get-forge-version

Usage

uses: TwelveIterations/get-forge-version@v1
with:
  version: '1.21.11'
  channel: 'latest'

Development

After you've cloned the repository to your local machine or codespace, you'll need to perform some initial setup steps before you can develop your action.

Note

You'll need to have a reasonably modern version of Node.js handy (20.x or later should work!). If you are using a version manager like nodenv or fnm, this repository has a .node-version file at the root that can be used to automatically switch to the correct version when you cd into the repository. Additionally, this .node-version file is used by GitHub Actions in any actions/setup-node actions.

1. 🛠️ Install the dependencies

   npm install

2. 🏗️ Package the TypeScript for distribution

   npm run bundle

3. ✅ Run the tests

   $ npm test
   
   PASS  ./index.test.js
     ✓ throws invalid number (3ms)
     ✓ wait 500 ms (504ms)
     ✓ test runs (95ms)
   
   ...

4. 🐛 Test your action locally

   npx @github/local-action . src/main.ts .env

Publishing a New Release

This project includes a helper script, script/release designed to streamline the process of tagging and pushing new releases for GitHub Actions.

GitHub Actions allows users to select a specific version of the action to use, based on release tags. This script simplifies this process by performing the following steps:

1. Retrieving the latest release tag: The script starts by fetching the most recent SemVer release tag of the current branch, by looking at the local data available in your repository.
2. Prompting for a new release tag: The user is then prompted to enter a new release tag. To assist with this, the script displays the tag retrieved in the previous step, and validates the format of the inputted tag (vX.X.X). The user is also reminded to update the version field in package.json.
3. Tagging the new release: The script then tags a new release and syncs the separate major tag (e.g. v1, v2) with the new release tag (e.g. v1.0.0, v2.1.2). When the user is creating a new major release, the script auto-detects this and creates a releases/v# branch for the previous major version.
4. Pushing changes to remote: Finally, the script pushes the necessary commits, tags and branches to the remote repository. From here, you will need to create a new release in GitHub so users can easily reference the new tags in their workflows.

Dependency License Management

This template includes a GitHub Actions workflow, licensed.yml, that uses Licensed to check for dependencies with missing or non-compliant licenses. This workflow is initially disabled. To enable the workflow, follow the below steps.

1. Open licensed.yml

2. Uncomment the following lines:

   # pull_request:
   #   branches:
   #     - main
   # push:
   #   branches:
   #     - main

3. Save and commit the changes

Once complete, this workflow will run any time a pull request is created or changes pushed directly to main. If the workflow detects any dependencies with missing or non-compliant licenses, it will fail the workflow and provide details on the issue(s) found.

Updating Licenses

Whenever you install or update dependencies, you can use the Licensed CLI to update the licenses database. To install Licensed, see the project's Readme.

To update the cached licenses, run the following command:

licensed cache

To check the status of cached licenses, run the following command:

licensed status