At first glance, GitHub Actions looks a lot like CircleCI. You have similar concepts like workflows, jobs, and steps defined in a config file using YAML syntax. (The web project I’m trying this out on uses React, Node, Postgres, Yarn, and Typescript running on Heroku.)

GitHub Actions provides many workflow templates to get you started. I didn’t find one that exactly matched my scenario, so I started with the “Simple Workflow” template.