build: Update nightly version to avoid caching issues

.github/workflows/main.yml

@@ -44,6 +44,8 @@ jobs:
         run: npm ci
       - name: Update build info
         run: npm run update-build-info
+      - name: Update nightly version
+        run: npm run ci-update-nightly-version
       - name: Run electron-forge
         run: npm run make-electron -- --arch=${{ matrix.arch }}
       - name: Prepare artifacts (Unix)

bin/update-nightly-version.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+/**
+ * @module
+ * 
+ * The nightly version works uses the version described in `package.json`, just like any release.
+ * The problem with this approach is that production builds have a very aggressive cache, and
+ * usually running the nightly with this cached version of the application will mean that the
+ * user might run into module not found errors or styling errors caused by an old cache.
+ * 
+ * This script is supposed to be run in the CI, which will update locally the version field of
+ * `package.json` to contain the date. For example, `0.90.9-beta` will become `0.90.9-nightly-20241102-092832`.
+ * 
+ */
+
+import { fileURLToPath } from "url";
+import { dirname, join } from "path";
+import fs from "fs";
+
+function processVersion(version) {
+    // Remove the beta suffix if any.
+    version = version.replace("-beta", "");
+
+    // Add the nightly suffix, plus the date.
+    const referenceDate = new Date()
+        .toISOString()
+        .substring(0, 19)
+        .replace(/[-:]*/g, "")
+        .replace("T", "-");
+    version = `${version}-nightly-${referenceDate}`;
+
+    return version;
+}
+
+function main() {
+    const scriptDir = dirname(fileURLToPath(import.meta.url));
+    const packageJsonPath = join(scriptDir, "..", "package.json");
+    
+    // Read the version from package.json and process it.
+    const packageJson = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(packageJsonPath, "utf-8"));
+    const currentVersion = packageJson.version;
+    const adjustedVersion = processVersion(currentVersion);
+    console.log("Current version is", currentVersion);
+    console.log("Adjusted version is", adjustedVersion);
+
+    // Write the adjusted version back in.
+    packageJson.version = adjustedVersion;
+    const formattedJson = JSON.stringify(packageJson, null, 4);    
+    fs.writeFileSync(packageJsonPath, formattedJson);
+}
+
+main();

package.json

@@ -46,7 +46,8 @@
     "integration-edit-db": "cross-env TRILIUM_INTEGRATION_TEST=edit TRILIUM_PORT=8081 TRILIUM_DATA_DIR=./integration-tests/db nodemon src/main.ts",
     "integration-mem-db": "cross-env TRILIUM_INTEGRATION_TEST=memory TRILIUM_PORT=8082 TRILIUM_DATA_DIR=./integration-tests/db nodemon src/main.ts",
     "integration-mem-db-dev": "cross-env TRILIUM_INTEGRATION_TEST=memory TRILIUM_PORT=8082 TRILIUM_ENV=dev TRILIUM_DATA_DIR=./integration-tests/db nodemon src/main.ts",
-    "generate-document": "cross-env nodemon src/tools/generate_document.ts 1000"
+    "generate-document": "cross-env nodemon src/tools/generate_document.ts 1000",
+    "ci-update-nightly-version": "tsx ./bin/update-nightly-version.ts"
   },
   "dependencies": {
     "@braintree/sanitize-url": "7.1.0",