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Write JavaScript Actions

Write your own GitHub JavaScript Action and automate customized tasks unique to your workflow.

Step 2: Configure Your Action

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Excellent!

Now that we have the custom action pre-requisites, let us create joke-action action.

⌨️ Activity 1: Configure Your Action

All of the following steps take place inside of the .github/actions/joke-action directory.

We will start with using the parameters that are required and later implement some optional parameters as our action evolves.

1. Create a new file in: .github/actions/joke-action/action.yml

2. Add the following contents to the .github/actions/joke-action/action.yml file:

   name: "my joke action"
   
   description: "use an external API to retrieve and display a joke"
   
   runs:
     using: "node16"
     main: "main.js"

3. Save the action.yml file

4. Commit the changes and push them to the main branch:

   git add action.yml
   git commit -m 'create action.yml'
   git pull
   git push

5. Wait about 20 seconds then refresh this page (the one you're following instructions from). GitHub Actions will automatically update to the next step.

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