I have a Node.js project as a GitHub repo. There are currently no tests written for the project. My goal is to simply build the project successfully with Travis-CI, without any tests.

I'm currently using the following basic Travis config, .travis.yml:

language: node_js
node_js:
  - "node"

install:
  - npm install

The above will fail for me, with the following output:

[0Ktravis_fold:end:nvm.install
[0K$ node --version
v9.11.1
$ npm --version
5.6.0
$ nvm --version
0.33.8
travis_fold:start:install
[0Ktravis_time:start:154792e9
[0K$ npm install
[37;40mnpm[0m [0m[30;43mWARN[0m[35m[0m [email protected] No repository field.
[0m
up to date in 0.599s

[0Ktravis_fold:end:install
[0Ktravis_time:start:3e0b4d3c
[0K$ npm test

> [email protected] test /home/travis/build/githubHandle/repoName.js
> echo "Error: no test specified" && exit 1

Error: no test specified
[37;40mnpm[0m [0m[31;40mERR![0m[35m[0m Test failed.  See above for more details.
[0m

I don't understand why npm test is being run. It appears to be failing, as no tests have been written. How could I build/install on Travis without checking for tests?

I have a Node.js project as a GitHub repo. There are currently no tests written for the project. My goal is to simply build the project successfully with Travis-CI, without any tests.

I'm currently using the following basic Travis config, .travis.yml:

language: node_js
node_js:
  - "node"

install:
  - npm install

The above will fail for me, with the following output:

[0Ktravis_fold:end:nvm.install
[0K$ node --version
v9.11.1
$ npm --version
5.6.0
$ nvm --version
0.33.8
travis_fold:start:install
[0Ktravis_time:start:154792e9
[0K$ npm install
[37;40mnpm[0m [0m[30;43mWARN[0m[35m[0m [email protected] No repository field.
[0m
up to date in 0.599s

[0Ktravis_fold:end:install
[0Ktravis_time:start:3e0b4d3c
[0K$ npm test

> [email protected] test /home/travis/build/githubHandle/repoName.js
> echo "Error: no test specified" && exit 1

Error: no test specified
[37;40mnpm[0m [0m[31;40mERR![0m[35m[0m Test failed.  See above for more details.
[0m

I don't understand why npm test is being run. It appears to be failing, as no tests have been written. How could I build/install on Travis without checking for tests?

• javascript
• node.js
• github
• travis-ci

• 1 Because that's the default, per the docs. Also npm install is the default install step, so you can remove that. You can skip a step by just giving the value of true for it, also per the docs. Read the docs! Alternatively change your scripts for test in the package.json to not exit 1. – jonrsharpe Commented Apr 16, 2018 at 15:38
• 1 @jonrsharpe Thanks for the help. I'm sorry, I didn't understand how to disable npm test in the documentation. – ShanZhengYang Commented Apr 16, 2018 at 15:55

1 Answer 1

npm test is the default build script for nodejs projects.

If you haven't unit tests or build task, you can skip this step. To do that, add the following line in your travis config file:

script: 'true'