ci-task-runner

ci-task-runner

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This is a multiprocess building tasks scheduler, which is written based on NodeJS. It supports the increment and parallel building and can improve the speed of server building largely.

As a common task scheduler, Ci-task-runner enhances the running speed of the tools such as Jenkins, Gitlab-CI or Webpack, Gulp rather than take place of them.

"After moving a large frond-end program to this continuous integration system for building, we took around 10 minutes to modify every minor file. We had to develop this ci-task-runner which reduces the time to 1 minutes."

Principle

1. Incremental Building:

Medium and large project needs full dose building if a little file has changed, in this way the building speed will be very slow. For sloving this problem, ci-task-runner diff commit logs of Git or Svn and building changed file.

2. Parallel Building:

If multiple tasks be executed, ci-task-runner will initiate a new process according to current server's CPU quantities, using mutiprocess parallel building to finish tasks quickly.

Installation

npm install ci-task-runner -g

Basic Usage

Ci-task-runner's tasks are defined in the JSON, in the project to create a new .ci-task-runner.json file, example:

{
  "tasks": ["mod1", "mod2", "mod3"],
  "repository": "git",
  "program": "cd ${taskPath} && webpack --color"
}

And then run the command in the project directory to perform the above defined tasks

ci-task-runner

Above-mentioned: mod1、mod2、mod3 will run cd ${taskPath} && webpack --color ordered by catelogue changed.

According basic usage, the most difference between the task concept of ci-task-runner and other task executors is that each task is based on a file or folder in the code repository.

Using CI tools run ci-task-runner On the server, reference: Continuous integration.

Configuration

tasks

Task target list, the target can be any directory or file in the repository.

Simplified: {string[]}

{
  "tasks": ["mod1", "mod2", "mod3"]
}

Advanced: {Object[]}

{
  "tasks": [
      {
          "name": "mod1",
          "path": "path/mod1",
          "dependencies": ["common/v1"],
          "program": "cd ${taskPath} && gulp"
      },
      "mod2",
      "mod3"
  ]
}

1. dependencies and program will inherit the top of the configuration, or cover it.
2. tasks support configure parallel tasks, reference: Mutiprocess Parallel Tasks.

cache

ci-task-runner cache files write path, used to save the last task info. Default: node_modules/.cache/ci-task-runner/${Package.version}.json

dependencies

Task target external dependency list. If the task target relies on a library outside the directory, you can specify the dependency manually, so that changes to the external library can also trigger the task to run.

ci-task-runner use Git or Svn to realize changed detection, so the path must already be versioned

repository

Setting the type of repository. Support Git and Svn.

parallel

Set the maximum number of parallel progress. Default: require('os').cpus().length.

program

Running task's configuration.

Simplified: {string}

{
  "program": "cd ${taskPath} && node build.js"
}

Advanced: {Object}

{
  "program": {
    "command": "node build.js",
    "options": {
      "cwd": "${taskPath}",
      "timeout": 360000
    }
  }
}

program.command

Setting start command.

program will put ${options.cwd}/node_modules/.bin and ${process.cwd()}/node_modules/.bin in environment variable PATH, like npm scripts install on local.

program.options

Progress configuration.

• cwd Current working directory of the child process
• env Environment key-value pairs
• timeout Timeout
• uid Sets the user identity of the process
• gid Sets the group identity of the process

Variable

program supporting string variable.

• ${taskName} task name
• ${taskPath} task target absolute path
• ${taskDirname} equal to path.diranme(taskPath)，detail

Configuration Example

Mutiprocess Parallel Tasks

If tasks have no dependencies in each other, it can open mutiprocess run task, then take full advantage of multi-core CPU accelerating running.

Tasks outside task name is serial run, if array will parallel running:

{
  "tasks": ["dll", ["mod1", "mod2", "mod3"]],
  "repository": "git",
  "program": "cd ${taskPath} && webpack --color"
}

Above-mentioned: when dll has build, mod1、mod2、mod3 will parallel building by mutiprocess.

Change Dependencies Trigger Buliding

{
  "tasks": ["dll", ["mod1", "mod2", "mod3"]],
  "dependencies": ["dll", "package.json"],
  "repository": "git",
  "program": "cd ${taskPath} && webpack --color"
}

Above-mentioned: when dll and package.json has changed, whatever other task's target has changed or not it will be forced to building.

Auto Updating Npm Packages

{
  "tasks": [
    {
      "name": "package.json",
      "program": "npm install"
    },
    "dll",
    ["mod1", "mod2", "mod3"]
  ],
  "dependencies": ["package.json", "dll"],
  "repository": "git",
  "program": "cd ${taskPath} && webpack --color"
}

Above-mentioned: when package.json has changed, it will run npm install to install dependencies to keep project up-to-date.

Continuous integration

Using CI tool to run ci-task-runner on server-site.

About:

• gitlab: gitlab-ci
• github: travis
• Jenkins

CI configuration can refer to relative API.

Webpack throw error but didn't exit: Webpack configuration.bail

License

MIT