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GitHub Actions

GitHub Actions

Mathieu Dutour

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YAML schema validation and auto-completion for GitHub Actions.
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GitHub Actions YAML Extension

Provides Github Actions YAML support via yaml-language-server.

Features

1. YAML validation

  • Apply schema validation to GitHub Actions
  • Detects errors such as:
    • Invalid property value type
    • Out of enum scope
    • Required property is missing
    • Unexpected property

2. Auto completion

  • Generate input template for whole GitHub Action
  • Generate input template for an object (if provided by schema)

Including required properties and optional properties with default value

  • Support properties intellisense (if provided by schema)
  • Enumerated property value recommendation (if provided by schema)

Intellisense is automatically triggered by what you have typed, but you can also hit Ctrl + Space to get what you can type.

3. Hover support

  • Hovering over a property shows description (if provided by schema)

Developer support

  1. Install prerequisites:

    • latest Visual Studio Code
    • Node.js v6.0.0 or higher
  2. Fork this repository.

  3. Build this project.

    # clone your forked repository
    $ git clone https://github.com/{your-github-name}/vscode-github-actions
    $ cd vscode-github-actions
    # install npm dependencies
    $ npm install
    # compile
    $ npm run compile
    # open the project in vscode
    $ code .
    
  4. Make changes as necessary and the run the code using F5. Refer to VS Code documentation on how to run and debug the extension.

  5. Create a pull-request to this repository and we will review, merge it and publish new version extension regularly.

License

MIT

All contributions are welcome!

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