PersonalBlog/docs/development/non-container.md

# Local non-container development

This guide documents the **local, non-container developer path** for the EPPP
workspace: how to install, build and run the project on your machine **without
Docker**. The containerised path (Docker Compose baseline, container smoke
tests) is tracked separately as story [E00-S02] Docker Compose baseline and is
**not** covered here.

> Status: this document tracks the E00-S01 workspace bootstrap state. Commands
> and expected outputs below were verified from a clean clone.

## What you get at bootstrap

The workspace is a pnpm monorepo with three package groups:

| Group | Path | Purpose |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `apps/` | `apps/server` (`@personal-blog/server`) | Public server application. Bootstrap placeholder — the Fastify 5 application shell lands in a later story. |
| `packages/` | `packages/core` (`@personal-blog/core`) | Application core (site identity, content primitives). Bootstrap placeholder. |
| `extensions/` | `extensions/example` (`@personal-blog/example-extension`) | Example extension exercising the `extensions/` group. Bootstrap placeholder. |

A dependency-boundary rule (`dependency-boundaries.json`, enforced by
`tests/architecture-import.test.mjs`) keeps the groups from collapsing into an
accidental dependency graph: no `packages/*` package may import a concrete
`extensions/*` package.

## Prerequisites

- **Git** — to clone the repository.
- **Node.js 24.x** — the CI pipeline runs Node 24 and this is the supported
  line for the workspace (a hard `engines` restriction is tracked separately as
  E00-S01-T08). Any Node ≥ 22 is enough for the current bootstrap commands.
- **pnpm 11.23.0** — pinned via the `packageManager` field in the root
  `package.json`. The easiest way to get exactly this version is Corepack,
  which ships with Node.js (`corepack enable`).

No database, no runtime services and no Docker daemon are required at this
stage.

## Install

```sh
# 1. Clone the repository
git clone https://git.stevanovic.co.uk/Fabrika/PersonalBlog.git
cd PersonalBlog

# 2. Activate the pinned pnpm (11.23.0) via Corepack
corepack enable

# 3. Install dependencies against the committed lockfile (reproducible)
pnpm install --frozen-lockfile
```

- The install is **frozen**: `--frozen-lockfile` refuses to run if
  `pnpm-lock.yaml` is out of date with the manifests, so every clone gets the
  exact same dependency tree. CI uses the same flag.
- If you are adding or changing dependencies, run `pnpm install` (without the
  flag) and **commit the resulting `pnpm-lock.yaml`** so the frozen install
  keeps working for everyone.
- `node_modules/` and the pnpm content-addressable store are git-ignored and
  never committed.

## Build

```sh
# Compile every workspace package (apps, packages, extensions) into dist/
pnpm build

# Typecheck every workspace package (no emit)
pnpm typecheck
```

`pnpm build` runs `tsc -p tsconfig.json` in each package in topological order
and emits `dist/` (JavaScript + type declarations + source maps) per package.
Expected result: `apps/server/dist/`, `packages/core/dist/` and
`extensions/example/dist/` are produced, all packages report `Done`, exit 0.
`dist/` is git-ignored; rebuild whenever you change `src/`.

## Run

```sh
# Run the compiled public server entrypoint
pnpm --filter @personal-blog/server start
```

This runs the `start` script of `apps/server` (`node dist/index.js`), i.e. the
compiled application entrypoint. Two things to know at bootstrap:

1. The command **must follow `pnpm build`** — the `start` script executes the
   compiled artifact in `dist/`, it does not compile first.
2. `apps/server` is currently a **bootstrap placeholder**: its entrypoint is an
   empty module, so starting it loads the module and exits cleanly (exit 0)
   without opening an HTTP port yet. The real Fastify 5 application shell —
   which turns this into a serving process — lands in a later story; the
   `start` command shape above stays the same once it does.

To run the compiled output of any other workspace package directly:

```sh
node <package-dir>/dist/index.js   # e.g. node packages/core/dist/index.js
```

## Test

```sh
pnpm test
```

`pnpm test` runs the `node:test` suites under `tests/` (currently
`tests/architecture-import.test.mjs`, 10 tests) with zero extra dependencies.
This is also the suite that enforces the dependency-boundary rule.

## Smoke check from a clean clone

```sh
git clone https://git.stevanovic.co.uk/Fabrika/PersonalBlog.git && cd PersonalBlog
corepack enable
pnpm install --frozen-lockfile   # exit 0, lockfile untouched
pnpm build                       # 3/3 packages emit dist/, exit 0
pnpm typecheck                   # 3/3 packages pass --noEmit, exit 0
pnpm test                        # 10/10 pass, exit 0
pnpm --filter @personal-blog/server start   # loads compiled server entrypoint, exit 0
```

## Troubleshooting

| Symptom | Cause / fix |
| --- | --- |
| `pnpm: command not found` | Corepack shims not activated — run `corepack enable`, or prefix commands with `corepack pnpm ...`. |
| `ERR_PNPM_OUTDATED_LOCKFILE` | `pnpm-lock.yaml` is out of date with the manifests. Run `pnpm install` (unfrozen) and commit the lockfile update. |
| Node version warnings / unexpected behavior | Use Node 24.x to match CI (e.g. via `nvm`, `fnm` or another version manager). A hard `engines` restriction is tracked as E00-S01-T08. |
| `start` exits immediately with no output | Expected at bootstrap — the server entrypoint is a placeholder module; the Fastify 5 shell is a later story (see [Run](#run)). |
| `.env` files | `.env`/`.env.*` are git-ignored; a committed `.env.example` template lands with the environment story (E00-S04). |

## Out of scope

- Root build/test/typecheck **script wiring** — covered by E00-S01-T05; only
  usage is documented here.
- **Docker Compose baseline** and container smoke tests — E00-S02.
- PostgreSQL adapter, migration runner and other runtime services — later E00
  stories.