Conditions are used to control job or step execution and are defined by if YAML key like this: jobs: first-job: if: ${{ github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch' }} #<---- conditions runs-on: ubuntu-latest steps: - name: Checkout ...
Workflow_call vs. workflow_dispatch vs. repository_dispatch and how it affects execution
And how to avoid dispatch payload limit of 65k
There is a limit of ten inputs on the number of inputs you can send when dispatching a GitHub workflow. The maximum number of top-level properties for inputs is 10. However, with highly parameterized workflows, I quickly hit the limit. In my case...
In the last article in this series I mentioned that by switching from reusable workflows to dispatching we can lost some navigation clarity. Dispatched workflow has no connection about its dispatcher, so it might be difficult to search what dispatche...
And how to get around it
If you have multiple runners available (like 20 concurrent jobs on the GitHub Free tier), you can speed up end-to-end tests by easily distributing them across these runners. Easily with Playwright for example, but more on that later. Things are a bit...
