drip

drip

by Swipers

35.10

overall

Drip is continuous integration for node.js.

Judging Instructions

Visit and click the run button to watch tests run for a popular node.js library. View builds for other libraries. Setup a post-receive hook to trigger builds from GitHub! Test expresso, whiskey or any framework with a makefile!

Who

• hojberg — Copenhagen, Denmark
• cmeiklejohn — Boston, MA / Providence, RI
• barnabyc — Hingham, MA / Providence, RI

How

socket.io coffee-resque express.js expresso mongohq redistogo mongoose backbone.js jade

Votes

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Other Votes

• (42)
  

• AnkurBulsara

  judge

  8 months ago

  Utility/Fun	Design	Innovation	Completeness
  Could not get it to work, however the design and aesthetic was very good. In concept, this could be interesting, especially as a cloud-based SAAS platform for continuous integration for NodeJS projects.
• okaysamurai

  judge

  8 months ago

  Utility/Fun	Design	Innovation	Completeness
  Interesting idea, seems limited in use but what it does it seems to do well. Nice use of colors/icons to help read the information a little better. Good idea to brand it, makes it more interesting than many other code-based entries. Nice work!
• ciaran_j

  judge

  8 months ago

  Utility/Fun	Design	Innovation	Completeness
  Nice! A great little bit of kit, loved the integration directly into github (forced me to make one my libraries' testsuites work with it, which was useful for me as well!) Clearly there are lots of test-runners out there, but this has a nice clean design and really good integration loved the fact it ‘just worked’ even when it had to do complex compilations and all sorts of mess! I put the wrong url in a few times so would be nice to be able to remove repositories too, but other than that a great entry :)
• huned

  judge

  8 months ago

  Utility/Fun	Design	Innovation	Completeness
  hm, it didn’t work. but useful idea.

  • cmeiklejohn

    contestant

    Thanks for the vote — what kind of problems are you experiencing?

• ryanmcgrath

  judge

  8 months ago

  Utility/Fun	Design	Innovation	Completeness
  It’s useful, it looks good, and it’s an overall well put together experience end to end. I had the repositories fail to load a few times, but nothing I’d dock it permanently for; NKO proves high load. ;)

  • cmeiklejohn

    contestant

    Indeed it does. Anything you’d like to see added? Thanks again for the vote!

• cmilfont

  contestant

  8 months ago

  Utility/Fun	Design	Innovation	Completeness

  • cmeiklejohn

    contestant

    Thanks for the vote — any features you’d like to see added?

• therazorblade

  judge

  8 months ago

  Utility/Fun	Design	Innovation	Completeness
  This is an interesting idea but doesn’t have a lot of features and adding a new project doesn’t display any confirmation (e.g. UX is simple but not intuitive).

  • barnabyc

    contestant

    We’ve got lot of new features ready for the next release! What else would you like to see? The UX was much more intuitive before the list of repos was so long; we didn’t realize a confirmation would be so useful until we got so popular! Thanks for the vote!

  • therazorblade

    judge

    Glad to hear you will be continuing it. Mostly it needs to clarify what it is doing and looking for. Are you going to allow local installs? Added an innovation star.

  • cmeiklejohn

    contestant

    Yes, we will. It will be open source, under the MIT license.

• kiranryali

  judge

  8 months ago

  Utility/Fun	Design	Innovation	Completeness
  Very cool. I love the simplistic design, you guys god a lot achieved pretty quickly.

  • barnabyc

    contestant

    Thanks for the vote kiran! Let us know if you have any feature requests!

• ncb000gt

  contestant

  9 months ago

  Utility/Fun	Design	Innovation	Completeness
  I saw this last night so I know what it looks like an how it functions. I thought it was fairly awesome. fixed All-in-all, I’d definitely use this.

  • cmeiklejohn

    contestant

    ncb000gt, thanks for the vote. We ran into some load-related issues on our linode when we first launched, but things have stabilized now. Thanks again for sticking with us! Let us know if there’s any questions we can answer!

  • ncb000gt

    contestant

    Ok I can now see it though I updated my repository and haven’t seen the tests run.

    What is the update period? Also, which testing frameworks do you support?

  • ncb000gt

    contestant

    Actually I noticed it runs test from a makefile, but I still haven’t noticed it update (pull the latest change set).

  • cmeiklejohn

    contestant

    Updating the build output? That should be every two seconds.

  • ncb000gt

    contestant

    I just added the push hook and it seems to be working nicely. Ultimately I’d prefer it worked with npm right out, but it seems to be doing what you are advertising. So, editing my score. :)

  • hojberg

    contestant

    Thanks a lot :)

  • cmeiklejohn

    contestant

    Thanks! We’ll release npm support after the judging period is over.

  • ncb000gt

    contestant

    New feature requests (since I haven’t found another way to get in touch): * Which version of node are you running (my C++ module has different code paths). * When did you run the tests. I can find this by traversing my commit tree, but I’d rather not have to. * Somehow distinguish which branch tests were run from in the UI other than “Build output for branch: GH-31” since that shows up as the latest build. I want to see latest for <branch>.

    Anyway, not sure if those are helpful or useful, but figured I’d throw them in here anyway. Thanks!

    • Nick
• nym

  judge

  9 months ago

  Utility/Fun	Design	Innovation	Completeness
  Didn’t work for me, although could be a compelling product with more work ironing out the bugs.

  • barnabyc

    contestant

    We’re very sorry to hear that nym, what sort of issue did you encounter? It definitely appears to be working for me right now, so hope we can help resolve your issue. Thanks for the vote!

• mustardamus

  contestant

  9 months ago

  Utility/Fun	Design	Innovation	Completeness

  • cmeiklejohn

    contestant

    Thanks a lot for your vote! Is there any questions we can answer or features you’d like to see added?

• dawnerd

  contestant

  9 months ago

  Utility/Fun	Design	Innovation	Completeness
  I tried to use it, but nothing happened.

  • cmeiklejohn

    contestant

    Thanks for the vote!

    Were you having running builds, or loading the page?

  • dawnerd

    contestant

    Clicking on run em' took me to the add page, but nothing happened at all. I bet your poor hosting instance is being hammered. I’m revising my utility vote since It works, just not for me.

• jerrysievert

  judge

  9 months ago

  Utility/Fun	Design	Innovation	Completeness
  would have been nice if the package.json could be read and the test methodology, or ran npm test.

  • cmeiklejohn

    contestant

    Agreed on both accounts. We aimed to have more integration than we could fit into the time allotted. We started with visionmedia’s repos which were mostly expresso with Makefiles. We’re currently working on expanding the supported frameworks and will be releasing updates after the judging period.

    Thanks for your vote!

• mranney

  judge

  9 months ago

  Utility/Fun	Design	Innovation	Completeness
  I’m glad to see the state of node-based CI systems advancing. This is a very nice looking entry.

  • cmeiklejohn

    contestant

    Thank you very much! Would love to hear about any features you’d like to see or questions you have!

• mde

  judge

  9 months ago

  Utility/Fun	Design	Innovation	Completeness
  Nice dashboard, very easy on the eyes.

  • cmeiklejohn

    contestant

    Thanks so much for the vote! Are there any features you’d like to see added or questions we can answer for you?

• ryanspoon

  judge

  9 months ago

  Utility/Fun	Design	Innovation	Completeness

  • cmeiklejohn

    contestant

    Thank you for your vote! Are there any questions we can answer or features you’d like to see added?

• cistov

  contestant

  9 months ago

  Utility/Fun	Design	Innovation	Completeness

  • cmeiklejohn

    contestant

    Thanks for the vote! Are there any questions I can answer or features you’d like to see added?

• mahemoff

  judge

  9 months ago

  Utility/Fun	Design	Innovation	Completeness
  Very useful tool. Could do with some more info on exactly what it does and what requirements there are on projects.

  • cmeiklejohn

    contestant

    Agreed. In hindsight, we should have a page that shows which testing frameworks we support, and how to setup your code so that it’s able to be tested using our service. We’re going to take care of that when we redeploy after the judging period is over.

    Thank you very much for your vote!

• oivoodoo

  contestant

  9 months ago

  Utility/Fun	Design	Innovation	Completeness

  • cmeiklejohn

    contestant

    Thanks a lot for the vote! Let us know if you have any questions or if you’d like to see any features added!

• carsonmcdonald

  contestant

  9 months ago

  Utility/Fun	Design	Innovation	Completeness

  • cmeiklejohn

    contestant

    Thanks for your vote! Let us know if you have any questions or would like to see anything changed or added.

• rhdoenges

  contestant

  9 months ago

  Utility/Fun	Design	Innovation	Completeness
  Excellent, most excellent. However, I would like to see the server be able to run specified test scripts or files, rather than forcing the use of a Makefile.

  • cmeiklejohn

    contestant

    We would too. Unfortunately we weren’t able to fit it in during the 48-hours but have been busy adding support for it which will be released post-judging.

    Thanks for your vote!

• mikeal

  judge

  9 months ago

  Utility/Fun	Design	Innovation	Completeness
  fixed!

  • cmeiklejohn

    contestant

    Can you take a snapshot of the page? I’m seeing a long list of repos when I hit: http://drip.io/#/repositories . Thank you!

  • cmeiklejohn

    contestant

    Awesome, thank you!

• juliogreff

  contestant

  9 months ago

  Utility/Fun	Design	Innovation	Completeness
  I like the idea and the site looks nice, but when I try to run the build it doesn’t give any sign it’s working.

  • cmeiklejohn

    contestant

    Hi juliogreff,

    Are you still experiencing these issues?

    Thanks, Chris

• ryanza

  contestant

  9 months ago

  Utility/Fun	Design	Innovation	Completeness
  Well designed, testing is super important! :) Almost complete!

  • cmeiklejohn

    contestant

    Thank you very much for your vote! Feel free to email/tweet me with any questions you may have.

• DamonOehlman

  contestant

  9 months ago

  Utility/Fun	Design	Innovation	Completeness
  Been using it heaps over the last couple of days. The post receive hooks are fantastic and it’s an awesomely usable solution. Even though on the first day I noticed it being a little unresponsive I haven’t seen a hiccup since. Revising vote to reflect how damn useful this is to me…

  • cmeiklejohn

    contestant

    Hey DamonOehlman!

    Thanks for the vote — I’m so glad that you’ve found our service so useful! We’ll roll out some updates as soon as the judging period is over! Feel free to email/tweet me with any questions you may have!

    Chris

• epeli

  contestant

  9 months ago

  Utility/Fun	Design	Innovation	Completeness
• jimfleming

  contestant

  9 months ago

  Utility/Fun	Design	Innovation	Completeness
  Looks very nice. A loading indicator would be helpful, although completely understandable that one wouldn’t be included given the timespan I almost thought it wasn’t working. I also honestly have no idea what continuous integration is :)
• paularmstrong

  contestant

  9 months ago

  Utility/Fun	Design	Innovation	Completeness
  While not a very innovative idea, it’s still great to see that people care about TDD enough to make a test-running server. The fact that it’s easy to use and is easy on the eyes is a major plus.