✍️ Cache your actions

src/blog/2023-05-03-run-all-your-tests-concurrently.md → src/blog/2024-05-03-run-all-your-tests-concurrently.md

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 title:  Run all your tests concurrently
-date:   2024-05-04
+date:   2024-05-03
 description: Find out how you can fail-fast every CI check, letting your developers fix every test at the same time
 tags:
     - github-action

src/blog/2024-05-06-cache-your-actions.md

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+---
+title:  "Cache your actions"
+permalink: "/blog/cache-your-actions.html"
+date:   2024-05-06
+description: |
+    If your actions have a long installation step (or very big node_modules) you can cache the installation step using the GitHub action actions/cache
+tags:
+    - github-action
+---
+If your actions have a long installation step (or very big `node_modules`) you can cache the installation step using the GitHub action [`actions/cache`](https://github.com/actions/cache).
+
+This is very useful for cases where you use a [matrix to run multiple tests](../run-all-your-tests-concurrently).
+
+![](https://media4.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExOTBqbThwcnI5a3R3NHJ3ZzdwZ3ZjNXc0ZnM1bHBqM3JoeHhqanN6byZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfYnlfaWQmY3Q9Zw/WSy0SI6qipEDJogaGD/giphy.gif)
+
+They have a lot of [implementation examples](https://github.com/actions/cache/blob/main/examples.md), but they all follow the same logic.
+
+### Find out where your package manager downloads the artifacts
+There are step by step instructions for most popular package manager. For example, you can obtain `npm`’s cache by having the following step:
+
+{% raw %}
+```yaml
+- name: Get npm cache directory
+  id: npm-cache-dir
+  shell: bash
+  run: echo "dir=$(npm config get cache)" >> ${GITHUB_OUTPUT}
+```
+
+In the case of this action, the cache gets store into the `steps.npm-cache-dir.outputs.dir` variable.
+
+### Restoring the cache
+After you know where your cache is located, you can restore it by using the `actions/cache` action:
+
+```yaml
+- uses: actions/cache@v4
+  with:
+    path: ${{ steps.npm-cache-dir.outputs.dir }} # Cache variable
+    key: ${{ runner.os }}-node-${{ hashFiles('**/package-lock.json') }}
+    restore-keys: |
+      ${{ runner.os }}-node-
+```
+{% endraw %}
+
+We only want to restore the cache when the packages changed, so we set the `key` variable to use the hashed `package-lock.json`.
+
+We also don’t want to cache the dependencies for a different OS, so we add to the `key` variable the name of the OS.
+
+![](https://media4.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExOXY1bG82eW8zMTU4YTE1OWFrNzdxZWZmY242c2xkOHh1ZTc3eTFsayZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfYnlfaWQmY3Q9Zw/MD0ZifiS7yQXCOwDGM/giphy.gif)
+
+And that’s all! Now you can cache all your actions.
+
+Remember to [checkout the examples for your specific package manager](https://github.com/actions/cache/blob/main/examples.md).![](#)