attempting to fix docker image build by generating frontend version information before docker build.

webapp/frontend/git.version.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+if [[ -z "${CI}" ]]; then
+    echo "running locally (not in Github Actions). generating version file from git client"
+    GIT_TAG=`git describe --tags`
+    GIT_BRANCH=`git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD`
+
+    if [[ "$GIT_BRANCH" == "master" ]]; then
+        VERSION_INFO="${GIT_TAG}"
+    else
+        VERSION_INFO="${GIT_BRANCH}#${GIT_TAG}"
+    fi
+else
+    echo "running in Github Actions, generating version file from environmental variables"
+    # https://docs.github.com/en/actions/learn-github-actions/environment-variables
+    GITHUB_SHA
+    GITHUB_REF_NAME
+    GITHUB_REF_TYPE
+
+    VERSION_INFO="${GITHUB_REF_NAME}"
+
+    if [[ "$GITHUB_REF_TYPE" == "branch" ]]; then
+            VERSION_INFO="${VERSION_INFO}#${GITHUB_SHA::7}"
+    fi
+fi
+
+echo "writing version file (version: ${VERSION_INFO})"
+cat <<EOT > src/environments/versions.ts
+// this file is automatically generated by git.version.ts script
+export const versionInfo = {
+    version: '${VERSION_INFO}',
+};
+EOT

webapp/frontend/git.version.ts

@@ -1,34 +0,0 @@
-import { writeFileSync } from 'fs';
-import { dedent } from 'tslint/lib/utils';
-import { promisify } from 'util';
-import * as child from 'child_process';
-const exec = promisify(child.exec);
-
-async function createVersionsFile(filename: string) {
-    let versionInfo = ''
-    if(process.env.GITHUB_SHA){
-        // we're in a github action
-
-        versionInfo = process.env.GITHUB_REF_NAME
-        if(process.env.GITHUB_REF_TYPE === 'branch'){
-            versionInfo += `#${process.env.GITHUB_SHA}`
-        }
-    } else {
-        const tag = (await exec('git describe --tags')).stdout.toString().trim();
-        const branch = (await exec('git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD')).stdout.toString().trim();
-
-        versionInfo = (branch === 'master' ? tag : branch + '#' + tag)
-    }
-
-
-
-    const content = dedent`
-      // this file is automatically generated by git.version.ts script
-      export const versionInfo = {
-        version: '${versionInfo}',
-      };`;
-
-    writeFileSync(filename, content, {encoding: 'utf8'});
-}
-
-createVersionsFile('src/environments/versions.ts');

webapp/frontend/package.json

@@ -4,10 +4,8 @@
     "license": "https://themeforest.net/licenses/standard",
     "scripts": {
         "ng": "ng",
-        "prestart": "ts-node -O '{\"module\": \"commonjs\"}' git.version.ts",
         "start": "ng serve --open",
         "start:mem": "node --max_old_space_size=6144 ./node_modules/@angular/cli/bin/ng serve --open",
-        "prebuild:prod": "ts-node -O '{\"module\": \"commonjs\"}' git.version.ts",
         "build": "ng build",
         "build:prod": "ng build --prod",
         "build:prod:mem": "node --max_old_space_size=6144 ./node_modules/@angular/cli/bin/ng build --prod",

webapp/frontend/src/environments/versions.ts

@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
-
 // this file is automatically generated by git.version.ts script
 export const versionInfo = {
-  version: 'v0.0.0',
+    version: 'dev',
 };