Creating Build Automation with Gradle

You need to clone your personal fork of the sample git repository to the cloud server. Make sure you perform the clone from your home directory.

You can do so like this:

 cd ~/
 git clone [email protected]:<your_username>/cicd-pipeline-train-schedule-gradle.git

Once you have cloned the git repo to your home directory, cd into the repo directory and then initialize the gradle build.

 cd ~/cicd-pipeline-train-schedule-gradle
 ./gradlew init

The gradle build should generate an archive of the application in dist/trainSchedule.zip.

You can do this by adding a task to create this archive to build.gradle and ensuring the build task depends on it.

task zip(type: Zip) {
    from ('.') {
	    include "*"
	    include "bin/**"
	    include "data/**"
	    include "node_modules/**"
	    include "public/**"
	    include "routes/**"
	    include "views/**"
    }
    destinationDir(file("dist"))
    baseName "trainSchedule"
}

build.dependsOn zip
zip.dependsOn npm_build

The full build.gradle file should look like this :

plugins {
  id("com.github.node-gradle.node") version "2.2.4"
}

node {
  version    = '9.11.2'
  download   = true
}

task build

task zip(type: Zip) {
  from ('.') {
    include "*"
    include "bin/**"
    include "data/**"
    include "node_modules/**"
    include "public/**"
    include "routes/**"
    include "views/**"
  }
  destinationDir(file("dist"))
  baseName "trainSchedule"
}

build.dependsOn zip
zip.dependsOn npm_build
build.dependsOn npm_build
npm_build.dependsOn npmInstall
npm_build.dependsOn npm_test
npm_test.dependsOn npmInstall

Then, execute the gradle build to generate the archive:

./gradlew build