Setup-node Alternatives

setup-node reviews and mentions

• Run your GitHub Actions locally
  10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 May 2025

  I use this for work - but there are edge cases all over the place that I keep running into (e.g. Yarn being installed on Github-hosted runners, but not self-hosted ones or act - https://github.com/actions/setup-node/issues/182)

  Apart from that it's been quite good!

• Building Efficient Node.js Workflows in GitHub Actions: Leveraging Caching and Modular Job Structures
  5 projects | dev.to | 8 Nov 2024

  What is actions/checkout and actions/setup-node

• CI/CI deploy a static website to AWS S3 bucket through Github Actions
  5 projects | dev.to | 22 Dec 2023

  Setup environment with Nodejs and install dependencies with npm install, with Github Actions setup Node

• VSCodium – Libre Open Source Software Binaries of VS Code
  10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Sep 2023

  No, PR review isn't the only thing that prevents these from being updated. In the yml it's set to a release branch. So it isn't especially fallible.

  https://github.com/actions/setup-node/tree/releases/v2

• Disable Annotations in Github Actions
  5 projects | dev.to | 3 Sep 2023
• A guide to using act with GitHub Actions
  5 projects | dev.to | 23 Mar 2023

  ➜ getting-started-with-act git:(master) act -j build WARN ⚠ You are using Apple M1 chip and you have not specified container architecture, you might encounter issues while running act. If so, try running it with '--container-architecture linux/amd64'. ⚠ [Node.js CI/build] 🚀 Start image=node:16-buster-slim [Node.js CI/build] 🐳 docker pull image=node:16-buster-slim platform= username= forcePull=false [Node.js CI/build] 🐳 docker create image=node:16-buster-slim platform= entrypoint=["tail" "-f" "/dev/null"] cmd=[] [Node.js CI/build] 🐳 docker run image=node:16-buster-slim platform= entrypoint=["tail" "-f" "/dev/null"] cmd=[] [Node.js CI/build] ☁ git clone 'https://github.com/actions/setup-node' # ref=v3 [Node.js CI/build] ☁ git clone 'https://github.com/actions/cache' # ref=v3 [Node.js CI/build] ☁ git clone 'https://github.com/actions/upload-artifact' # ref=v3 [Node.js CI/build] ⭐ Run Main actions/checkout@v3 [Node.js CI/build] 🐳 docker cp src=/Users/andrewevans/Documents/projects/getting-started-with-act/. dst=/Users/andrewevans/Documents/projects/getting-started-with-act [Node.js CI/build] ✅ Success - Main actions/checkout@v3 [Node.js CI/build] ⭐ Run Main Use Node.js 16.x [Node.js CI/build] 🐳 docker cp src=/Users/andrewevans/.cache/act/actions-setup-node@v3/ dst=/var/run/act/actions/actions-setup-node@v3/ [Node.js CI/build] 🐳 docker exec cmd=[node /var/run/act/actions/actions-setup-node@v3/dist/setup/index.js] user= workdir= [Node.js CI/build] 💬 ::debug::isExplicit: [Node.js CI/build] 💬 ::debug::explicit? false

• Cheap Gatsby/Netlify-style Hosting?
  1 project | /r/gatsbyjs | 8 Oct 2022

  steps: # Check out the current repository code - uses: actions/checkout@v3 # 3. https://github.com/actions/setup-node#usage - name: Setup node and build Gatsby uses: actions/setup-node@v1 with: node-version: '16.x' cache: 'npm' - run: npm install # This triggers `gatsby build` script in "package.json" - run: npm run build # 4. Deploy the gatsby build to Netlify - name: Deploy to netlify uses: netlify/actions/cli@master env: NETLIFY_AUTH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.NETLIFY_AUTH_TOKEN }} NETLIFY_SITE_ID: ${{ secrets.NETLIFY_SITE_ID }} with: # 5. "gatsby build" creates "public" folder, which is what we are deploying args: deploy --dir=public --prod secrets: '["NETLIFY_AUTH_TOKEN", "NETLIFY_SITE_ID"]'

• 5 Ways to make development with GitHub Actions more efficient
  2 projects | dev.to | 27 Sep 2022

  If you see repeated build or preparation steps that do not change when your codebase changes, look into caching the results. Here is a straightforward guide to caching, but also be aware caching is built into a lot of marketplace actions anyway, e.g. actions/setup-node can cache npm dependencies.

• 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.

• The strongest principle of the blog's growth lies in the human choice to deploy it
  14 projects | dev.to | 3 Sep 2022
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