
Things GitHub Actions Can Do That Aren't CI
Most people meet GitHub Actions as “the thing that runs tests on pull requests.” But under the hood it’s much more general: a computer that wakes up when something happens, runs whatever you tell it, and goes back to sleep. For public repos, it’s free. Here are things you can do with it that have nothing to do with CI. How it works in 30 seconds A workflow is a YAML file in .github/workflows/. It has: ...