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Github Action

Github actions are the service provided by the github to automate process. In react native we can use the github actions to automate release and run automation tests.

Setup​

for creating a new action, just create a file named {action_name}.yml in the .github/workflows. Then just write some actions on the file.

name: Deploy to GitHub Pages

on:
  push:
    branches:
      - main

jobs:
  deploy:
    name: Deploy to GitHub Pages
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
      - uses: actions/setup-node@v3
        with:
          node-version: 18
          cache: yarn

      - name: Install dependencies
        run: yarn install --frozen-lockfile
      - name: Build website
        run: yarn build

      # Popular action to deploy to GitHub Pages:
      # Docs: https://github.com/peaceiris/actions-gh-pages#%EF%B8%8F-docusaurus
      - name: Deploy to GitHub Pages
        uses: peaceiris/actions-gh-pages@v3
        with:
          github_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          # Build output to publish to the `gh-pages` branch:
          publish_dir: ./build
          # The following lines assign commit authorship to the official
          # GH-Actions bot for deploys to `gh-pages` branch:
          # https://github.com/actions/checkout/issues/13#issuecomment-724415212
          # The GH actions bot is used by default if you didn't specify the two fields.
          # You can swap them out with your own user credentials.
          user_name: github-actions[bot]
          user_email: 41898282+github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com

This is a small action file to deploy to gh-pages. Like this we can also deploy the react native app to the stores.

Some explanations​

on:
  push:
    branches:
      - main

The following actions will execiute on when a push happenes to the main branch

with:
  github_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

Its the action secrets should be stored in the github to perform actions. you have to store the token in https://github.com/{account_name}/{repo_name}/settings/secrets/actions

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