@npmcli/ci-detect

What is @npmcli/ci-detect?

@npmcli/ci-detect is a utility package that helps detect if your code is running in a Continuous Integration (CI) environment. It can identify various CI services and provide information about the environment.

What are @npmcli/ci-detect's main functionalities?

Detect CI Environment

This feature allows you to detect if your code is running in a CI environment and returns the name of the CI service if detected. The code sample demonstrates how to use the package to get the CI service name.

const ciDetect = require('@npmcli/ci-detect');
const ciName = ciDetect();
console.log(`Running in CI: ${ciName}`);

Check Specific CI Service

This feature allows you to check if your code is running on a specific CI service. The code sample shows how to check if the environment is Travis CI.

const ciDetect = require('@npmcli/ci-detect');
const isTravis = ciDetect() === 'travis';
console.log(`Is Travis CI: ${isTravis}`);

Other packages similar to @npmcli/ci-detect

ci-info

ci-info is a package that provides information about the current Continuous Integration environment. It can detect various CI services and provide details about the environment. Compared to @npmcli/ci-detect, ci-info offers more detailed information about the CI environment, including whether the environment is a pull request.

is-ci

is-ci is a simple package that checks if the code is running in a CI environment. It returns a boolean value indicating whether the environment is a CI service. Compared to @npmcli/ci-detect, is-ci is more straightforward and only provides a boolean result without specifying the CI service name.

README

@npmcli/ci-detect

Detect what kind of CI environment the program is in

USAGE

const ciDetect = require('@npmcli/ci-detect')
// false if not in CI
// otherwise, a string indicating the CI environment type
const inCI = ciDetect()

CIs Detected

Returns one of the following strings, or false if none match, by looking at the appropriate environment variables.

• 'gerrit' Gerrit
• 'gitlab' GitLab
• 'circleci' Circle-CI
• 'semaphore' Semaphore
• 'drone' Drone
• 'github-actions' GitHub Actions
• 'tddium' TDDium
• 'jenkins' Jenkins
• 'bamboo' Bamboo
• 'gocd' GoCD
• 'codeship' CodeShip (or any that set CI_NAME environment variable)
• 'travis-ci' Travis-CI - A few other CI systems set TRAVIS=1 in the environment, because devs use that to indicate "test mode", so this one can get some false positives.
• 'aws-codebuild' AWS CodeBuild
• 'builder' Google Cloud Builder - This one is a bit weird. It doesn't really set anything that can be reliably detected except BUILDER_OUTPUT, so it can get false positives pretty easily.
• 'custom' anything else that sets CI environment variable

Caveats

Note that since any program can set or unset whatever environment variables they want, this is not 100% reliable.

Also, note that if your program does different behavior in CI/test/deployment than other places, then there's a good chance that you're doing something wrong!

But, for little niceties like setting colors or other output parameters, or logging and that sort of non-essential thing, this module provides a way to tweak without checking a bunch of things in a bunch of places. Mostly, it's a single place to keep a note of what CI system sets which environment variable.