README.md

Dev-Box

Pinnable dynamic Gist with your latest Dev.to post!

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Dev-Box is a simple GitHub Action built to make dynamic Gist displaying your latest post from Dev.to

🎉 Usage

To start, you need to prepare some things:

• Create a new public GitHub Gist at https://gist.github.com/

• Create an Access Token with the gist scope and save it. You can do that at https://github.com/settings/tokens/new

After getting this done:

• Fork this repository.

• Go to your fork's Settings > Secrets page add the following secrets:

  • DEVTO_USERNAME - Your username from Dev.to
  • GH_TOKEN - The access token you saved earlier.
  • GIST_ID - The ID of your newly created public Gist.

  It will look like this:
  https://gist.github.com/RangerDigital/d1b79f73d3e5a2420ed370b0059dba42.

• Delete a .github/workflows/schedule.yml file.

• Create a .github/workflows/dev-box.yml file like this:

name: Update GitHub Gist with Dev-box!

on:
  schedule:
    - cron: '*/10 * * * *'

jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@master

      - name: Update latest post from Dev.to
        uses: rangerdigital/dev-box@master
        with:
          GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GH_TOKEN }}
          GIST_ID: ${{ secrets.GIST_ID }}
          DEVTO_USERNAME: ${{ secrets.DEVTO_USERNAME }}

That's It!
Now every 10 minutes dev-box.yml workflow will update your Gist.

🚧 Contributing

You are more than welcome to help me improve Dev-Box!

Just fork this project from the master branch and submit a Pull Request (PR).

📃 License

This project is licensed under GPL-3.0 .