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nox workflow (partcad/partcad)

The nox workflow from partcad/partcad, explained and optimized by Latchkey.

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Source: partcad/partcad.github/workflows/nox.ymlLicense Apache-2.0View source

What it does

This is the nox workflow from the partcad/partcad repository, a real project running GitHub Actions. It is shown here with attribution under its Apache-2.0 license.

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The workflow

workflow (.yml)
# Minimalistic workflow to build the VS Code extension
# TODO(clairbee): build the extension as part of the "build" and "deploy" workflows
name: nox

on:
  workflow_dispatch:
  push:
    branches:
      - main
      - devel
  pull_request:
    branches:
      - devel

jobs:
  build:
    strategy:
      matrix:
        os: [ubuntu-24.04]
        python-version: ["3.12"]
    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
    steps:
      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - uses: ./.github/actions/setup-all

      - name: Install prerequisites
        shell: bash
        run: |
          sudo apt-get -q update || exit 1
          sudo apt-get -q install -y \
            libxml2-dev libxslt-dev \
            libtiff5-dev libjpeg-dev libopenjp2-7-dev zlib1g-dev \
            libfreetype6-dev liblcms2-dev libwebp-dev tcl8.6-dev tk8.6-dev \
            python3-tk libharfbuzz-dev libfribidi-dev libxcb1-dev
      - name: install dependencies
        run: pip install --upgrade attrs
      - working-directory: partcad-ide-vscode
        run: python -m pip install nox
      - working-directory: partcad-ide-vscode
        run: nox --session setup
      - working-directory: partcad-ide-vscode
        run: nox --session build_package
      # TODO(clairbee): run VSCode tests (that depend on the PartCAD Python module)

The same workflow, on Latchkey

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# Minimalistic workflow to build the VS Code extension
# TODO(clairbee): build the extension as part of the "build" and "deploy" workflows
name: nox
 
on:
  workflow_dispatch:
  push:
    branches:
      - main
      - devel
  pull_request:
    branches:
      - devel
 
concurrency:
  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}
  cancel-in-progress: true
 
jobs:
  build:
    timeout-minutes: 30
    strategy:
      matrix:
        os: [ubuntu-24.04]
        python-version: ["3.12"]
    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
    steps:
      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - uses: ./.github/actions/setup-all
 
      - name: Install prerequisites
        shell: bash
        run: |
          sudo apt-get -q update || exit 1
          sudo apt-get -q install -y \
            libxml2-dev libxslt-dev \
            libtiff5-dev libjpeg-dev libopenjp2-7-dev zlib1g-dev \
            libfreetype6-dev liblcms2-dev libwebp-dev tcl8.6-dev tk8.6-dev \
            python3-tk libharfbuzz-dev libfribidi-dev libxcb1-dev
      - name: install dependencies
        run: pip install --upgrade attrs
      - working-directory: partcad-ide-vscode
        run: python -m pip install nox
      - working-directory: partcad-ide-vscode
        run: nox --session setup
      - working-directory: partcad-ide-vscode
        run: nox --session build_package
      # TODO(clairbee): run VSCode tests (that depend on the PartCAD Python module)

What changed

What Latchkey heals here

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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