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Unit tests workflow (huggingface/transformers.js)

The Unit tests workflow from huggingface/transformers.js, explained and optimized by Latchkey.

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Source: huggingface/transformers.js.github/workflows/tests.ymlLicense Apache-2.0View source

What it does

This is the Unit tests workflow from the huggingface/transformers.js 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)
name: Unit tests

on:
  push:
    branches:
      - main
  pull_request:
    branches:
      - main
    types:
      - opened
      - reopened
      - synchronize
      - ready_for_review

env:
  TESTING_REMOTELY: true
  ONNXRUNTIME_NODE_INSTALL: skip

jobs:
  build:
    if: github.event.pull_request.draft == false
    runs-on:
      group: aws-general-8-plus
    strategy:
      matrix:
        node-version: [18, 20, 22]

    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@de0fac2e4500dabe0009e67214ff5f5447ce83dd  # v6.0.2
      - name: Install pnpm
        uses: pnpm/action-setup@b906affcce14559ad1aafd4ab0e942779e9f58b1  # v4
      - name: Use Node.js ${{ matrix.node-version }}
        uses: actions/setup-node@53b83947a5a98c8d113130e565377fae1a50d02f  # v6
        with:
          node-version: ${{ matrix.node-version }}
          cache: "pnpm"
      - run: pnpm install --frozen-lockfile
      - run: pnpm build

      # Setup the testing environment
      - run: git lfs install && GIT_CLONE_PROTECTION_ACTIVE=false git clone https://huggingface.co/hf-internal-testing/tiny-random-T5ForConditionalGeneration ./packages/transformers/models/hf-internal-testing/tiny-random-T5ForConditionalGeneration

      # Actually run tests
      - run: pnpm test

The same workflow, on Latchkey

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name: Unit tests
 
on:
  push:
    branches:
      - main
  pull_request:
    branches:
      - main
    types:
      - opened
      - reopened
      - synchronize
      - ready_for_review
 
env:
  TESTING_REMOTELY: true
  ONNXRUNTIME_NODE_INSTALL: skip
 
concurrency:
  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}
  cancel-in-progress: true
 
jobs:
  build:
    timeout-minutes: 30
    if: github.event.pull_request.draft == false
    runs-on:
      group: aws-general-8-plus
    strategy:
      matrix:
        node-version: [18, 20, 22]
 
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@de0fac2e4500dabe0009e67214ff5f5447ce83dd  # v6.0.2
      - name: Install pnpm
        uses: pnpm/action-setup@b906affcce14559ad1aafd4ab0e942779e9f58b1  # v4
      - name: Use Node.js ${{ matrix.node-version }}
        uses: actions/setup-node@53b83947a5a98c8d113130e565377fae1a50d02f  # v6
        with:
          node-version: ${{ matrix.node-version }}
          cache: "pnpm"
      - run: pnpm install --frozen-lockfile
      - run: pnpm build
 
      # Setup the testing environment
      - run: git lfs install && GIT_CLONE_PROTECTION_ACTIVE=false git clone https://huggingface.co/hf-internal-testing/tiny-random-T5ForConditionalGeneration ./packages/transformers/models/hf-internal-testing/tiny-random-T5ForConditionalGeneration
 
      # Actually run tests
      - run: pnpm test

What changed

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:

This workflow runs 1 job (3 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 pnpm/action-setup actions/setup-node