Hi @basickarl, welcome to the GitHub Support Community! I believe you should be able to do this without needing to use the if conditional, by listening to the synchronize type of the pull_request event:

Events that trigger workflows - GitHub Docs

on:
  pull_request:
    types: [synchronize]

Or is there a specific reason you need to use the if conditional? If so, it’d be helpful to hear why you’re listening for that!

Hi thanks for the welcoming :slight_smile:.

I do wish to specifically do this via an if condition. I wish to do the following:

1. build app
2. run tests
3. deploy if the commit push is in a PR.

Basically I do not wish to deploy the application if it’s a normal push.

Something like this:

jobs:
    build:
        runs-on: ubuntu-latest
        strategy:
            matrix:
                node-version: [12.x]
        steps:
            - run: npm run build # <--- runs on every push
            - run: npm run test # <--- runs on every push
            - name: deploy # <--- only runs if it is a PR
              if: pull_request === true (or something)
              run: ...my deploy code

Ah I see!

I did try the following:

name: Test
on:

pull_request:

types: [synchronize]
jobs:

build:

runs-on: ubuntu-latest

strategy:

matrix:

node-version: [12.x]

steps:

- name: test

if: github.event_name == 'pull_request' && github.event.action == 'synchronize'

run: echo hello

But it doesn’t seem to want to trigger a workflow now ☹️:

Screenshot from 2020-11-30 19.02.181096×548 25 KB

I am force pushing from branch km/auth0 (the workflow file is in that branch).

I solved the issue. It was that the PR had a merge conflict with the master branch. I resolved it and now the pull_request event is triggering correctly. Thanks @thomasshaped for your code, it also helped!