--- title: "How to Build Your First JavaScript GitHub Action" url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-build-your-first-javascript-github-action-cw2ipdw4c source_url: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/build-your-first-javascript-github-action/ type: article source: "freeCodeCamp" published: 2022-01-10T17:48:46.320Z updated: 2022-01-10T17:48:46.326Z tags: ["javascript", "github"] reading_time: 10 upvotes: 16 comments: 1 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # How to Build Your First JavaScript GitHub Action **[freeCodeCamp](https://daily.dev/sources/freecodecamp)** · 10 min read · 16 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary GitHub Actions are custom code that you can include in a workflow job as a step to accomplish a task. An action can publish your code to a package manager like npm or yarn. It can also integrate with an SMS service provider to alert you when an urgent issue is created in your repo. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@mrakcw** · 0 upvotes > Top ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#javascript](https://daily.dev/tags/javascript), [#github](https://daily.dev/tags/github) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-build-your-first-javascript-github-action-cw2ipdw4c)