Workflow that creates a tag "release" for a JavaScript GitHub Action after installing `node_modules` so that they don't have to be committed to the main branch.

release.yml

# Usage: Creates a release with the provided version
# In order to use our JS actions we need to commit node_modules, so we do that
# here and push the result to a version tag for release so that they don't have
# to be committed to the main branch
name: Release

on:
  workflow_dispatch:
    inputs:
      version:
        description: Semver version to tag the target with (e.g. 1.2.3)
        type: string
        required: true

permissions:
  contents: write

jobs:
  release:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v3
      - name: Setup node
        uses: actions/setup-node@v3
        with:
          node-version-file: .node-version
      - name: Install and add node_modules
        run: |
          # We need node_modules in order to be able to use our JS actions
          yarn install --production
          git add -f node_modules
      - name: Release
        run: |
          tag='v${{ inputs.version }}'
          major_tag="${tag:0:2}"

          git config user.name github-actions
          git config user.email github-actions@github.com
          git commit -m "Release ${tag}"

          # Push the specific version tag and update the major version tag
          # Start with specific version tag which will error if it's taken
          git tag "$tag"
          git push origin "$tag"
          git tag -f "$major_tag"
          git push -f origin "$major_tag"