Testing stage in GitLab pipeline

[tobiasdossinger]

Hey,

is there a testing workflow for GitLab pipelines?
I'm trying to setup a testing stage on my gitlab ci/cd but nothing seem to work.

[PitaJ]

I don't see how this is relevant to NodeBB. Are you asking a general Node question? That's not what this forum is for.

[tobiasdossinger]

@pitaj Oh sorry for the confusion. No, it's not a general Node question. I just tried to run npm test with the exiting nodebb test suite on a gitlab runner and it doesn't seem to work.

Is this even possible? Is there an existing workflow for GitLab?

[oplik0]

NodeBB tests require database setup beforehand.
I recommend just checking out how NodeBB currently does it with

NodeBB/test.yaml at master · NodeBB/NodeBB

Node.js based forum software built for the modern web - NodeBB/test.yaml at master · NodeBB/NodeBB

GitHub (github.com)

or how it was done earlier with TravisCI

I haven't used GitLab CI much, but I think the services part is pretty similar to GitHub Actions - there are some setup differences (per job variables instead of per service env for example), but I think just adapting the service configuration to GitLab syntax will be better than the bash based install from TravisCI