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Use starter workflows in GitHub Actions - GitHub Tutorial
From the course: GitHub Actions for CI/CD
Use starter workflows in GitHub Actions
- [Instructor] To help us get started with actions quickly, GitHub provides starter workflows. With a starter workflow, you can have a continuous integration pipeline set up in minutes. If you're creating a new workflow, GitHub will analyze any files stored in your repo and suggest workflows based on the names of the files, the programming language the files contain, and any frameworks that might be configured for your project. For example, Python projects have files ending in .py and will often contain a file named requirements.txt or Pipfile.lock. These files are used to list libraries the project depends on. Other programming languages will have their own signature file extensions and dependency file names as well. Using this information, GitHub Actions can determine the most appropriate starter workflow. Framework files and tool configurations can also be used to suggest workflows. In these cases, files with…