There no outputs yet.

How to use

name: Some API

on: [push]

jobs:
  linter:
    timeout-minutes: 10
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    strategy:
      matrix:
        node-version: [14.x]

    steps:
      - name: Setup application
        uses: catho/catho-node-composite-action@v2
        with:
          npm-token: you npm token
          working-directory: ./

      - name: Run linter
        run: npm run lint

  tests:
    timeout-minutes: 10
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    strategy:
      matrix:
        node-version: [14.x]

    steps:
      - name: Setup application
        uses: catho/catho-node-composite-action@v2

      - name: Run all tests
        run: npm run test