Build will not run properly if there is a hidden directory in the path

[cyress]

First of all, I would like to thank you for this great project! ✌️

If the path to the current working directory contains a hidden directory (e.g. .fractal-workspace), the build process will not find the fractal components and the static export will not correct generated.

Steps to reproduce the issue

1. Create a new hidden directory, e.g. in your user home directory.
   mkdir -p .fractal-workspace/main && cd .fractal-workspace/main
2. Initialise project
   npm init -y && npm install --save @frctl/fractal
3. Create Fractal project skeleton
   ./node_modules/.bin/fractal new test-project
   Answer all questions with yes (hit Enter)
4. Set builder destination path in config
   cd test-project/ && echo "fractal.web.set('builder.dest', path.join(__dirname, 'build'));" >> fractal.config.js
5. Run Fractal build-process
   NODE_ENV=debug ./node_modules/.bin/fractal build

Current result

• The example component of the skeleton project isn't generated in the /build folder and also not referenced in the exported html files (e.g. index.html).
• Only 6 items to be exported are found, but there must be 9.

⚑ Finished parsing components directory
⚑ Finished parsing docs directory
✔ Build started...
⚑ Exported '/' ==> '/index.html'
⚑ Exported 1 of 6 items
⚑ Exported 2 of 6 items
⚑ Exported 3 of 6 items
⚑ Exported 5 of 6 items
⚑ Exported 6 of 6 items
⚑ Copied '/Users/ms/.fractal-workspace/main/test-project/node_modules/@frctl/mandelbrot/dist' ==> '/Users/ms/.fractal-workspace/main/test-project/build/themes/mandelbrot'
✔ Build finished with no errors.

Expected result

• If the path to the current working directory does not contain a hidden directory, the build process will run as expected and the example component will be generated.
• You can just rename the folder for testing: cd ../../../ && mv .fractal-workspace fractal-workspace && cd fractal-workspace/main/test-project
• And run the build again: NODE_ENV=debug ./node_modules/.bin/fractal build

⚑ Finished parsing docs directory
⚑ Finished parsing components directory
✔ Build started...
⚑ Exported '/assets' ==> '/assets.html'
⚑ Exported 1 of 9 items
⚑ Exported 2 of 9 items
⚑ Exported 3 of 9 items
⚑ Exported 5 of 9 items
⚑ Copied '/Users/ms/fractal-workspace/main/test-project/public' ==> '/Users/ms/fractal-workspace/main/test-project/build'
⚑ Exported 6 of 9 items
⚑ Exported 7 of 9 items
⚑ Exported 9 of 9 items
⚑ Copied '/Users/ms/fractal-workspace/main/test-project/node_modules/@frctl/mandelbrot/dist' ==> '/Users/ms/fractal-workspace/main/test-project/build/themes/mandelbrot'
✔ Build finished with no errors.

Reproduces how often:
Always

Context

• Fractal version: 1.5.11
• Node version: v16.8.0
• OS: macOS 12.0.1 and Debian 11

[cyress]

Hello fractal devs! I hope you are well.
It would be great if you could have a look at this deviant behavior or possibly give a brief initial assessment as far as possible.
Thanks in advance!

[mihkeleidast]

Hey, thanks for the report. I haven't had a chance to investigate or analyze this yet and quite frankly cannot promise when I can do so. I do remember something similar from the past, but did not manage to find it as of yet.

Can you maybe help prioritize this a bit - how important is the fix, can you use a workaround etc?

[cyress]

Thanks for your feedback!

It is not that urgent and i have already implemented a temporary workaround.
However, since it took me a few hours to figure out why the Fractal build process runs successfully, but no components are generated during the deployment, I thought it couldn't hurt to ask again. Also in the hope that others will be spared this in the future.

The workaround is, that i copied the normal GitLab Runner for projects with Fractal Integration and adjusted the configurations so that the build process is not executed in a hidden directory.
However, this means that changes to the runner- or deployment-configuration always have to be made in two places.
So this is not the optimal long-term solution, but it works for now.