chore: Improve Ninja CI and bump versions for Ninja examples (#1154)

* Bump CI dfx version for ninja

* Bump devcontainer files

* Lock

* Rm lock

* Bump, dont install dfx twice

* yeah double install

* bump package versions

* Rm lockfiles

* Bump packages

* Bump mops base packages

* Sync system time?

* Fix

* Rm time setting thing

* Dont run in container

* update

* dont fail fast

* Downgrade base

* downgrade image and dfx

* Re bump

* Trace

* verbose

* sleep

* ping

* nowallet

* dummy

* dummy

* default

* ubuntu

* debug

* debug

* debug

* debug

* debug

* debug

* debug

* debug

* debug

* debug

* debug

* delay

* delay

* debug

* debug

* Use ubuntu-24.04

* Change back

* Use namespace runner

* Use mac runner

* Use linux arm runner

* Dont use container

* Dont use container

* Dont use container

* Dont use container

* Use container

* Use container in magic mode

* Newling

* Separate

* Revert "Separate"

This reverts commit 3d24ef5.

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Co-authored-by: Martin Raszyk <[email protected]>

Author: fxgst

.github/workflows/ninja_pr_checks.yml

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ concurrency:
 jobs:
   check-ninja-example-changes:
     name: Filter projects
-    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
     outputs:
       matrix: ${{ steps.set-matrix.outputs.matrix }}
       has_examples: ${{ steps.set-matrix.outputs.has_examples }}
@@ -51,13 +51,22 @@ jobs:
             ["Tokenmania (Rust)"]="rust/tokenmania"
             ["Who Am I (Rust)"]="rust/who_am_i"
           )
+
+          # Check if we should run all examples (workflow file changed) or just changed ones
+          run_all_examples=false
+          if echo "$changed_files" | grep -q "^\.github/workflows/ninja_pr_checks\.yml$"; then
+            echo "Workflow file changed. Running all examples."
+            run_all_examples=true
+          fi
+
           for name in "${!example_paths[@]}"; do
             path=${example_paths[$name]}
-            echo "Checking path: $path"
             
-            if echo "$changed_files" | grep -q "^$path/"; then
+            if [ "$run_all_examples" = true ] || echo "$changed_files" | grep -q "^$path/"; then
               examples+=("{\"name\": \"$name\", \"path\": \"$path\"}")
               echo "Added example: $name with path $path"
+            else
+              echo "Skipping example: $name (no changes in $path)"
             fi
           done
 
@@ -76,9 +85,10 @@ jobs:
     name: Build
     needs: check-ninja-example-changes
     if: needs.check-ninja-example-changes.outputs.has_examples == 'true'
-    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
-    container: ghcr.io/dfinity/icp-dev-env-slim:17
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
+    container: ghcr.io/dfinity/icp-dev-env-slim:20
     strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
       matrix: ${{ fromJson(needs.check-ninja-example-changes.outputs.matrix) }}
 
     steps:
@@ -87,10 +97,12 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Install dfx # This is a temporary workaround. Dfx is already installed in the container, but it does not start in the next step if we don't install it here again.
         uses: dfinity/setup-dfx@main
+        with:
+          dfx-version: "0.27.0"
 
-      - name: Start dfx
-        run: dfx start --background
-
-      - name: Build project
+      - name: Start dfx and build project
         working-directory: ${{ matrix.example.path }}
-        run: dfx deploy
+        run: |
+          # Note: Running these commands in the same step and with verbose output magically fixes the 502 Bad Gateway issue in dfx/pocketic for the LLM Chatbot example
+          RUST_LOG=trace dfx start --background --verbose
+          dfx deploy

hosting/my_crypto_blog/.devcontainer/devcontainer.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "ICP Dev Environment",
-  "image": "ghcr.io/dfinity/icp-dev-env-slim:17",
+  "image": "ghcr.io/dfinity/icp-dev-env-slim:20",
   "forwardPorts": [4943, 5173],
   "portsAttributes": {
     "4943": {

hosting/my_crypto_blog/frontend/package.json

@@ -8,10 +8,10 @@
     "dev": "vite"
   },
   "dependencies": {
-    "@dfinity/agent": "2.2.0",
-    "@dfinity/auth-client": "2.2.0",
-    "@dfinity/candid": "2.2.0",
-    "@dfinity/principal": "2.2.0",
+    "@dfinity/agent": "2.4.1",
+    "@dfinity/auth-client": "2.4.1",
+    "@dfinity/candid": "2.4.1",
+    "@dfinity/principal": "2.4.1",
     "react": "18.3.1",
     "react-dom": "18.3.1"
   },