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siftlode/frontend/e2e
peter 6d8b7be6d8 feat!: remove the shared demo account
The demo account — one shared user that whitelisted emails entered from
the login page, reset on a schedule — goes end to end (owner decision,
E34): demo.py and the reset job, users.is_demo and demo_whitelist
(migration 0098 deletes the demo user, its audit rows, the reset job's
override and notices, then drops the column and table; the downgrade
restores the empty schema), the /auth/demo entry, the admin whitelist and
reset, the Demo tab, the banner, the login page's "Try the demo", and
every is_demo branch in routes, userscope, scheduler and the UI.

require_human only ever refused the demo account, so its 87 uses become
current_user (owner-approved); require_write_scope keeps its own check.
The login page's "or" divider now shows only beside the Google button:
without the demo entry under it, an instance without Google would have
said "or" to nothing.

A contract test (removedFeatures) fails on the word anywhere in the
backend, frontend, e2e or scripts — seen red on a planted hit. Size
ceilings tightened for the modules that shrank; admin.py is back under
the limit.
2026-10-05 00:19:38 +02:00
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E2E characterization (golden-master) net

Playwright tests that lock the app's five core flows — feed (scroll + filter), channel (open → back), player (open/close), settings (dirty-save + guard), and page switching — so the Platform refactor can prove it changed nothing. They assert current, correct behavior; they deliberately do not encode the known Platform bugs (those get their own specs when the sprints that fix them land).

Run

siftlode e2e            # against the baked localdev :8080 stack (authoritative)
siftlode e2e-ui         # same, Playwright UI mode
siftlode e2e-seed       # (re)seed the test account only, no tests

The localdev stack must be up (siftlode dev). global.setup.ts reseeds the account and logs in once, sharing the session via e2e/.auth/state.json (git-ignored).

Browsers — every flow runs in three projects: chromium (Desktop Chrome), webkit (Desktop Safari) and ipad (iPad gen 7 landscape: 1080×810, touch, mobile). Install the engines once per machine with npx playwright install chromium webkit; run one project with npx playwright test --project=ipad. WebKit catches what every iOS browser inherits from the engine (JS, CSS/layout, event order). It does not reproduce iPad media refusals: Playwright's WebKit decodes through the host OS (Media Foundation on Windows, GStreamer on Linux), and measured on 2026-09-14 it played an mp3-in-mp4 and an AV1 mp4 that a real iPad refuses. Check a media format on a real iPad against the dev stack over the LAN (http://<desktop LAN IP>:8080, e.g. a login-free /watch/<token> share link).

Target — PW_BASE_URL (default http://127.0.0.1:8080):

  • :8080 (baked SPA) is authoritative and same-origin. After a frontend change you must siftlode dev (rebuild) for its baked SPA to carry the latest test hooks.

  • :5173 (Vite dev) serves source live — the fast refactor loop; it proxies /api to :8080, so the stack must still be up. All five flows are proxy-safe (none use the WebSocket):

    PW_BASE_URL=http://localhost:5173 siftlode e2e
    

Account & fixture

Tests run as a dedicated admin account e2e@siftlode.local (never a real account; admin so the suite can reach the admin-only pages / render branches, matching the real primary user), reset to a deterministic baseline every run by scripts/e2e_seed.py (run in-container so it reuses the app's models + argon2 hasher): the top-3 organic channels subscribed, one in-progress + one watched + one saved video, prefs pinned to language: en. Credentials come from E2E_EMAIL (default e2e@siftlode.local) and E2E_PASSWORD — required, no default: run the suite through the ops wrapper, which exports it from the secret store. Override the container name with E2E_API_CONTAINER; skip the in-container seed with E2E_SKIP_SEED=1.

Selectors

The app has no data-testids of its own and all copy is i18n (en/hu), so the specs key on a thin data-testid layer (added with this sprint) plus the locale pinned to en. Stable ARIA hooks that already existed are used directly (role="dialog" on the player, aria-current="page" on the active nav row, aria-pressed on the feed toggles).

Typecheck

npx tsc -p e2e/tsconfig.json --noEmit (the specs are outside the app's src tsconfig).