Improved local email and Stripe testing documentation

[ErisDS]

Summary

• Updates email testing guidance for the current Mailpit, Mailgun, and browser E2E workflows.
• Adds a focused Stripe testing guide covering the preferred webhook tunnel, CLI fallback, paid memberships, and fake E2E service.
• Links both guides from development setup and testing navigation, while keeping provider credentials out of the repository.

Testing

• git diff --check
• pnpm exec markdownlint-cli2 docs/README.md docs/contributing/development-setup.md docs/contributing/testing.md docs/contributing/testing-email.md docs/contributing/testing-stripe.md docs/codebase/stripe-flows.md
• pnpm exec remark --frail --use remark-validate-links docs/README.md docs/contributing/development-setup.md docs/contributing/testing.md docs/contributing/testing-email.md docs/contributing/testing-stripe.md docs/codebase/stripe-flows.md

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Walkthrough

Added contributor documentation for local Stripe and Mailgun testing. The Stripe guide covers webhook workflows, paid-membership checks, and automated browser tests. The email guide covers Mailpit, Mailgun provider testing, and fake Mailgun usage. Development setup and documentation indexes now link to these workflows.

Suggested reviewers: 9larsons

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to f115f

The new Stripe testing guidance may unnecessarily exclude contributors using older Tailscale versions for supported Funnel workflows. Scope the version requirement to the dev:stripe command before merge.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Type-Safe Boundaries	⚠️ Warning	The new email-status responses are validated with Zod, but the PR also adds new consumers of the unvalidated post API response. useBrowsePosts in apps/admin-x-framework/src/api/posts.ts has no `pa…	Add a Zod schema for the post response shape used by analytics, including the post status and email fields (id, status, error, and the numeric fields consumed by the affected views). Wire that schema into the post query through `parse…

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly summarizes the main changes to local email and Stripe testing documentation.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description directly covers the email and Stripe documentation updates, navigation links, credential handling, and validation checks.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
New Files Are Typescript	✅ Passed	PASS. The PR adds one JavaScript-family file: apps/ember-admin/tests/acceptance/tag-react-flag-test.js. The path is under the explicit apps/ember-admin/ exception. All other added code files use `…

Full details: Type-Safe Boundaries

Explanation

The new email-status responses are validated with Zod, but the PR also adds new consumers of the unvalidated post API response. useBrowsePosts in apps/admin-x-framework/src/api/posts.ts has no parseResponse, and the shared query falls back to fetchApi<ResponseData> without runtime validation. The new provider reads post.email.id, post.email.status, and post.status to activate the feature, the new banner reads post.email.error, and the modified success-modal hook reads post.email.status. These are boundary fields from the post HTTP response, so the PR introduces consumption without validation. The existing localStorage cast and test casts are not the basis for this finding.

Resolution

Add a Zod schema for the post response shape used by analytics, including the post status and email fields (id, status, error, and the numeric fields consumed by the affected views). Wire that schema into the post query through parseResponse before the new consumers receive the data. Define the corresponding response and post types with z.infer instead of duplicating the schema shape. Ensure every query path used by the analytics provider and success modal uses the parsed response.

• Fix all pre-merge checks with AI

✨ Finishing Touches

🧪 Generate unit tests (beta)

• Create PR with unit tests
• Commit unit tests in branch codex/email-stripe-testing-docs

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docs/contributing/testing-stripe.md-24-24 (1)

24-24: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Scope the Tailscale version requirement to pnpm dev:stripe. The wrapper invokes the newer tailscale funnel --https ... --set-path ... syntax and requires Tailscale 1.52 or newer. Avoid stating that Funnel itself requires this version.

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In `@docs/contributing/testing-stripe.md` at line 24, Update the Tailscale version
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its wrapper uses the newer tailscale funnel --https and --set-path syntax
requiring version 1.52 or newer, rather than attributing the requirement to
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In `@docs/contributing/testing-stripe.md`:
- Line 24: Update the Tailscale version statement to apply specifically to the
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funnel --https and --set-path syntax requiring version 1.52 or newer, rather
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docs/contributing/testing-stripe.md (2)

1-22: LGTM!

Also applies to: 29-36, 38-45, 52-67, 69-85

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47-50: 🎯 Functional Correctness

No change needed. STRIPE_SECRET_KEY reaches the Stripe container, and docker/stripe/entrypoint.sh passes it to both stripe listen commands with --api-key.

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3-18: LGTM!

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116-117: LGTM!

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101-101: LGTM!

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39-41: LGTM!

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52-53: LGTM!