ARG NODE_BASE=node:22-bookworm-slim # Three stages, two published images: the one modules are COMPILED in, and the one they RUN in. # # **They were the same image, and that was a mistake.** A module's recipe starts from this and # invokes the compiler out of it, so the compiler had to be here — and because the same image was # also what every module ran in, every running container on every machine carried a TypeScript # compiler it would never invoke. The answer is separate stages rather than one image bad at both # jobs. `build.artifacts` in module.json names the published stage each — `toolchain` and `runtime`. # # The `deps` stage is neither published nor named there: it is where the mesh's package registry is # reached, so it is where — and only where — the credential to reach it exists. The toolchain copies # resolved node_modules out of it, so the credential is in no image any machine ever holds # (novox/hq ADR 0076). This is the buildkit-secret's job done without buildkit, because a machine's # docker may carry no buildx. # ---- deps: node_modules resolved from the mesh's registry, credential and all ---------------- FROM ${NODE_BASE} AS deps RUN apt-get update \ && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends git ca-certificates \ && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* WORKDIR /app COPY package.json ./ # The builder writes .npmrc into the build context; it authenticates to the mesh's package registry # for the @novox scope, which is where @novox/mesh-sdk resolves. This stage is not published, so the # credential travels no further than here. Development dependencies included: the compiler is one. COPY .npmrc ./.npmrc RUN npm install --no-audit --no-fund # ---- toolchain: what a module is compiled in, WITHOUT the credential -------------------------- FROM ${NODE_BASE} AS toolchain WORKDIR /app COPY package.json ./ # The resolved libraries, but not the .npmrc that resolved them. COPY --from=deps /app/node_modules ./node_modules # The toolkit arrives compiled. It used to arrive as sources, and this compiled it by hand — the # hook that builds it on install was running all along, and the result was then packed out of the # package, because with no explicit file list npm falls back to .gitignore and that ignores the # build output. Fixed where it belonged, in the toolkit. COPY tsconfig.json ./ COPY src ./src RUN npm run build # ---- what the running image needs, and nothing else ------------------------------------------- # Its own stage so the toolchain image keeps its build tools while the runtime image does not. FROM toolchain AS lean RUN npm prune --omit=dev # ---- runtime: what a module runs in ----------------------------------------------------------- FROM ${NODE_BASE} AS runtime WORKDIR /app COPY package.json ./ COPY --from=lean /app/node_modules ./node_modules COPY --from=toolchain /app/dist ./dist ENTRYPOINT ["node", "dist/main.js"]