node.js.yml

name: Deploy application

on:
  push:
    branches: [ master ]

jobs:
  deploy:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Deploy NodeJS app
        uses: appleboy/ssh-action@v0.1.2
        with:
          host: ${{secrets.SSH_HOST}}
          username: ${{ secrets.SSH_USERNAME }}
          password: ${{ secrets.SSH_PASSWORD }}
          script: |
            mkdir -p ~/my-express-app/
            cd ~/my-express-app/
            git clone https://github.com/Hakalon/nodejs-pm2-example
            cd nodejs-pm2-example
            npm install
            npm run start

result.txt

jobs: is the base component of a workflow run
build: is the identifier we're attaching to this job
name: is the name of the job, this is displayed on GitHub when the workflow is running
steps: the linear sequence of operations that make up a job
uses: actions/checkout@v1 uses a community action called checkout to allow the workflow to access the contents of the repository
uses: ./action-a provides the relative path the action we've created in the action-a directory of the repository
with: is used to specify the input variables that will be available to your action in the runtime environment. In this case, the input variable is MY_NAME, and it is currently initialized to "Mona".