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@npmcli/ci-detect
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Detect what kind of CI environment the program is in
const ciDetect = require('@npmcli/ci-detect')
// false if not in CI
// otherwise, a string indicating the CI environment type
const inCI = ciDetect()
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 variableNote 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.
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Detect what kind of CI environment the program is in
We found that @npmcli/ci-detect demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 5 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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