Release workflow (chakra-ui/chakra-ui)

The Release workflow from chakra-ui/chakra-ui, explained and optimized by Latchkey.

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Source: chakra-ui/chakra-ui.github/workflows/release.ymlLicense MITView source

What it does

This is the Release workflow from the chakra-ui/chakra-ui repository, a real project running GitHub Actions. It is shown here with attribution under its MIT license.

Below, Latchkey shows a faster, safer version produced by its optimization engine.

The workflow

workflow (.yml)

name: Release

on:
  push:
    paths:
      - ".changeset/**"
      - "packages/**"
    branches:
      - main

concurrency:
  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}

jobs:
  tests:
    name: Tests
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Checkout branch
        uses: actions/checkout@v6

      - name: Install
        uses: ./.github/composite-actions/install

      - name: Run tests
        run: pnpm test

  release:
    name: Release
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Checkout branch
        uses: actions/checkout@v6
        with:
          fetch-depth: 0
          token: ${{ secrets.SAGE_PAT }}

      - name: Install
        uses: ./.github/composite-actions/install

      - name: Build
        run: pnpm build

      - name: Create release Pull Request or publish to NPM
        id: changesets
        uses: changesets/action@v1
        with:
          publish: pnpm release
          commit: "ci(changesets): version packages"
          setupGitUser: false
        env:
          NODE_AUTH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.NPM_TOKEN }}
          NPM_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.NPM_TOKEN }}
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

      - name: Slack notification
        if: steps.changesets.outputs.published == 'true'
        run: pnpm slack
        env:
          SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL: ${{ secrets.SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL }}

The same workflow, on Latchkey

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name: Release
 
on:
  push:
    paths:
      - ".changeset/**"
      - "packages/**"
    branches:
      - main
 
concurrency:
  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}
 
jobs:
  tests:
    timeout-minutes: 30
    name: Tests
    runs-on: latchkey-small
    steps:
      - name: Checkout branch
        uses: actions/checkout@v6
 
      - name: Install
        uses: ./.github/composite-actions/install
 
      - name: Run tests
        run: pnpm test
 
  release:
    timeout-minutes: 30
    name: Release
    runs-on: latchkey-small
    steps:
      - name: Checkout branch
        uses: actions/checkout@v6
        with:
          fetch-depth: 0
          token: ${{ secrets.SAGE_PAT }}
 
      - name: Install
        uses: ./.github/composite-actions/install
 
      - name: Build
        run: pnpm build
 
      - name: Create release Pull Request or publish to NPM
        id: changesets
        uses: changesets/action@v1
        with:
          publish: pnpm release
          commit: "ci(changesets): version packages"
          setupGitUser: false
        env:
          NODE_AUTH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.NPM_TOKEN }}
          NPM_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.NPM_TOKEN }}
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
 
      - name: Slack notification
        if: steps.changesets.outputs.published == 'true'
        run: pnpm slack
        env:
          SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL: ${{ secrets.SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL }}

What changed

Run on Latchkey managed runners with one line (runs-on), which apply the fixes below automatically and self-heal transient failures. This example uses latchkey-small; pick the runner size that fits the job.
Add a job timeout so a hung step cannot burn hours of runner time.

1 third-party action is referenced by a movable tag. Pin it to the commit SHA (Latchkey resolves and applies this automatically) so a repointed tag cannot change what runs.

This workflow runs 2 jobs per trigger. On Latchkey the same minutes cost up to 58% less than GitHub-hosted, with zero queue time.

Actions used in this workflow

actions/checkout changesets/action