discourse/.github/workflows/ember-version-lockfiles.yml
David Taylor 16b6e86932 DEV: Introduce feature-flag for Ember 5 upgrade
This commit introduces the scaffolding for us to easily switch between Ember 3.28 and Ember 5 on the `main` branch of Discourse. Unfortunately, there is no built-in system to apply this kind of flagging within yarn / ember-cli. There are projects like `ember-try` which are designed for running against multiple version of a dependency, but they do not allow us to 'lock' dependency/sub-dependency versions, and are therefore unsuitable for our use in production.

Instead, we will be maintaining two root `package.json` files, and two `yarn.lock` files. For ember-3, they remain as-is. For ember5, we use a yarn 'resolution' to override the version for ember-source across the entire yarn workspace.

To allow for easy switching with minimal diff against the repository, `package.json` and `yarn.lock` are symlinks which point to `package-ember3.json` and `yarn-ember3.lock` by default. To switch to Ember 5, we can run `script/switch ember version 5` to update the symlinks to point to `package-ember5.json` and `package-ember3.json` respectively. In production, and when using `bin/ember-cli` for development, the ember version can also be upgraded using the `EMBER_VERSION=5` environment variable.

When making changes to dependencies, these should be made against the default `ember3` versions, and then `script/regen_ember_5_lockfile` should be used to regenerate `yarn-ember5.lock` accordingly. A new 'Ember Version Lockfiles' GitHub workflow will automate this process on Dependabot PRs.

When running a local environment against Ember 5, the two symlink changes will show up as git diffs. To avoid us accidentally committing/pushing that change, another GitHub workflow is introduced which checks the default Ember version and raises an error if it is greater than v3.

Supporting two ember versions simultaneously obviously carries significant overhead, so our aim will be to get themes/plugins updated as quickly as possible, and then drop this flag.
2023-11-27 16:40:22 +00:00

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# This workflow will run on dependabot pull requests to ensure that they update both the ember3 and ember5 lockfiles
name: Ember Version Lockfiles
on:
- pull_request
permissions:
contents: write
jobs:
help_dependabot:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
if: ${{ github.actor == 'dependabot[bot]' }}
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v4
with:
ref: ${{ github.head_ref }}
- name: Move lockfile to correct location
run: |
# Dependabot gets confused by the symlinks and dumps the updated lockfile in the root of the repo.
# Let's move it back to the correct location.
if [[ -f yarn-ember3.lock ]]; then
mv yarn-ember3.lock app/assets/javascripts/yarn-ember3.lock
fi
- name: Update ember5 lockfile
run: script/regen_ember_5_lockfile
- name: Push changes
env:
GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
run: |
if [ ! -z "$(git status --porcelain)" ]; then
git config --global user.email "build@discourse.org"
git config --global user.name "discoursebuild"
git add .
git commit -m "Update lockfiles for ember version flag"
git push
fi