Not found binary in the DroneCI

Current behavior:

The code in DroneCI config

pipeline:
  restore-cache:
    image: drillster/drone-volume-cache
    restore: true
    mount:
      - ./node_modules
      - ~/.cache
      - ~/.npm
    volumes:
      - /tmp/cache:/cache
    ttl: 3

  build:
    image: getninjas/nodejs:9-chrome64
    commands:
      - npm ci

  integration-test:
    group: tests
    image: getninjas/nodejs:9-chrome64
    commands:
      - npm run server:test
      - ./node_modules/bin/cypress run
      - npm run clear:pm2
    environment:
      - REDIS_HOST=redis

  rebuild-cache:
    image: drillster/drone-volume-cache
    rebuild: true
    mount:
      - ./node_modules
      - ~/.cache
      - ~/.npm
    volumes:
      - /tmp/cache:/cache

Desired behavior:

I ran my test pipeline on DroneCI and before was running version 2.x running smoothly.

I am trying to update the version to 3.0.2 and now Cypress complains that Binary is not being found, I have already tried some ways to solve with ENV variable and mount folder in cache step.

If anyone can help me, thank you.

Versions

Platform: linux (Debian - 8.10) Cypress: v3.0.2 DroneCI: v0.5

[brian-mann]

Okay actually I know exactly what is happening.

What you’ve done or did (once) is that you cached the node_modules after Cypress installed.

What this did was cache the CLI tool, but because now in 3.x.x we install to the ~/.cache folder, when your CI provider goes to restore the cache, the binary is missing.

Cypress is not being reinstalled because when you run npm install the Cypress npm module does not reinstall itself (cuz it’s already installed) which then prevents the postinstall hook from ever being called.

I believe all you have to do is add a new command: cypress install and cypress will install itself if it doesn’t exist, or skip this step if it does.

[brian-mann]

Can you run with DEBUG=cypress:* npm install or DEBUG=cypress:* cypress install.

I believe you can always issue cypress install and unless you pass the --force flag it will not install if its already installed.

We need more output logs from your CI provider. As it stands, there’s not enough to debug this. We have thousands of projects running on various CI providers but I’m not sure if we’ve seen Drone CI that often.