Basic GitLab CI configuration for Node.js Project

GitLab CI is one of the good CI tool for individual developer becasue it is possible to use for free.
In this article, I would like to show basic GitLab CI configuration for basic Node.js project.

😸 .gitlab-ci.yml

Basic configuration

.gitlab-ci.yml which is GitLab CI configuration is as follows:

cache:
  paths:
  - node_modules/

stages:
  - test
  - build

unit_test:
  image: node
  stage: test
  variables:
    NODE_ENV: test
  before_script:
    # Install yarn
    - yarn
  script:
    - yarn test
    - yarn run prettier --list-different

build:
  image: docker:latest
  stage: build
  services:
    - docker:dind
  variables:
    DOCKER_DRIVER: overlay
    CI_REGISTRY: registry.gitlab.com
    CI_REGISTRY_IMAGE: registry.gitlab.com/PROJECT_NAME
  script:
    - docker login -u gitlab-ci-token -p $CI_BUILD_TOKEN $CI_REGISTRY
    - docker build --pull -t "${CI_REGISTRY_IMAGE}:latest" .
    - docker push "${CI_REGISTRY_IMAGE}:latest"
  only:
    - master

PostgreSQL

If you want to use PostgreSQL for CI, please add:

unit_test:
+  services:
+    - postgres:9.6
  variables:
    ENVIRONMENT: test
+    POSTGRES_HOST: postgres
+    POSTGRES_DB: test
+    POSTGRES_USER: test
+    POSTGRES_PASSWORD: passw@rd
  before_script:
+    # Install PG client & import schema info
+    - apt-get update && apt-get install -y postgresql-client libpq-dev
+    - PGPASSWORD=$POSTGRES_PASSWORD psql -U $POSTGRES_USER -h $POSTGRES_HOST -d $POSTGRES_DB -f db/schema.sql

Puppeteer

If you want to use puppeteer, please add:

unit_test:
  before_script:
+    # Libraries for Puppeteer https://github.com/Googlechrome/puppeteer/issues/290
+    - apt-get update
+    - apt-get install -yyq ca-certificates
+    - apt-get install -yyq libappindicator1 libasound2 libatk1.0-0 libc6 libcairo2 libcups2 libdbus-1-3 libexpat1 libfontconfig1 libgcc1 libgconf-2-4 libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 libglib2.0-0 libgtk-3-0 libnspr4 libnss3 libpango-1.0-0 libpangocairo-1.0-0 libstdc++6 libx11-6 libx11-xcb1 libxcb1 libxcomposite1 libxcursor1 libxdamage1 libxext6 libxfixes3 libxi6 libxrandr2 libxrender1 libxss1 libxtst6
+    - apt-get install -yyq gconf-service lsb-release wget xdg-utils
+    - apt-get install -yyq fonts-liberation

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