GitHub Actions example of doing a build on push excluding when changes are made in the .github folder

build-on-push.yml

name: Build on push
on:
  push:
    paths-ignore:
      - ".github/**"
jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v1
      - name: Build
        run: |
          yarn
          yarn build