devops: remove unused driver publishing (#41518)

Co-authored-by: copilot-swe-agent[bot] <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Skn0tt <[email protected]>

.github/workflows/publish_release.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-name: "publish release - npm, driver, trace viewer"
+name: "publish release - npm, trace viewer"
 
 on:
   workflow_dispatch:
@@ -11,14 +11,13 @@ on:
     types: [published]
 
 jobs:
-  publish-npm-and-driver:
-    name: "publish NPM and driver"
+  publish-npm:
+    name: "publish NPM"
     runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
     if: github.repository == 'microsoft/playwright'
     permissions:
-      id-token: write  # This is required for OIDC login (azure/login, NPM publish) to succeed
+      id-token: write  # This is required for OIDC login (NPM publish) to succeed
       contents: read   # This is required for actions/checkout to succeed
-    environment: allow-publish-driver-to-cdn # This is required for OIDC login (azure/login)
     steps:
     - uses: actions/checkout@v6
     - uses: actions/setup-node@v6
@@ -50,19 +49,6 @@ jobs:
       if: github.event_name == 'release' && github.event.action == 'published'
       run: utils/publish_all_packages.sh --release
 
-    - name: Azure Login
-      uses: azure/login@v3
-      with:
-        client-id: ${{ secrets.AZURE_PW_CDN_CLIENT_ID }}
-        tenant-id: ${{ secrets.AZURE_PW_CDN_TENANT_ID }}
-        subscription-id: ${{ secrets.AZURE_PW_CDN_SUBSCRIPTION_ID }}
-    - name: build & publish driver
-      env:
-        AZ_UPLOAD_FOLDER: ${{ github.event_name == 'release' && 'driver' || 'driver/next' }}
-      run: |
-        utils/build/build-playwright-driver.sh
-        utils/build/upload-playwright-driver.sh
-
   publish-trace-viewer:
     name: "publish Trace Viewer to trace.playwright.dev"
     runs-on: ubuntu-24.04

.github/workflows/tests_secondary.yml

@@ -179,18 +179,6 @@ jobs:
       env:
         PWTEST_CHANNEL: ${{ matrix.channel }}
 
-  build-playwright-driver:
-    name: "build-playwright-driver"
-    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
-    steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@v6
-    - uses: actions/setup-node@v6
-      with:
-        node-version: 20
-    - run: npm ci
-    - run: npm run build
-    - run: utils/build/build-playwright-driver.sh
-
   test_android:
     name: Android
     environment: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && 'allow-uploading-flakiness-results' || null }}

packages/playwright-core/src/cli/driver.ts

@@ -17,11 +17,9 @@
 /* eslint-disable no-console */
 
 import fs from 'fs';
-import path from 'path';
 
 import { PipeTransport } from '@utils/pipeTransport';
 import { gracefullyProcessExitDoNotHang } from '@utils/processLauncher';
-import { packageRoot } from '../package';
 import { playwright } from '../inprocess';
 import { PlaywrightServer } from '../remote/playwrightServer';
 import { DispatcherConnection, PlaywrightDispatcher, RootDispatcher, createPlaywright } from '../server';
@@ -29,11 +27,6 @@ import { DispatcherConnection, PlaywrightDispatcher, RootDispatcher, createPlayw
 import type { BrowserType } from '../client/browserType';
 import type { LaunchServerOptions } from '../client/types';
 
-export function printApiJson() {
-  // Note: this file is generated by build-playwright-driver.sh
-  console.log(JSON.stringify(require(path.join(packageRoot, 'api.json'))));
-}
-
 export function runDriver() {
   const dispatcherConnection = new DispatcherConnection();
   new RootDispatcher(dispatcherConnection, async (rootScope, { sdkLanguage }) => {

packages/playwright-core/src/cli/program.ts

@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ import { gracefullyProcessExitDoNotHang } from '@utils/processLauncher';
 import { getPackageManagerExecCommand } from '@utils/env';
 import { packageJSON } from '../package';
 import { addTraceCommands } from '../tools/trace/traceCli';
-import { runDriver, runServer, printApiJson, launchBrowserServer } from './driver';
+import { runDriver, runServer, launchBrowserServer } from './driver';
 import { markDockerImage } from './installActions';
 import { open, codegen } from './browserActions';
 import { installBrowsers, uninstallBrowsers, installDeps } from './installActions';
@@ -194,12 +194,6 @@ export function decorateProgram(program: Command) {
         }).catch(logErrorAndExit);
       });
 
-  program
-      .command('print-api-json', { hidden: true })
-      .action(async function(options) {
-        printApiJson();
-      });
-
   program
       .command('launch-server', { hidden: true })
       .requiredOption('--browser <browserName>', 'Browser name, one of "chromium", "firefox" or "webkit"')

utils/build/build-playwright-driver.sh

@@ -1,74 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-set -e
-set -x
-
-trap "cd $(pwd -P)" EXIT
-SCRIPT_PATH="$(cd "$(dirname "$0")" ; pwd -P)"
-NODE_VERSION="24.18.0" # autogenerated via ./update-playwright-node.mjs
-
-cd "$(dirname "$0")"
-PACKAGE_VERSION=$(node -p "require('../../package.json').version")
-rm -rf ./output
-mkdir -p ./output
-
-echo "Building playwright-core package"
-node ../../utils/pack_package.js playwright-core ./output/playwright-core.tgz
-
-echo "Building api.json and protocol.yml"
-API_JSON_MODE=1 node ../../utils/doclint/generateApiJson.js > ./output/api.json
-node ../../utils/protocol_spec.js > ./output/protocol.yml
-
-function build {
-  NODE_DIR=$1
-  SUFFIX=$2
-  ARCHIVE=$3
-  NODE_URL=https://nodejs.org/dist/v${NODE_VERSION}/${NODE_DIR}.${ARCHIVE}
-
-  echo "Building playwright-${PACKAGE_VERSION}-${SUFFIX}"
-
-  cd ${SCRIPT_PATH}
-
-  mkdir -p ./output/playwright-${SUFFIX}
-  tar -xzf ./output/playwright-core.tgz -C ./output/playwright-${SUFFIX}/
-
-  curl --retry 10 --retry-all-errors ${NODE_URL} -o ./output/${NODE_DIR}.${ARCHIVE}
-  NPM_PATH=""
-  if [[ "${ARCHIVE}" == "zip" ]]; then
-    cd ./output
-    unzip -q ./${NODE_DIR}.zip
-    cd ..
-    cp ./output/${NODE_DIR}/node.exe ./output/playwright-${SUFFIX}/
-    NPM_PATH="node_modules/npm/bin/npm-cli.js"
-  elif [[ "${ARCHIVE}" == "tar.gz" ]]; then
-    tar -xzf ./output/${NODE_DIR}.tar.gz -C ./output/
-    cp ./output/${NODE_DIR}/bin/node ./output/playwright-${SUFFIX}/
-    NPM_PATH="lib/node_modules/npm/bin/npm-cli.js"
-  else
-    echo "Unsupported ARCHIVE ${ARCHIVE}"
-    exit 1
-  fi
-
-  cp ./output/${NODE_DIR}/LICENSE ./output/playwright-${SUFFIX}/
-  cp ./output/api.json ./output/playwright-${SUFFIX}/package/
-  cp ./output/protocol.yml ./output/playwright-${SUFFIX}/package/
-  cd ./output/playwright-${SUFFIX}/package
-  PLAYWRIGHT_SKIP_BROWSER_DOWNLOAD=1 node "../../${NODE_DIR}/${NPM_PATH}" install --omit=dev --ignore-scripts
-  rm package-lock.json
-
-  cd ..
-
-  # NPM install does intentionally set the modification date back to 1985 for all the files. This confuses language binding
-  # update mechanisms, which expect the modification date to be recent to decide which file to override. See:
-  # - https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/20439#issuecomment-385121133
-  # - https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-dotnet/issues/2069
-  find . -type f -exec touch {} +
-
-  zip -q -r ../playwright-${PACKAGE_VERSION}-${SUFFIX}.zip .
-}
-
-build "node-v${NODE_VERSION}-darwin-x64" "mac" "tar.gz"
-build "node-v${NODE_VERSION}-darwin-arm64" "mac-arm64" "tar.gz"
-build "node-v${NODE_VERSION}-linux-x64" "linux" "tar.gz"
-build "node-v${NODE_VERSION}-linux-arm64" "linux-arm64" "tar.gz"
-build "node-v${NODE_VERSION}-win-x64" "win32_x64" "zip"
-build "node-v${NODE_VERSION}-win-arm64" "win32_arm64" "zip"

utils/build/update-playwright-node.mjs

@@ -19,14 +19,11 @@ import path from 'path';
 import https from 'https';
 
 const currentFilePath = url.fileURLToPath(import.meta.url);
-const buildFilePath = path.join(path.dirname(currentFilePath), 'build-playwright-driver.sh');
 const dockerDirectory = path.join(path.dirname(currentFilePath), '../docker');
 const dockerfilePaths = await getDockerfilePaths(dockerDirectory);
 
 const latestNodeJsLts = await getLatestNodeJsVersion();
 
-if (refreshBuildScriptVersionNumber(latestNodeJsLts, buildFilePath))
-  console.log(`Updated build script ${path.relative(process.cwd(), buildFilePath)} to Node.js ${latestNodeJsLts}`);
 for (const dockerfilePath of dockerfilePaths) {
   const nodeMajorVersion = latestNodeJsLts.split('.')[0];
   if (refreshDockerfileVersionNumber(nodeMajorVersion, dockerfilePath))
@@ -63,11 +60,6 @@ function replaceVersionInFile(filePath, newNodeJsVersion, replacementRegex) {
   return fileContent !== newFileContent;
 }
 
-function refreshBuildScriptVersionNumber(newNodeJsVersion, buildScriptPath) {
-  const replacementRegex = new RegExp(`(NODE_VERSION=")(.*)(" # autogenerated via \\.\/${path.basename(currentFilePath).replace('.', '\\.')})`);
-  return replaceVersionInFile(buildScriptPath, newNodeJsVersion, replacementRegex);
-}
-
 function refreshDockerfileVersionNumber(newNodeJsVersion, dockerfilePath) {
   const replacementRegex = new RegExp(`(ARG NODE_VERSION=)(.*)( # autogenerated via \\.\/${path.basename(currentFilePath).replace('.', '\\.')})`);
   return replaceVersionInFile(dockerfilePath, newNodeJsVersion, replacementRegex);

utils/build/upload-playwright-driver.sh

@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-set -e
-set +x
-
-trap "cd $(pwd -P)" EXIT
-cd "$(dirname "$0")"
-
-AZ_STORAGE_ACCOUNT="playwright2"
-PACKAGE_VERSION=$(node -p "require('../../package.json').version")
-
-platforms=("mac" "mac-arm64" "linux" "linux-arm64" "win32_x64" "win32_arm64")
-
-for platform in "${platforms[@]}"; do
-    az storage blob upload -c builds --auth-mode login --account-name ${AZ_STORAGE_ACCOUNT} -f ./output/playwright-${PACKAGE_VERSION}-${platform}.zip -n "${AZ_UPLOAD_FOLDER}/playwright-${PACKAGE_VERSION}-${platform}.zip"
-done