github-actions-ci-cd-nodejs

Explain Packages installed

• cross-env - an operating system agnostic package for setting environment variables. We used it to set the NODE_ENV to test so that our test can use the test database. Run the command below to install cross-env.

npm i -D cross-env

• Jest - Jest is a JavaScript testing framework developed by Facebook. It works out of the box with minimal configuration and has in-built test runner, assertion library and mocking support.

• Supertest - A library for testing Node.js HTTP servers. It enables us to programmatically send HTTP requests such as GET, POST, PATCH, PUT, DELETE to HTTP servers and get results.

npm install --save-dev jest supertest

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https://jestjs.io/docs/configuration

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Run Software

install dependencies

npm install

run locally

npm run start

run tests

npm run test

run code coverage

npm run coverage

if you want to run in docker

make sure that you have installed docker and docker-compose then just run

docker-compose up (build and start the service)

docker-compose down (stop the service)

docker-compose up --force-recreate --build -d (if you have changed the code and if you want to re-run the service without stopping, you can run this command)