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CI workflow (evanw/esbuild)

The CI workflow from evanw/esbuild, explained and optimized by Latchkey.

Source: evanw/esbuild.github/workflows/ci.ymlLicense MITView source
F
CI health grade
40/100
Health score
5
Jobs per trigger
4
Fixes in the optimized version

In short

  1. CI health: F (at risk)
  2. The optimized version below points runs-on at Latchkey managed runners and adds run de-duplication, caching, and job timeouts.

What it does

This is the CI workflow from the evanw/esbuild 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: CI

on:
  push:
    branches: ['*']
  pull_request:
    branches: ['*']
  workflow_dispatch:

permissions:
  contents: read  #  to fetch code (actions/checkout)

jobs:
  esbuild-platforms:
    # Split this out into its own runner because it's slow
    name: esbuild CI (All Platforms)
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
      - name: Checkout code
        uses: actions/checkout@v3

      - name: Read go.version
        run: |
          echo "GO_VERSION=$(cat go.version)" >> $GITHUB_ENV

      - name: Set up Go ${{ env.GO_VERSION }}
        uses: actions/setup-go@v3
        with:
          go-version: ${{ env.GO_VERSION }}
        id: go

      - name: Setup Node.js environment
        uses: actions/setup-node@v3
        with:
          node-version: 18

      - name: Ensure all supported platforms can be built
        run: |
          make platform-all

  esbuild-slow:
    # Split these out into their own runner because they're very slow
    name: esbuild CI (Slow Tests)
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
      - name: Checkout code
        uses: actions/checkout@v3

      - name: Read go.version
        run: |
          echo "GO_VERSION=$(cat go.version)" >> $GITHUB_ENV

      - name: Set up Go ${{ env.GO_VERSION }}
        uses: actions/setup-go@v3
        with:
          go-version: ${{ env.GO_VERSION }}
        id: go

      - name: Setup Node.js environment
        uses: actions/setup-node@v3
        with:
          node-version: 16

      # Note: These tests break with node version 18. Something about WebAssembly.
      - name: Rollup Tests
        run: make test-rollup

      - name: Uglify Tests
        run: CI=1 make uglify

      - name: Type check tsc using tsc
        run: make test-tsc

      - name: Test an old TypeScript version
        run: make test-old-ts

      # Plan 9 is not a supported platform, but someone wanted esbuild to be able to build for it anyway...
      - name: Ensure esbuild can be built for Plan 9
        run: |
          GOOS=plan9 GOARCH=386 go build ./cmd/esbuild
          GOOS=plan9 GOARCH=amd64 go build ./cmd/esbuild
          GOOS=plan9 GOARCH=arm go build ./cmd/esbuild

  esbuild:
    name: esbuild CI
    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
    strategy:
      matrix:
        os: [ubuntu-latest, macos-latest, windows-latest]

    steps:
      - name: Checkout code
        uses: actions/checkout@v3

      - name: Read go.version (non-Windows)
        if: matrix.os != 'windows-latest'
        run: |
          echo "GO_VERSION=$(cat go.version)" >> $GITHUB_ENV

      - name: Read go.version (Windows)
        if: matrix.os == 'windows-latest'
        run: |
          echo "GO_VERSION=$(cat go.version)" >> $Env:GITHUB_ENV

      - name: Set up Go ${{ env.GO_VERSION }}
        uses: actions/setup-go@v3
        with:
          go-version: ${{ env.GO_VERSION }}
        id: go

      - name: Setup Node.js environment
        uses: actions/setup-node@v3
        with:
          node-version: 18

      - name: Setup Deno 1.40.0
        uses: denoland/setup-deno@main
        with:
          deno-version: v1.40.0

      - name: go test
        run: go test -race ./internal/...

      - name: go vet
        run: go vet ./cmd/... ./internal/... ./pkg/...

      - name: Deno Tests (non-Windows)
        if: matrix.os != 'windows-latest'
        run: make test-deno

      - name: Deno Tests (Windows)
        if: matrix.os == 'windows-latest'
        run: make test-deno-windows

      - name: Test for path/filepath
        if: matrix.os == 'ubuntu-latest'
        run: make no-filepath

      - name: Make sure "check-go-version" works (non-Windows)
        if: matrix.os != 'windows-latest'
        run: make check-go-version

      - name: go fmt
        if: matrix.os == 'macos-latest'
        run: make fmt-go

      - name: npm ci
        run: cd scripts && npm ci

      - name: Register Test (ESBUILD_WORKER_THREADS=0, non-Windows)
        if: matrix.os != 'windows-latest'
        run: ESBUILD_WORKER_THREADS=0 node scripts/register-test.js

      - name: Register Test
        run: node scripts/register-test.js

      - name: Verify Source Map
        run: node scripts/verify-source-map.js

      - name: E2E Tests
        run: node scripts/end-to-end-tests.js

      - name: JS API Tests (ESBUILD_WORKER_THREADS=0, non-Windows)
        if: matrix.os != 'windows-latest'
        run: ESBUILD_WORKER_THREADS=0 node scripts/js-api-tests.js

      - name: JS API Tests
        run: node scripts/js-api-tests.js

      - name: NodeJS Unref Tests
        run: node scripts/node-unref-tests.js

      - name: Plugin Tests
        run: node scripts/plugin-tests.js

      - name: TypeScript Type Definition Tests
        if: matrix.os == 'ubuntu-latest'
        run: node scripts/ts-type-tests.js

      - name: JS API Type Check
        if: matrix.os == 'ubuntu-latest'
        run: make lib-typecheck

      - name: Decorator Tests
        if: matrix.os == 'ubuntu-latest'
        run: make decorator-tests

      - name: WebAssembly API Tests (browser)
        if: matrix.os == 'ubuntu-latest'
        run: make test-wasm-browser

      - name: WebAssembly API Tests (node, Linux)
        if: matrix.os == 'ubuntu-latest'
        run: make test-wasm-node

      - name: WebAssembly API Tests (node, non-Linux)
        if: matrix.os != 'ubuntu-latest'
        run: node scripts/wasm-tests.js

      - name: Sucrase Tests
        if: matrix.os == 'ubuntu-latest'
        run: make test-sucrase

      - name: Esprima Tests
        if: matrix.os == 'ubuntu-latest'
        run: make test-esprima

      - name: Preact Splitting Tests
        if: matrix.os == 'ubuntu-latest'
        run: make test-preact-splitting

      - name: Check the unicode table generator
        if: matrix.os == 'ubuntu-latest'
        run: cd scripts && node gen-unicode-table.js

      - name: Yarn PnP tests
        run: |
          # Note that Yarn recently deliberately broke "npm install -g yarn".
          # They say you now have to run "corepack enable" to fix it. They have
          # written about this here: https://yarnpkg.com/corepack
          corepack enable

          make test-yarnpnp

  esbuild-old-go-version:
    name: esbuild CI (old Go version)
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
      - name: Checkout code
        uses: actions/checkout@v3

      - name: Set up Go 1.13 (the minimum required Go version for esbuild)
        uses: actions/setup-go@v3
        with:
          go-version: 1.13
        id: go

      - name: go build
        run: go build ./cmd/esbuild

      - name: go test
        run: go test ./internal/...

  esbuild-old-deno-version:
    name: esbuild CI (old Deno version)
    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
    strategy:
      matrix:
        # Note: I'm excluding "macos-latest" here because GitHub recently
        # changed their macOS CI VMs from x86_64 to aarch64 (i.e. from Intel
        # to ARM) and it looks like old Deno versions have WASM bugs on ARM.
        # Specifically, this test now crashes like this when run on macOS:
        #
        #   #
        #   # Fatal error in , line 0
        #   # Check failed: RwxMemoryWriteScope::IsAllowed().
        #   #
        #   #
        #   #
        #   #FailureMessage Object: 0x16f282368
        #   ==== C stack trace ===============================
        #
        #       0   deno                                0x0000000101bb8e78 v8::base::debug::StackTrace::StackTrace() + 24
        #       1   deno                                0x0000000101bbda84 v8::platform::(anonymous namespace)::PrintStackTrace() + 24
        #       2   deno                                0x0000000101bb6230 V8_Fatal(char const*, ...) + 268
        #       3   deno                                0x000000010227e468 v8::internal::wasm::WasmCodeManager::MemoryProtectionKeysEnabled() const + 0
        #       4   deno                                0x0000000102299994 v8::internal::wasm::WasmEngine::InitializeOncePerProcess() + 44
        #       5   deno                                0x0000000101e78fd0 v8::internal::V8::Initialize() + 1576
        #       6   deno                                0x0000000101c3b7d8 v8::V8::Initialize(int) + 32
        #       7   deno                                0x00000001011833dc _ZN3std4sync4once4Once9call_once28_$u7b$$u7b$closure$u7d$$u7d$17h2bbe74d315ab3e84E + 488
        #       8   deno                                0x00000001017f8854 std::sync::once::Once::call_inner::h70fbdd48fe002a01 + 724
        #       9   deno                                0x000000010115ca80 deno_core::runtime::JsRuntime::new::h9c5f1a9c910f1eed + 192
        #       10  deno                                0x00000001014d3b50 deno_runtime::worker::MainWorker::bootstrap_from_options::h91a0eaac48dfc18e + 4260
        #       11  deno                                0x0000000100ee692c deno::create_main_worker::h0d1622755821ae7f + 1608
        #       12  deno                                0x0000000100f6c688 _ZN97_$LT$core..future..from_generator..GenFuture$LT$T$GT$$u20$as$u20$core..future..future..Future$GT$4poll17h87ddfac9566887c8E + 492
        #       13  deno                                0x0000000100f6ba18 tokio::runtime::task::raw::poll::h7d51f1a7d5a61c15 + 1396
        #       14  deno                                0x0000000101917b98 std::sys_common::backtrace::__rust_begin_short_backtrace::hd384935dcffe6f2d + 332
        #       15  deno                                0x0000000101917954 _ZN4core3ops8function6FnOnce40call_once$u7b$$u7b$vtable.shim$u7d$$u7d$17he2755732d5d29cf0E + 124
        #       16  deno                                0x0000000101829684 std::sys::unix::thread::Thread::new::thread_start::h432bc30153e41f60 + 48
        #       17  libsystem_pthread.dylib             0x000000018a436f94 _pthread_start + 136
        #       18  libsystem_pthread.dylib             0x000000018a431d34 thread_start + 8
        #
        # Hopefully running this old Deno version on Linux is sufficiently
        # close to running it on macOS. For reference, I believe this is the
        # change that GitHub made which broke this test:
        # https://github.blog/changelog/2023-10-02-github-actions-apple-silicon-m1-macos-runners-are-now-available-in-public-beta/
        os: [ubuntu-latest, windows-latest]

    steps:
      - name: Checkout code
        uses: actions/checkout@v3

      - name: Read go.version (non-Windows)
        if: matrix.os != 'windows-latest'
        run: |
          echo "GO_VERSION=$(cat go.version)" >> $GITHUB_ENV

      - name: Read go.version (Windows)
        if: matrix.os == 'windows-latest'
        run: |
          echo "GO_VERSION=$(cat go.version)" >> $Env:GITHUB_ENV

      - name: Set up Go ${{ env.GO_VERSION }}
        uses: actions/setup-go@v3
        with:
          go-version: ${{ env.GO_VERSION }}
        id: go

      # Make sure esbuild works with old versions of Deno. Note: It's important
      # to test a version before 1.31.0, which introduced the "Deno.Command" API.
      - name: Setup Deno 1.24.0
        uses: denoland/setup-deno@main
        with:
          deno-version: v1.24.0

      - name: Setup Node.js environment
        uses: actions/setup-node@v3
        with:
          node-version: 18

      - name: Deno Tests (non-Windows)
        if: matrix.os != 'windows-latest'
        run: make test-deno

      - name: Deno Tests (Windows)
        if: matrix.os == 'windows-latest'
        run: make test-deno-windows

The same workflow, on Latchkey

Estimated ~20% faster on cache hits, plus fewer wasted runs and a safer supply chain. Added and changed lines are highlighted.

workflow (.yml), optimized
name: CI

on:
  push:
    branches: ['*']
  pull_request:
    branches: ['*']
  workflow_dispatch:

permissions:
  contents: read  #  to fetch code (actions/checkout)

concurrency:
  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}
  cancel-in-progress: true

jobs:
  esbuild-platforms:
    timeout-minutes: 30
    # Split this out into its own runner because it's slow
    name: esbuild CI (All Platforms)
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    runs-on: latchkey-small

    steps:
      - name: Checkout code
        uses: actions/checkout@v3

      - name: Read go.version
        run: |
          echo "GO_VERSION=$(cat go.version)" >> $GITHUB_ENV

      - name: Set up Go ${{ env.GO_VERSION }}
        uses: actions/setup-go@v3
        with:
          go-version: ${{ env.GO_VERSION }}
        id: go

      - name: Setup Node.js environment
        uses: actions/setup-node@v3
        with:
          cache: 'npm'
          node-version: 18

      - name: Ensure all supported platforms can be built
        run: |
          make platform-all

  esbuild-slow:
    timeout-minutes: 30
    # Split these out into their own runner because they're very slow
    name: esbuild CI (Slow Tests)
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    runs-on: latchkey-small

    steps:
      - name: Checkout code
        uses: actions/checkout@v3

      - name: Read go.version
        run: |
          echo "GO_VERSION=$(cat go.version)" >> $GITHUB_ENV

      - name: Set up Go ${{ env.GO_VERSION }}
        uses: actions/setup-go@v3
        with:
          go-version: ${{ env.GO_VERSION }}
        id: go

      - name: Setup Node.js environment
        uses: actions/setup-node@v3
        with:
          cache: 'npm'
          node-version: 16

      # Note: These tests break with node version 18. Something about WebAssembly.
      - name: Rollup Tests
        run: make test-rollup

      - name: Uglify Tests
        run: CI=1 make uglify

      - name: Type check tsc using tsc
        run: make test-tsc

      - name: Test an old TypeScript version
        run: make test-old-ts

      # Plan 9 is not a supported platform, but someone wanted esbuild to be able to build for it anyway...
      - name: Ensure esbuild can be built for Plan 9
        run: |
          GOOS=plan9 GOARCH=386 go build ./cmd/esbuild
          GOOS=plan9 GOARCH=amd64 go build ./cmd/esbuild
          GOOS=plan9 GOARCH=arm go build ./cmd/esbuild

  esbuild:
    timeout-minutes: 30
    name: esbuild CI
    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
    strategy:
      matrix:
        os: [ubuntu-latest, macos-latest, windows-latest]

    steps:
      - name: Checkout code
        uses: actions/checkout@v3

      - name: Read go.version (non-Windows)
        if: matrix.os != 'windows-latest'
        run: |
          echo "GO_VERSION=$(cat go.version)" >> $GITHUB_ENV

      - name: Read go.version (Windows)
        if: matrix.os == 'windows-latest'
        run: |
          echo "GO_VERSION=$(cat go.version)" >> $Env:GITHUB_ENV

      - name: Set up Go ${{ env.GO_VERSION }}
        uses: actions/setup-go@v3
        with:
          go-version: ${{ env.GO_VERSION }}
        id: go

      - name: Setup Node.js environment
        uses: actions/setup-node@v3
        with:
          cache: 'npm'
          node-version: 18

      - name: Setup Deno 1.40.0
        uses: denoland/setup-deno@main
        with:
          deno-version: v1.40.0

      - name: go test
        run: go test -race ./internal/...

      - name: go vet
        run: go vet ./cmd/... ./internal/... ./pkg/...

      - name: Deno Tests (non-Windows)
        if: matrix.os != 'windows-latest'
        run: make test-deno

      - name: Deno Tests (Windows)
        if: matrix.os == 'windows-latest'
        run: make test-deno-windows

      - name: Test for path/filepath
        if: matrix.os == 'ubuntu-latest'
        run: make no-filepath

      - name: Make sure "check-go-version" works (non-Windows)
        if: matrix.os != 'windows-latest'
        run: make check-go-version

      - name: go fmt
        if: matrix.os == 'macos-latest'
        run: make fmt-go

      - name: npm ci
        run: cd scripts && npm ci

      - name: Register Test (ESBUILD_WORKER_THREADS=0, non-Windows)
        if: matrix.os != 'windows-latest'
        run: ESBUILD_WORKER_THREADS=0 node scripts/register-test.js

      - name: Register Test
        run: node scripts/register-test.js

      - name: Verify Source Map
        run: node scripts/verify-source-map.js

      - name: E2E Tests
        run: node scripts/end-to-end-tests.js

      - name: JS API Tests (ESBUILD_WORKER_THREADS=0, non-Windows)
        if: matrix.os != 'windows-latest'
        run: ESBUILD_WORKER_THREADS=0 node scripts/js-api-tests.js

      - name: JS API Tests
        run: node scripts/js-api-tests.js

      - name: NodeJS Unref Tests
        run: node scripts/node-unref-tests.js

      - name: Plugin Tests
        run: node scripts/plugin-tests.js

      - name: TypeScript Type Definition Tests
        if: matrix.os == 'ubuntu-latest'
        run: node scripts/ts-type-tests.js

      - name: JS API Type Check
        if: matrix.os == 'ubuntu-latest'
        run: make lib-typecheck

      - name: Decorator Tests
        if: matrix.os == 'ubuntu-latest'
        run: make decorator-tests

      - name: WebAssembly API Tests (browser)
        if: matrix.os == 'ubuntu-latest'
        run: make test-wasm-browser

      - name: WebAssembly API Tests (node, Linux)
        if: matrix.os == 'ubuntu-latest'
        run: make test-wasm-node

      - name: WebAssembly API Tests (node, non-Linux)
        if: matrix.os != 'ubuntu-latest'
        run: node scripts/wasm-tests.js

      - name: Sucrase Tests
        if: matrix.os == 'ubuntu-latest'
        run: make test-sucrase

      - name: Esprima Tests
        if: matrix.os == 'ubuntu-latest'
        run: make test-esprima

      - name: Preact Splitting Tests
        if: matrix.os == 'ubuntu-latest'
        run: make test-preact-splitting

      - name: Check the unicode table generator
        if: matrix.os == 'ubuntu-latest'
        run: cd scripts && node gen-unicode-table.js

      - name: Yarn PnP tests
        run: |
          # Note that Yarn recently deliberately broke "npm install -g yarn".
          # They say you now have to run "corepack enable" to fix it. They have
          # written about this here: https://yarnpkg.com/corepack
          corepack enable

          make test-yarnpnp

  esbuild-old-go-version:
    timeout-minutes: 30
    name: esbuild CI (old Go version)
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    runs-on: latchkey-small

    steps:
      - name: Checkout code
        uses: actions/checkout@v3

      - name: Set up Go 1.13 (the minimum required Go version for esbuild)
        uses: actions/setup-go@v3
        with:
          go-version: 1.13
        id: go

      - name: go build
        run: go build ./cmd/esbuild

      - name: go test
        run: go test ./internal/...

  esbuild-old-deno-version:
    timeout-minutes: 30
    name: esbuild CI (old Deno version)
    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
    strategy:
      matrix:
        # Note: I'm excluding "macos-latest" here because GitHub recently
        # changed their macOS CI VMs from x86_64 to aarch64 (i.e. from Intel
        # to ARM) and it looks like old Deno versions have WASM bugs on ARM.
        # Specifically, this test now crashes like this when run on macOS:
        #
        #   #
        #   # Fatal error in , line 0
        #   # Check failed: RwxMemoryWriteScope::IsAllowed().
        #   #
        #   #
        #   #
        #   #FailureMessage Object: 0x16f282368
        #   ==== C stack trace ===============================
        #
        #       0   deno                                0x0000000101bb8e78 v8::base::debug::StackTrace::StackTrace() + 24
        #       1   deno                                0x0000000101bbda84 v8::platform::(anonymous namespace)::PrintStackTrace() + 24
        #       2   deno                                0x0000000101bb6230 V8_Fatal(char const*, ...) + 268
        #       3   deno                                0x000000010227e468 v8::internal::wasm::WasmCodeManager::MemoryProtectionKeysEnabled() const + 0
        #       4   deno                                0x0000000102299994 v8::internal::wasm::WasmEngine::InitializeOncePerProcess() + 44
        #       5   deno                                0x0000000101e78fd0 v8::internal::V8::Initialize() + 1576
        #       6   deno                                0x0000000101c3b7d8 v8::V8::Initialize(int) + 32
        #       7   deno                                0x00000001011833dc _ZN3std4sync4once4Once9call_once28_$u7b$$u7b$closure$u7d$$u7d$17h2bbe74d315ab3e84E + 488
        #       8   deno                                0x00000001017f8854 std::sync::once::Once::call_inner::h70fbdd48fe002a01 + 724
        #       9   deno                                0x000000010115ca80 deno_core::runtime::JsRuntime::new::h9c5f1a9c910f1eed + 192
        #       10  deno                                0x00000001014d3b50 deno_runtime::worker::MainWorker::bootstrap_from_options::h91a0eaac48dfc18e + 4260
        #       11  deno                                0x0000000100ee692c deno::create_main_worker::h0d1622755821ae7f + 1608
        #       12  deno                                0x0000000100f6c688 _ZN97_$LT$core..future..from_generator..GenFuture$LT$T$GT$$u20$as$u20$core..future..future..Future$GT$4poll17h87ddfac9566887c8E + 492
        #       13  deno                                0x0000000100f6ba18 tokio::runtime::task::raw::poll::h7d51f1a7d5a61c15 + 1396
        #       14  deno                                0x0000000101917b98 std::sys_common::backtrace::__rust_begin_short_backtrace::hd384935dcffe6f2d + 332
        #       15  deno                                0x0000000101917954 _ZN4core3ops8function6FnOnce40call_once$u7b$$u7b$vtable.shim$u7d$$u7d$17he2755732d5d29cf0E + 124
        #       16  deno                                0x0000000101829684 std::sys::unix::thread::Thread::new::thread_start::h432bc30153e41f60 + 48
        #       17  libsystem_pthread.dylib             0x000000018a436f94 _pthread_start + 136
        #       18  libsystem_pthread.dylib             0x000000018a431d34 thread_start + 8
        #
        # Hopefully running this old Deno version on Linux is sufficiently
        # close to running it on macOS. For reference, I believe this is the
        # change that GitHub made which broke this test:
        # https://github.blog/changelog/2023-10-02-github-actions-apple-silicon-m1-macos-runners-are-now-available-in-public-beta/
        os: [ubuntu-latest, windows-latest]

    steps:
      - name: Checkout code
        uses: actions/checkout@v3

      - name: Read go.version (non-Windows)
        if: matrix.os != 'windows-latest'
        run: |
          echo "GO_VERSION=$(cat go.version)" >> $GITHUB_ENV

      - name: Read go.version (Windows)
        if: matrix.os == 'windows-latest'
        run: |
          echo "GO_VERSION=$(cat go.version)" >> $Env:GITHUB_ENV

      - name: Set up Go ${{ env.GO_VERSION }}
        uses: actions/setup-go@v3
        with:
          go-version: ${{ env.GO_VERSION }}
        id: go

      # Make sure esbuild works with old versions of Deno. Note: It's important
      # to test a version before 1.31.0, which introduced the "Deno.Command" API.
      - name: Setup Deno 1.24.0
        uses: denoland/setup-deno@main
        with:
          deno-version: v1.24.0

      - name: Setup Node.js environment
        uses: actions/setup-node@v3
        with:
          cache: 'npm'
          node-version: 18

      - name: Deno Tests (non-Windows)
        if: matrix.os != 'windows-latest'
        run: make test-deno

      - name: Deno Tests (Windows)
        if: matrix.os == 'windows-latest'
        run: make test-deno-windows

What changed

  1. Run on Latchkey managed runners with one line (runs-on), which apply the fixes below automatically and self-heal transient failures. Each Linux x64 job moves to the Latchkey size matching its vCPU count, latchkey-small for a standard 2 vCPU runner; macOS, Windows and arm64 jobs stay as written.
  2. Cancel superseded runs when a branch or PR gets a newer push.
  3. Cache dependency installs on the setup step so they are served from cache.
  4. Add a job timeout so a hung step cannot burn hours of runner time.

Left runs-on as written on the esbuild job: matrix.os mixes Linux with macOS and Windows, which Latchkey does not run. Point only the Linux legs at Latchkey, for example with a matrix include entry that sets the runner.

Left runs-on as written on the esbuild-old-deno-version job: matrix.os mixes Linux with Windows, which Latchkey does not run. Point only the Linux legs at Latchkey, for example with a matrix include entry that sets the runner.

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.

What Latchkey heals here

This workflow has steps that commonly fail on transient issues (network, registries, flaky browsers). On Latchkey managed runners they are detected, retried, and self-healed instead of failing your build:

  • Dependency installs
  • End-to-end and browser tests

This workflow runs 5 jobs (8 with the matrix expanded) per trigger. 5 of the 8 run on a standard GitHub-hosted Linux x64 runner, which in a private repository bills $0.006 a minute against $0.0025 on latchkey-small, 58% lower; in a public repository like this one they are free. 3 of the 8 run on macOS and Windows, which Latchkey does not offer, so those stay where they are. Estimate the monthly difference with your own run counts.

Actions used in this workflow

  • actions/checkout
  • actions/setup-go
  • actions/setup-node
  • denoland/setup-deno

Frequently asked questions

What does the CI workflow (evanw/esbuild) workflow do?
This is the CI workflow from the evanw/esbuild repository, a real project running GitHub Actions. It is shown here with attribution under its MIT license.
What CI health grade does this workflow get?
This Node.js workflow grades F. Paste your own workflow into the Latchkey grader to see its grade and the exact fixes.
How can I improve this Node.js workflow?
Add run de-duplication, caching, and job timeouts. Latchkey applies these automatically on managed runners when you point runs-on at Latchkey.

References