Run GitHub Actions Locally with act: Faster Feedback Loops

2025-05-19
Run GitHub Actions Locally with act: Faster Feedback Loops

Tired of committing and pushing every time you tweak your GitHub Actions workflows? `act` lets you run GitHub Actions locally for blazing-fast feedback. It mimics GitHub's environment variables and filesystem, enabling local testing and even replacing Makefiles as a local task runner, eliminating repetitive work. A VS Code extension integrates seamlessly into your workflow. `act` reads your GitHub Actions, uses the Docker API to pull or build images, determines execution paths based on dependencies, and finally runs containers, mirroring the GitHub environment.

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