release-alpha.yml

name: Release alpha version on demand
on:
  workflow_dispatch:
    inputs:
      branch:
        description: 'Branch to release from'
        required: true
        default: 'main'
jobs:
  release-alpha:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    container:
      image: cypress/browsers:node-18.16.0-chrome-112.0.5615.121-1-ff-112.0.1-edge-112.0.1722.48-1
      # https://github.com/cypress-io/github-action#firefox Cypress FF image needs this user permissions to be able to install dependencies
      options: --user 1001

    steps:
      # Use GitHub App token as a workaround to allow bypassing branch-protection rules
      # https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/13836#discussioncomment-8535364
      - uses: actions/create-github-app-token@v1
        id: app-token
        with:
          app-id: ${{ vars.GH_TOKENS_APP_ID }}
          private-key: ${{ secrets.GH_TOKENS_APP_PRIVATE_KEY }}

      - name: checkout repository
        uses: actions/checkout@v4
        with:
          token: ${{ steps.app-token.outputs.token }}
          fetch-depth: 0

      # Install pnpm because it is not included in our container image
      - name: install pnpm
        uses: pnpm/action-setup@v2
        with:
          version: 8

      - name: install dependencies
        run: pnpm install

      - name: execute release-alpha action
        uses: ./.github/actions/release-alpha
        with:
          npm_token: ${{ secrets.NPM_TOKEN_GRANULAR_ACCESS }}
          github_token: ${{ steps.app-token.outputs.token }}