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Introduction To GitHub Actions Course Part 2 Released

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Today, I am happy to announce that part 2 of my Introduction To GitHub Actions course is now available and can be watched on YouTube here: GitHub Actions & Workflows.


In todays video, I give a high level overview of:

  • what GitHub actions and workflows are
  • what is CI/CD (continuous integration and continuous deployment)
  • benefits of CI/CD
  • benefits of using GitHub actions

I hope you enjoy the new content! Please feel free to post any questions or comments below.

New Introduction To GitHub Actions Course

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Introduction To GitHub Actions Course

Update: I have released a video that contents all of the content for the course as a single video. You can watch the video on YouTube here: Introduction To GitHub Actions - Full Course.

Today I am happy to announce that I will be releasing a brand new mini course on an introduction to GitHub Actions that you will be able to watch for free on YouTube. Over the next two weeks, there will be a new video available to watch each day with the first video being available tomorrow!

Getting Started With GitHub Actions Part 1

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GitHub Actions is a fantastic CI/CD platform that allows you to set up custom workflows to do a variety of tasks, anything from running unit tests anytime there is a pull request to building your web application and deploying that application to your hosting service.

If you are not familiar with CI/CD, this is a method to allow you to frequently deliver software by introducing automation into your development process. The main concepts for CI/CD are: continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment. As an example, let’s say you are working on an npm package and every time there is a pull request there is a setup of steps that you complete while reviewing the code: running unit tests, linting, updating documentation, etc. Then once the pull request is approved and merged, you then manually release a new version of the package and publish that package to the npm registry.

Using GitHub To Share Your Code Tutorial

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The purpose of this tutorial is to show you how to use GitHub to share your code with others.

For this tutorial we will be using GitHub for Windows. This tutorial does not go into full detail, but does provide all the steps that are needed for learning purposes.

In order to follow along with this tutorial, you will need to install GitHub for Windows. You can download the program from here:  https://windows.github.com/ , and you will need to create an account on GitHub here:  https://github.com/ . Creating an account is free, and only takes a few minutes.

If you have completed the previous steps, we can get started.