We write plain JavaScript for the entrypoint of GitHub Actions in action/index.js. It becomes bad in terms of developer experience and more prone to easy bugs, as the code gets bigger.
For instance, #319 could have been detected with the type checker if we had written it in TypeScript.
One possible approach to tackle this issue would be to rewrite action/index.js in TypeScript and convert it to Node.js compatible JavaScript using dnt. This way we'd be able to take advantage of type checking during development.
We write plain JavaScript for the entrypoint of GitHub Actions in
action/index.js. It becomes bad in terms of developer experience and more prone to easy bugs, as the code gets bigger. For instance, #319 could have been detected with the type checker if we had written it in TypeScript.One possible approach to tackle this issue would be to rewrite
action/index.jsin TypeScript and convert it to Node.js compatible JavaScript using dnt. This way we'd be able to take advantage of type checking during development.