Demo unit test using Circle-CI

archiving this as it is quite old, and more people are using github-actions

This is a demo of using Circle-CI for continuous integration.

How to run locally:

run npm test
ignore the failure in codecov token

Essential components

• mocha -
  test runner
• nyc -
  code coverage report
• codecov -
  code coverage badge
• circle-ci -
  continuous integration

Note

• circle.yml -
  this is the file used for configuring circle-ci. configured it to use node 8.11.4 and generate code coverage artifact, then send it to codecov.io
• npm test command -
  this invokes nyc, mocha, and codecov library. configurations are in their corresponding yml files
• coverage report -
  open ./coverage/lcov-report/index.html file after running the test to view code coverage