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by tailspin2019 1861 days ago
> The portability could be fixed by having a local cli runner that understand action yamls. Would be interesting to explore this.

This is a great idea. I guess the challenge would be keeping up with the more advanced aspects of Actions, eg. spinning up multiple VMs during the build process and other things that have a heavy infrastructure (or platform-specific) element.

I'm currently caught by the GitHub Actions downtime, but like the GP, all my build scripts generally make very light use of the platform-specific features and generally I keep most of the build logic in a build.sh file.

So I can build production builds locally if I need to - but a CLI that lets you "properly" run the GitHub yml files locally would be very interesting.