@metamask/action-checkout-and-setup

This TypeScript module is maintained in the style of the MetaMask team.

Usage

Examples

High-risk environment

- name: Checkout and setup high risk environment
  uses: MetaMask/action-checkout-and-setup@v1
  with:
    is-high-risk-environment: true

Low-risk environment

- name: Checkout and setup
  uses: MetaMask/action-checkout-and-setup@v1
  with:
    is-high-risk-environment: false

Custom ref and fetch depth

- name: Checkout and setup
  uses: MetaMask/action-checkout-and-setup@v1
  with:
    ref: ${{ github.sha }}
    fetch-depth: 1

Custom Yarn URL and Install Retries

- name: Checkout and setup with custom Yarn
  uses: MetaMask/action-checkout-and-setup@v1
  with:
    is-high-risk-environment: false
    yarn-custom-url: 'https://your-cdn.com/yarn-4.9.1/yarn.js#sha224.abc123'
    yarn-install-max-retries: 5

Options

is-high-risk-environment

If set to true, the action will set up the environment for a high-risk environment. An environment is considered high-risk if (not exhaustive):

• It contains secrets that should not be exposed.
• It is a production environment, or deploys to a production environment.
• It creates a build artifact that may be distributed to someone else.

fetch-depth

The depth of commits to fetch.

Defaults to 0.

ref

The ref to checkout.

Defaults to the current ref.

cache-node-modules

If set to true, the action will cache the node_modules directory. This should only be enabled for a "prepare"-type job. This cannot be enabled in a high-risk environment.

Defaults to false.

node-version

The version of Node.js to use.

Defaults to the version specified in the .nvmrc file.

skip-allow-scripts

If set to true, the action will skip the yarn allow-scripts step. This can save time if your job does not require this step.

Defaults to false.

yarn-custom-url

If set, provides a custom URL for a Yarn bundle to be prepared and activated by Corepack. This is useful for CI environments that need to use a self-hosted or alternative Yarn bundle (for example, to avoid rate-limiting from the public Yarn registry).

Defaults to '' (not set).

yarn-install-max-retries

Sets the maximum number of retries for the yarn --immutable install command. This helps handle transient network errors more gracefully in CI environments.

Defaults to 5.

Contributing

Setup

• Install the current LTS version of Node.js
  • If you are using nvm (recommended) running nvm install will install the latest version and running nvm use will automatically choose the right node version for you.
• Install Yarn v4 via Corepack
• Run yarn install to install dependencies and run any required post-install scripts

Testing and Linting

Run yarn lint to run the linter, or run yarn lint:fix to run the linter and fix any automatically fixable issues.

Release & Publishing

The project follows the same release process as the other libraries in the MetaMask organization. The GitHub Actions action-create-release-pr and action-publish-release are used to automate the release process; see those repositories for more information about how they work.

1. Choose a release version.

   • The release version should be chosen according to SemVer. Analyze the changes to see whether they include any breaking changes, new features, or deprecations, then choose the appropriate SemVer version. See the SemVer specification for more information.

2. If this release is backporting changes onto a previous release, then ensure there is a major version branch for that version (e.g. 1.x for a v1 backport release).

   • The major version branch should be set to the most recent release with that major version. For example, when backporting a v1.0.2 release, you'd want to ensure there was a 1.x branch that was set to the v1.0.1 tag.

3. Trigger the workflow_dispatch event manually for the Create Release Pull Request action to create the release PR.

   • For a backport release, the base branch should be the major version branch that you ensured existed in step 2. For a normal release, the base branch should be the main branch for that repository (which should be the default value).
   • This should trigger the action-create-release-pr workflow to create the release PR.

4. Update the changelog to move each change entry into the appropriate change category (See here for the full list of change categories, and the correct ordering), and edit them to be more easily understood by users of the package.

   • Generally any changes that don't affect consumers of the package (e.g., lockfile changes or development environment changes) are omitted. Exceptions may be made for changes that might be of interest despite not having an effect upon the published package (e.g. major test improvements, security improvements, improved documentation, etc.).
   • Try to explain each change in terms that users of the package would understand (e.g., avoid referencing internal variables/concepts).
   • Consolidate related changes into one change entry if it makes it easier to explain.
   • Run yarn auto-changelog validate --prettier --rc to check that the changelog is correctly formatted.

5. Review and QA the release.

   • If changes are made to the base branch, the release branch will need to be updated with these changes and review/QA will need to restart again. As such, it's probably best to avoid merging other PRs into the base branch while review is underway.

6. Squash & Merge the release.

   • This should trigger the action-publish-release workflow to tag the final release commit and publish the release on GitHub.

7. Publish the release.

   • Wait for the announce-release GitHub Action workflow to finish. This should trigger a second job (publish-release), which will wait for a run approval by the npm publishers team.
   • Approve the publish-release job (or ask somebody on the npm publishers team to approve it for you).
   • Once the publish-release job has finished, check the tag on GitHub to ensure that the release was published correctly.