Nightly Report

Trunk Code Quality has the ability to post its results to the Trunk Code Quality web app. This will enable you to view your repository's Code Quality history over time so you can track the trend of issues in your code, as well as browse the issues in your repository to help you understand which issues should be prioritized to fix.

Connect your Trunk organization to GitHub

Sign up at app.trunk.io, create a Trunk organization, and connect it to your repositories. You will need to grant the following GitHub App permissions.

Set Up Trunk Code Quality

Once your Trunk organization is connected to GitHub, create a .trunk repo in your account or organization and grant Trunk permissions to access the repo. The .trunk repo will hold the workflows to scan your codebase and pull requests. Learn more about the .trunk repo.

Configure Slack Notifications (optional)

If you would like to receive notifications for new issues Trunk finds in your repo, you can configure Trunk to be connected to Slack.

How Trunk Uploading Results

The upload feature of Trunk Code Quality will upload all of the issues found by Trunk to the Trunk services. In order to get an accurate picture of the state of your repository, you'll want to upload all of the Trunk Code Quality issues for your whole repository.

Generally, this is done within your Continuous Integration system (CI) automatically whenever pull requests are filed or pushed to a specific branch in your repo. Trunk Code Quality can also run periodically to check for new vulnerabilities in your dependencies.

How Does It Work?

Under the hood, the GitHub integration does the following for your organization to enable Trunk Code Quality in GitHub Actions Workflows:

• An installation of the Trunk.io GitHub app in your GitHub organization

• A .trunk repository in your GitHub organization.

What is a .trunk repository?

The .trunk repository contains the workflows run to scan your codebase and pull requests. We recommend creating a .trunk repository in your GitHub organization using this template repository.

Your .trunk repository must be added to your Trunk GitHub app installation. You can verify this by navigating to: https://github.com/organizations/<your_organization>/settings/installations, clicking "configure" next to Trunk-io, and verifying that the repository access is either "All repositories" or that your .trunk repository is selected.

To find Code Quality issues in your repositories and pull requests, we dispatch GitHub Actions workflows in your .trunk repository, which check out your repositories and pull requests and then run trunk check in them. This strategy allows you to:

• start using Trunk Code Quality in all your repositories without any configuration, and

• be in full control over the environment where we analyze your code, since we're running on your GitHub Actions runners.

🚧 .trunk should have private visibility

Since we use workflow runs in .trunk to analyze any repository in your organization and record Code Quality findings, you should think carefully about who has permissions to view workflow runs in your .trunk repository. For most organizations, simply making your .trunk repository private will be sufficient.

(optional) Custom setup logic

If you need to do some setup before trunk check runs in your-org/your-repo, you can define a GitHub composite action in .trunk/setup-ci/action.yaml in your-repo. This can be important if, for example, a linter needs some generated code to be present before it can run:

name: Trunk Code Quality setup
description: Set up dependencies for Trunk Code Quality

runs:
  using: composite
  steps:
    - name: Build required trunk check inputs
      shell: bash
      run: bazel build ... --build_tag_filters=pre-lint
      
    - name: Install eslint dependencies
      shell: bash
      run: npm install

Read more in the documentation for our GitHub Action.