🤔 What's your favorite GitHub Action of 2021? 💡

[parthd24]

1. What's your favorite action and why? Link to it here!
2. What type of Action is missing from the GitHub Marketplace?🤔

[imjohnbo]

A couple I like and depend on are:

• https://github.com/actions/stale for keeping issues current
• https://github.com/JasonEtco/build-and-tag-action for publishing minified actions
• https://github.com/tibdex/github-app-token for using GitHub App installation access tokens in place of the built-in ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

Meta: I always find interesting actions in sdras/awesome-actions!

[JamesMGreene]

actions/github-script has always been great but the recently added feature allowing us to require other Node modules (local or installed via npm) has made it invaluable in writing more advanced workflow steps.

This is especially true when sharing modules between workflows and locally executed scripts on developer machines. 💡

[Animesh-Ghosh]

I like this one for community engagement: https://github.com/Bhupesh-V/memer-action
Full disclosure: I know the maintainer IRL so may be a bit biased.

[srivatsamarichi]

Useful action when you are working along with work items and Azure DevOps.

Update work item state when Pull Request is merged

[Animesh-Ghosh]

Is there something similar for JIRA issues automation?

[jramirez857]

I found this GitHub Action for thanking contributors to repositories. I love this one because it can help with encouraging contribution in open source. I'd really like to see something similar for thanking python packages in a requirements.txt file.