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Ignore NPM Modules Digital Ocean App Platform
There may be a better way to manage website's with JavaScript deployments. I added jest to my repo simply to execute tests when I make PRs as part of a GitHub action. This requires a package-lock.json to work.
Unfortunately, the presence of this file will automatically kick off an npm install in Digital Ocean App Platform. This is causing some issues because I intentionally am not building that kind of app.
I can think of other ways to have the tests performed without having to worry about all of this (pre-commit hooks, for example), but I do like having the checks built into the repo.
I can't find any sort of ignore file for DO's tools. Suggestions welcomed?
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I solved this last night and meant to come back and update, the problem is totally mine.
Jest requires a package-lock.json file in GitHub actions to run.
DigitalOcean App platform checks for a Dockerfile if you have one, or package.json/ package-lock.json, it'll follow those rules and the app spec will ask you to add an output directory.
Since this code is not bundled as a package, my code to run my webpage doesn't get sent to the output_dir where Digital Ocean checks for the deployment.
I solved this problem by not keeping a package.json files in the repo, and I have GitHub create them as a part of the action.
I now run this before installing dependencies and running the test in my GitHub merge request pipeline and App Platform will never see it, so it won't kick off its automated package.json processes.
- name: Create package.json
run: |
echo '{
"name": "aphor",
"version": "1.0.0",
"description": "Randomly displays a single quote from a json collection",
"scripts": {
"test": "jest"
},
"devDependencies": {
"@babel/core": "^7.21.4",
"@babel/preset-env": "^7.21.4",
"babel-jest": "^29.5.0",
"jest-environment-jsdom": "^29.5.0",
"jest-fetch-mock": "^3.0.3",
"node-fetch": "^2.6.9"
}
}' > package.json
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