run-tests.js is broken for cmd.exe

[nfischer]

I was trying out run-tests.js on my Windows machine, and ran into lots of problems. Since we're trying to get good support for Windows, I figured I'd make this a formal issue so that others can chime in and confirm the behavior I'm seeing.

The end-goal of this issue is to open up cmd.exe on Windows, cd to the shelljs directory, type npm test, and see that all the tests pass. To me this seems like a worthy goal.

With that said, if someone else sees behavior different from what I'm seeing, please verify that you're running everything through cmd.exe, like I am. I already know this can run on some other shells (Bash, for instance), but I'd like to see this work on this particular shell.

Initial problems I've seen:

• must use node path/to/jshint in the run-tests script, instead of relying on the shebang
• must expand wildcards ourselves, not relying on the shell, since cmd relies on the application to expand them, and jshint doesn't appear to be doing this
• exec() will start in the current working directory if run through cmd.exe. If we pass the cwd argument to child_process.exec(), then this will fix the issue only for admin mode (not regular user mode). I think this is only possible to fix for admin mode. This means that all our exec calls will need pwd() prefixed to the paths.

I'll add more to the list in comments as I find the issues.

[nfischer]

I'll open a PR later that at least gets jshint working properly (and should work on both Windows and Linux).

[mtscout6]

Have you considered getting a CI setup with AppVeyor? It's a free service like travis that runs on Windows machines. It also supports GitHub integration like Travis for Pull Requests so you know they work with both Windows and Linux based systems.

[nfischer]

Yes! We're working on setting up AppVeyor (although this issue sounds like it needs to be fixed before AppVeyor can be useful). If you have any experience writing an AppVeyor configure file, help would be appreciated 👍

[mtscout6]

I did one for react-bootstrap which is:

https://github.com/react-bootstrap/react-bootstrap/blob/master/appveyor.yml

version: '{build}'

# Install scripts. (runs after repo cloning)
install:
  # Get the latest stable version of io.js
  - ps: Install-Product node ''
  - npm -g install npm@latest
  - set PATH=%APPDATA%\npm;%PATH%
  - node --version
  - npm --version
  - npm install

# No need for MSBuild on this project
build: off

test_script:
  - npm test

[nfischer]

Awesome! That looks great, thank you! @ariporad what do you think?

[nfischer]

@mtscout6 Would you be able to take a look at #298? I'm using the same yml, and the project is configured to only run AppVeyor on branches with the yml file. Unfortunately, I'm not seeing AppVeyor integration on the PR, although the page for it is https://ci.appveyor.com/project/nfischer/shelljs. Could it perhaps be ignoring the yml file? Thanks in advance!

[mtscout6]

I'll have to look at it tomorrow when I'm back in front of a computer.

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@mtscout6 https://github.com/mtscout6 Would you be able to take a look
at #298 #298? I'm using the same
yml, and the project is configured to only run AppVeyor on branches with
the yml file. Unfortunately, I'm not seeing AppVeyor integration on the PR,
although the page for it is
https://ci.appveyor.com/project/nfischer/shelljs. Could it perhaps be
ignoring the yml file? Thanks in advance!

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[nfischer]

Thanks! It seems like it's only running on the master branch, not the PR, which might explain it

[mtscout6]

At first glance I think you're missing this:

Here's a screenshot of React-Bootstrap's configuration as well:

It's odd some things can be controlled through the yaml file, but not everything. It's in typical Microsoft fassion.

[mtscout6]

If you're up for granting me access to that project in AppVeyor I can poke around and see if anything stands out to me.

[nfischer]

Yup, I was missing that. I double checked that our settings match yours and will try another commit later today to test. Thanks!

[mtscout6]

Another issue with why AppVeyor is not getting triggered is because you need to setup a webhook in Github.

Here's more of React-Bootstrap's configuration: