ARG NODE_BASE=node:22-bookworm-slim # The mesh-tools module: the two images every TypeScript module is COMPILED in and may RUN in. The # runtime itself ships as the node-tools module's bundle (node-tools/, novox/hq ADR 0175, to-be 38 # WP3); these images are the toolchain for TypeScript bundles and the base a module's own service # may still be built on. They are no longer how tools reach a node. # # **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 node-tools/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 # ---- compiling: the runtime's own code built, WITHOUT the credential ------------------------- FROM ${NODE_BASE} AS compiling WORKDIR /app COPY node-tools/package.json ./ # The resolved libraries, but not the .npmrc that resolved them. COPY --from=deps /app/node_modules ./node_modules COPY node-tools/tsconfig.json ./ COPY node-tools/src ./src RUN npm run build # ---- what a running bundle needs, and nothing else ------------------------------------------- # Its own stage so the toolchain image keeps its build tools while the runtime image does not. FROM compiling AS lean RUN npm prune --omit=dev # ---- toolchain: what a TypeScript bundle is compiled in --------------------------------------- # Beside the compiler, at /app/runtime, what every TypeScript bundle runs with: the production # dependencies the SDK and the runtime need, and a package.json saying the compiled files are ES # modules. The builder copies this directory whole into a compiled bundle (novox/hq ADR 0188 §5), # so a bundle unpacked on a machine starts — a `.js` without that package.json is read as # CommonJS, and an import of `nats` without node_modules beside it resolves to nothing. FROM compiling AS toolchain COPY --from=lean /app/node_modules /app/runtime/node_modules RUN printf '{"type":"module","private":true}\n' > /app/runtime/package.json # ---- runtime: what a module's own service may run in ------------------------------------------ FROM ${NODE_BASE} AS runtime WORKDIR /app COPY node-tools/package.json ./ COPY --from=lean /app/node_modules ./node_modules COPY --from=compiling /app/dist ./dist ENTRYPOINT ["node", "dist/main.js"]