Travis CI, error on npm test using mocha

Question

I'm trying to use Travis CI to run my mocha + chai tests for the first time and I cant seem to figure out why this is happening.

When the Travis build runs:

mocha

sh: 1: mocha: not found

The command "npm test" exited with 1.

.travis.yml

language: node_js

node_js:
- "8"

package.json (not the whole thing)

"scripts": {
    "test": "mocha"
},
"Dependencies": {
    "mocha": "3.4.2",
    "chai": "4.0.2"
},

I also tried the test being: "test": "./node_modules/.bin/mocha" but that didn't work either.

Thanks for your help!

EDIT:

I'm not the smartest.... had Dependencies instead of dependencies (left over from when it said devDependencies!)

Hey, don't put yourself down, it's a simple typo that could happen to any of us :-) Good work for spotting it and answering your own question. — ocean
Did you try add npm install -g mocha on .travis.yml config file ? — King Jk

Cya Cya · Accepted Answer · 2019-07-15T10:33:38

The way I solved this is that I went to the menu button of travis, then I went to cache, and I cleared it... when you cleared the cache on travis, it tries to download it, then it fails, then does npm install to install all the dependancies again.

Travis CI, error on npm test using mocha

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