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Cache dependencies and build outputs in GitHub Actions

18 mentions on Hacker News by 17 people: 3 stories, 15 comments · first 2019-11-02 · latest 2026-05-12

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  1. …secure ones. Here people are trying to fix defaults - not to write cache in insecure context -> https://github.com/actions/cache/issues/1756 (even if sufficiely smart attacker would find the key somewhere and skip this kind of prodection,…
    comment by febusravenga · 2026-05-12 · in Postmortem: TanStack NPM supply-chain compromise
  2. …bunch with GitHub and Microsoft anyways, so in many of those cases, yes. Many times, I end up using https://github.com/actions/cache for the clients who already use Actions, and none of that runs in the local machines at all. Typically I…
    comment by embedding-shape · 2026-01-14 · in I hate GitHub Actions with passion
  3. https://github.com/search?q=org%3Aactions+%22we+are+allocati... i.e. from https://github.com/actions/cache/?tab=readme-ov-file#note Thank you for your interest in this GitHub repo, however, right now we are not taking contributions. We…
    comment by coryrc · 2025-12-08 · in GitHub Actions has a package manager, and it might be the worst
  4. …that you likely still want them to appear in the GitHub UI / be accessible from the GitHub API. [0] https://github.com/actions/cache/discussions/1510 [1] https://github.com/twitchtv/twirp
    comment by jacobwg · 2025-07-23 · in Reverse engineering the GHA cache to improve performance (2024)
  5. > with no persistent storage There's https://github.com/actions/cache though?
    comment by ZeWaka · 2023-09-22 · in GitHub Actions could be so much better
  6. …entirely within the GitHub / Azure network. It looks like you can do that for Ruby by adding this: https://github.com/actions/cache/blob/master/examples.md#rub... - uses: ruby/setup-ruby@v1 with: ruby-version: 3.1 bundler-cache: true
    comment by simonw · 2023-04-11 · in Use GitHub Actions to Make Your GitHub Profile Dynamic
  7. …file instead of the commit sha. https://docs.github.com/en/actions/using-workflows/caching-d... https://github.com/actions/cache The one note here is clearing that cache/cache management isn't straight forward currently (although they are…
    comment by gabeio · 2022-09-26 · in GitHub Actions Pitfalls
  8. …[2]: https://docs.spacelift.io/concepts/stack/stack-settings#enab... [3]: https://github.com/actions/cache
    comment by cube2222 · 2022-07-03 · in The End of CI
  9. …workflows that use caching [1][2]. - [1] https://github.com/actions/setup-node/issues/516 - [2] https://github.com/actions/cache/issues/820 As of now (11:28 UTC) the status page has been updated. https://www.githubstatus.com
    comment by wkillerud · 2022-06-13 · in GitHub actions is down
  10. see also https://github.com/actions/cache/issues/820 Looks like the package servers are having troubles. Apparently a workaround is to use the `cache: npm` parameter for the setup-node action. Won't help when you rely on other actions or…
    comment by krautsourced · 2022-06-13 · in GitHub actions failing because of cache issue
  11. …not sure it's possible at the moment. Caching seems to be limited to needing to use actions/cache ( https://github.com/actions/cache )
    comment by dsherret · 2022-04-26 · in Speeding up Prettier locally and on your CI with dprint
  12. …used to be the primary way of caching deps in CI builds, but now most suggest caching ~/.npm[0]. 0: https://github.com/actions/cache/blob/main/examples.md#node-...
    comment by judge2020 · 2022-01-11 · in What NPM should do to stop a new colors attack
  13. …to get there, but one ride is a bit... bumpy. (I use both and I am not affiliated to either.) [0] https://github.com/actions/cache/issues/556
    comment by trulyme · 2021-09-08 · in GitHub Actions limitations and gotchas
  14. …own storage). The best workaround is to use a user-provided action which utilizes the s3 api[2]. 0: https://github.com/actions/cache/issues/632 1: https://github.com/github/roadmap/issues/66 2: https://github.com/actions/cache/issues/354#is…
    comment by judge2020 · 2021-09-08 · in GitHub Actions limitations and gotchas
  15. …the refreshed when the package.json file changes. See [1] actions/cache for more details. [1] https://github.com/actions/cache
    comment by gitgud · 2020-03-31 · in Gitlab features that are moving to open source