How to use as part of the test suite with Travis CI?

[balupton]

I'd like it so my npm test that is performed on Travis CI runs my flow tests. To do this, I need to figure out:

1. How to install flow on Travis (unfortunately it isn't a npm package)
2. How to run the checks once it is installed and wherever it is installed to

I already have ESLint checks going with the babel-eslint parser.

[balupton]

Similar thread about flow type support at eslint: eslint/eslint#2157

[samwgoldman]

You can just download and unpack the latest .tar.gz file for your platform (probably Linux on Travis CI), which contains a binary. Travis CI lets you run arbitrary commands. For example, if you needed to compile a dependency from source: http://docs.travis-ci.com/user/installing-dependencies/#Installing-Projects-from-Source

[balupton]

Cool, will look into it. Thanks! 👍

[balupton]

Could the ocaml-to-js compiled version of flow be published to npm? That way we could just list flow as a devDependency in our npm package.json, then run it via ./node_modules/.bin/flow - which makes the process trivial

[aaronshaf]

I second @balupton's recommendation to publish to npm and give use access to node_modules/.bin/flow

[samwgoldman]

So it looks like @gabelevi has been publishing binaries all over the place, from flow-bin on NPM to packages on opam, Homebrew, and of course the binaries.

I think this issue is resolved. Let me know if these sources don't work with your workflow.