action-nx-affected-list

Github action for outputting a list of affected nx projects (apps and libs)

Action inputs

The possible inputs for this action are:

inputs:
  base:
    description: Base of the current branch (usually main)
    required: false
  head:
    description: Latest commit of the current branch (usually HEAD)
    required: false

Action outputs

The outputs for this action are:

outputs:
  affected:
    description: array of affected projects (apps/libs) names
  hasAffected:
    description: true/false if there are affected projects (apps/libs)

Usage

- name: ⬇️ Checkout repo
  uses: actions/checkout@v4
  with:
    fetch-depth: 0

- name: Derive appropriate SHAs for base and head for `nx affected` commands
  id: setSHAs
  uses: nrwl/nx-set-shas@v4
  with:
    main-branch-name: 'master'
    last-successful-event: 'pull_request'

- name: Check for Affected Projects
  uses: gang-of-front/action-nx-affected-list@main
  id: checkForAffected
  with:
    base: ${{ steps.setSHAs.outputs.base }}
    head: ${{ steps.setSHAs.outputs.head }}

- if: steps.checkForAffected.outputs.hasAffected == 'true'
  name: Build (Nx Affected)
  uses: mansagroup/nrwl-nx-action@v2
  with:
    targets: build
    affected: true
    nxCloud: false

- if: contains(steps.checkForAffected.outputs.affected, 'someAppName')
  ### do something specific for someAppName

Making changes and pushing releases

• make new branch and make changes
• npm run all
• git commit/push changes
• make PR back to main
• wait for pipelines to finish (test will always finish with an error since this isn't a nx monorepo)
• git checkout main
• git pull
• git tag v1
• SKIP_HOOKS=true git push origin v1
• in github, edit tag and save (this will push to marketplace)

NPM Check

npm run npm:check

Acknowledgements

Thanks to ignition-is-go which was the starting point of this code (couldn't find a published version of it)

• ignition-is-go/action-nx-affected-apps
• dkhunt27/action-nx-affected-list