How to archive files in artifact for github workflow actions in order to fix this warning?

Question

There are over 10,000 files in this artifact, consider creating an archive before upload to improve the upload performance.

Answer 1

I had this issue deploying a node app to Azure App Services.

I fixed it by adding a zip and an unzip step.

zip step is

  - name: Zip artifact for deployment
    run: zip release.zip ./* -r

unzip step is

  - name: unzip artifact for deployment
    run: unzip release.zip

Add the zip step after the build step and before Upload artifact step like this

  - name: npm install, build, and test
    run: |
      npm install
      npm run build --if-present
      npm run test --if-present

  - name: Zip artifact for deployment
    run: zip release.zip ./* -r

  - name: Upload artifact for deployment job
    uses: actions/upload-artifact@v2
    with:
      name: node-app
      path: release.zip

Then the unzip step is added after the download artifact step and before the deploy step like this.

steps:
  - name: Download artifact from build job
    uses: actions/download-artifact@v2
    with:
      name: node-app
      
  - name: unzip artifact for deployment
    run: unzip release.zip

  - name: 'Deploy to Azure Web App'
    id: deploy-to-webapp
    uses: azure/webapps-deploy@v2
    with: