Server running on background gets canceled

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I’m trying to execute a background server previously to execute a curl test for the node API. Here’s the config.yml file I’m using:

version: 2
jobs:
  build:
    docker:
      - image: circleci/node:7.10
      
    working_directory: ~/repo

    steps:
      - checkout
      - restore_cache:
          keys:
          - v1-dependencies-{{ checksum "package.json" }}
          # fallback to using the latest cache if no exact match is found
          - v1-dependencies-

      - run: npm install

      - save_cache:
          paths:
            - node_modules
          key: v1-dependencies-{{ checksum "package.json" }}
      
      - run: 
          name: background server for tests
          command: npm start
          background: true
            
      - run: 
          name: test
          command: curl -i http://localhost:3010/api/public

But I keep receiving “step was canceled” on the “background server for tests” step. Can you please advice?

2

I think someone has mentioned that previously on this forum, and it was not certain that the process had actually stopped. Consider doing a new run step containing ps aux to see if it really has been backgrounded. I wonder if you might just be able to ignore this message.

3

Thanks, your sugestion was very useful, the process keeps running, all you have to do is add the sleep command to give the server a little time to be online.

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