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Copilot aa943ac565 CI: Remove .cache caching from GitHub Actions workflows (#6097)
## Overview

Removes **all `actions/cache` steps** from GitHub Actions workflows
after empirical testing showed that they actually **slow down CI/CD by
11%** rather than speeding it up.

## Context

As discussed in #5988, the codebase has evolved with components moving
into the `/packages` directory structure. The review comment suggested
removing the entire `actions/cache` step rather than just the `.cache`
path to properly evaluate performance impact.

## Performance Benchmark Results

Empirical testing on this PR (commits 38695ae0b vs ab16635c5) revealed
that **removing cache steps improves CI performance across all
workflows**:

| Workflow | WITHOUT Cache | WITH Cache | Improvement |
|----------|---------------|------------|-------------|
| **CI: Lint Format** | 208s (3m 28s) | 226s (3m 46s) | **-18s (-8.7%)**
 |
| **CI: Tests Unit** | 160s (2m 40s) | 177s (2m 57s) | **-17s (-10.6%)**
 |
| **CI: Tests Storybook** | 65s (1m 5s) | 78s (1m 18s) | **-13s
(-20.0%)**  |
| **Total Pipeline** | **433s (7m 13s)** | **481s (8m 1s)** | **-48s
(-11.1%)**  |

### Why is caching slower?

1. **Cache overhead exceeds benefits**: Time spent saving/restoring
cache > time saved from cached content
2. **Complex cache key computation**: Hash calculations for file
patterns add processing time
3. **Network I/O cost**: Each cache step adds network round-trips
4. **Tools already optimize incrementally**: ESLint, Vitest, Prettier
handle their own incremental checks efficiently

## Changes

Removed the entire `actions/cache` step from 8 workflow files:

- `ci-lint-format.yaml` - Removed tool outputs cache (.eslintcache,
.prettierCache, .knip-cache, tsconfig.tsbuildinfo)
- `ci-tests-storybook.yaml` - Removed storybook-static and
tsconfig.tsbuildinfo cache (both jobs)
- `ci-tests-unit.yaml` - Removed coverage and .vitest-cache
- `api-update-electron-api-types.yaml` - Removed tsconfig.tsbuildinfo
cache
- `api-update-manager-api-types.yaml` - Removed tool cache and
ComfyUI-Manager repo cache
- `api-update-registry-api-types.yaml` - Removed tool cache and
comfy-api repo cache
- `release-draft-create.yaml` - Removed tsconfig.tsbuildinfo cache
- `release-pypi-dev.yaml` - Removed dist and tsconfig.tsbuildinfo cache

**What remains cached:**
-  pnpm packages via `cache: 'pnpm'` in setup-node actions (the most
valuable cache)
-  Tool-specific incremental caches generated fresh each run
-  Docker layer caching (where applicable)

## Testing

-  Empirical performance testing completed (see benchmark results
above)
-  All cache steps removed successfully
-  No structural changes to workflow logic
-  pnpm package caching remains active

## Conclusion

The benchmark data clearly shows that removing `actions/cache` steps
results in **faster, simpler CI workflows**. The overhead of cache
management exceeds any benefit, especially with pnpm package caching
already handling the most time-consuming dependency installations.

**Recommendation:  Proceed with this change**

## Test Methodology

1. **WITHOUT cache** (commit
[38695ae0b](https://github.com/Comfy-Org/ComfyUI_frontend/commit/38695ae0b)):
Removed all `actions/cache` steps → [Workflow
run](https://github.com/Comfy-Org/ComfyUI_frontend/actions/runs/18654024806)
2. **WITH cache** (commit
[ab16635c5](https://github.com/Comfy-Org/ComfyUI_frontend/commit/ab16635c5)):
Temporarily restored all `actions/cache` steps → [Workflow
run](https://github.com/Comfy-Org/ComfyUI_frontend/actions/runs/18654143363)
3. **Final state** (commit
[3ce876f87](https://github.com/Comfy-Org/ComfyUI_frontend/commit/3ce876f87)):
Restored no-cache version (current)

Fixes #5988

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Co-authored-by: copilot-swe-agent[bot] <198982749+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: snomiao <7323030+snomiao@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: snomiao <snomiao@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
2025-10-20 11:15:56 -07:00

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name: "CI: Tests Unit"
description: "Unit and component testing with Vitest"
on:
push:
branches: [main, master, dev*, core/*, desktop/*]
pull_request:
branches-ignore: [wip/*, draft/*, temp/*]
concurrency:
group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}
cancel-in-progress: true
jobs:
test:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v5
- name: Install pnpm
uses: pnpm/action-setup@v4
with:
version: 10
- name: Use Node.js
uses: actions/setup-node@v4
with:
node-version: "lts/*"
cache: "pnpm"
- name: Install dependencies
run: pnpm install --frozen-lockfile
- name: Run Vitest tests
run: pnpm test:unit