Building N1 with Continuous Integration

script/grunt ci

N1 is designed to be built into a production app for Mac, Windows, and Linux. Only Nylas core team members currently have access to produce a production build.

Production builds are code-signed with a Nylas, Inc. certificate and include a handful of other proprietary assets such as custom fonts and sounds.

We currently use Travis to build on Mac & Windows and AppVeyor to build on Windows.

A build can be run from a local machines by Jenkins or manually; however, several environment variables must be setup.:

ALL ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES ARE ENCRYPTED

They exist in an encrypted file that only Travis can read in build/resources/certs/set_env.sh

IMPORTANT Do NOT remove the 2>/dev/null 1>/dev/null in the before_install scripts. If any of commands fail we don't want to leak sensitive data in the output.

That file must be decrypted and sourced before the environment variables can use.

If not building on Travis, the environment variables must be manually decrypted via gpg and sourced

We use Travis encryption and AppVeyor encryption to store the certificates, keys, and passwords

To login to GitHub and clone the Nylas submodule with private assets you need to clone recursively (or git submodule init; git submodule update) with a valid SSH key or login username and password.

We have a CI GitHub account: https://github.com/nylas-deploy-scripts The password for that account is stored in the environment variable:

GITHUB_CI_ACCOUNT_PASSWORD

For signing builds on Mac only when the certificates are already in the Keychain (not Travis):

XCODE_KEYCHAIN - The name of the Mac keychain that contains the certificates and private key.
XCODE_KEYCHAIN_PASSWORD - Th password to that keychain.
KEYCHAIN_ACCESS - Alternatively, the XCODE_KEYCHAIN and XCODE_KEYCHAIN_PASSWORD in a single colon-separated string.

Alternatively, on Travis we decrypt the actual certificate files and create a temporary keychain. To do this we need the password to the private key. That's stored in:

APPLE_CODESIGN_KEY_PASSWORD

For signing builds on Windows only:

CERTIFICATE_FILE - The Windows certificate
CERTIFICATE_PASSWORD - The password for the private key on the cert

To download Electron:

NYLAS_GITHUB_OAUTH_TOKEN - The OAuth token to use for GitHub API requests. See https://github.com/atom/grunt-download-electron

To upload built artifacts to S3:

AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY

To notify when builds are done:

NYLAS_INTERNAL_HOOK_URL - Nylas internal Slack token and url