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jochen c46f9502ee node-tools is a module beside mesh-tools: the runtime as a bundle, and serve is the console (hq ADR 0175, to-be 38 WP3)
One repository, two modules (ADR 0069). `node-tools/` holds the runtime — its code, tests, package
and the manifest of the module the controller composes a process for on every machine it is
assigned to: a bundle of `src/main.js`, the interpreter as a package, a place for the node's
credential, the loopback port the console declared, and leave to call every tool. Nothing about
how it runs: which bundles to load, where the credential is and whose machine it is are the
controller's to compose (WP2). The root module `mesh-tools` keeps the two images TypeScript
bundles are compiled in and a module's own service may run in; it is no longer how tools reach a
node.

As node-tools, `serve` is also the console (ADR 0175 §6): the same process answers MCP on
loopback for whoever is on the machine, through which the tools it serves can be called. A
module's own runtime in a container keeps serving without a listener.

The toolchain image now carries /app/runtime — a package.json saying the compiled files are ES
modules and the production node_modules — for the builder to copy into every TypeScript bundle,
so a bundle unpacked on a machine starts (ADR 0188 §5; the builder's side is the controller's).
Proven here by compiling node-tools with the toolchain's exact flags and starting the result.
The AMQP probe script is gone with the bus it probed.
2026-10-02 21:43:37 +02:00

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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"]