This action checks if new commits have been added to a branch in an specified time interval by checking the commits added using the GitHub REST API.

- name: Check for new commits today
  id: check-new-commits
  uses: adriangl/check-new-commits-action@v1
  with:
    token: 'your_github_token'
    seconds: 86400 # One day in seconds
    branch: 'master'
- name: Print something if new commits are found
  if: ${{ steps.check-new-commits.outputs.has-new-commits == 'true' }}
  run: echo "You have ${{ steps.check-new-commits.outputs.new-commits-number }} new commit(s) ✅!"
- name: Print another thing if new commits couldn't be found
  if: ${{ steps.check-new-commits.outputs.has-new-commits != 'true' }}
  run: echo "You don't have new commits 🛑!"

These are all the possible inputs that the action works with:

The action will dump data about the commits found in some output variables, which are:

• Install nvm.

• Set-up nvm with:

nvm install

• Install the dependencies with npm:

npm install

• Start your terminal session with:

nvm use

• When you add new features, build the TypeScript code:

npm run build

• And then, run the unit tests:

npm test

• Install Docker Desktop.
• Install act.
• Create a .secrets file in the root of the project with the following:

GITHUB_TOKEN="a GitHub token with repo access"

• Create an .env file in the root of the project with the following content:

ACT=true # Should be set by act automatically

• Run the test action with:

npm run act

• Run all checks in the project and package it:

npm run all

• Use standard-version to generate releases and changelogs for the new version from conventional commits syntax:

npm run release

• The script handles generating tags for the current release and for the current major release, as specified in the versioning documentation.

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