From 7a842ce36a4329e50bdbc68aeb80abccb4ced77b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrey Antukh <niwi@niwi.nz>
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2026 18:16:59 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] :sparkles: Restore back node based http server for e2e tests

---
 frontend/playwright.config.js  |  2 +-
 frontend/scripts/e2e-server.js | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 frontend/scripts/e2e-server.js

diff --git a/frontend/playwright.config.js b/frontend/playwright.config.js
index 2e5b06560a..9af2a1eb2d 100644
--- a/frontend/playwright.config.js
+++ b/frontend/playwright.config.js
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ export default defineConfig({
   /* Run your local dev server before starting the tests */
   webServer: {
     timeout: 2 * 60 * 1000,
-    command: "caddy file-server --root resources/public/ --listen :3000",
+    command: "node ./scripts/e2e-server.js",
     url: "http://localhost:3000",
     reuseExistingServer: !process.env.CI,
   },
diff --git a/frontend/scripts/e2e-server.js b/frontend/scripts/e2e-server.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..77be5fccac
--- /dev/null
+++ b/frontend/scripts/e2e-server.js
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+import express from "express";
+import compression from "compression";
+
+import { fileURLToPath } from "url";
+import path from "path";
+
+const app = express();
+const port = 3000;
+
+app.use(compression());
+
+const staticPath = path.join(
+  fileURLToPath(import.meta.url),
+  "../../resources/public",
+);
+app.use(express.static(staticPath));
+
+app.listen(port, () => {
+  console.log(`Listening at 0.0.0.0:${port}`);
+});