gitlab ci file for gulp build pipeline with the latest nodejs

.gitlab-ci.yml

image: node:latest

cache:
  paths:
   - node_modules/

before_script:
  - npm install

stages:
  - build_deploy

build_&_deploy_app:
  stage: build_deploy
  only:
   - master
  script:
   - gulp build -production
   - gulp deploy

How does this work if there is no command for npm install gulp?

There is npm install command though, so it uses package.json file instead of direct install. IMO better approach

I'm just starting to learn about CI; I've got everything set up and mostly running, except my build is failing with the error:

/bin/bash: line 42: gulp: command not found
ERROR: Build failed: exit code 1

I'm thinking it's because there's no npm -i -g gulp, but how would I even do that? Do I just add that command in the before_script bit?

Will try some stuff and report back if I figure it out :)

Yep, just adding it to the before_script bit worked! Thanks for the excellent example!

If you have a task like gulp.task('upload') in you gulpfile you can do this:

var gulp = require('gulp');
gulp.task("upload", function () {
    //some upload task
});

You can have a .gitlab-ci.yml like so:

image: node:latest

cache:
  paths:
   - node_modules/

before_script:
  - npm install

stages:
  - build_deploy

build_&_deploy_app:
  stage: build_deploy
  only:
   - master
  script:
   - node_modules/gulp/bin/gulp.js --gulpfile ./gulpfile.js upload

Make sure you have gulp in your package.json (truncated version below)

{
  "devDependencies": {
    "gulp": "3.9.1",
  }
}