Reusable steps in Bitbucket pipeline

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In Bitbucket, reusable steps are helpful to reduce the amount the code written and to enhance readability and maintainability of pipeline YAML files. In the example below, compile-step was reused to run the step when a PR is created and a new commit is pushed to the main branch.

definitions:
  steps:
    - step: &compile-step
        name: Compile node project
        image: node:18-alpine
        script:
          - npm i
          - npm run build
        artifacts:
          - dist/**

pipelines:
   branches:
     main:
       - step: *compile-step
   pull-requests:
     '**':
       - step: *compile-step