GitHub action to upgrade all NPM dependencies at once, using Yarn. It also creates a diff output if you want to view the upgrades.

Versioning

By default, Node ships with Yarn V1. But the current (stable) version is V3. This action supports both, use either the v1.x of v3.x tag for this.

Example usage

---
name: Update YARN

on:
  pull_request:

env:
  DOCKER_BUILDKIT: 1
  YARN_CACHE_DIR: /tmp/yarn-cache

jobs:
  update:
    timeout-minutes: 15
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@v3

    - name: Setup cache
      uses: actions/cache@v3
      with:
        path: ${{ YARN_CACHE_DIR }}
        key: ${{ runner.os }}-${{ hashFiles('**/yarn.lock') }}

    - uses: Pararius/action-yarn-upgrade@v1
      id: yarn-upgrade
      with:
        working-dir: ./
        yarn-cache: ./

    - name: Current date
      run: echo "DATE=$(date +%Y%m%d)" >> $GITHUB_ENV

    - name: Create pull request
      uses: peter-evans/create-pull-request@v4
      with:
        token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
        branch: php-update-${{ env.DATE }}
        branch-suffix: random
        commit-message: '[ci] updated YARN dependencies'
        title: Updated YARN dependencies
        body: Updated YARN dependencies
        labels: dependencies
        base: master