What are GitHub Actions?

GitHub Actions allow you to automate workflows like Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD).

Why use GitHub Actions?

• Automation: Automate repetitive tasks like testing, building, and deployment.
• Efficiency: Improve the development cycle by automating processes.

Execution:

• Task 11: Create a simple GitHub Action.This workflow will run on every push to the repository.

  1. In your repository, create a .github/workflows/main.yml file.
  2. Add the following:

  
  name: CI
  on: [push]
  jobs:
    build:
      runs-on: ubuntu-latest
      steps:
      - name: Checkout code
        uses: actions/checkout@v2
      - name: Set up Node.js
        uses: actions/setup-node@v2
      - run: npm install