import * as localtunnel from 'localtunnel'; import { TUNNEL_SUBDOMAIN_ENV, UserSettings, } from "n8n-core"; import { Command, flags } from '@oclif/command'; const open = require('open'); // import { dirname } from 'path'; import * as config from '../config'; import { ActiveWorkflowRunner, CredentialTypes, Db, GenericHelpers, LoadNodesAndCredentials, NodeTypes, Server, TestWebhooks, } from "../src"; // // Add support for internationalization // const fullIcuPath = require.resolve('full-icu'); // process.env.NODE_ICU_DATA = dirname(fullIcuPath); let activeWorkflowRunner: ActiveWorkflowRunner.ActiveWorkflowRunner | undefined; let processExistCode = 0; export class Start extends Command { static description = 'Starts n8n. Makes Web-UI available and starts active workflows'; static examples = [ `$ n8n start`, `$ n8n start --tunnel`, `$ n8n start -o`, `$ n8n start --tunnel -o`, ]; static flags = { help: flags.help({ char: 'h' }), open: flags.boolean({ char: 'o', description: 'opens the UI automatically in browser', }), tunnel: flags.boolean({ description: 'runs the webhooks via a hooks.n8n.cloud tunnel server. Use only for testing and development!', }), }; /** * Opens the UI in browser */ static openBrowser() { const editorUrl = GenericHelpers.getBaseUrl(); open(editorUrl, { wait: true }) .catch((error: Error) => { console.log(`\nWas not able to open URL in browser. Please open manually by visiting:\n${editorUrl}\n`); }); } /** * Stoppes the n8n in a graceful way. * Make for example sure that all the webhooks from third party services * get removed. */ static async stopProcess() { console.log(`\nStopping n8n...`); setTimeout(() => { // In case that something goes wrong with shutdown we // kill after max. 30 seconds no matter what process.exit(processExistCode); }, 30000); const removePromises = []; if (activeWorkflowRunner !== undefined) { removePromises.push(activeWorkflowRunner.removeAll()); } // Remove all test webhooks const testWebhooks = TestWebhooks.getInstance(); removePromises.push(testWebhooks.removeAll()); await Promise.all(removePromises); process.exit(processExistCode); } async run() { // Make sure that n8n shuts down gracefully if possible process.on('SIGTERM', Start.stopProcess); process.on('SIGINT', Start.stopProcess); const { flags } = this.parse(Start); // Wrap that the process does not close but we can still use async (async () => { try { // Start directly with the init of the database to improve startup time const startDbInitPromise = Db.init(); // Make sure the settings exist const userSettings = await UserSettings.prepareUserSettings(); // Load all node and credential types const loadNodesAndCredentials = LoadNodesAndCredentials(); await loadNodesAndCredentials.init(); // Add the found types to an instance other parts of the application can use const nodeTypes = NodeTypes(); await nodeTypes.init(loadNodesAndCredentials.nodeTypes); const credentialTypes = CredentialTypes(); await credentialTypes.init(loadNodesAndCredentials.credentialTypes); // Wait till the database is ready await startDbInitPromise; if (flags.tunnel === true) { this.log('\nWaiting for tunnel ...'); let tunnelSubdomain; if (process.env[TUNNEL_SUBDOMAIN_ENV] !== undefined && process.env[TUNNEL_SUBDOMAIN_ENV] !== '') { tunnelSubdomain = process.env[TUNNEL_SUBDOMAIN_ENV]; } else if (userSettings.tunnelSubdomain !== undefined) { tunnelSubdomain = userSettings.tunnelSubdomain; } if (tunnelSubdomain === undefined) { // When no tunnel subdomain did exist yet create a new random one const availableCharacters = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789'; userSettings.tunnelSubdomain = Array.from({ length: 24 }).map(() => { return availableCharacters.charAt(Math.floor(Math.random() * availableCharacters.length)); }).join(''); await UserSettings.writeUserSettings(userSettings); } const tunnelSettings: localtunnel.TunnelConfig = { host: 'https://hooks.n8n.cloud', subdomain: tunnelSubdomain, }; const port = config.get('port') as number; // @ts-ignore const webhookTunnel = await localtunnel(port, tunnelSettings); process.env.WEBHOOK_TUNNEL_URL = webhookTunnel.url + '/'; this.log(`Tunnel URL: ${process.env.WEBHOOK_TUNNEL_URL}\n`); this.log('IMPORTANT! Do not share with anybody as it would give people access to your n8n instance!'); } await Server.start(); // Start to get active workflows and run their triggers activeWorkflowRunner = ActiveWorkflowRunner.getInstance(); await activeWorkflowRunner.init(); const editorUrl = GenericHelpers.getBaseUrl(); this.log(`\nEditor is now accessible via:\n${editorUrl}`); // Allow to open n8n editor by pressing "o" if (Boolean(process.stdout.isTTY) && process.stdin.setRawMode) { process.stdin.setRawMode(true); process.stdin.resume(); process.stdin.setEncoding('utf8'); let inputText = ''; if (flags.open === true) { Start.openBrowser(); } this.log(`\nPress "o" to open in Browser.`); process.stdin.on("data", (key: string) => { if (key === 'o') { Start.openBrowser(); inputText = ''; } else if (key.charCodeAt(0) === 3) { // Ctrl + c got pressed Start.stopProcess(); } else { // When anything else got pressed, record it and send it on enter into the child process if (key.charCodeAt(0) === 13) { // send to child process and print in terminal process.stdout.write('\n'); inputText = ''; } else { // record it and write into terminal inputText += key; process.stdout.write(key); } } }); } } catch (error) { this.error(`There was an error: ${error.message}`); processExistCode = 1; // @ts-ignore process.emit('SIGINT'); } })(); } }