Company
Date Published
Author
Liran Tal
Word count
1548
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

Mergify is a powerful tool designed to automate GitHub workflows, allowing developers to focus more on crafting excellent software and less on tedious administration tasks. It creates custom workflows based on specific conditions defined by the user, automating processes such as merging pull requests, closing comments, reviewing, labeling, forwarding, back-porting, rebasing, and more. Mergify helps maintain repository hygiene, ensures the master branch remains green, and minimizes time wasted on manual processes that can be automated. Snyk is a developer-friendly security platform that empowers developers to own the security of their applications, offering seamless experience in managing dependency updates via its automated pull requests. Snyk automatically checks project dependencies for available updates, creates pull requests with necessary changes, and provides information about the upgrade. Mergify can be used to automate merging of Snyk upgrade pull requests, streamlining dependency updates and reducing noise from unnecessary updates. By implementing policies such as limiting simultaneous upgrade PRs, ignoring packages, or upgrading minor and patch versions only, developers can maintain a smooth CI workflow free from distractions. When used together, Mergify and Snyk can take workflows to the next level by automating dependency updates and freeing up developer time for more critical tasks.