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Github Actions Hackathon

March 5-31, 2020

This four-week hackathon challenges the community to create original GitHub Actions. Actions connect all of the tools in your workflow: You can solve problems, build containers, deploy to any cloud, and more.

Learn more about GitHub Actions

Danger JS Action

Runs after your CI, automating your team's conventions surrounding code review.

Danger Swift

Write your Dangerfiles in Swift.

Image Actions

Automatically compress JPEG, PNG and WebP images in GitHub Pull Requests.

waka-box

Update a pinned gist to contain your weekly WakaTime stats.

Setup Node.js for use with actions

Sets by node environment for use in actions.

Automatic Rebase

Automatically rebase PRs.

Upload Artifact

Uploads artifacts from your workflow.

Automated releases for npm packages

Publishes a package to npm.

SSH Commands

Executes remote ssh commands.

FTP Deploy

Automate deploying websites and more.

GitHub Deployer for Heroku

Wraps the Heroku CLI to enable common Heroku commands.

GitHub Action for Firebase

Enables arbitrary actions with the firebase command-line client.

Flutter action

Sets up a flutter environment for use in actions.

GitHub Action for SwiftLint

Executes SwiftLint and generates annotations from SwiftLint Violations.

Serverless

Wraps the Serverless Framework to enable common Serverless commands.

Post Slack messages

Wraps the Slack chat.postMessage API method for posting to channels, private groups, and DMs.

Danger JS Action

Runs after your CI, automating your team's conventions surrounding code review.

Danger Swift

Write your Dangerfiles in Swift.

Image Actions

Automatically compress JPEG, PNG and WebP images in GitHub Pull Requests.

waka-box

Update a pinned gist to contain your weekly WakaTime stats.

Setup Node.js for use with actions

Sets by node environment for use in actions.

Automatic Rebase

Automatically rebase PRs.

Upload Artifact

Uploads artifacts from your workflow.

Automated releases for npm packages

Publishes a package to npm.

SSH Commands

Executes remote ssh commands.

FTP Deploy

Automate deploying websites and more.

GitHub Deployer for Heroku

Wraps the Heroku CLI to enable common Heroku commands.

GitHub Action for Firebase

Enables arbitrary actions with the firebase command-line client.

Flutter action

Sets up a flutter environment for use in actions.

GitHub Action for SwiftLint

Executes SwiftLint and generates annotations from SwiftLint Violations.

Serverless

Wraps the Serverless Framework to enable common Serverless commands.

Post Slack messages

Wraps the Slack chat.postMessage API method for posting to channels, private groups, and DMs.

Setup Go

Sets up a go environment for use in actions.

Post Slack messages

Wraps the Slack chat.postMessage API method for posting to channels, private groups, and DMs.

WordPress.org Plugin Deploy

Commits the contents of your Git tag to the WordPress.org plugin repository.

bird-box

Update a pinned gist to contain the latest tweets of a user.

rust-cargo

Runs specified cargo command on a Rust language project.

pypi-publish

Uploads your Python distribution packages in the dist/ directory to PyPI.

GitHub Action for Slack

Sends a Slack notification.

Download Artifact

Downloads artifacts from your build.

Expo CLI

Installs the Expo CLI on your preferred os and authenticates your project.

SonarCloud Scan

Scan your code with SonarCloud to detect bugs, vulnerabilities and code smells.

rust-toolchain

Installs Rust toolchain.

Slack Notify

Sends a message to a Slack channel.

Setup Ruby

Sets up a ruby environment for versions installed on the Actions Virtual Environments.

HTTP client

A general purpose HTTP client for GitHub Actions.

GitHub Repo Sync

Syncs the current repository using force push.

AWS ECR

This Action allows you to create Docker images and push into a ECR repository.

Setup Go

Sets up a go environment for use in actions.

Post Slack messages

Wraps the Slack chat.postMessage API method for posting to channels, private groups, and DMs.

WordPress.org Plugin Deploy

Commits the contents of your Git tag to the WordPress.org plugin repository.

bird-box

Update a pinned gist to contain the latest tweets of a user.

rust-cargo

Runs specified cargo command on a Rust language project.

pypi-publish

Uploads your Python distribution packages in the dist/ directory to PyPI.

GitHub Action for Slack

Sends a Slack notification.

Download Artifact

Downloads artifacts from your build.

Expo CLI

Installs the Expo CLI on your preferred os and authenticates your project.

SonarCloud Scan

Scan your code with SonarCloud to detect bugs, vulnerabilities and code smells.

rust-toolchain

Installs Rust toolchain.

Slack Notify

Sends a message to a Slack channel.

Setup Ruby

Sets up a ruby environment for versions installed on the Actions Virtual Environments.

HTTP client

A general purpose HTTP client for GitHub Actions.

GitHub Repo Sync

Syncs the current repository using force push.

AWS ECR

This Action allows you to create Docker images and push into a ECR repository.

How it works

Log in to GitHub to start tinkering around with GitHub Actions (you can also check out this tutorial).
At 12:01 am PT on Thursday, March 5, start building Actions for the Hackathon!
Submit your Actions by 11:59 pm PT on Tuesday, March 31.
(Bonus: The first 1,000 valid submissions will receive free GitHub swag!)

Read the rules and FAQS.

Featured submissions

Joel-hanson/bandit-report-artifacts

Github action which can make security check reports after the running bandit as artifacts.

danakim/gh-action-deploy-netlify

A Github action to deploy the contents of a directory to Netlify.

exelban/watch-tag

Github Action to receive the latest tag from GitHub/GitLab/DockerHub repository

8BitJonny/gh-get-current-pr

Get the full PR object by a given or the current commit hash

Leocardoso94/is-my-site-up

Check if a site is online or offline

JazibJafri/issue-volunteer

Ask anyone to volunteer for working on issues. And display them as volunteers on issues. So everyone knows when a issue is being worked upon by public.

tsahiduek/ocean-right-sizing-githubaction

Mutate K8s (or Kubernetes :-) resource requirements (https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/configuration/manage-compute-resources-container/#resource-requests-and-limits-of-pod-and-container) according to Spot Ocean Right-Sizing recommendation (https://api.spotinst.com/ocean/tutorials/ocean-for-aws/right-sizing-usage/)