That Randy Brown

Building and Deploying private repositories

To build a private repository so that you can share the artifact (say, as a test version of your app):

  1. Create a private repository that will house the source code.
  2. Create a public repository that will house the pipeline.
  3. Have the public repository clone the repository and build it.

Here's an example for Tauri:

name: release

on:
  workflow_dispatch:

jobs:
  publish-desktop-app:
    permissions:
      contents: write
    strategy:
      fail-fast: false
      matrix:
        include:
          - platform: 'macos-latest' # for Arm based macs (M1 and above).
            args: '--target aarch64-apple-darwin'
          - platform: 'macos-latest' # for Intel based macs.
            args: '--target x86_64-apple-darwin'
          - platform: 'ubuntu-22.04' # for Tauri v1 you could replace this with ubuntu-20.04.
            args: ''
          - platform: 'windows-latest'
            args: ''

    runs-on: ${{ matrix.platform }}
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
        with:
          repository: username/private-repo # change this to your repo
          token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }} # or your pipeline token

      - name: setup node
        uses: actions/setup-node@v4
        with:
          node-version: lts/*

      - name: install Rust stable
        uses: dtolnay/rust-toolchain@stable
        with:
          # Those targets are only used on macos runners so it's in an `if` to slightly speed up windows and linux builds.
          targets: ${{ matrix.platform == 'macos-latest' && 'aarch64-apple-darwin,x86_64-apple-darwin' || '' }}

      - name: install dependencies (ubuntu only)
        if: matrix.platform == 'ubuntu-22.04' # This must match the platform value defined above.
        run: |
          sudo apt-get update
          sudo apt-get install -y libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev libwebkit2gtk-4.1-dev libappindicator3-dev librsvg2-dev patchelf
        # webkitgtk 4.0 is for Tauri v1 - webkitgtk 4.1 is for Tauri v2.
        # You can remove the one that doesn't apply to your app to speed up the workflow a bit.

      - name: install frontend dependencies
        run: yarn install # change this to npm, pnpm or bun depending on which one you use.

      - uses: tauri-apps/tauri-action@v0
        env:
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
        with:
          tagName: app-v__VERSION__ # the action automatically replaces \_\_VERSION\_\_ with the app version.
          releaseName: 'App v__VERSION__'
          releaseBody: 'See the assets to download this version and install.'
          prerelease: false
          args: ${{ matrix.args }}