In this article I will explain how you can build your nodeJS application on Azure Devops. For the purposes of this demo I have created a hello world javascript application and stored it under a folder called node inside my repository with the name project.
We will use the folder structure later on for the build tasks.
The node folder contains two files, index.js and package.json.
The package.json file has been created automatically after initialization of a new project with
npm init
In order to build this project using npm you should define under the scripts section the commands that will be executed using a specific target.
For example in order to compile application I will execute
npm run build
but the build instructions have to be configured under the package.json file.
{
"name": "nodetest",
"version": "1.0.0",
"description": "Test project for AzureDevops using nodeJS",
"main": "index.js",
"scripts": {
"test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1",
"dev": "node index.js",
"build": "node index.js"
},
"author": "",
"license": "ISC",
"dependencies": {
"express": "^4.18.1"
}
}
As shown above, the build and dev targets have a simple node command that will start the application.
The index.js file is a console output javascript command.
console.log("Hello from node js app");
In order to build this node app using devops I will use the build in Npm@1 task. First I will execute the install command in order to install dependencies. Then I will run npm run with the target build. This will execute the node index.js command and will execute the node application.
trigger:
- none
pool:
vmImage: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- task: Npm@1
displayName: npm install
inputs:
command: 'install'
workingDir: '$(Build.SourcesDirectory)/node/'
- task: Npm@1
displayName: npm run build
inputs:
command: 'custom'
workingDir: '$(Build.SourcesDirectory)/node/'
customCommand: 'run build'
After pipeline run the Hello world message will print on the output.
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