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April 20, 2026

A checks action runs an Edge App's formatting, lint, build, and tests in 1 step

Edge Apps GitHub Actions New Developers

The checks action runs the usual CI steps for an Edge App as 1 step in your workflow. Add it after the checkout step:

- uses: Screenly/edge-apps-actions/checks@v1
  with:
    bun-version: latest # optional

It sets up Bun, installs dependencies with bun install --frozen-lockfile, and then runs these scripts from your package.json, stopping at the first one that fails:

format:check
lint
build
test

So the repo needs all 4 scripts and a committed Bun lockfile. bun-version picks the Bun release, and it’s latest when you leave it out.

Latest releases

All Edge Apps GitHub Actions releases →

New Developers
Checks, initialize, and update now come as reusable workflows
Reusable checks, initialize, and update workflows hold the whole deploy setup, so an Edge App repo's workflow files only pin a version and pass SCREENLY_API_TOKEN.
Improvement Developers
Deploys to an environment run one at a time
The update workflow runs 1 deploy per environment, keeps only the newest waiting run, and never cancels a deploy that's already running.
Fixes and improvements
The initialize action won't create the same app twice, and other fixes
initialize stops if an Edge App with the same name already exists, and both actions stop with an error when package.json can't be parsed.
Improvement Developers Breaking change
Initialize runs once per environment and shows the new id right away
initialize stops when the environment's id variable is already set, and puts the new Edge App's id in the job summary as soon as the app is created.
Fixes and improvements
Any app with a build script is built and deployed from dist
initialize and update build any app whose package.json has a build script and deploy it from dist/, whether or not it uses the Edge Apps library.

Latest releases

Checks, initialize, and update now come as reusable workflows

Deploys to an environment run one at a time

The initialize action won't create the same app twice, and other fixes

Initialize runs once per environment and shows the new id right away

Any app with a build script is built and deployed from dist