Github Action - Comment Pull request

This github action comment an opened PR with a given message. You can also put reactions to the comment.

Inputs

• message : The message that you want display inside the comment.
• github token: The GITHUB_TOKEN secret. You can use the default ${{ secret.GITHUB_TOKEN }} to tag the message with the github-actions bot .
• reactions: A list of reactions separated by |
  • reaction suported : +1 | -1 | laugh | hooray | confused | heart | rocket | eyes

Example usage

on: [pull_request]
jobs:
build:
name: Comment a pull_request
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- name: Checkout
uses: actions/checkout@v2
- name: Comment a pull_request
uses: mb2dev/github-action-comment-pull-request@1.0.0
with:
message: "Hello, It's my first comment with Github action !"
GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
reactions: "+1 | -1 | laugh | hooray | confused | heart | rocket | eyes"

See exeamples in openedPR !

Message

If you want to pass variable inside a message, you must remove the double quotes :

with:
message: message ${{ secrets.GITHUB_VARIABLE }}

You can also format your message on several line like that :

with:
message: |
message:
${{ secrets.GITHUB_VARIABLE }}

Build

To build the project, you must run the cmd :

$ npm run build

The build transpile the typescript src/main.ts into the lib/main.js that is used inside the Docker container.