Publish Apps Script workflow (googleworkspace/apps-script-samples)

The Publish Apps Script workflow from googleworkspace/apps-script-samples, explained and optimized by Latchkey.

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Source: googleworkspace/apps-script-samples.github/workflows/publish.yamlLicense Apache-2.0View source

What it does

This is the Publish Apps Script workflow from the googleworkspace/apps-script-samples repository, a real project running GitHub Actions. It is shown here with attribution under its Apache-2.0 license.

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

The workflow

workflow (.yml)

# Copyright 2021 Google LLC
#
# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
# You may obtain a copy of the License at
#
#      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
#
# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
# limitations under the License.
---
name: Publish Apps Script
on:
  workflow_dispatch:
  push:
    branches:
      - main
jobs:
  publish:
    concurrency:
      group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.event.pull_request.number || github.sha }}-${{ github.head_ref || github.ref }}
      cancel-in-progress: true
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@1af3b93b6815bc44a9784bd300feb67ff0d1eeb3 # v6
      - uses: pnpm/action-setup@a7487c7e89a18df4991f7f222e4898a00d66ddda # v4.1.0
      - uses: actions/setup-node@a0853c24544627f65ddf259abe73b1d18a591444 # v5
        with:
          cache: "pnpm"
      - run: pnpm i
      - name: Get changed files
        id: changed-files
        uses: tj-actions/changed-files@v23.1
      - name: Write test credentials
        run: |
          echo "${CLASP_CREDENTIALS}" > "${HOME}/.clasprc.json"
        env:
          CLASP_CREDENTIALS: ${{secrets.CLASP_CREDENTIALS}}
      - run: pnpm install -g @google/clasp
      - run: ./.github/scripts/clasp_push.sh ${{ steps.changed-files.outputs.all_changed_files }}

The same workflow, on Latchkey

Removes redundant runs and caps runaway jobs. Added and changed lines are highlighted.

# Copyright 2021 Google LLC
#
# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
# You may obtain a copy of the License at
#
#      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
#
# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
# limitations under the License.
---
name: Publish Apps Script
on:
  workflow_dispatch:
  push:
    branches:
      - main
concurrency:
  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}
  cancel-in-progress: true
 
jobs:
  publish:
    timeout-minutes: 30
    concurrency:
      group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.event.pull_request.number || github.sha }}-${{ github.head_ref || github.ref }}
      cancel-in-progress: true
    runs-on: latchkey-small
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@1af3b93b6815bc44a9784bd300feb67ff0d1eeb3 # v6
      - uses: pnpm/action-setup@a7487c7e89a18df4991f7f222e4898a00d66ddda # v4.1.0
      - uses: actions/setup-node@a0853c24544627f65ddf259abe73b1d18a591444 # v5
        with:
          cache: "pnpm"
      - run: pnpm i
      - name: Get changed files
        id: changed-files
        uses: tj-actions/changed-files@v23.1
      - name: Write test credentials
        run: |
          echo "${CLASP_CREDENTIALS}" > "${HOME}/.clasprc.json"
        env:
          CLASP_CREDENTIALS: ${{secrets.CLASP_CREDENTIALS}}
      - run: pnpm install -g @google/clasp
      - run: ./.github/scripts/clasp_push.sh ${{ steps.changed-files.outputs.all_changed_files }}

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.
Cancel superseded runs when a branch or PR gets a newer push.
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.

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 1 job 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 pnpm/action-setup actions/setup-node tj-actions/changed-files