npm version package-lock.json caching issue in GitHub Actions - npm

My trigger in the GitHub Actions workflow is when we have a new tag, then deploy the tag to the desired environment.
So, running npm version prerelease will trigger the workflow.
The problem is when I try to use cache I see that the version in package.json and package-lock.json are always changed so I can't use real cache here.
How can I continue working with npm version and get the benefits of caching?
- uses: actions/checkout#v2
- name: Cache node modules
id: cache-nodemodules
uses: actions/cache#v2
env:
cache-name: cache-node-modules-preview
with:
# caching node_modules
path: node_modules
key: ${{ runner.os }}-preview-${{ env.cache-name }}-${{ hashFiles('**/package-lock.json') }}
restore-keys: |
${{ runner.os }}-preview-${{ env.cache-name }}-
${{ runner.os }}-preview-
- name: Install Dependencies app
if: steps.cache-nodemodules.outputs.cache-hit != 'true'
run: npm ci --legacy-peer-deps
- name: build
run: npm run build

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lerna publish push to npm, but not updating dependencies

My Monorepo is currently managed by Lerna.js.
It all works fine except for the GitHub actions workflow I use to automate the npm publishing.
The situation is as follows:
I update packages/types-lib, then update packages/server with new types.
Upon completion, I push everything to GitHub, and the action is bumping packages/types-lib version.
However, it does not update the packages/types-lib listed in packages/server as a dependency.
Locally, it works, but not in the workflow...
Here is my workflow code:
name: Publish To NPM
on:
push:
branches:
- main
jobs:
publish:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- name: "Checkout"
uses: actions/checkout#v2
with:
fetch-depth: 0
- name: "Use NodeJS 16.14.2"
uses: actions/setup-node#v2
with:
node-version: '16.14.2'
- name: "Setup npm"
run: |
npm set #pastelabs:registry=https://registry.npmjs.org/
npm set "//registry.npmjs.org/:_authToken=${{ secrets.NPM_TOKEN }}"
- name: Install dependencies
run: |
yarn install --frozen-lockfile
yarn lerna bootstrap
- name: Run builds # Run build of all packages
run: yarn lerna run build
- name: Run tests # Run tests of all packages
run: yarn lerna run test
- name: "Version and publish to NPM" # Interesting step
env:
NPM_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.NPM_TOKEN }}
run: |
git config user.name "${{ github.actor }}"
git config user.email "${{ github.actor}}#users.noreply.github.com"
if [ ${{ github.base_ref }} = develop ]; then
npx --yarn lerna version patch --exact --no-private --conventional-commits --conventional-prerelease --preid beta --yes
else
npx --yarn lerna version patch --exact --no-private --conventional-commits --conventional-graduate --yes
fi
npx --yarn lerna publish from-git --yes --exact

Increase the NPM Package version automatically

I am creating my own NPM packages for the first time. For each commit, 1/ The package version should increase on the NPM registry, 2/ Update the package.json file in the github repository.
.github/workflows/publish.yml
on:
push:
branches:
- main
env:
version: 0
jobs:
build:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
permissions:
contents: read
packages: write
steps:
- uses: AutoModality/action-clean#v1
- uses: actions/checkout#v2
with:
ref: 'main'
fetch-depth: 0
- uses: actions/setup-node#v2
with:
node-version: 12
registry-url: https://npm.pkg.github.com/
scope: "#nandhirajan-tfi"
- run: echo "version=$(npm show #nandhirajan-tfi/my-package version)" >> $GITHUB_ENV
- run: npm version ${{env.version}} --no-git-tag-version --allow-same-version
- run: npm install
- run: npm build
- run: npm version patch -m "[RELEASE] %s" --no-git-tag-version --allow-same-version
- run: npm publish
env:
credentials: ${{secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN}}
GitHub Actions Output:
The above log says that the npm publish command has updated the NPM Version to 1.11.18. But the changes are not reflecting on the NPM registry.
Any help would be appreciated.
First of all you need to retrieve your package.json version. You can use the action ga-project-version for that.
Example:
name: release
on:
push:
branches: [ main ]
jobs:
build:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout#v2
# This is how you use the ga-project-version action
- name: Get version of the project
id: project-version
uses: 'euberdeveloper/ga-project-version#main'
# In this step the exposed version is used as tag of a github release to publish
- name: Add release
uses: "marvinpinto/action-automatic-releases#latest"
with:
repo_token: "${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}"
# This is how you access the exposed version
automatic_release_tag: "${{ steps.project-version.outputs.version }}"
title: "Deploy"
files: |
backend.tar.gz
As you can see, you will have the version available in "${{ steps.project-version.outputs.version }}".
After that the question is with which logic you will augment your version, e.g. the simplest one would be increasing the last number, but it's not a good idea, it'd not be semver.
After that you can use your custom way to get the newer version by using the current one as input ("${{ steps.project-version.outputs.version }}"`).
After having the new version, just edit the package.json (e.g. sed command) to write the new version, and commit it (e.g. stefanzweifel/git-auto-commit-action action).
In the end you can publish your npm package from the github action (follow this link)

Issue in caching dependencies in github actions

I am trying to use the shard option in jest to run my tests in parallel across multiple runners.
But before I can do this on CI - I have to do some other steps like checkout codebase, install dependencies in the specific job running the test.
Problem statement - I want to avoid installing dependencies for each shard of test running.
I searched around the internet and found that I cannot do this in another preceding job because each job starts fresh in its own container.
Hence I wrote something like this:
run_tests:
runs-on: [self-hosted]
name: Run Tests
continue-on-error: false
strategy:
matrix:
shard: [1, 2, 3, 4]
steps:
- name: Checkout Codebase
uses: actions/checkout-action#v2
- name: Use Node v14.15.1
uses: actions/setup-node#v1
with:
node-version: 14.15.1
- name: Cache NPM dependencies
id: npmCacheStep
uses: actions/cache#v2
with:
path: ~/.npm
key: ${{ runner.OS }}-npm-cache-${{ hashFiles('**/package-lock.json') }}
restore-keys: |
${{ runner.OS }}-npm-cache-
- name: Install Dependencies
if: steps.npmCacheStep.outputs.cache-hit != 'true'
run: npm ci
- name: Run tests
run: npm run test -- --colors --coverage --shard=${{ matrix.shard }}/${{ strategy.job-total }}
To solve my problem statement, I'm saying that if it found a cache of npm dependencies - then don't install npm modules again as recommended at lots of places - https://docs.github.com/en/actions/using-workflows/caching-dependencies-to-speed-up-workflows
But when I try to run this
the npm install step is skipped (as expected)
I get the following error on github actions workflow logs:
I am trying this solution: Is there a way to speedup npm ci using cache?

Github action is showing error when there is a private repository in the package json

I have this line in the dependency section of package.json file.
"<repository>": "git+ssh://git#github.com:<userName>/<repository>"
I have setup ssh in my github account and when I do npm install locally, it works correctly. As a new requirement, I am using github actions to automate this workflow.
This is the part of the yml file
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout#v2
- name: webfactory/ssh-agent
uses: webfactory/ssh-agent#v0.5.3
with:
ssh-private-key: ${{ secrets.SSH_PRIVATE_KEY }}
- name: Set up Node Js version as ${{ matrix.node-version }}
uses: actions/setup-node#v1
with:
node-version: ${{ matrix.node-version }}
- name: Install The Dependencies
run: npm install
Install The Dependencies step is failing and this error is seen in github actions
npm ERR! /usr/bin/git ls-remote -h -t ssh://git#github.com/<username>/<repository>
npm ERR!
npm ERR! remote: Support for password authentication was removed on August 13, 2021. Please use a personal access token instead.
Thanks in advance for any solutions.
I think u can solve this buy publishing the repo, plz try that and let me know if it's worked

Github action npm publish use tag name

I'm migrating our existing Travis tasks to GH actions. For Travis the command below would publish to npm and use the release tag name for the npm version.
script: yarn npm-bundle && npm version $TRAVIS_BRANCH --allow-same-version -m
"chore - release version %s [skip ci]" --allow-empty
Unfortunately changing to the below doesn't work...
run: |
yarn npm-bundle && npm version ${{ github.event.release.tag_name }} --allow-same-version -m "chore - release version %s [skip ci]" --allow-empty
npm publish --access public --dry-run
Its obviously empty as npm is using the version from package.json. I've tried some other variables such as ${{ github.head_ref }}
also...
run: |
yarn npm-bundle -m "chore - release version %s [skip ci]" --allow-empty
npm publish --tag ${{ github.event.release.tag_name }} --allow-same-version --access public --dry-run
I have resolved the issue by refactoring to the following...
- uses: actions/setup-node#v1
with:
node-version: 14.15.0
registry-url: https://registry.npmjs.org/
- run: yarn install
- run: git config --global user.name "${{ github.actor }}"
- run: git config --global user.email "github-action-${{ github.actor }}#users.noreply.github.com"
- run: npm version ${{ github.event.release.tag_name }}
- run: yarn npm-bundle
- run: npm publish --access public
env:
NODE_AUTH_TOKEN: ${{secrets.NPM_TOKEN}}
You can use the npm-publish action in your workflow instead of the script you used in Travis.
If you look for more actions available with NPM, you can find them on thee Github Marketplace
For example here, you could use something like this in your workflow, adapting in with your context with other run step if you need to use yarn or other commands:
on: push
jobs:
publish:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout#v1
- uses: actions/setup-node#v1
with:
node-version: 10
- run: npm install
- run: npm test
- uses: JS-DevTools/npm-publish#v1
with:
token: ${{ secrets.NPM_TOKEN }}
tag: <your release tag name>
For more information regarding how this action work, check here.
Other Action
This other action (publish-to-npm) could be interesting as well if you want to check.