Release workflow (remy/nodemon)

The Release workflow from remy/nodemon, explained and optimized by Latchkey.

What it does

This is the Release workflow from the remy/nodemon 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

name: Release
on:
  workflow_run:
    workflows: ["tests"]
    branches: [main]
    types:
      - completed

jobs:
  release:
    name: Release
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    # This line ensures the release ONLY runs if the 'tests' workflow passed
    if: ${{ github.event.workflow_run.conclusion == 'success' }}
    permissions:
      contents: write
      id-token: write
      issues: write
      pull-requests: write
    steps:
      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - name: Setup Node.js
        uses: actions/setup-node@v4
        with:
          cache: npm
          node-version: 24
      - name: Install dependencies
        run: npm ci
      - name: Release
        env:
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          # will now use the OIDC token automatically
        run: npx semantic-release

The same workflow, on Latchkey

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

name: Release
on:
  workflow_run:
    workflows: ["tests"]
    branches: [main]
    types:
      - completed
 
jobs:
  release:
    timeout-minutes: 30
    name: Release
    runs-on: latchkey-small
    # This line ensures the release ONLY runs if the 'tests' workflow passed
    if: ${{ github.event.workflow_run.conclusion == 'success' }}
    permissions:
      contents: write
      id-token: write
      issues: write
      pull-requests: write
    steps:
      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - name: Setup Node.js
        uses: actions/setup-node@v4
        with:
          cache: npm
          node-version: 24
      - name: Install dependencies
        run: npm ci
      - name: Release
        env:
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          # will now use the OIDC token automatically
        run: npx semantic-release
 

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.
• 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 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