There are a few issues encountered when running `yarn setup` on new
Apple Silicon (aka M1, aka arm64) Macs:
* The script halts when attempting to run the install step for
the `chromedriver` package with the message "Only Mac 64 bits
supported". This is somewhat misleading as it seems to indicate that
chromedriver can only be installed on a 64-bit Mac. However, what I
think is happening is that the installation script for `chromedriver`
is not able to detect that an arm64 CPU *is* a 64-bit CPU. After
looking through the `chromedriver` repo, it appears that 87.0.1 is the
first version that adds a proper check ([1]).
Note that upgrading chromedriver caused the Chrome-specific tests to
fail intermittently on CI. I was not able to 100% work out the reason
for this, but ensuring that X (which provides a way for Chrome to run
in a GUI setting from the command line) is available seems to fix
these issues.
* The script also halts when attempting to run the install step for
the `electron` package. This happens because for the version of
`electron` we are using (9.4.2), there is no available binary for
arm64. It appears that Electron 11.x was the first version to support
arm64 Macs ([2]). This is a bit trickier to resolve because we don't
explicitly rely on `electron` — that's brought in by `react-devtools`.
The first version of `react-devtools` that relies on `electron` 11.x
is 4.11.0 ([3]).
[1]: 469dd0a6ee
[2]: https://www.electronjs.org/blog/apple-silicon
[3]: https://github.com/facebook/react/blob/main/packages/react-devtools/CHANGELOG.md#4110-april-9-2021
There are a few issues encountered when running `yarn setup` on new
Apple Silicon (aka M1, aka arm64) Macs:
* The script halts when attempting to run the install step for
the `chromedriver` package with the message "Only Mac 64 bits
supported". This is somewhat misleading as it seems to indicate that
chromedriver can only be installed on a 64-bit Mac. However, what I
think is happening is that the installation script for `chromedriver`
is not able to detect that an arm64 CPU *is* a 64-bit CPU. After
looking through the `chromedriver` repo, it appears that 87.0.1 is the
first version that adds a proper check ([1]).
Note that upgrading chromedriver caused the Chrome-specific tests to
fail intermittently on CI. I was not able to 100% work out the reason
for this, but ensuring that X (which provides a way for Chrome to run
in a GUI setting from the command line) is available seems to fix
these issues.
* The script also halts when attempting to run the install step for
the `electron` package. This happens because for the version of
`electron` we are using (9.4.2), there is no available binary for
arm64. It appears that Electron 11.x was the first version to support
arm64 Macs ([2]). This is a bit trickier to resolve because we don't
explicitly rely on `electron` — that's brought in by `react-devtools`.
The first version of `react-devtools` that relies on `electron` 11.x
is 4.11.0 ([3]).
[1]: 469dd0a6ee
[2]: https://www.electronjs.org/blog/apple-silicon
[3]: https://github.com/facebook/react/blob/main/packages/react-devtools/CHANGELOG.md#4110-april-9-2021
* Add `--leave-running` flag to E2E test script
The `--leave-running` flag has been added to the E2E test runner. This
ensures the browser, ganache, and everything else stays running upon
test failure. This is useful for local debugging, for investigating
what state the extension was in when it failed.
* Add `--leave-running` support to `metamask-ui.spec.js`
This script makes it easier to run an individual E2E test. In the past
I've run individual scripts by editing `run-all.sh` manually, but now
that can be done more easily with this script. It also allows setting
the number of retries to use and the browser to use from the CLI.
This script has been added as an npm script as well, called
'test:e2e:single'.
The `run-all.sh` script was rewritten in JavaScript to make it easier
to pass through a `--retries` argument.
The default number of retries has been set to zero to make local
testing easier. It has been set to 2 on CI.
This was mainly done to consolidate the code used to run an E2E test in
one place, to make later improvements easier.
Elliot Winkler
Mark Stacey