📝 Prepare Env File Action

Effortlessly create or update your .env file and get its base64-encoded content ready for secure use in your workflows! 🚀🔐

✨ Features

📄 Automatic creation or updating of your .env file.
🔑 Easily set or update environment variables like STACK_NAME.
📦 Outputs base64-encoded content for secure storage or transfer.
📋 Detailed debug logs for easy troubleshooting.

📥 Inputs

Input	Description	Required
`stack_name`	The name of the stack to set in the `.env` file.	✅ Yes

📤 Outputs

Output	Description	Example
`exists`	Indicates if `.env` file existed before running action	`true` or `false`
`content`	Base64-encoded content of the resulting `.env` file	`U1RBQ0tfTkFNRT1teS1zdGFjaw==`

🛠️ Example Usage

Here's how you can integrate this action into your workflow:

- name: Prepare .env File 📝
  id: prepare-env
  uses: your-org/prepare-env-file@main
  with:
    stack_name: my-awesome-stack

- name: Use Encoded .env Content 🔐
  run: |
    echo "Encoded .env content: ${{ steps.prepare-env.outputs.content }}"

🧑‍💻 How It Works

This action performs the following steps:

Step	Description
📄	Checks if `.env` file exists; creates it if not.
🔄	Adds or updates the `STACK_NAME` variable in `.env`.
📋	Provides detailed debug logs showing all changes.
🔐	Outputs the base64-encoded content of the final `.env` file.

📖 Debugging & Logs

Detailed debug logs are provided at every step, making troubleshooting easy:

DEBUG: .env file exists. Updating STACK_NAME.
DEBUG: Updated existing STACK_NAME to 'my-awesome-stack'.
DEBUG: Final .env content:
STACK_NAME=my-awesome-stack
DEBUG: Successfully encoded .env file to base64.

⚠️ Requirements

Your workflow must have write permissions to the repository directory.
Bash shell environment.

📜 License

This action is open-source software licensed under the MIT license.

Happy coding! 🎉

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