ci Alternative Runtimes workflow (fastify/fastify)

The ci Alternative Runtimes workflow from fastify/fastify, explained and optimized by Latchkey.

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Source: fastify/fastify.github/workflows/ci-alternative-runtime.ymlLicense MITView source

What it does

This is the ci Alternative Runtimes workflow from the fastify/fastify 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 Alternative Runtimes

on:
  push:
    branches:
     - main
     - next
     - 'v*'
    paths-ignore:
      - 'docs/**'
      - '*.md'
  pull_request:
    paths-ignore:
      - 'docs/**'
      - '*.md'

# This allows a subsequently queued workflow run to interrupt previous runs
concurrency:
  group: "${{ github.workflow }} @ ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.label || github.head_ref || github.ref }}"
  cancel-in-progress: true

permissions:
  contents: read

jobs:
  test-unit:
    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
    continue-on-error: true
    permissions:
      contents: read
    strategy:
      matrix:
        node-version: [20]
        os: [macos-latest, ubuntu-latest, windows-latest]
        include:
          - runtime: nsolid
            node-version: 20
            nsolid-version: 5
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v7
        with:
          persist-credentials: false

      - uses: nodesource/setup-nsolid@1ca68d2589d3d56ecd3881dfe6ffa87eeda9c939 # v1.0.1
        if: ${{ matrix.runtime == 'nsolid' }}
        with:
          node-version: ${{ matrix.node-version }}
          nsolid-version: ${{ matrix.nsolid-version }}

      - name: Install
        run: |
          npm install --ignore-scripts

      - name: Run tests
        run: |
          npm run unit

  test-types:
    runs-on: 'ubuntu-latest'
    permissions:
      contents: read

    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v7
        with:
          persist-credentials: false

      - uses: nodesource/setup-nsolid@1ca68d2589d3d56ecd3881dfe6ffa87eeda9c939 # v1.0.1
        with:
          node-version: 20
          nsolid-version: 5

      - name: Install
        run: |
          npm install --ignore-scripts

      - name: Run type tests
        run: |
          npm run test:types
        env:
          NODE_OPTIONS: no-network-family-autoselection

  package:
    needs:
      - test-types
      - test-unit
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    permissions:
      contents: read
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v7
        with:
          persist-credentials: false
      - uses: nodesource/setup-nsolid@1ca68d2589d3d56ecd3881dfe6ffa87eeda9c939 # v1.0.1
        with:
          nsolid-version: 5
      - name: install fastify
        run: |
          npm install --ignore-scripts
      - name: install webpack stack
        run: |
          cd test/bundler/webpack && npm install
      - name: Test webpack bundle
        run: |
          cd test/bundler/webpack && npm run test
      - name: install esbuild stack
        run: |
          cd test/bundler/esbuild && npm install
      - name: Test esbuild bundle
        run: |
          cd test/bundler/esbuild && npm run test

The same workflow, on Latchkey

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name: ci Alternative Runtimes
 
on:
  push:
    branches:
     - main
     - next
     - 'v*'
    paths-ignore:
      - 'docs/**'
      - '*.md'
  pull_request:
    paths-ignore:
      - 'docs/**'
      - '*.md'
 
# This allows a subsequently queued workflow run to interrupt previous runs
concurrency:
  group: "${{ github.workflow }} @ ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.label || github.head_ref || github.ref }}"
  cancel-in-progress: true
 
permissions:
  contents: read
 
jobs:
  test-unit:
    timeout-minutes: 30
    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
    continue-on-error: true
    permissions:
      contents: read
    strategy:
      matrix:
        node-version: [20]
        os: [macos-latest, ubuntu-latest, windows-latest]
        include:
          - runtime: nsolid
            node-version: 20
            nsolid-version: 5
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v7
        with:
          persist-credentials: false
 
      - uses: nodesource/setup-nsolid@1ca68d2589d3d56ecd3881dfe6ffa87eeda9c939 # v1.0.1
        if: ${{ matrix.runtime == 'nsolid' }}
        with:
          node-version: ${{ matrix.node-version }}
          nsolid-version: ${{ matrix.nsolid-version }}
 
      - name: Install
        run: |
          npm install --ignore-scripts
 
      - name: Run tests
        run: |
          npm run unit
 
  test-types:
    timeout-minutes: 30
    runs-on: 'ubuntu-latest'
    permissions:
      contents: read
 
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v7
        with:
          persist-credentials: false
 
      - uses: nodesource/setup-nsolid@1ca68d2589d3d56ecd3881dfe6ffa87eeda9c939 # v1.0.1
        with:
          node-version: 20
          nsolid-version: 5
 
      - name: Install
        run: |
          npm install --ignore-scripts
 
      - name: Run type tests
        run: |
          npm run test:types
        env:
          NODE_OPTIONS: no-network-family-autoselection
 
  package:
    timeout-minutes: 30
    needs:
      - test-types
      - test-unit
    runs-on: latchkey-small
    permissions:
      contents: read
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v7
        with:
          persist-credentials: false
      - uses: nodesource/setup-nsolid@1ca68d2589d3d56ecd3881dfe6ffa87eeda9c939 # v1.0.1
        with:
          nsolid-version: 5
      - name: install fastify
        run: |
          npm install --ignore-scripts
      - name: install webpack stack
        run: |
          cd test/bundler/webpack && npm install
      - name: Test webpack bundle
        run: |
          cd test/bundler/webpack && npm run test
      - name: install esbuild stack
        run: |
          cd test/bundler/esbuild && npm install
      - name: Test esbuild bundle
        run: |
          cd test/bundler/esbuild && npm run test

What changed

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Add a job timeout so a hung step cannot burn hours of runner time.

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

This workflow runs 3 jobs (5 with the matrix expanded) 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