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jschoubben 78257cf151 Compile the toolkit after installing it, because npm does not
It declares the hook npm is supposed to run after a git install, and this npm
does not run it — so the package arrives as sources with every entry point
pointing at a compiled directory that is not there.
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# The tool runtime: the base every module written in this toolchain is compiled on top of, and the
# container a node runs to serve them. It is handed the broker credential and the assigned modules'
# entrypoints at deploy time and serves them.
#
# **Built from this repository alone.** It used to copy in a compiled output directory that is not
# in source control, and resolve the mesh's own toolkit to a sibling checkout on the same disk — so
# it could only be produced on a workstation with two repositories laid out side by side, and its
# fingerprint was then typed into every module's recipe by hand. That put the one artifact the whole
# toolchain stands on outside the toolchain: nothing could rebuild it, so nothing could check it,
# and the rule that catches a base moving had no version on the far end of its edge and could never
# fire (novox/hq issue 044).
#
# Debian rather than Alpine, and root rather than an unprivileged user, because that is what the
# image actually in service is — and modules have already been built against it, one of which
# installs a package with Debian's package manager. This recipe said Alpine while serving Debian for
# as long as nobody could rebuild it to notice. Changing the operating system under every module is
# a separate decision from making this buildable, and is not being taken here.
FROM node:22-bookworm-slim AS build
# git, because a dependency named by a git URL is fetched by git and this image does not carry it.
# Only in the build stage: what it is needed for happens here, and a runtime that can clone is a
# runtime that can be made to clone.
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 package-lock.json ./
# Development dependencies included: the compiler is one of them, and so is the toolkit's own — it
# builds itself on install, which is what lets it be named by a git URL rather than fetched from a
# package registry this mesh does not yet run.
RUN npm install --no-audit --no-fund
# **And then compile the toolkit, because npm did not.** It declares a `prepare` script, which is
# the hook npm is supposed to run after installing a package from git — and this npm does not run
# it, so the package arrives as sources with every one of its entry points pointing at a compiled
# directory that is not there. The compile is therefore done here, explicitly: install the toolkit's
# own build dependencies inside it, build it, then drop them again so they do not travel into the
# image. Doing it by hand rather than relying on the hook is also the honest arrangement — a build
# that silently depended on a hook firing would break the day it stopped, in the same invisible way.
RUN npm --prefix node_modules/@novox/mesh-sdk install --no-audit --no-fund \
&& npm --prefix node_modules/@novox/mesh-sdk run build \
&& npm --prefix node_modules/@novox/mesh-sdk prune --omit=dev
COPY tsconfig.json ./
COPY src ./src
RUN npm run build
# Dropped after compiling rather than reinstalled in the next stage, which would need git there too.
RUN npm prune --omit=dev
# Everything the modules compile against and run on, and nothing that only the build needed.
FROM node:22-bookworm-slim
WORKDIR /app
COPY package.json ./
COPY --from=build /app/node_modules ./node_modules
COPY --from=build /app/dist ./dist
ENTRYPOINT ["node", "dist/main.js"]