Continuous Integration (CI) represents the development practice of pushing code to a shared repository several times a day to identify problems quickly and solve them as early as possible. This has multiple benefits, such as the following:
Caching bugs quickly
Supports distributed builds on different operating systems and CPU architectures
Keeps the build history available
Sends real-time notifications with the build status
Automatically generates metrics, such as code coverage and code complexity, among others
There are several CI platforms available, whether they are open source, commercial, or self-hosted or not.
One of the most popular CI solutions is Jenkins, an extendable open source continuous integration server written in Java, which you can install on your own servers. Although it is used primarily by the Java community, it can be set up to work with Node projects as well.