Windows+WSL2: npm process is very slow in Docker Compose

[akauppi]

Preparation:

• normal npm install in the root and ´packages/backend`
• add this line in backend/docker-compose.yml, after the warm-up npm command:

   npm run dc:warm-up &&
   echo "[DEBUG] Warmed up, opening port 6768" &&

Steps:

• within packages/backend:

$ docker compose up warm-up --abort-on-container-exit

Expectation:

• The warm-up tests should pass, the echo should be seen
• Port 6768 should be opened

Actual:

• Execution does not proceed from the npm command

This means warmed-up times out, npm test doesn't work etc.

Docker Desktop for Windows 4.0.1

[akauppi]

Between Jest having written "Ran all the tests", and it returning the process to npm is where there's a WEIRD 30+ s pause on Windows+WSL2. It does eventually return. Likely some timeout within Jest, but which???

Docker Desktop for Windows 4.0.1
Jest 27.2.0 (also happens with 27.1.1)

Work-around for now: increased warm-up timeout to 2 min in DC.

• Report this to Jest, with reproducible instructions (could also test on another Windows machine)

[akauppi]

There still is the strange pause (next.jun22 branch).

$ LOGS_PATH=./logs FUNCTIONS_PORT=5002 docker compose up warm-up --abort-on-container-exit

..seems to start warm-up normally.

$ npm test

# 20s: "backend-warm-up-1 Started"
# 3m17s: tests start
# 3m30s: tests end; success

What goes on within that 3 min?

Once/if solved, reduce start_period in packages/backend/docker-compose.yml and remove a comment there.

Note: This only affects cold starts (all Docker containers are down).

[akauppi]

•  What's the current situation?

[akauppi]

The strange behaviour still seems to be there, though the above instructions no longer apply for reproduction.

Looks like a Jest exit timeout. (Jest 29.3.0)

[akauppi]

Adding --forceExit to the Jest flags helps. Note that --detectOpenHandles gives no indication what the problematic resources would be. likely keeping the work-around, because it makes for a better initial developer experience.

[akauppi]

The Jest issue is this.

Complex. The current gut feeling is, it has to do with firebase-prime and could be counteracted by the snippet in that issue here.

Immediate work-around

Adding --forceExit to the calling of the Jest works, cutting Jest process execution from 1:26s to 15s (measured by time preceding the Jest command). Tempting to leave it ... but solving it within the tests would be nicer!