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feat(dev): ./dev.sh up --ephemeral with per-worktree slots (TASK-619) - #2970
Adds ./dev.sh up --ephemeral, so each git worktree runs its own local stack on its own ports and databases, and ./dev.sh gc removes expired slots.
What
./dev.sh up --ephemeral starts a native Node 20 backend (tsc build, node dist/server.js) and a vite build + vite preview frontend on the worktree's slot ports.
Each slot gets its own Postgres 17 and Mongo 8.2 containers on their own volumes, bound to 127.0.0.1. Slots do not touch the shared compose services.
The backend gets a per-slot session secret and local login user, generated once into the slot directory. A slot reports up only after its local login succeeds.
Slot registry at ~/.commonly/dev/slots.json, guarded by a mkdir lock. Slots 1..8 (COMMONLY_DEV_MAX_SLOTS), backend 5100+10n, frontend 5101+10n, Postgres 5102+10n, Mongo 5103+10n, 24 h TTL. Re-running from the same worktree replaces its running servers.
./dev.sh gc stops the slot's recorded processes, then removes its containers and volumes. A slot stays claimed if any of them cannot be removed.
The registry fails closed: a missing file is empty, but a corrupt file or a wrong shape stops the caller.
Verification
bash -n on the new script; registry rejects corrupt and wrong-shape input.
Live: one slot booted against its own Postgres and Mongo. The backend logged a connection to its slot database, the login probe returned a token, and the preview served 200.
Live: gc on an expired slot stopped its processes, removed both containers and both volumes, removed its directory, and freed the slot.
Not verified live: two worktrees booting at the same time. The host's test-database container cap refused the second slot's containers. Each slot uses two database containers, so the cap allows two slots at a time.
Not verified live:gc with Docker down (the code path leaves the slot claimed; not exercised).
One native backend and one vite-preview frontend per worktree, on that
worktree's ports, with its own Mongo and Postgres database on the shared
compose pair. A locked registry in ~/.commonly/dev/slots.json assigns the
slot, and ./dev.sh gc reaps slots past their 24 h TTL.
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The changes add worktree-specific ephemeral development slots. The scripts allocate slot-specific ports and databases, start backend and frontend services, record process IDs, and provide a command to clean up expired slots.
Changes: Ephemeral development slots
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Summary
Slot registry scripts/dev-slots.mjs
The registry stores slots with a 24-hour TTL. It reuses a slot for the same worktree or assigns the lowest available slot, records ports and process IDs, and supports expiry listing and removal.
dev.sh up --ephemeral delegates to the startup script; other up invocations retain the existing Compose flow. The script starts slot-specific databases and backend and frontend services, checks readiness and local login, and records verified process IDs.
dev.sh gc delegates cleanup. The script finds expired slots, stops processes only when their PIDs match the expected commands, removes their containers and volumes, then removes slot files and registry entries.
sequenceDiagram
participant Developer
participant devsh as dev.sh
participant ephemeral as dev-ephemeral.sh
participant slots as dev-slots.mjs
participant Docker
participant Backend
participant VitePreview
Developer->>devsh: run up --ephemeral
devsh->>ephemeral: dispatch ephemeral startup
ephemeral->>slots: claim or reuse worktree slot
ephemeral->>Docker: start slot MongoDB and PostgreSQL
ephemeral->>Backend: build and start on assigned port
ephemeral->>Backend: check health and local login
ephemeral->>VitePreview: build and start on assigned port
ephemeral->>slots: record verified process IDs
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Paths with spaces can prevent an ephemeral stack from starting, while PID reuse or failed secret generation can disrupt development slots. Address these issues before merging unless the remaining risk is explicitly accepted.
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scripts/dev-ephemeral.sh: 1
136-136: Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Supply the credentials required by local dev login.
On a fresh shell without LOCAL_DEV_LOGIN_EMAIL and LOCAL_DEV_LOGIN_PASSWORD, setting LOCAL_DEV_LOGIN_ENABLED=true does not create a login: ensureLocalDevLogin() skips bootstrap when either value is missing. Compose supplies defaults, but this native launch does not. Supply slot-local development credentials or require them explicitly before promising the fixed dev login. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
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Review comment at @scripts/dev-ephemeral.sh at line 136:
Update the native launch environment near RUN_WORKER=0 to provide slot-local
LOCAL_DEV_LOGIN_EMAIL and LOCAL_DEV_LOGIN_PASSWORD values, or require both
values before setting LOCAL_DEV_LOGIN_ENABLED=true so the launch does not
promise a login without credentials.
scripts/dev-slots.mjs: 1
80-80: Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Do not emit an unquoted directory into eval.
If COMMONLY_DEV_DIR or the home directory contains a space, SLOT_DIR=... is not a valid standalone assignment when scripts/dev-ephemeral.sh evaluates it. Startup then fails after claiming a slot. Remove SLOT_DIR from the evaluated output and construct it in the shell from DEV_DIR and SLOT_N, or shell-quote the emitted value. As per path instructions, review comments must identify a correctness bug or broken contract.
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Review comment at @scripts/dev-slots.mjs at line 80:
Update the SLOT_DIR output generated via slotDir(n) so paths containing spaces
remain valid when scripts/dev-ephemeral.sh evaluates it; either shell-quote the
emitted value or construct SLOT_DIR in the shell from DEV_DIR and SLOT_N.
Source: Path instructions
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Review comments at @scripts/dev-ephemeral.sh:
- Around line 132-138: Set FRONTEND_URL in the backend environment in the
dev-ephemeral.sh startup block to the slot frontend origin,
http://127.0.0.1:$FRONTEND_PORT, so backend CORS allows requests from the
preview page.
- Line 134: Update the `MONGO_URI` setup in the ephemeral environment flow to
provision read/write access for each slot database before starting the backend,
and use credentials authorized to drop that database during garbage collection.
- Around line 181-189: Update the cleanup flow before `node "$SLOTS_MJS" drop
"$n"` so it waits for stopped processes to release database connections and
removes the slot directory and registry entry only after Docker is available and
both database deletions succeed; on any failure, leave the slot claimed for a
later cleanup attempt.
- Line 141: Update the up --ephemeral startup flow around wait_http so readiness
is accepted only when the newly launched backend and frontend processes are
still running and their HTTP responses succeed. Reuse verified live servers, or
stop and reap recorded servers before launching replacements; only let set-pids
record processes that pass these checks.
Review comments at @scripts/dev-slots.mjs:
- Around line 27-31: Update load() to return an empty registry only when reading
FILE fails with ENOENT; propagate JSON parse and other read errors, and reject
parsed values that do not have a valid slots registry shape before claim() can
allocate a slot.
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Review comments at @scripts/dev-ephemeral.sh:
- Line 136: Update the native launch environment near RUN_WORKER=0 to provide
slot-local LOCAL_DEV_LOGIN_EMAIL and LOCAL_DEV_LOGIN_PASSWORD values, or require
both values before setting LOCAL_DEV_LOGIN_ENABLED=true so the launch does not
promise a login without credentials.
Review comments at @scripts/dev-slots.mjs:
- Line 80: Update the SLOT_DIR output generated via slotDir(n) so paths
containing spaces remain valid when scripts/dev-ephemeral.sh evaluates it;
either shell-quote the emitted value or construct SLOT_DIR in the shell from
DEV_DIR and SLOT_N.
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Found by booting two worktrees for real:
- the shared mongo/postgres pair has fixed container names, so every
worktree must use the same compose project (-p commonly); a second
project failed with a name conflict.
- the pids recorded were the background subshell, not node. Launch with
exec and detached stdio, and record the PID that listens on the port.
- Postgres roles: the shared volume's superuser is `commonly`, not
`postgres`. Admin and app credentials are configurable.
- gc drops Mongo with the backend's mongoose; the mongo image has no
mongosh. The commonly role cannot dropDatabase on slot DBs, so the
Mongo drop is best-effort and reported as a warning.
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208-208: Minor · Stability & Availability · Quick win
Bound the Mongo connection wait in gc.
gc_ephemeral holds the registry lock while it drops each expired slot's Mongo database. The mongoose.connect call has no server selection timeout, so it uses the default of about 30 seconds. If Docker is running but the Mongo container is stopped, each expired slot can wait that long. up stops waiting for the lock after 150 attempts at 0.2 s, which is also about 30 seconds. A gc run that reaches such a slot can therefore make a concurrent up fail with "registry lock is held".
Set a shorter bound on this cleanup connection, for example 5000 ms:
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Set a shorter server-selection timeout on the mongoose.connect call in
gc_ephemeral so cleanup does not hold the registry lock for the default
connection wait when Mongo is unavailable.
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- Around line 22-24: Update the PG_ADMIN_USER, PG_APP_USER, and PG_APP_PASSWORD
resolution in the dev-ephemeral script to use the effective PostgreSQL
credentials from the Compose configuration, including Compose defaults and root
.env values, so database creation and backend connections use matching
credentials.
- Line 90: Update the PID lookup to find lsof through PATH instead of using a
hard-coded path, and report an explicit missing-dependency error when lsof is
unavailable.
- Line 16: Update the COMPOSE configuration in dev-ephemeral.sh so shared Mongo
resolves to a stable Compose file and mongo-init.js mount path across worktrees,
or change startup to avoid recreating shared services; preserve per-worktree
behavior for services that are not shared.
- Line 16: Update the COMPOSE project-name selection in scripts/dev-ephemeral.sh
to use the same project name as ordinary ./dev.sh up, resolving the existing
project name or sharing its naming configuration instead of independently
defaulting to commonly.
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- Line 208: Set a shorter server-selection timeout on the mongoose.connect call
in gc_ephemeral so cleanup does not hold the registry lock for the default
connection wait when Mongo is unavailable.
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…stener to be ours (TASK-619)
The backend inherited the whole shell environment, so a prod secret exported
in the caller's shell reached a local slot. It now starts under env -i with
only PATH, HOME, TMPDIR and LANG plus the slot's own settings.
The health check only proved that something answered the slot port. A stale
server from another slot would have been recorded as this slot's PID. The
listener must now be the PID we launched.
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Review comments at @scripts/dev-ephemeral.sh:
- Around line 154-155: Update the backend environment passed through the env -i
launch block to provide slot-local LOCAL_DEV_LOGIN_EMAIL,
LOCAL_DEV_LOGIN_PASSWORD, and JWT_SECRET values, so local-user bootstrap and JWT
signing both work in a fresh worktree without backend/.env. After startup,
verify that login succeeds rather than relying only on the health check.
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… CORS (TASK-619)
Each slot now runs its own Postgres 17 and Mongo 8.2 containers on their own
volumes, bound to 127.0.0.1. The shared compose services are no longer touched,
so the slot's database names, credentials and removal are its own. gc removes a
slot's containers and volumes; a slot stays claimed if any of them cannot be
removed, so its number is not reused while its data exists.
The backend gets a per-slot session secret and local login user (generated
once into the slot directory) and FRONTEND_URL for CORS. A slot is only
reported up after the local login succeeds, which exercises both.
Registry: a missing file is an empty registry; any other read or parse
error, or a wrong shape, stops the caller. Launched PIDs are recorded as soon
as they start, so a failed run leaves something the next run or gc can stop.
lsof is found through PATH, with /usr/sbin added for macOS.
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Thread on the compose project name (scripts/dev-ephemeral.sh, line 16): not applicable now. Slots no longer run through compose, so there is no project name to match.
Verification: one slot booted live against its own Postgres and Mongo. The login probe returned a token and the preview served 200. gc on an expired slot removed its processes, containers and volumes. Two worktrees booting at the same time is not verified: the host's test-database cap refused the second slot. The PR body says so.
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Each ephemeral slot runs its own Postgres 17 and Mongo 8.2 on its own named volumes (commonly-slot--pgdata, commonly-slot--mongodata). Slot secrets are generated per slot into a 0600 secrets.env. Nothing reuses another worktree's volume.
A slot is reported up only after the backend logs its ready line and a local login returns a token.
gc stops the slot's processes, removes its containers and volumes, and keeps the slot claimed if Docker is down or removal fails.
Live, on one slot: up, login, preview 200, Postgres connected to the slot's own database. gc on an expired copy removed processes, containers and volumes.
Fixed in this round: the nine open CodeRabbit threads are answered in one PR comment, with the fix or the reason for each.
Not run: two worktrees booted at once. The host-wide seat-docker-guard cap (4 database containers) refuses a second slot. Needs Lily's ruling: raise the cap to 8, or share one Mongo across slots.
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Follow-up Comments
Do not persist failed secret generation.
143-146: Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Do not persist failed secret generation.
If either openssl rand command fails, echo can still succeed and leave an empty secret in secrets.env. The next run sees the file and does not regenerate it, so login remains broken until the file is removed. Check both generation commands before writing, then replace the file only after both secrets exist. As per coding guidelines, “Errors propagate with context. Either handle it meaningfully or let it bubble.” (raw.githubusercontent.com)
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Review comment at @scripts/dev-ephemeral.sh around lines 143 - 146:
Update the secret-generation block in the ephemeral development script to
validate that both openssl rand commands succeed and produce secrets before
writing the file; propagate failures with context and replace the secrets file
only after both values are available.
Source: Coding guidelines
Verify slot ownership before signaling a recorded PID.
126-127: Minor · Stability & Availability · Quick win
Verify slot ownership before signaling a recorded PID.
dev-slots.mjs stores only numeric PIDs for each slot. stop_pid accepts any live process whose command matches dist/server.js or vite. If the PID is reused by another slot, both up and gc can signal that slot's process. Check the PID against this slot's identity, such as its expected listening port and worktree, before calling kill. The existing wait_port_free checks only this slot's ports and does not prevent the cross-slot signal.
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Review comment at @scripts/dev-ephemeral.sh around lines 126 - 127:
Update stop_pid to verify that the recorded PID belongs to this slot by checking
its expected listening port and worktree before signaling it. Keep the existing
liveness and command checks, but do not call kill when the PID does not match
this slot’s identity.
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Answers to the nine CodeRabbit threads, at head 15ad10c. Each names the commit or the reason. Thread links are below.
discussion_r4408658515 (CORS origin): fixed. The backend launch sets FRONTEND_URL to the slot's frontend origin (dev-ephemeral.sh, backend env block), and the CORS policy reads it.
discussion_r4408658518 (Mongo role on the slot database): not applicable. Each slot's Mongo is its own container, with no auth and bound to 127.0.0.1. No shared service and no role grant are involved.
discussion_r4408658525 (existing backend owns the readiness response): fixed. A running slot's recorded servers are stopped, and the port must be free, before a replacement starts. The listener PID must equal the PID the script launched.
discussion_r4408658529 (claim kept when DB deletion fails): fixed. The registry entry is dropped only after the containers and volumes are removed. A Docker outage or a failed removal keeps the slot claimed.
discussion_r4408658533 (corrupt registry): fixed. load() returns empty only on ENOENT. Invalid JSON or a wrong shape throws.
discussion_r4408802878 (shared Mongo compose configuration): not applicable. The script no longer uses docker compose or a mounted mongo-init file. Each slot's containers are created directly.
discussion_r4408802882 (Postgres credentials): fixed. The container is created with PG_APP_USER and PG_APP_PASSWORD, and the backend connects with the same two values. Nothing is read from a compose .env.
discussion_r4408802884 (lsof through PATH): fixed. lookup is through command -v after /usr/sbin and /sbin are added to PATH, and a missing lsof stops the run with a message.
discussion_r4433193888 (sign-in under env -i, dev-ephemeral.sh:255): already correct at 15ad10c. JWT_SECRET and the login email and password come from the slot's secrets.env, which is sourced before launch and passed on the env -i line. The readiness check waits for "[local-dev-login] Ready" and then logs in once. Live: slot 2 runs from this worktree, which has no backend/.env. Its login returned a token.
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./dev.sh up --ephemeral, so each git worktree runs its own local stack on its own ports and databases, and./dev.sh gcremoves expired slots.What
./dev.sh up --ephemeralstarts a native Node 20 backend (tscbuild,node dist/server.js) and avite build+vite previewfrontend on the worktree's slot ports.~/.commonly/dev/slots.json, guarded by a mkdir lock. Slots 1..8 (COMMONLY_DEV_MAX_SLOTS), backend 5100+10n, frontend 5101+10n, Postgres 5102+10n, Mongo 5103+10n, 24 h TTL. Re-running from the same worktree replaces its running servers../dev.sh gcstops the slot's recorded processes, then removes its containers and volumes. A slot stays claimed if any of them cannot be removed.Verification
bash -non the new script; registry rejects corrupt and wrong-shape input.gcon an expired slot stopped its processes, removed both containers and both volumes, removed its directory, and freed the slot.gcwith Docker down (the code path leaves the slot claimed; not exercised).