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Faur Ioan-Aurel 0caaac5d27 fix: prebuild coderd before Playwright startup for e2e tests (#27136)
The test-e2e job could flake while Playwright waited for its webServer
to become ready. CI already built site/e2e/bin/coder, but that binary
was built before pnpm build and without the embed tag, so Playwright
ignored it and started coderd with go run -tags embed instead. That put
Go compilation, including frontend asset embedding, inside Playwright's
webServer timeout.

Local runs had a similar ordering trap. pnpm playwright:test invoked
Playwright directly, and Playwright starts webServer before globalSetup,
so the existing preflight build could not guarantee a binary existed
before webServer startup.

Build the E2E coder binary with the embed tag and make it depend on
site/out/index.html. In CI, build the frontend first, then build the E2E
binary, then run Playwright. For local runs, have pnpm playwright:test
and pnpm playwright:test-ui run make site/e2e/bin/coder before invoking
Playwright.

Playwright now starts the prebuilt site/e2e/bin/coder binary and waits
on the public /healthz endpoint instead of an authenticated API
endpoint. This keeps compilation outside the webServer readiness timeout
and makes the readiness probe quieter and more direct. I moved to
/healtz because the existing endpoint was returning 401, which still
means “server is up,” but it is a strange readiness signal. /healthz is
explicitly public and returns 200 OK once the HTTP server is accepting
requests.

Caveat: running pnpm exec playwright test
--config=e2e/playwright.config.ts directly bypasses the package script
and therefore bypasses the prebuild. Use pnpm playwright:test or make
test-e2e for the supported local flow.

Because the site package scripts now call make, add make to knip's
ignored
system binaries.

Tests:
- pnpm lint:types
- pnpm exec playwright test --config=e2e/playwright.config.ts --list
-
PATH="/opt/homebrew/opt/make/libexec/gnubin:/opt/homebrew/opt/gnu-getopt/bin:$PATH"
make gen/mark-fresh
-
PATH="/opt/homebrew/opt/make/libexec/gnubin:/opt/homebrew/opt/gnu-getopt/bin:$PATH"
pnpm playwright:test --list

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The structure of the end-to-end tests is optimized for speed and reliability. Not all tests require setting up a new PostgreSQL instance or using the Terraform provisioner. Deciding when to trade time for robustness rests with the developers; the framework's role is to facilitate this process.

Take a look at prior art in tests/ for inspiration. To run a test:

cd site
# Build the frontend assets. If you are actively changing
# the site to debug an issue, add `--watch`.
pnpm build
# Alternatively, build with debug info and source maps:
NODE_ENV=development pnpm vite build --mode=development
# Install the browsers to `~/.cache/ms-playwright`.
pnpm playwright:install
# Run E2E tests. You can see the configuration of the server
# in `playwright.config.ts`. This builds and runs `site/e2e/bin/coder`.
pnpm playwright:test
# Run a specific test (`-g` stands for grep. It accepts regex).
pnpm playwright:test -g '<your test here>'

Using nix

If this breaks, it is likely because the flake chromium version and playwright are no longer compatible. To fix this, update the flake to get the latest chromium version, and adjust the playwright version in the package.json.

You can see the playwright version here: https://search.nixos.org/packages?channel=unstable&show=playwright-driver&from=0&size=50&sort=relevance&type=packages&query=playwright-driver

# Optionally add '--command zsh' to choose your shell.
nix develop
cd site
pnpm install
pnpm build
pnpm playwright:test

To run the playwright debugger from VSCode, just launch VSCode from the nix environment and have the extension installed.

# Optionally add '--command zsh' to choose your shell.
nix develop
code .

Enterprise tests

Enterprise tests require a license key to run.

export CODER_E2E_LICENSE=<license key>

Debugging tests

To debug a test, it is more helpful to run it in ui mode.

pnpm playwright:test-ui