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Guard your open-sourced Flutter app with GitHub Actions
Release with confidence even when that magical “Steve” is on vacation.
4 min readOct 14, 2019
Background = boss.says(“release”).then(???).catch(err) { print “No, we cannot because Steve is on vacation” } …
Let’s first get the definitions out of the way
- Flutter: a young cross-platform framework.
- GitHub Actions: GitHub’s homebrew CI/CD platform.
- Guard: you don’t need a magical “Steve” to approve every pull request. Instead, it will happen automagically.
Flutter + GitHub Actions == long-term productivity
Note: it’s not === because I’m not JS kind of person
- Flutter, among all cross-platform frameworks, doesn’t have the shortest zero to MVP time but has the shortest zero to product time.
- GitHub Actions, among all CI/CD platforms, doesn’t have the most built-in magic but has the best componentization and flexibility.
Enough for the background, let’s build the guard for our Flutter project!
Note: I will demonstrate the GitHub Actions workflow using a small demo Flutter app I wrote before. Feel free to check out the code here:
