- done a fastest-possible overhaul on this style of tests to try to get them to work independently again
This is a pattern that was introduced a while ago to try to speed up our e2e tests and I'm not sure if it's staying or going
It uses a minimal frontend-only version of the boot process and a custom-built express testing tool
However it's really old and out of date because of the boot refactor and several changes since
This highlights the key problem with it - it doesn't rely on any of our "core" boot process, it makes it up, and therefore how reliable are these tests?
Ideally we need to get these tests working with the real boot process in some capacity
We would then need to make sure we have all the tests in e2e-frontend written in this style
refs https://linear.app/tryghost/issue/CORE-35/refactor-route-and-redirect-settings
- Frontend is not meant to know about the underlying source of the "routes" configuration, so any reads/edits/validations are being moved into a backend service. This should also simplify the coupling of the backend with the frontend where the latter will get a JSON blob with all needed configuration during the boot
- Nother problem the "get" method had was hiding an underlying function it was doing - reading the file from the filesystem SYNCRONOUSLY. It might be a thing we need to do during the "web" app initialization, but there's no clear need to do this in a sync fassion during the bootup for example. Also having a more explicit name should help :)
refs https://github.com/TryGhost/Team/issues/948
- When working on related problem noticed these declarations were scattered all over the place in the test without special purpose. Moved them all up into a central "once per suite" stub. Not sure if this subing is working at all, but at least it will be easier to change it once per suite in the future once someone spots a problem with this approach
