github actions - npm install is failing with exit code1 - github

Question

I am trying to deploy my npm app to azure using github actions. When running npm install its giving an error with exit code 1.v Here is the error its throwing...
npm install, build, and test5s
##[error]Process completed with exit code 1.
> ejs#3.1.3 postinstall /home/runner/work/readbetter/readbetter/node_modules/ejs
> node --harmony ./postinstall.js
npm notice created a lockfile as package-lock.json. You should commit this file.
added 133 packages from 70 contributors and audited 133 packages in 3.913s
1 package is looking for funding
run `npm fund` for details
found 0 vulnerabilities
> readbetter#1.0.0 test /home/runner/work/readbetter/readbetter
> echo "Error: no test specified" && exit 1
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
Error: no test specified
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! readbetter#1.0.0 test: `echo "Error: no test specified" && exit 1`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the readbetter#1.0.0 test script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.
npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! /home/runner/.npm/_logs/2020-06-20T13_55_32_078Z-debug.log
##[error]Process completed with exit code 1.
what could be reason?
Here is the repo.
https://github.com/galdiatorocks/readbetter.git

Answer 1

If you look at your package.json you literally have "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1", in there. So if you try to run the test, it runs into that error.
To solve it, you need to either not run the test, or you need to setup proper testing.
And, just running npm install works perfectly fine :)