Starting Github Action Workflows From Observable
4 min readDec 27, 2021
Using Observable as the front end for Github Actions is a great way to provide a nice interface without the hassle of hosting anything. Recently I developed a notebook library that allows authenticated and unauthenticated users to kick off Action workflow via a repository dispatch.
A repository dispatch triggers Github Action workflows via an authenticated HTTP request. See the documentation on Github. From there you can do all kinds of things, even programmatically creating commits.