Build Your First CI/CD Pipeline with GitHub Actions (Complete Beginner's Guide)

Short summary

A step-by-step beginner tutorial for building a CI/CD pipeline with GitHub Actions, covering CI/CD concepts, a sample Node.js app with Jest tests, and a YAML workflow that runs linting and tests on every push. It also introduces a deploy job gated on successful tests for continuous deployment. No prior DevOps experience is required and the whole setup takes about 15 minutes.

• •Explains CI/CD fundamentals and GitHub Actions triggers with a minimal Node.js + Jest example
• •Walks through creating a YAML workflow that checks out code, installs deps, lints, and runs tests on every push
• •Adds a deploy job gated on test success to demonstrate continuous deployment

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