Using Travis-CI for client-side JavaScript libraries?

Question

I\'m not sure to use Travis-CI for my client-side JavaScript library or not, because it compiles with NodeJs on Travis-CI servers.

I want to know is this a good appr

Answer 1

I started with the answer from Odi and moved to gulp to get it working. If you specify node_js as your language in your travis file, travis will automatically run

npm install

followed by

npm test

The first will install any devDependencies specified in a package.json file, the second will run the script named "test" also from package.json. Below you'll find the three files I needed to have in the top level of my repo for travis to run a single qunit suite.

.travis.yml

language: node_js
node_js:
  - "0.10"

gulpfile.js

var gulp = require('gulp'),
    qunit = require('gulp-qunit');

gulp.task('default', function() {
    return gulp.src('./tests/unit/unittests_nupic-js.html')
        .pipe(qunit());
});

package.json

{
  "name": "nupic-js",
  "version": "0.0.1",
  "description": "JavaScript port of NuPIC",
  "license": "GPL-3.0",
  "repository": "iandanforth/nupic-js",
  "bugs": { "url" : "http://github.com/iandanforth/nupic-js/issues"
  },
  "author": {
    "name": "Ian Danforth",
    "email": "iandanforth@gmail.com"
  },
  "engines": {
    "node": ">=0.10.0"
  },
  "scripts": {
    "test": "gulp"
  },
  "keywords": [
    "numenta",
    "nupic",
    "machine learning"
  ],
  "devDependencies": {
    "gulp-qunit": "~0.2.1",
    "gulp-util": "~2.2.14",
    "gulp": "~3.5.1"
  }
}