add GitHub action for unit tests

.github/workflows/unittest.yml

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+name: unit-test
+
+on:
+  workflow_dispatch:
+  pull_request:
+  push:
+    branches: main
+    tags: ['v*']
+
+jobs:
+  linux:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    defaults:
+      run:
+        shell: bash -l {0}
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: conda-incubator/setup-miniconda@v2
+        with:
+          auto-update-conda: true
+          channels: conda-forge,defaults
+          mamba-version: "*"
+          environment-file: environment.yml
+          cache-environment-key: ${{ runner.os }}-env-${{ hashFiles('**/environment.yml') }}
+          cache-downloads-key: ${{ runner.os }}-downloads-${{ hashFiles('**/environment.yml') }}
+      - name: Start docker containers
+        run: |
+          cp ./config/docker-compose.envlocal.yml docker-compose.yml
+          docker compose up --build
+        env:
+          DATABASE_NAME: livedatadb
+          DATABASE_USER: livedatauser
+          DATABASE_PASS: livedatapass
+          DATABASE_HOST: db
+          DATABASE_PORT: 5432
+          LIVE_PLOT_SECRET_KEY: "live_data_server_47352"
+          DJANGO_SUPERUSER_USERNAME: ldsuser
+          DJANGO_SUPERUSER_PASSWORD: ldspass
+      - name: Sleep, wait for containers to start up
+        run: sleep 20
+      - name: Run unit tests
+        run: |
+          echo "running unit tests"
+          export DJANGO_SUPERUSER_USERNAME=ldsuser DJANGO_SUPERUSER_PASSWORD=ldspass
+          python -m pytest --cov=src --cov-report=xml --cov-report=term-missing tests/
+        env:
+          LIVE_PLOT_SECRET_KEY: "live_data_server_47352"
+          DJANGO_SUPERUSER_USERNAME: ldsuser
+          DJANGO_SUPERUSER_PASSWORD: ldspass
+#      - name: upload coverage to codecov
+#        uses: codecov/codecov-action@v4
+#        with:
+#          token: ${{ secrets.CODECOV_TOKEN }}

config/docker-compose.envlocal.yml

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-version: '3.8'
-
 services:
 
   nginx: