goreleaser-action vs download-artifact

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goreleaser-action		download-artifact
	Project
2	Mentions	8
805	Stars	1,272
2.1%	Growth	3.6%
6.7	Activity	8.2
17 days ago	Latest Commit	5 days ago
TypeScript	Language	TypeScript
MIT License	License	MIT License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

goreleaser-action

Posts with mentions or reviews of goreleaser-action. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-14.

First time using Go: Making a program to watermark photos
2 projects | /r/golang | 14 Sep 2022

You could improve your workflow with Goreleaser. It will build executables for different platforms via Github action and store it as asset for even easier download. (storing binary data in Git is usualy an anti-pattern). See it in Action inthis Repo of a small project of mine
Build and release go binaries for Mac and Linux in GitHub Actions using 2 approaches
11 projects | dev.to | 7 Dec 2021

provide a suitable config for goreleaser and use it for release. Fortunately, there is already a GitHub action for this tool 🚀

download-artifact

Posts with mentions or reviews of download-artifact. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-22.

CI/CI deploy a static website to AWS S3 bucket through Github Actions
5 projects | dev.to | 22 Dec 2023

The subsequent jobs will be running the Github Actions Download Artifact, in order to retrieve the dist/ folder content.
Automate Android Build Using GitHub Actions
6 projects | dev.to | 19 Sep 2022

Artifacts are files like APKs, screenshots, test reports, logs, which the workflow generates. You can upload and download artifacts to the current workflow using actions/upload-artifact@v2 and actions/download-artifact@v2 respectively.
How Fastly manages its software with GitHub Actions
15 projects | dev.to | 31 Aug 2022

Artifacts: actions/upload-artifact, actions/download-artifact.
Build and release go binaries for Mac and Linux in GitHub Actions using 2 approaches
11 projects | dev.to | 7 Dec 2021

The actions used upload-artifact, download-artifact, goreleaser-action
Semantic release to npm and/or ghcr without any tooling
21 projects | dev.to | 7 Dec 2021

actions/download-artifact@v2 - we use it to download our artifacts in between jobs
Github Actions: Sharing artifacts between jobs
3 projects | dev.to | 28 Feb 2021

download-artifact
GitHub Action for Flutter Web
5 projects | dev.to | 7 Sep 2020

Refer here for the previous version

What are some alternatives?

When comparing goreleaser-action and download-artifact you can also consider the following projects:

HomeBrew - 🍺 The missing package manager for macOS (or Linux)

fetch-gh-release-asset - Github Action to download an asset from a Github release

awsu - Enhanced account switching for AWS, supports Yubikey as MFA source

docker-gh-action-test - Running docker in GitHub Actions

homebrew-taps - Brew support for various kreuzwerker tools

metadata-action - GitHub Action to extract metadata (tags, labels) from Git reference and GitHub events for Docker

upload-artifact

Travis CI.com - Free continuous integration platform for GitHub projects.

flutter-action - Flutter environment for use in GitHub Actions. It works on Linux, Windows, and macOS.

Dev_Interview_Prep_App - This is an Open Sourced Programming Quiz Project to help people practice for interviews. We are redesigning the application for use with all languages. Open for help!

github - :octocat: semantic-release plugin to publish a GitHub release and comment on released Pull Requests/Issues