So you know how there's this wizard that you can use to create new GitHub Actions right? It turns out that there's a way to add your own GitHub Actions templates there!
All you need to do is add a workflow-templates/*.yml
and workflow-templates/*.properties.json
pair in your user/.github
repository. This works for both organizations (like the official GitHub docs say) and regular users.
workflow-templates/say-hi.yml
name: Say hi!
on:
push:
branches: [$default-branch]
jobs:
say-hi:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- name: Echo "Hi!" to the user
run: echo "Hi!"
workflow-templates/say-hi.properties.json
{
"name": "Say hi!",
"description": "Says hi to the user",
"iconName": "emoji-wave",
"categories": ["Automation"],
"filePatterns": ["README.md"]
}
workflow-templates/emoji-wave.svg
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 100 100">
<text y="75px" font-size="75px">👋</text>
</svg>
📚 Further reading: Creating starter workflows for your organization (also works for users too)
How you might want to use this
A great way to take advantage of this template feature is to make workflow templates for things you do often or in every repository. Think like...
- Repetitive Node.js
test.yml
workflow - Workflow to deploy to GitHub Pages from
npm run build
- Mirroring
wiki/
in your Git reposutory to a GitHub wiki page - Enabling
/help
in any issue
Anytime you think "I wish I could just copy-paste this workflow from my previous project" then it might be time to make that a template.
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