CI/CD & Deployment · Backend Development

Explanation

GitHub Actions can lint, test, and deploy your API on every push to main.

Code example

yaml

name: API CI
on:
  push:
    branches: [main]
jobs:
  test:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - uses: actions/setup-node@v4
        with:
          node-version: 22
      - run: npm ci
      - run: npm test

Helpful resources

GitHub Actions docs
Official GitHub Actions documentation.
DocumentationFreeOfficial45 min
GitHub Actions — TechWorld with Nana
CI/CD with GitHub Actions on YouTube.
YoutubeFree60 min

Exercise

Add a GitHub Actions workflow that installs dependencies and runs tests on main.

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