Lighthouse CI results reporting GitHub Action

📝 Read the blog post Trying Lighthouse.

Add this module as a dev dependency

# install using NPM
$ npm i -D lhci-gha
# install using Yarn
$ yarn add -D lhci-gha

This module provides 2 command line scripts. You should use these scripts after running Lighthouse CI

# https://github.com/GoogleChrome/lighthouse-ci
- name: run Lighthouse CI
  run: |
    npm install -g @lhci/[email protected]
    lhci collect
# post performance summary and set the commit status
# https://github.com/bahmutov/lhci-gha
- name: Post performance summary 📊
  run: npx post-summary --report-filename lighthouse-results.json

Reads the Lighthouse JSON report and writes GitHub Lighthouse job summary

• --report-filename Lighthouse performance JSON filename
• --title summary table title

Reads the Lighthouse JSON report and sets the GitHub Commit status

• --report-filename Lighthouse performance JSON filename
• --owner GitHub repo owner, like `bahmutov
• --repo GitHub repo name, like web-performance-example
• --commit Commit to set the status on
• --target-url Link to add to the commit status, usually to the job

Usually for pull requests, you would use the head commit SHA

- name: Post performance commit status ✅
  run: |
    npx post-status --min 90 \
      --report-filename lighthouse-results.json \
      --owner bahmutov --repo web-performance-example \
      --commit ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha || github.sha }} \
      --target-url "${{ github.server_url }}/${{ github.repository }}/actions/runs/${{ github.run_id }}"
  env:
    PERSONAL_GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.PERSONAL_GH_TOKEN }}

Posts or updates a performance comment on specific issue or pull request

• --report-filename Lighthouse performance JSON filename
• --owner GitHub repo owner, like `bahmutov
• --repo GitHub repo name, like web-performance-example
• --issue pull request or issue number to comment on
• --title the start of the comment body, like "Performance metric"

This script checks all comments on PR to find the one that starts with "**${title}" text, if found it updates it. Otherwise, it posts a new comment.

- name: Post performance comment 📝
  if: github.event.pull_request
  run: |
    npx post-comment \
      --report-filename lighthouse-results.json \
      --owner bahmutov --repo web-performance-example \
      --pr ${{ github.event.pull_request.number }}
  env:
    PERSONAL_GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.PERSONAL_GH_TOKEN }}

• bahmutov/web-performance-example

This module uses debug to output verbose messages. To see debug logs, run with the DEBUG environment variable set to lhci-gha

$ DEBUG=lhci-gha ...

Author: Gleb Bahmutov <[email protected]> © 2023

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License: MIT - do anything with the code, but don't blame me if it does not work.

Support: if you find any problems with this module, email / tweet / open issue on Github

Copyright (c) 2023 Gleb Bahmutov <[email protected]>

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