How to debug GitHub actions. Real-world example

• lost-pixel

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  Open source alternative to Percy, Chromatic, Applitools.

  

As an example, we will run a simple GitHub action on our front-end project. GitHub action will be the bare minimum and will execute some open-source visual regression tests on a single webpage.

• action-tmate

  13 2,684 5.5 JavaScript

  Debug your GitHub Actions via SSH by using tmate to get access to the runner system itself.

The go-to method of debugging GitHub Actions is tmate. With tmate we can connect to our running Action terminal and see what is going on there by executing some simple commands!

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• act

  146 50,744 9.2 Go

  Run your GitHub Actions locally 🚀

  

When it comes to the alternatives to tmate, there is another great debugging tool that you could check out. It is called act and it allows you to run GitHub Actions code on your local machine making debugging even easier. It has its own limitations and some learning curve but overall it is another tool you should use if you can’t fix the CI bugs by connecting directly into the running action with the tmate.

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