GitHub Actions is a tool that allows developers to automate workflows related to their GitHub repositories. With GitHub Actions, developers can build, test, and deploy their code directly from GitHub. While GitHub Actions can be very useful, they can also be difficult to debug when things go wrong. When an action fails, it can be challenging to figure out what went wrong and how to fix it, since they can only run on Github, and you end up sending mock commits one after another to iterate through bugfixes. Moreover, it can be costly, as Github Actions are billed per minute. In this post, I will talk about a tool called Act, which allows developers to run Github Actions locally on your machine.

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