Surprising behavior from the Github Action

[patricklafrance]

Hello!

We are experiencing a surprising behavior with the Official Retype Github Action that we use to deploy our website to Github Pages.

Our website is still on Retype v3.2.0 as you can see here on our main branch but after we merged a PR (that is not upgrading Retype to v3.3.0) our website now has a breadcrumb.

I am therefore wondering if the Github Action automatically use the latest version of Retype even if the website project is not targeting Retype latest version?

We are using fix versioning:

    "devDependencies": {
        "retypeapp": "3.2.0"
    }

Thank you,

Patrick

[geoffreymcgill]

Retype does not read or otherwise use the package.json file.

In your retype-action.yml file, the Retype build is configured to use the latest release of Retype:

https://github.com/gsoft-inc/wl-web-configs/blob/main/.github/workflows/retype-action.yml#L19

- uses: retypeapp/action-build@latest

Hope this helps.

[patricklafrance]

Oh, I blindly copied the documentation hehe thank you.

Are you aware if there's a way to use the package.json version of retypeapp instead?

For security reason, we usually do not install automatically the latest version of a dependency.

[geoffreymcgill]

You can point to a specific version in the retype-action.yml:

- uses: retypeapp/action-build@v3.2

Even @v3 would work, if you want to limit to minor version releases.

Are you aware if there's a way to use the package.json version of retypeapp instead?

No, nothing built into Retype, but you could create a custom action that read the version from package.json and updated the - uses: retypeapp/action-build@v<version-here> in your retype-action.yml.

Hope this helps.

[patricklafrance]

Thanks for the help, appreciated. We will probably develop a custom action.