move staticCacheDir to InstanceSettings

packages/cli/src/Server.ts

@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ import {
 	LoadMappingOptions,
 	LoadNodeParameterOptions,
 	LoadNodeListSearch,
+	InstanceSettings,
 } from 'n8n-core';
 
 import type {
@@ -59,7 +60,6 @@ import { getSharedWorkflowIds } from '@/WorkflowHelpers';
 import { workflowsController } from '@/workflows/workflows.controller';
 import {
 	EDITOR_UI_DIST_DIR,
-	GENERATED_STATIC_DIR,
 	inDevelopment,
 	inE2ETests,
 	N8N_VERSION,
@@ -1229,11 +1229,12 @@ export class Server extends AbstractServer {
 			);
 		}
 
+		const { staticCacheDir } = Container.get(InstanceSettings);
 		if (frontendService) {
 			const staticOptions: ServeStaticOptions = {
 				cacheControl: false,
 				setHeaders: (res: express.Response, path: string) => {
-					const isIndex = path === pathJoin(GENERATED_STATIC_DIR, 'index.html');
+					const isIndex = path === pathJoin(staticCacheDir, 'index.html');
 					const cacheControl = isIndex
 						? 'no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate'
 						: 'max-age=86400, immutable';
@@ -1259,7 +1260,7 @@ export class Server extends AbstractServer {
 
 			this.app.use(
 				'/',
-				express.static(GENERATED_STATIC_DIR),
+				express.static(staticCacheDir),
 				express.static(EDITOR_UI_DIST_DIR, staticOptions),
 			);
 
@@ -1269,7 +1270,7 @@ export class Server extends AbstractServer {
 				next();
 			});
 		} else {
-			this.app.use('/', express.static(GENERATED_STATIC_DIR));
+			this.app.use('/', express.static(staticCacheDir));
 		}
 	}
 

packages/cli/src/commands/start.ts

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ import { ActiveWorkflowRunner } from '@/ActiveWorkflowRunner';
 import * as Db from '@/Db';
 import * as GenericHelpers from '@/GenericHelpers';
 import { Server } from '@/Server';
-import { EDITOR_UI_DIST_DIR, GENERATED_STATIC_DIR } from '@/constants';
+import { EDITOR_UI_DIST_DIR } from '@/constants';
 import { eventBus } from '@/eventbus';
 import { BaseCommand } from './BaseCommand';
 import { InternalHooks } from '@/InternalHooks';
@@ -155,10 +155,11 @@ export class Start extends BaseCommand {
 		}
 
 		const closingTitleTag = '</title>';
+		const { staticCacheDir } = this.instanceSettings;
 		const compileFile = async (fileName: string) => {
 			const filePath = path.join(EDITOR_UI_DIST_DIR, fileName);
 			if (/(index\.html)|.*\.(js|css)/.test(filePath) && existsSync(filePath)) {
-				const destFile = path.join(GENERATED_STATIC_DIR, fileName);
+				const destFile = path.join(staticCacheDir, fileName);
 				await mkdir(path.dirname(destFile), { recursive: true });
 				const streams = [
 					createReadStream(filePath, 'utf-8'),

packages/cli/src/constants.ts

@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
 import { readFileSync } from 'fs';
 import { resolve, join, dirname } from 'path';
-import { Container } from 'typedi';
 import type { n8n } from 'n8n-core';
-import { InstanceSettings } from 'n8n-core';
 import { jsonParse } from 'n8n-workflow';
 
 const { NODE_ENV, E2E_TESTS } = process.env;
@@ -17,10 +15,6 @@ export const CUSTOM_API_CALL_KEY = '__CUSTOM_API_CALL__';
 export const CLI_DIR = resolve(__dirname, '..');
 export const TEMPLATES_DIR = join(CLI_DIR, 'templates');
 export const NODES_BASE_DIR = dirname(require.resolve('n8n-nodes-base'));
-export const GENERATED_STATIC_DIR = join(
-	Container.get(InstanceSettings).userHome,
-	'.cache/n8n/public',
-);
 export const EDITOR_UI_DIST_DIR = join(dirname(require.resolve('n8n-editor-ui')), 'dist');
 
 export function getN8nPackageJson() {

packages/cli/src/services/frontend.service.ts

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ import type {
 } from 'n8n-workflow';
 import { InstanceSettings } from 'n8n-core';
 
-import { GENERATED_STATIC_DIR, LICENSE_FEATURES } from '@/constants';
+import { LICENSE_FEATURES } from '@/constants';
 import { CredentialsOverwrites } from '@/CredentialsOverwrites';
 import { CredentialTypes } from '@/CredentialTypes';
 import { LoadNodesAndCredentials } from '@/LoadNodesAndCredentials';
@@ -205,8 +205,9 @@ export class FrontendService {
 	async generateTypes() {
 		this.overwriteCredentialsProperties();
 
+		const { staticCacheDir } = this.instanceSettings;
 		// pre-render all the node and credential types as static json files
-		await mkdir(path.join(GENERATED_STATIC_DIR, 'types'), { recursive: true });
+		await mkdir(path.join(staticCacheDir, 'types'), { recursive: true });
 		const { credentials, nodes } = this.loadNodesAndCredentials.types;
 		this.writeStaticJSON('nodes', nodes);
 		this.writeStaticJSON('credentials', credentials);
@@ -303,7 +304,8 @@ export class FrontendService {
 	}
 
 	private writeStaticJSON(name: string, data: INodeTypeBaseDescription[] | ICredentialType[]) {
-		const filePath = path.join(GENERATED_STATIC_DIR, `types/${name}.json`);
+		const { staticCacheDir } = this.instanceSettings;
+		const filePath = path.join(staticCacheDir, `types/${name}.json`);
 		const stream = createWriteStream(filePath, 'utf-8');
 		stream.write('[\n');
 		data.forEach((entry, index) => {

packages/core/src/InstanceSettings.ts

@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ export class InstanceSettings {
 	/** The path to the n8n folder in which all n8n related data gets saved */
 	readonly n8nFolder = path.join(this.userHome, '.n8n');
 
+	readonly staticCacheDir = path.join(this.userHome, '.cache/n8n/public');
+
 	/** The path to the folder containing custom nodes and credentials */
 	readonly customExtensionDir = path.join(this.n8nFolder, 'custom');