- We currently have 2 boot systems in the codebase, until now the tests were still running against the old one
- Regression tests using the forceStart + subdir flag no longer work. These need reworking, but this _should_ be easier later
- Note those tests work fine if they were the first tests run, it is only the case of trying to restart the server with a subdirectory after starting without that doesn't work
- Currently the new boot process breaks the loading of inactive themes because the theme loader event isn't wired until after the server.start event is fired
- This is a WIP fix, there needs to be some bigger refactoring of the boot process once the old process is gone
refs 0b79abf5b2
- in the referenced commit, we refactored the boot code to simplify it
- one of the required files was not updated with the change, so the path
was wrong
- this wouldn't have been easily visible from local testing because it's
based upon a config flag that isn't on by default
- this commit updates the path to the file
Background:
- Ghosts existing boot process is split across multiple files, has affordances for outdated ways of running Ghost and is generally non-linear making it nigh-impossible to follow
- The web of dependencies that are loaded on boot are also impossible to unpick, which makes it really hard to decouple Ghost
- With 4.0 we want to introduce a new, linear, simpler, clearer way to boot up Ghost to unlock decoupling Ghost into much smaller pieces
This commit:
- adds a new ghost.js file which switches between boot mode with `node index` or `node index old` so that if we find bugs we can work around them this week
- Note: the old boot process will go away very soon, but ghost.js will remain as the interface between the command to start Ghost and the application code
- reworks the database migration process into a standalone utility, so that the DB is handled as one simple step of the boot process, decoupled from everything else
- is missing tests for this new db utility
- leaves a lot of work to do around loading core code, services, express apps in a sensible order, as work to fix this would start to break the old boot process
- doesn't use the new maintenance app because we aren't restarting the server here, instead we have the concept of a "core app" that starts in maintenance mode - need to think about how apps will be decoupled in the near future
