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Anthony E. Alvarez
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GitHub Actions for Website project Automation

About

The purpose of this repo is to help web developers to get started with GitHub Actions. The goal is to make the job of web developers easier and more efficient. This repo is a collection of GitHub Action workflows that are useful for any web development project.

Learn more about GitHub Actions

GitHub Actions allow web developers to automatically test code that is pushed to the repository automatically. It helps web developers be more efficient.

My project is designed to help other web developers learn how to use GitHub Actions.

My Workflow

Please copy the main.yml file and create the appropriate GitHub Secrets in your own repository to discover how useful GitHub Action can be in your website development project. Good luck!

GitHub Secrets required for this workflow.

  1. FTP username
  2. FTP password
  3. FTP remote path
  4. FTP server
  5. website URL

Submission Category:

  • DIY Deployments

Yaml File or Link to Code

Each workflow is listed as a separate job in a single YAML file for simplicity and ease of use.

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This repository is a collection of GitHub Action workflows useful for any web development project. Each workflow is listed as a separate job in a single file YAML for simplicity and ease of use. The goal is to make the job of web developers easier and more efficient. The purpose of this repo is to help web developers to get started with GitHub Actions.

GitHub Actions for Website project Automation

GitHub Actions for Website project Automation

The purpose of this repo is to help web developers to get started with GitHub Actions. The goal is to make the job of web developers easier and more efficient. This repo is a collection of GitHub Action workflows that are useful for any web development project.

Learn more about GitHub Actions

GitHub Actions allow web developers to automatically test code that is pushed to the repository automatically. It helps web developers be more efficient.

This project is designed to help other web developers learn how to use GitHub Actions.

How To Use

Please copy the main.yml file and create the appropriate GitHub Secrets in your own repository to discover how useful GitHub Action can be in your website development project. Good luck!

GitHub Secrets required for this workflow.

  1. FTP username
  2. FTP password
  3. FTP remote path
  4. FTP server
  5. website URL

Actions used in this

Additional Resources / Info

Using this opportunity to use learn Git Flow and GitHub Actions. This is my first attempt at using both.

Started this journey with free training from GitHub labs, the Hello World project

List of GitHub Actions used in my repository. All of these came from the GitHub Action Marketplace.

  1. Hello World

  2. screenshot-website

  3. Website healthcheck

  4. Lighthouse CI Action

  5. Page Speed Insights CI Action

  6. Send email

  7. Lighthouse CI Action

  8. Send Push Notification

  9. FTP Deploy

Best regards from New York City!
Thanks for looking.

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tyler36

Thanks for the article.

I think you listed "Lighthouse CI Action" twice; #4 & #7

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Anthony E. Alvarez

Hello from New York City!

Thanks for letting me know.
Not sure if Hackathon posts can be edited without disqualifying them.

Peace.