Creates a comment inside Pull Request with the human-readable summary of the changes to the package-lock.json
file. Works in public and private repositories and offers a few customization options.
The example below shows the minimal workflow setup and all the optional inputs for the action (set to their default values). If you are happy with the output generated by the action, it's safe to remove all optional inputs.
name: NPM Lockfile Changes
on: [pull_request]
jobs:
lockfile_changes:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
# Permission overwrite is required for Dependabot PRs, see "Common issues" below.
permissions:
pull-requests: write
steps:
- name: Checkout
uses: actions/checkout@v3
- name: NPM Lockfile Changes
uses: codepunkt/npm-lockfile-changes@main
with:
token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
# Optional inputs, can be deleted safely if you are happy with default values.
collapsibleThreshold: 25
failOnDowngrade: false
path: package-lock.json
updateComment: true
Input | Required | Default | Description |
---|---|---|---|
collapsibleThreshold |
No | 25 |
Number of lock changes, which will result in collapsed comment content and an addition of changes summary table. |
failOnDowngrade |
No | false |
When a dependency downgrade is detected, fail the action. Comment will still be posted. |
path |
No | package-lock.json |
Path to the package-lock.json file in the repository. Default value points to the file at project root. |
token |
Yes | – | Repository GITHUB_TOKEN which allows action to make calls to the GitHub API (Octokit). |
updateComment |
No | true |
Update the comment on each new commit. If value is set to false , bot will post a new comment on each change. |
Due to the security reasons from March 1st, 2021 workflow runs that are triggered by Dependabot have permissions reduced by default:
To ensure that sufficient permissions for this action are always granted, you will need to add permissions
entry to the job which runs npm-lockfile-changes
:
jobs:
...:
runs-on: ...
#####
permissions:
pull-requests: write
#####
steps: ...
To run action in the debug mode you need to add the ACTIONS_STEP_DEBUG
repository secret and set it to true
, as stated in the GitHub documentation.
Then additional information which might be useful for the users when debugging the issues will be available in the action output, prefixed by ##[debug]
.