Overview

Emtrey gets even better when you connect it to your CI/CD pipeline, such as CircleCI and Jenkins. After adding your Emtrey API token to your CI/CD tool, Emtrey runs automatically with each commit you make.

Configure Your Project for CI/CD

To connect an Emtrey project to a CI/CD, follow these steps:

• Sign into your Emtrey dashboard
• Select the project to connect to CI/CD
• Choose SETTINGS from the project menu
• Click the CONNECT TO YOUR CI/CD PIPELINE button:

• Click CONNECT TO CI/CD button and copy your unique EMTREY_CICD_TOKEN
• Add a new environment variable to your CI/CD pipeline settings, named EMTREY_CICD_TOKEN, and paste your token from above as it’s value.

Configuring Your CI/CD Tool

Each CI/CD tool needs to be configured a little differently, but the basic steps to running Emtrey remotely are similar:

1. Install headless Chrome/Firefox browser (if needed)
2. Run the web app locally
3. Run the Emtrey CLI tool

To see how to configure your particular tool, refer to one of the following sections below.

CircleCI

To setup the Emtrey CLI tool to run in CircleCI, you must first connect your application to CircleCI by following their Getting Started tutorial. You can also check out a working example React project configured to work with CircleCI on Emtrey’s GitHub.

 After you can successfully trigger a run in CircleCI, you can ammend the circleci/config.yml to run the Emtrey CLI.

1. Add the circleci/browser-tools orb to orbs section:

orbs:
  browser-tools: circleci/browser-tools@1.1.3

2. Add a step to install a headless version of the Chrome browser:

steps:
  # Other steps... 
  - browser-tools/install-chrome

3. Add a new step to run your application in the background. For example:

steps:
  # Previous steps...

  - run:
      name: start server
      command: node server.js
      background: true


  - run:
      name: emtrey
      command: npx emtrey --port=3000

where PORT should be replaced by the port number of the local server set in server.js. For example, the default settings for a React application tells it to start running on port 8080.

At this point, CircleCi is configured to run Emtrey when the pipeline is run!