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Automating Terminal Recordings with VHS

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VHS is one of my favorite command line tools for recording terminal flows - it's excellent for demos and sharing something with teammates. github.com/charmbracelet/vhs-action Did you know you can also wire up VHS to your GitHub workflows? #terminal #recordings
The VHS action is ideal if you have any project gifs or animations - perhaps baked into your README - that you want to keep up to date automatically. I also love how this project includes copy-pastable examples to get you going quickly:
Here's a simple auto-commit example that shows how you can automatically re-generate and commit your VHS gif (or any other output type that VHS supports)
Check it out today if you've ever been unsatisfied with a homebrewed terminal recording based on a screen capture tool
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Zack Proser

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Developer Education at WorkOS. Full-stack open-source hacker and technical writer. I love building tools and sharing knowledge.