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Cache browsers locally instead of globally#106

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Closes #77

Now the browser instance cache file is stored in the pleasantest folder rather than globally (previously it was /Users/<user>/Library/Application\ Support/pleasantest-nodejs/config.json. Now it is stored as a sibling to the dist folder.

This solves several problems:

  • If someone is having issues with cached browsers and wants to start fresh browsers instead of continuing to use whatever was wrong, now if they run npm ci, they will get fresh browsers
  • If someone has multiple versions of puppeteer (/ multiple versions of pleasantest) installed, there are no longer issues with the cache returning a browser whose version is mismatched with puppeteer's version.

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// I acknowledge that this code is gross and should be refactored
// Constraints:
// - If there is no browser in the config, multiple concurrent processes should only start 1 new browser
// - If there is a killed browser in the config, multiple concurrent processes should only start 1 new browser
// - If there "starting" in the config but nothing is really starting, multiple concurrent processes should only start 1 new browser
// - If there is no browser in the cache, multiple concurrent processes should only start 1 new browser
// - If there is a killed browser in the cache, multiple concurrent processes should only start 1 new browser
// - If there "starting" in the cache but nothing is really starting, multiple concurrent processes should only start 1 new browser
// TODO: Idea: use a state machine!!!
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This code is still pretty gross, but it has held together way better than I expected. I'm leaving this comment here because I would still like to come back and rewrite it, but for the time being it works and is pretty resilient and "robust enough".

import { fileURLToPath } from 'url';

const readConfig = async (configPath: string) => {
const readCache = async (cachePath: string) => {
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Renamed all the things config -> cache because cache is more descriptive of what it actually is. I think at one point I had planned to put other stuff than browser cache URL's in that file, but not anymore.

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LGTM 👍

@calebeby calebeby merged commit 994b810 into main Jun 16, 2021
@calebeby calebeby deleted the local-browser-cache branch June 16, 2021 19:44
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Cached browser config should be stored in node_modules

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