ci: Make end-to-end testing independent of development environments (no-changelog) (#4709)

* use user-folder override consistently everywhere, including for the `.cache` folder

* use consistent config for e2e tesing, skipping config loading from env and config files

* simplify all the cypress commands, and run all e2e tests on master

.github/workflows/ci-master.yml

@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test E2E
         run: |
           pnpm cypress:install
-          pnpm test:e2e:ci:smoke
+          pnpm test:e2e:all
 
       - name: Lint
         env:

.github/workflows/ci-pull-requests.yml

@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test E2E
         run: |
           pnpm cypress:install
-          pnpm test:e2e:ci:smoke
+          pnpm test:e2e:smoke
 
       - name: Fetch base branch for `git diff`
         run: git fetch origin ${{ github.event.pull_request.base.ref }}:${{ github.event.pull_request.base.ref }}

package.json

@@ -27,13 +27,9 @@
     "webhook": "./packages/cli/bin/n8n webhook",
     "worker": "./packages/cli/bin/n8n worker",
     "cypress:install": "cypress install",
-    "test:e2e:db:clean": "rimraf ~/.n8n/cypress.sqlite",
+    "test:e2e:dev": "cross-env E2E_TESTS=true CYPRESS_BASE_URL=http://localhost:8080 start-server-and-test dev http://localhost:8080/favicon.ico 'cypress open'",
-    "test:e2e:cypress:run": "cypress run",
+    "test:e2e:smoke": "cross-env E2E_TESTS=true start-server-and-test start http://localhost:5678/favicon.ico 'cypress run --headless --spec \"cypress/e2e/0-smoke.cy.ts\"'",
-    "test:e2e": "pnpm test:e2e:db:clean && cross-env DB_SQLITE_DATABASE=cypress.sqlite N8N_DIAGNOSTICS_ENABLED=false start-server-and-test start http://localhost:5678/favicon.ico test:e2e:cypress:run",
+    "test:e2e:all": "cross-env E2E_TESTS=true start-server-and-test start http://localhost:5678/favicon.ico 'cypress run'"
-    "test:e2e:cypress:dev": "cypress open",
-    "test:e2e:dev": "pnpm test:e2e:db:clean && cross-env DB_SQLITE_DATABASE=cypress.sqlite N8N_DIAGNOSTICS_ENABLED=false CYPRESS_BASE_URL=http://localhost:8080 start-server-and-test dev http://localhost:8080/favicon.ico test:e2e:cypress:dev",
-    "test:e2e:cypress:ci:smoke": "cypress run --headless --spec \"cypress/e2e/0-smoke.cy.ts\"",
-    "test:e2e:ci:smoke": "pnpm test:e2e:db:clean && cross-env DB_SQLITE_DATABASE=cypress.sqlite N8N_DIAGNOSTICS_ENABLED=false start-server-and-test start http://localhost:5678/favicon.ico test:e2e:cypress:ci:smoke"
   },
   "dependencies": {
     "n8n": "*"

packages/cli/src/UserManagement/email/NodeMailer.ts

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 /* eslint-disable @typescript-eslint/no-unsafe-assignment */
 import { createTransport, Transporter } from 'nodemailer';
 import { ErrorReporterProxy as ErrorReporter, LoggerProxy as Logger } from 'n8n-workflow';
-import * as config from '@/config';
+import config from '@/config';
 import { MailData, SendEmailResult, UserManagementMailerImplementation } from './Interfaces';
 
 export class NodeMailer implements UserManagementMailerImplementation {

packages/cli/src/config/index.ts

@@ -1,28 +1,55 @@
+/* eslint-disable @typescript-eslint/naming-convention */
 /* eslint-disable @typescript-eslint/unbound-method */
 /* eslint-disable no-console */
 import convict from 'convict';
 import dotenv from 'dotenv';
+import { tmpdir } from 'os';
+import { mkdtempSync } from 'fs';
+import { join } from 'path';
 import { schema } from './schema';
 
-dotenv.config();
+const inE2ETests = process.env.E2E_TESTS === 'true';
+
+if (inE2ETests) {
+	// Skip loading config from env variables in end-to-end tests
+	process.env = {
+		N8N_USER_FOLDER: mkdtempSync(join(tmpdir(), 'n8n-e2e-')),
+		N8N_DIAGNOSTICS_ENABLED: 'false',
+		N8N_PUBLIC_API_DISABLED: 'true',
+		EXTERNAL_FRONTEND_HOOKS_URLS: '',
+		N8N_PERSONALIZATION_ENABLED: 'false',
+	};
+} else {
+	dotenv.config();
+}
 
 const config = convict(schema);
 
+if (inE2ETests) {
+	config.set('enterprise.features.sharing', true);
+	config.set('enterprise.workflowSharingEnabled', true);
+}
+
 config.getEnv = config.get;
 
-// Overwrite default configuration with settings which got defined in
+if (!inE2ETests) {
-// optional configuration files
+	// Overwrite default configuration with settings which got defined in
-if (process.env.N8N_CONFIG_FILES !== undefined) {
+	// optional configuration files
-	const configFiles = process.env.N8N_CONFIG_FILES.split(',');
+	const { N8N_CONFIG_FILES, NODE_ENV } = process.env;
-	if (process.env.NODE_ENV !== 'test') {
+	if (N8N_CONFIG_FILES !== undefined) {
-		console.log(`\nLoading configuration overwrites from:\n - ${configFiles.join('\n - ')}\n`);
+		const configFiles = N8N_CONFIG_FILES.split(',');
-	}
+		if (NODE_ENV !== 'test') {
+			console.log(`\nLoading configuration overwrites from:\n - ${configFiles.join('\n - ')}\n`);
+		}
 
-	config.loadFile(configFiles);
+		config.loadFile(configFiles);
+	}
 }
 
 config.validate({
 	allowed: 'strict',
 });
 
-export = config;
+// eslint-disable-next-line import/no-default-export
+export default config;
+export type Config = typeof config;

packages/core/src/UserSettings.ts

@@ -229,14 +229,7 @@ export function getUserSettingsPath(): string {
  *
  */
 export function getUserN8nFolderPath(): string {
-	let userFolder;
+	return path.join(getUserHome(), USER_SETTINGS_SUBFOLDER);
-	if (process.env[USER_FOLDER_ENV_OVERWRITE] !== undefined) {
-		userFolder = process.env[USER_FOLDER_ENV_OVERWRITE];
-	} else {
-		userFolder = getUserHome();
-	}
-
-	return path.join(userFolder, USER_SETTINGS_SUBFOLDER);
 }
 
 /**
@@ -264,16 +257,19 @@ export function getUserN8nFolderDownloadedNodesPath(): string {
  *
  */
 export function getUserHome(): string {
-	let variableName = 'HOME';
+	if (process.env[USER_FOLDER_ENV_OVERWRITE] !== undefined) {
-	if (process.platform === 'win32') {
+		return process.env[USER_FOLDER_ENV_OVERWRITE];
-		variableName = 'USERPROFILE';
+	} else {
-	}
+		let variableName = 'HOME';
+		if (process.platform === 'win32') {
+			variableName = 'USERPROFILE';
+		}
 
-	if (process.env[variableName] === undefined) {
+		if (process.env[variableName] === undefined) {
-		// If for some reason the variable does not exist
+			// If for some reason the variable does not exist
-		// fall back to current folder
+			// fall back to current folder
-		return process.cwd();
+			return process.cwd();
+		}
+		return process.env[variableName] as string;
 	}
-
-	return process.env[variableName] as string;
 }