Workflow structuring and good habits
Structuring your GitHub Actions workflows and establishing good habits early on is critical for ensuring maintainability, readability, and efficiency. Here are some best practices:
- Keep workflows focused and concise: It can be tempting to make a single workflow handle many aspects of your CI/CD process, but this can lead to workflows that are complex, hard to maintain, and difficult to understand.
Instead, each workflow should have a single, clear purpose. For example, one workflow might be responsible for linting and running tests whenever code is pushed. Another workflow could handle deploying your application to a staging environment when a pull request is merged. This division of responsibilities makes it easier to understand the role of each workflow, simplifies troubleshooting when things go wrong, and allows for more flexible customization since changes in one workflow won’t affect others. It also allows you to take advantage...