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Discussion on: How do GitHub Actions work?

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Daniel Gregory

An action is triggered by an event. An event is and interaction with your repo on github. It’s like saying “Hey GitHub, when this thing happens can you do some stuff for me?” The ‘stuff’ is the set of instructions that you would like completing. An example would be to deploy when a commit is added on the master branch.