Running GitHub Actions Locally with act: 5x Faster Development
GitHub Actions are powerful for automating bioinformatics pipelines, but waiting 5-10 minutes for each cloud run is painful during development. act lets you run GitHub Actions workflows locally on your machine in seconds, slashing feedback time by 5x.
In this post, we'll explore act, a command-line tool that runs GitHub Actions locally using Docker. Perfect for testing ML pipelines, gene expression analysis, and CI/CD workflows before pushing to GitHub.