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[jcbhmr]

DO NOT MERGE. expect this pr to be edited a bunch.

Hello! 👋

I'm the guy who saw this action like 6 months ago and thought "hey that doesn't quite fit what I want to do; let me make my own version". Now I'd like to re-merge some of the best parts of that adventure back into this project. It's the de-facto setup-cloudflared action out there and I figured I might as well try to help improve that rather than trying to make my own version.

This is a "hey look at this; is this a good direction?" pr and to make you aware of my fork and that id like to contribute.

changes so far:

• use "start" and "stop" terminology to be similar to npm start, npm stop, systemctl start, systemctl stop.
• use sub-actions instead of overloaded options for the start operation
• in start: use run: key similar to how - run: <cmd> works normally; now it's just nested a bit.
• [ ] try to improve the readme; pictures, maybe some emoji, idk
• [ ] still support sign in credentials as part of - uses: .../setup-cloudfared's with inputs
• supports semver ranges in the cloudflared-version input
• ~~uses js instead of composite for the root setup-cloudflared action~~
• [x] use bash/powershell for everything
• github action to auto create a v1 tag for any v1.x.y release

ref #1

end goal:

- uses: AnimMouse/setup-cloudfared@v2
- run: npm install --global serve
- uses: AnimMouse/setup-cloudfared/start@v2
  with:
    url: http://localhost:8000
    run: serve --port 8000
- run: sleep 10m

notes:

• i primarily use cloudflared for its free no-signup cloudflared tunnel --url trycloudflare feature. https://try.cloudflare.com/ -- this means im not very familiar with the other stuff cloudflared does (cause i havent done it lol). id like your input on how/what that does.
• @debugci didn't take off at all; in the past 6mo i found a few ways to do essentially what i wanted: https://github.com/namespacelabs/breakpoint-action and https://github.com/WarpBuilds/action-debugger. in other words: someone already did what i wanted/needed, i just had to find them instead of make my own! 😊 -- also theres https://debugci.dev/ which does essentially the same thing for gitlab.

[AnimMouse]

Hello, I really liked your suggestion, I created this action because back in the day, we don't have a way to test programs in CI, but when GitHub Codespaces got released, I moved all the live testing away from Actions and into Codespaces, this is why I haven't updated this action since then since I'm currently not using this action. Since knowing that there are still people like you are using this action, I think I will update this if I got time.

About the move to JavaScript based action, I think that will never happen in the near future. I'm a self-proclaimed expert in Bash and PowerShell. I really wanted to create an action back then, but when composite based action are now possible, I successfully used my scripting skills to create an action like this. Furthermore, I have only written JavaScript in the client side, not in the server side, so if we moved to JavaScript, I think I cannot maintain this action anymore.

I recommend you to just release a JavaScript-based setup-cloudflared action that you maintain and everyone can use. For now, I will try implementing your suggestions in Bash and PowerShell way.

[jcbhmr]

About the move to JavaScript based action, I think that will never happen in the near future. I'm a self-proclaimed expert in Bash and PowerShell. I really https://github.com/AnimMouse/setup-rclone/discussions/7, but when composite based action are now possible, I successfully used my scripting skills to create an action like this. Furthermore, I have only written JavaScript in the client side, not in the server side, so if we moved to JavaScript, I think I cannot maintain this action anymore.

I re-did everything using Bash. The only part that I got tripped up by is the "find the most recent version that satisfies this semver range: ^2023.6.6". I solved this by bundling a semver.mjs compiled artifact (from https://npm.im/semver) cli tool that does do semver stuffs from the cli. I don't know if there's a better way to do this. Feel free to tweak/edit things if you have any better ideas/tweaks or anything.

Let me know if this Bash-only style action is acceptable

[jcbhmr]

upon further googling i think that this https://github.com/qzb/sh-semver is an option? maybe. problem is that it has some weird errors (? i think they're errors) and is also quite slow compared to semver.mjs

jcbhmr@PIG-2016:~/Documents/semversh$ time bash semver.sh -r "^2023.0.0" $(gh release list --repo cloudflare/cloudflared
)
semver.sh: line 138: [: Latest: integer expression expected
semver.sh: line 142: [: Latest: integer expression expected
semver.sh: line 138: [: Latest: integer expression expected
semver.sh: line 142: [: Latest: integer expression expected
semver.sh: line 138: [: Latest: integer expression expected
semver.sh: line 142: [: Latest: integer expression expected
semver.sh: line 138: [: Latest: integer expression expected
semver.sh: line 142: [: Latest: integer expression expected
semver.sh: line 138: [: Latest: integer expression expected
semver.sh: line 142: [: Latest: integer expression expected
semver.sh: line 138: [: Latest: integer expression expected
semver.sh: line 142: [: Latest: integer expression expected
2023.1.0
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2023.2.1
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2023.3.0
2023.3.1
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2023.5.1
2023.5.1
2023.6.0
2023.6.0
2023.6.1
2023.6.1
2023.7.0
2023.7.0
2023.7.1
2023.7.1
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2023.7.3
2023.7.3
2023.8.0
2023.8.0
2023.8.1
2023.8.1
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2023.10.0
2023.10.0

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