travis-yml vs actionlint

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Travis CI build config processing (by travis-ci)

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actionlint

:octocat: Static checker for GitHub Actions workflow files (by rhysd)

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travis-yml		actionlint
	Project
1	Mentions	5
111	Stars	2,356
2.7%	Growth	-
6.2	Activity	9.4
12 days ago	Latest Commit	8 days ago
Ruby	Language	Go
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.

travis-yml

Posts with mentions or reviews of travis-yml. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-26.

GitHub Actions Pitfalls
11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Sep 2022

More likely they hacked their YAML parser to treat on as a string.
At least that's what Travis CI folks did:
https://github.com/travis-ci/travis-yml#user-content-yaml

actionlint

Posts with mentions or reviews of actionlint. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-22.

GitHub Actions could be so much better
21 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Sep 2023

Yep, actionlint is great! I've used it successfully both to lint my own workflows, and to lint third-party workflows for (basic) security issues.
Unfortunately, it can't lint actions themselves, only workflows that call actions[1]. This is a substantial deficiency, especially for users (like me) who write and maintain a decent number of actions.
[1]: https://github.com/rhysd/actionlint/issues/46
What are the not-so-obvious tools that you don't want to miss?
16 projects | /r/ExperiencedDevs | 16 Feb 2023

I recently discovered actionlint and immediately told everyone that would listen about it. And now you are too. Static analysis for github actions, it's been pretty useful.
Linter for GHA syntax?
1 project | /r/github | 10 Oct 2022
GitHub Actions Pitfalls
11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Sep 2022

The first pitfall can be statically detected with actionlint
https://github.com/rhysd/actionlint
$ actionlint oops.yaml

What are some alternatives?

When comparing travis-yml and actionlint you can also consider the following projects:

paths-filter - Conditionally run actions based on files modified by PR, feature branch or pushed commits

changed-files - :octocat: Github action to retrieve all (added, copied, modified, deleted, renamed, type changed, unmerged, unknown) files and directories.

combine-prs-workflow - Combine/group together PRs (for example from Dependabot and similar services)

gh-valet - Valet helps facilitate the migration of Azure DevOps, CircleCI, GitLab CI, Jenkins, and Travis CI pipelines to GitHub Actions.

runner-images - GitHub Actions runner images

just - 🤖 Just a command runner

roadmap - GitHub public roadmap