Action amplify CLI version

[MateoKruk]

When using the action I get the following error:

[applyinnovations]

For some reason ambientlight/amplify-cli-action@0.3.0 is still using amplify version 4.52.0 however the latest published version on npm is 5.5.0. According to the readme isn't amplify-cli-action supposed to be pulling the @latest from npm? This has broken my deployment workflows because there are breaking changes between version 4 and version 5 of the amplify cli.

[applyinnovations]

The Dockerfile in the master branch https://github.com/ambientlight/amplify-cli-action/blob/master/Dockerfile runs
npm install --global --unsafe-perm @aws-amplify/cli@latest
however only version 4.52.0 is used not 5.5.0.

On my local machine:

$ npm view @aws-amplify/cli@latest
@aws-amplify/cli@5.5.0 | Apache-2.0 | deps: 68 | versions: 958

Anyone know why our actions are still using an old version?

[etaytch]

Hey all,
I'm having the same issue.
Is there an ETA for this?
🙏 🙏

[applyinnovations]

I can confirm that specifying the amplify version within your workflow can be used as a temporary fix.

    uses: ambientlight/amplify-cli-action@0.3.0
    with:
        amplify_cli_version: '5.6.0'

[applyinnovations]

Even better is to do the following:

env:
  AMPLIFY_CLI_VERION: 'latest'
jobs:
    init:
        - name: Amplify configure
        uses: ambientlight/amplify-cli-action@0.3.0
        with:
          amplify_command: configure
          amplify_cli_version: ${{ env.AMPLIFY_CLI_VERION }}

[hedleysmith]

This worked well for me

  - name: deploy
    uses: ambientlight/amplify-cli-action@0.3.0
    with:
      amplify_command: publish
      amplify_env: sandbox
      amplify_cli_version: 'latest'