blog VS setup-node

I noticed that after deployment images were broken after further research it became clear that this happens because we are using baseURL with path - https://imomaliev.github.io/blog/. This is known behavior. It does look like a bug to me, but maintainers decided to close this issue as "wontfix" for now. In the future, I am planning to host this blog on my domain without additional path in baseURL, but for now I fixed it by using relative paths instead ones starting with leading /.

I will start from the very beginning and create this blog from the scratch. This series is called "Building the blog while flying it". In the spirit of famous startup quote/approach, "Building the plane while flying it"1. I think I will have a lot of fun. I am going to start by posting to my dev.to page and host blog repository on the GitHub. My first version of this blog is living in the blog-v1 repo.

What is actions/checkout and actions/setup-node

Setup environment with Nodejs and install dependencies with npm install, with Github Actions setup Node

No, PR review isn't the only thing that prevents these from being updated. In the yml it's set to a release branch. So it isn't especially fallible.

https://github.com/actions/setup-node/tree/releases/v2

➜ getting-started-with-act git:(master) act -j build WARN ⚠ You are using Apple M1 chip and you have not specified container architecture, you might encounter issues while running act. If so, try running it with '--container-architecture linux/amd64'. ⚠ [Node.js CI/build] 🚀 Start image=node:16-buster-slim [Node.js CI/build] 🐳 docker pull image=node:16-buster-slim platform= username= forcePull=false [Node.js CI/build] 🐳 docker create image=node:16-buster-slim platform= entrypoint=["tail" "-f" "/dev/null"] cmd=[] [Node.js CI/build] 🐳 docker run image=node:16-buster-slim platform= entrypoint=["tail" "-f" "/dev/null"] cmd=[] [Node.js CI/build] ☁ git clone 'https://github.com/actions/setup-node' # ref=v3 [Node.js CI/build] ☁ git clone 'https://github.com/actions/cache' # ref=v3 [Node.js CI/build] ☁ git clone 'https://github.com/actions/upload-artifact' # ref=v3 [Node.js CI/build] ⭐ Run Main actions/checkout@v3 [Node.js CI/build] 🐳 docker cp src=/Users/andrewevans/Documents/projects/getting-started-with-act/. dst=/Users/andrewevans/Documents/projects/getting-started-with-act [Node.js CI/build] ✅ Success - Main actions/checkout@v3 [Node.js CI/build] ⭐ Run Main Use Node.js 16.x [Node.js CI/build] 🐳 docker cp src=/Users/andrewevans/.cache/act/actions-setup-node@v3/ dst=/var/run/act/actions/actions-setup-node@v3/ [Node.js CI/build] 🐳 docker exec cmd=[node /var/run/act/actions/actions-setup-node@v3/dist/setup/index.js] user= workdir= [Node.js CI/build] 💬 ::debug::isExplicit: [Node.js CI/build] 💬 ::debug::explicit? false

steps: # Check out the current repository code - uses: actions/checkout@v3 # 3. https://github.com/actions/setup-node#usage - name: Setup node and build Gatsby uses: actions/setup-node@v1 with: node-version: '16.x' cache: 'npm' - run: npm install # This triggers `gatsby build` script in "package.json" - run: npm run build # 4. Deploy the gatsby build to Netlify - name: Deploy to netlify uses: netlify/actions/cli@master env: NETLIFY_AUTH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.NETLIFY_AUTH_TOKEN }} NETLIFY_SITE_ID: ${{ secrets.NETLIFY_SITE_ID }} with: # 5. "gatsby build" creates "public" folder, which is what we are deploying args: deploy --dir=public --prod secrets: '["NETLIFY_AUTH_TOKEN", "NETLIFY_SITE_ID"]'

If you see repeated build or preparation steps that do not change when your codebase changes, look into caching the results. Here is a straightforward guide to caching, but also be aware caching is built into a lot of marketplace actions anyway, e.g. actions/setup-node can cache npm dependencies.

The most popular ones are Node.js, Python, Java JDK, Go, .Net Core SDK.

Well, let’s consider the scenario we had with the DevHub. We were using the third-party action setup-node to install and configure the Node.js programming language. This action lets you specify the node version to install but it can’t be a dynamically acquired value. You either have to hardcode it or interpolate the value.