Hercules Node TVWebApps - Gitlab CI setup and documentation

Requirements

Currently, we use magnum-ci for our continuous integration of the TVWebApps codebase.  At every checkin, Magnum CI downloads the latest code, installs the dependencies, runs the tests, and then deploys to a configured Heroku server.  This challenge will investigate and document a setup using Gitlab CI instead:

https://docs.gitlab.com/ce/ci/

Your documentation and tested setup needs to cover configuring Gitlab CI to do these steps on every check-in:

* Get the code
Current setup

The current setup in Magnum CI is as follows, for the master branch on git@gitlab.com:hercules-tv-web-apps/web.git

Environmental variables:

HEROKU_APPNAME=tvnews1-deploy-test
HEROKU_TOKEN={my Heroku deploy token}
YOUTUBE_KEY={my Youtube token}
NPM_TOKEN={npm token for internal npm - in forum}

Before installation steps:

nvm install v6
nvm use v6
sudo apt-get install python-software-properties -y
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-toolchain-r/test -y
sudo apt-get update -y
sudo apt-get install gcc-4.8 g++-4.8 -y
sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/gcc gcc /usr/bin/gcc-4.8 50
sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/g++ g++ /usr/bin/g++-4.8 50
gcc --version

Dependencies installation:

npm install

Test suite:

npm test
 

Slack and Heroku are both configured as additional addons / deployments in Magnum CI

README