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• GitHub workflows tips and tricks
  3 projects | dev.to | 28 Aug 2025
• Semantic Versioning using GitVersion YAML file for your .NET, Java, and Kotlin projects' CI/CD
  7 projects | dev.to | 3 Dec 2024

  name: Java Build and Test With Gradle on: [push, pull_request, workflow_dispatch] jobs: build: runs-on: ubuntu-latest permissions: contents: read steps: - name: Checkout uses: actions/checkout@v4.2.2 with: fetch-depth: 0 - name: Set up JDK 23 uses: actions/setup-java@v4.5.0 #https://github.com/actions/setup-java with: java-version: '23' distribution: 'oracle' - name: Install GitVersion 6.0.5 for Gradle run: | wget -q -O gitversion.tar.gz https://github.com/GitTools/GitVersion/releases/download/6.0.5/gitversion-linux-x64-6.0.5.tar.gz mkdir gitversion_extracted tar -xzf gitversion.tar.gz -C gitversion_extracted ls -R gitversion_extracted sudo mv gitversion_extracted/gitversion /usr/local/bin/gitversion sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/gitversion - name: Setup Gradle 8.11.1 uses: gradle/actions/setup-gradle@v4 #https://github.com/gradle/actions/blob/main/docs/setup-gradle.md#build-with-a-specific-gradle-version with: gradle-version: '8.11.1' - name: Build with Gradle 8.11.1 run: gradle build --scan --warning-mode all dependency-submission: # See: https://github.com/gradle/actions/blob/main/dependency-submission/README.md runs-on: ubuntu-latest permissions: contents: write steps: - name: Checkout uses: actions/checkout@v4.2.2 - name: Set up JDK 23 uses: actions/setup-java@v4.5.0 with: java-version: '23' distribution: 'oracle' - name: Setup Gradle 8.11.1 uses: gradle/actions/setup-gradle@v4 with: gradle-version: '8.11.1' - name: Setup Gradle Wrapper run: gradle wrapper - name: Generate and submit dependency graph uses: gradle/actions/dependency-submission@v4

• Disable Annotations in Github Actions
  5 projects | dev.to | 3 Sep 2023
• Using Github Actions to publish your Flutter APP to Firebase App Distribution
  5 projects | dev.to | 4 Jan 2023

  Then, we have two important initial steps to define. The first one is an official GitHub Action used to check-out a repository so a workflow can access it. The second one it's pretty more complex but, briefly, downloads and set up a requested version of Java.

• Top 10 GitHub Actions You Should Use to set up your CI/CD Pipeline
  5 projects | dev.to | 12 Sep 2022

  The most popular ones are Node.js, Python, Java JDK, Go, .Net Core SDK.

• My summary of jPrime 2022
  4 projects | dev.to | 30 May 2022

  Finally, note that the v2 of setup-java GitHub Action limits the possible JDK distributions to four options. If you need to use one that is not listed, use foojayio/setup-java instead to configure any distribution.

• Upgrade to Gradle JDK 11 on Github Actions
  1 project | dev.to | 21 Feb 2022

  See https://github.com/actions/setup-java for more configuration regarding distribution, version and caching.

• Github action to download and install Oracle JDK and OpenJDK (including EA) builds.
  2 projects | /r/java | 13 Feb 2022

  Why can't Oracle just integrate with https://github.com/actions/setup-java like everyone else?

• Deploying to GitHub Pages using GitHub Actions
  10 projects | dev.to | 25 Jan 2022

  Next up we'll need to add a step to compile our production ready build. For this we can add two new steps, one which configures our Node version to ensure it matches our application, followed by another that runs the necessary commands with npm. Depending on how your application is built you may need to add another step between these to install any sort of required environments such as Python or Java.

• JaCoCo coverage badges, PR coverage checks, and PR coverage comments, from GitHub Actions
  6 projects | dev.to | 29 Nov 2021

  Set up the JDK with the actions/setup-java GitHub Action.

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