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Identify the files and directory structure needed to create an action

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Identify the files and directory structure needed to create an action

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- [Tim] This particular exam objective is a carryover of a discussion that we started in the previous lesson, making sure, GitHub wants to make sure that you understand the basics of how to create a custom action and how you can publish it to the GitHub Marketplace. And the idea here is that GitHub is fairly opinionated in terms of what they expect to see. The core requirements for publishing to GitHub Marketplace, I mean, there's always going to be an application and perhaps a back and forth, but the core of what they're asking is completely reasonable. Normally, the convention in development, anyway, at least where I am, is src for source code, lib for compiled code, for JavaScript actions in particular. What's actually required? We know about the metadata file, the action.yaml. You also need to document your custom action with a README. Again, none of this is a surprise to anybody who's published internally at GitHub or other public repos at GitHub. Optionally, you've got your…

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