Introduce a GitHub Actions workflow for running the unit tests

Note that we no longer create an empty file if the download fails because
we don't want to leave traces of incorrect file contents on disk. This
has never been particularly useful because it'd require a manual user
action to remove the empty file to be able to retry in case of e.g. a
timed out connection, but especially in the context of GitHub Actions
where we cache the PDFs directory we don't want to cache invalid files
to make sure that a next run will automatically retry to fetch any
previously missed PDF files and update the cache.

.github/workflows/unit_tests.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,72 @@
+name: Unit tests
+on:
+  push:
+    paths:
+      - 'gulpfile.mjs'
+      - 'src/**'
+      - 'test/test.mjs'
+      - 'test/unit/**'
+      - 'web/**'
+      - '.github/workflows/unit_tests.yml'
+    branches:
+      - master
+  pull_request:
+    paths:
+      - 'gulpfile.mjs'
+      - 'src/**'
+      - 'test/test.mjs'
+      - 'test/unit/**'
+      - 'web/**'
+      - '.github/workflows/unit_tests.yml'
+    branches:
+      - master
+  workflow_dispatch:
+permissions:
+  contents: read
+
+jobs:
+  test:
+    name: Test
+
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        node-version: [lts/*]
+        os: [windows-latest, ubuntu-latest]
+
+    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout repository
+        uses: actions/checkout@de0fac2e4500dabe0009e67214ff5f5447ce83dd # v6.0.2
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 0
+          persist-credentials: false
+
+      - name: Use Node.js ${{ matrix.node-version }}
+        uses: actions/setup-node@53b83947a5a98c8d113130e565377fae1a50d02f # v6.3.0
+        with:
+          node-version: ${{ matrix.node-version }}
+          cache: 'npm'
+
+      - name: Install dependencies
+        run: npm ci
+
+      - name: Restore cached PDF files
+        uses: actions/cache/restore@27d5ce7f107fe9357f9df03efb73ab90386fccae # v5.0.5
+        with:
+          path: test/pdfs/*.pdf
+          key: cached-pdf-files-${{ hashFiles('test/pdfs/*.pdf') }}
+          restore-keys: |
+            cached-pdf-files-
+          enableCrossOsArchive: true
+
+      - name: Run unit tests
+        run: npx gulp unittest --headless
+
+      - name: Save cached PDF files
+        uses: actions/cache/save@27d5ce7f107fe9357f9df03efb73ab90386fccae # v5.0.5
+        with:
+          path: test/pdfs/*.pdf
+          key: cached-pdf-files-${{ hashFiles('test/pdfs/*.pdf') }}
+          enableCrossOsArchive: true

test/downloadutils.mjs

@@ -66,8 +66,6 @@ async function downloadManifestFiles(manifest) {
       await downloadFile(file, url);
     } catch (ex) {
       console.error(`Error during downloading of ${url}:`, ex);
-      fs.writeFileSync(file, ""); // making it empty file
-      fs.writeFileSync(`${file}.error`, ex.toString());
     }
   }
 }