---
title: "5 automations every developer should be running"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/5-automations-every-developer-should-be-running-xfxienpkr
source_url: https://github.blog/2021-12-16-5-automations-every-developer-should-be-running/
type: article
source: "GitHub Blog"
published: 2021-12-16T17:09:49.263Z
updated: 2026-03-15T04:59:24.979Z
tags: ["general-programming", "github", "security", "testing", "webdev"]
reading_time: 5
upvotes: 88
comments: 4
language: en
---

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# 5 automations every developer should be running

**[GitHub Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/ghblog)** · 5 min read · 88 upvotes · 4 comments

## Summary

GitHub Actions offers thousands of pre-written, community-built tests and automations that range from code quality to code review to testing. CodeQL finds security advisories across coding languages and packages, and then automatically displays them in your repository’s security tab. Run npm test in your workflows to push the latest and greatest software.

## Full article

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## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@irongut** · 0 upvotes

> Running npm test or Lighthouse tests will not help me writing mobile apps or back end microservices. This is not automations for every developer but "5 automations Node.js devs should be running". 👎

**@yusafcraft** · 0 upvotes

> Thankyou

**@astrogeek77** · 0 upvotes

> Nice Article

**@ghost** · 0 upvotes

> CodeQL and using GitHub Actions works well!

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