Action for zipping files and folders easily

The only requirement is to use the official actions/checkout@v2 first so the zip action has access to the repo files.

name: Zip Files

on:
  release:
    types: [published]

jobs:
  zip-files:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
      - uses: vimtor/action-zip@v1.2
        with:
          files: dist/ manifest.json
          dest: result.zip

In this example, after a release is published, a new file named result.zip will be created with both the file manifest.json and the folder dist (files included).

Files or directories to zip, relative to GITHUB_WORKSPACE environmental variable.

• Required: Yes

Name of the output zip file.

• Required: No
• Default: result.zip

Whether to add subdirectories to simply zip all files to the root.

• Required: No
• Default: true

If for example, you do the following:

- uses: vimtor/action-zip@v1.2
  with:
    files: dist/ manifest.json
    recursive: false
    dest: result.zip

The folder dist is included with along with its files. By contrast, if recurise: true (by default) All the files inside the dist folder will be added at the root of the zip along with manifest.json

Also if you want a nested file at the root, recursive: true is your guy.

If you want to check that the output is the desired one I recommend you to add the following step after zipping. You will be able to download the result.zip file.

- uses: actions/upload-artifact@v1.1
  with:
    name: my-artifact
    path: ${{ github.workspace }}/result.zip