nx-affected-dependencies-action

Are you deploying many different apps in your nx monorepo with dedicated workflows?

Are you looking for an alternative to nx affected that will only lint and test affected projects that are actually a dependency of the app you are deploying in one workflow?

Then this action is for you!

By combining nx affected and nx dep-graph --focus=theNameOfTheAppToDeploy we can create an intersection of these two lists to only get the affected projects that are actually a dependency of theNameOfTheAppToDeploy.

Usage:

Using base and head parameters

When providing the base and head parameters to the workflow they are directly passed into nx affected.

- name: Evaluate affected
  uses: leanix/nx-affected-dependencies-action@v0.2.1
  id: affected
  with:
    project: pathfinder
    base: ${{ github.sha }}~1
    head: ${{ github.sha }}

- name: Run Unit Tests (Affected)
  if: steps.affected.outputs.isAffected == 'true'
  env:
    affectedDeps: ${{ steps.affected.outputs.affectedDeps }}
  run: npx nx run-many --target=test --projects=$affectedDeps

Emulate git-flow

Here's a snippet to generate the base and head inputs for a repository that uses the git-flow branching strategy:

- name: Get parameters for nx-affected-dependencies-action
  id: affectedInputs
  run: |
    if ["${BRANCH##*/}" == "develop"] || ["${BRANCH##*/}" == "master"]; then
        echo "::set-output name=base::origin/develop"
        echo "::set-output name=head::"
    else
        echo "::set-output name=base::$COMMIT_SHA~1"
        echo "::set-output name=head::$COMMIT_SHA"
    fi
  env:
    BRANCH: ${{ github.ref }}
    COMMIT_SHA: ${{ github.sha }}
- name: Evaluate affected
  uses: leanix/nx-affected-dependencies-action@v0.2.1
  id: affected
  with:
    project: pathfinder
    base: ${{ steps.affectedInputs.outputs.base }}
    head: ${{ steps.affectedInputs.outputs.head }}

Using gitflow parameter

Instead of emulating git-flow with base and head parameters you can also just set the git-flow workflow parameter to true and we'll handle it for you.

Like this:

- name: Evaluate affected
  uses: leanix/nx-affected-dependencies-action@v0.2.1
  id: affected
  with:
    project: pathfinder
    gitflow: true

- name: Run Unit Tests (Affected)
  if: steps.affected.outputs.isAffected == 'true'
  env:
    affectedDeps: ${{ steps.affected.outputs.affectedDeps }}
  run: npx nx run-many --target=test --projects=$affectedDeps

Run tests

Execute npm run test to run unit tests with Jest.

How to publish

Actions are run from GitHub repos so we will checkin the packed dist folder.

Run the following commands to tag your new version.

$ npm run package
$ git add dist
$ git commit -a -m "Meaningful commit message"
$ git tag -a v0.x.x -m "Release 0.x.x"

Then draft a new release via the GitHub repository UI.

See the versioning documentation

Copyright and License

Copyright 2021 LeanIX GmbH, Bonn. Code released under the MIT license.