feat: optimize frontend CI with shared setup job (#10286)

# Change details
- **Before**: Each job separately installs dependencies (~4 redundant
installations)
  ### Massive Redundancy in Setup Steps
  Each job repeats these SAME 4 steps:
  - Checkout repository
  - Set up Node.js (version 21) 
  - Enable corepack
  - Install dependencies (pnpm install --frozen-lockfile)
  
  This happens 4+ times across different jobs:

   -  lint job
    - type-check job
    - chromatic job
    - test job (runs 2x due to matrix strategy)
    
   ### No Dependency Caching
  No caching strategy - downloads packages fresh every time
   - Every workflow run downloads all packages from scratch
   - No benefit from previous runs, even with identical pnpm-lock.yaml


- **After**: Dependencies installed once in setup job, cached and reused

This optimization maintains all existing CI functionality while
significantly improving pipeline efficiency.
A workflow run example is dispatched:
https://github.com/souhailaS/AutoGPT/actions/workflows/platform-frontend-ci.yml


## Additional Context 
We are a team of researchers from University of Zurich
(https://www.ifi.uzh.ch/en/zest.html) currently **working on automating
energy optimizations in GitHub Actions workflows**. This optimization
maintains full functionality while significantly reducing computational
overhead and energy consumption.

souhaila.serbout@uzh.ch
This commit is contained in:
SOUHAILA SERBOUT
2025-07-02 12:02:19 +02:00
committed by GitHub
parent 47f503f223
commit e2bd727798

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@@ -18,11 +18,14 @@ defaults:
working-directory: autogpt_platform/frontend
jobs:
lint:
setup:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
outputs:
cache-key: ${{ steps.cache-key.outputs.key }}
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v4
- name: Checkout repository
uses: actions/checkout@v4
- name: Set up Node.js
uses: actions/setup-node@v4
@@ -32,6 +35,45 @@ jobs:
- name: Enable corepack
run: corepack enable
- name: Generate cache key
id: cache-key
run: echo "key=${{ runner.os }}-pnpm-${{ hashFiles('**/pnpm-lock.yaml') }}" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
- name: Cache dependencies
uses: actions/cache@v4
with:
path: ~/.pnpm-store
key: ${{ steps.cache-key.outputs.key }}
restore-keys: |
${{ runner.os }}-pnpm-
- name: Install dependencies
run: pnpm install --frozen-lockfile
lint:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
needs: setup
steps:
- name: Checkout repository
uses: actions/checkout@v4
- name: Set up Node.js
uses: actions/setup-node@v4
with:
node-version: "21"
- name: Enable corepack
run: corepack enable
- name: Restore dependencies cache
uses: actions/cache@v4
with:
path: ~/.pnpm-store
key: ${{ needs.setup.outputs.cache-key }}
restore-keys: |
${{ runner.os }}-pnpm-
- name: Install dependencies
run: pnpm install --frozen-lockfile
@@ -40,9 +82,11 @@ jobs:
type-check:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
needs: setup
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v4
- name: Checkout repository
uses: actions/checkout@v4
- name: Set up Node.js
uses: actions/setup-node@v4
@@ -52,6 +96,14 @@ jobs:
- name: Enable corepack
run: corepack enable
- name: Restore dependencies cache
uses: actions/cache@v4
with:
path: ~/.pnpm-store
key: ${{ needs.setup.outputs.cache-key }}
restore-keys: |
${{ runner.os }}-pnpm-
- name: Install dependencies
run: pnpm install --frozen-lockfile
@@ -60,10 +112,13 @@ jobs:
chromatic:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
needs: setup
# Only run on dev branch pushes or PRs targeting dev
if: github.ref == 'refs/heads/dev' || github.base_ref == 'dev'
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v4
- name: Checkout repository
uses: actions/checkout@v4
with:
fetch-depth: 0
@@ -75,6 +130,14 @@ jobs:
- name: Enable corepack
run: corepack enable
- name: Restore dependencies cache
uses: actions/cache@v4
with:
path: ~/.pnpm-store
key: ${{ needs.setup.outputs.cache-key }}
restore-keys: |
${{ runner.os }}-pnpm-
- name: Install dependencies
run: pnpm install --frozen-lockfile
@@ -88,6 +151,7 @@ jobs:
test:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
needs: setup
strategy:
fail-fast: false
matrix:
@@ -125,6 +189,14 @@ jobs:
run: |
docker compose -f ../docker-compose.yml up -d
- name: Restore dependencies cache
uses: actions/cache@v4
with:
path: ~/.pnpm-store
key: ${{ needs.setup.outputs.cache-key }}
restore-keys: |
${{ runner.os }}-pnpm-
- name: Install dependencies
run: pnpm install --frozen-lockfile