Awesome Actions

A curated list of awesome things related to GitHub Actions.

Actions are triggered by GitHub platform events directly in a repo and run on-demand workflows as autoscaled containers in response. With GitHub Actions you can automate your workflow from idea to production.

Contents

• Official Resources
• Community Resources
  • GitHub Tools and Management
  • Collection of Actions
  • Utility
  • Testing and Linting
  • Pull Requests
  • GitHub Pages
  • Notifications and Messages
  • Deployment
  • External Services
  • Frontend Tools
  • Internet of Things (IOT)
• Tutorials

Official Resources

• Official Site
• Documentation
• Official Actions Collection
• GitHub Blog Announcement

Community Resources

GitHub Tools and Management

• Declaratively setup GitHub Labels
• Run GitHub Actions Locally
• Alternative (Python-based) for Running GitHub Actions Locally
• Manage GitHub Action workflows and actions by cli - Allows you to script edition.
• GitHub Action Builder and Previewer
• Move assigned issues to column in GitHub projects
• Move assigned pull requests to column in GitHub projects
• Add new issues to GitHub projects
• Add new pull requests to GitHub projects

Collection of Actions

• Many linters and autofixers for various languages
• Node.js Actions Toolkit
• Use HashiCorp's Terraform
• GitHub Actions for Yarn
• GitHub Actions for Golang
• Android Build and Emulator Actions
• GitHub Actions for R and accompanying #rstats package
• GitHub Actions for WordPress
• GitHub Actions for Composer

Utility

• Sleep
• Wait for 200
• Run Cake tasks
• Run psake tasks
• SSH
• General purpose HTTP client for Actions, wrapping HTTPie
• Build Go apps using GoCenter
• Run pandoc - The swiss army knife for document conversions.
• Debug Action - Print environment variables and event to the Actions logs.
• Gate actions by filtering if files matching a pattern have been touched
• Scan for secrets in your source code
• Review the licenses of your node dependencies
• A GitHub Action to check your project's dependencies
• Check if package.json dependencies have changed
• Update a repository's "Full description" on Docker Hub
• GitHub Actions Badges for your README
• GitHub Actions for Python project with pipenv
• GitHub Actions for Python project with poetry

Testing and Linting

• Runs Hadolint against a Dockerfile within a repository
• Test your Actions Locally
• Lint a Dockerfile (using replicatedhq/dockerfilelint)
• NPM Audit
• PHP Code fixer Action
• PHP Psalm Static code analyzer Action
• PHPStan Static code analyzer Action
• PHPQA toolsuite Action
• GraphQL Inspector Action
• Snyk CLI Test Action
• PowerShell static analysis with PSScriptAnalyzer
• Run web performance audits using Sitespeed.io
• Run Tests through Puppeteer, the Headless Chrome Node API
• Run ESLint with status checks and file diff annotations
• JavaScript-based linter for *.workflow files
• Send your latest code coverage score to Coveralls.io
• Lint a Dockerfile using Hadolint
• Lint terraform files using tflint
• Validate Puppet modules using Puppet PDK
• Scan git commits for secrets with gitleaks
• Check broken links for Hugo
• Find broken links, missing images, etc in your HTML
• Fast website link checker in Go
• Fast link checker for Markdown and HTML in Go)
• Send your code coverage to codecov.io

Pull Requests

• Set pull request reviewers based on assignees
• Open or update pull request on branch push (with branch selection)
• Post gif on check fail
• Cleanup branches after merge
• Automatically rebase a PR
• Evaluate Clojure in the issue comment
• Create Pull Request when branch is pushed
• Label pull request once it has a specified number of approvals
• Add labels to Pull Request based on matched file patterns
• Auto approve pull requests
• Automatically add reviewers to pull request based on the configuration file
• Auto-commit back any changes made by previous actions
• Add labels to Pull Request based on branch name patterns

GitHub Pages

• Deploy a Zola site to GitHub Pages
• Visualize your Dockerfile with a Container Tree
• Build Hugo static content site and publish it to gh-pages branch
• Build a Jekyll site—with Custom Jekyll Plugins & Build Scripts—and deploy it back to the Gh-Pages Branch
• Google Dataset Search Metadata - And other schema.org extractors to make datasets discoverable from GitHub pages.
• Deploy assets to GitHub pages - No building, just deploying.
• Build with Material for MkDocs and deploy to GitHub Pages automatically
• GitHub Actions for deploying to GitHub Pages with Static Site Generators

Notifications and Messages

• Confucious Wisdom (Pull Request Failure Message)
• Send a Discord notification
• Send a Slack message
• Post a Slack message as a bot
• Update Twitter status
• Send an SMS from GitHub Actions using Nexmo
• Trigger emails with release notes with SendGrid
• Send email on failed GitHub Checks
• Report webpack stats to packtracker.io
• Send a Telegram Message
• Send a File or Text Message to Discord (custom define color, username or avatar)
• Collaborate on tweets using pull requests
• Send a Push Notification via Pushover.net
• Send a Push Notification via Push by Techulus

Deployment

• Deploy to Netlify
• Deploy a Probot App using Actions
• Deploy a playlist to Spotify
• Deploy a serverless app to AWS Lambda with Up
• Deploy serverless infrastructure with AWS SAM
• Deploy a Node.js function to AWS Lambda and invoke it using the Serverless framework
• Deploy VS Code extensions with vsce
• Deploy a Node.js App to Azure
• Deploy via rsync over ssh
• Deploy to any Cloud or Kubernetes Using Pulumi
• Deploy a Cloudflare worker
• Deploy your DNS configuration using DNS Control
• Using surge.sh, deploy your branch specific storybook as a pull request deployment
• Create Release Archive
• Publish WordPress Plugin
• Deploy a Theme to Shopify
• Trigger multiple GitLab CI Pipeline
• Trigger multiple Jenkins Jobs
• GitHub Deployment API
• GitHub Action for zem
• GitHub Action for Homebrew
• Deploy Lambda code to an existing function
• Copy files and artifacts via SSH
• Executing remote ssh commands
• Deploy to Kubernetes with kubectl

External Services

• Use a Jenkinsfile
• Configure a DNS Record on Cloudflare
• Firebase
• GitHub Action for Firebase
• GitHub Action for JFrog CLI
• GitHub Action for Contentful Migration CLI
• GitHub Actions for Pixela (a-know/pi)

Frontend Tools

• Execute Gradle task
• JS Build Actions - Run Grunt or Gulp build tasks and commit file changes.
• Ember CLI Actions
• GitHub Action for Gatsby CLI
• Runs a WebPageTest audit and prints the results as commit comment
• GitHub Actions for Hugo extended

Internet of Things (IOT)

• Home Assistant Command

Tutorials

• Introducing GitHub Actions
• Deploying to Firebase Hosting with GitHub Actions
• Building GitHub Actions in Node.js
• GitHub Actions on Android project
• A guide to GitHub Actions using Node.js

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