I'm having significant problems trying to reuse the packages installed with npm ci between jobs. I have been following this documentation: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/caching/#cache-nodejs-dependencies, but the packages are reinstalled each step anyway:
$ npm ci --cache node_modules --prefer-offline
added 1895 packages, and audited 1896 packages in 41s
Here's my yaml. The files are within a folder called frontend.
stages:
- lint
- test
- build
image: node:15-alpine
# Cache modules in between jobs
cache:
key: ${CI_COMMIT_REF_SLUG}
paths:
- frontend/.npm/
before_script:
- cd frontend
- npm ci --cache .npm --prefer-offline
do-lint:
stage: lint
script:
- ./node_modules/.bin/eslint src
- ./node_modules/.bin/stylelint "src/*.{css,scss}"
test-front-end:
stage: test
script:
# Force tests to run in CI mode
- CI=true npm test
coverage: '/^All\sfiles.*?\s+\d+.\d+.*?\s+(\d+.\d+)/'
do-build:
stage: build
script:
- npm run build
Would very much appreciate some assistance!
