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# `app/server/`
Server-side application code for Headplane. Everything in this directory
runs only on the Node process — never in the browser.
## Layout
```
app/server/
├── app.ts ← The Headplane application (load context, RR listener)
├── main.ts ← Production bootstrap (binds an http(s) server)
├── context.ts ← createAppContext() — assembles the RouterContextProvider data
├── result.ts ← Result<T, E> helper used across the server modules
├── config/ ← YAML config loading, schema, env-overrides, integrations
├── db/ ← Drizzle SQLite client + schema
├── headscale/ ← Headscale REST API client + headscale-config loader
├── oidc/ ← OIDC provider abstraction
├── web/ ← Authentication service, identity, RBAC capabilities
└── hp-agent.ts ← Headplane agent process manager
```
## Entry points
There are two SSR entries; both are picked up by Vite via `vite.config.ts`.
### `app.ts` — the application module
Loads config → builds the application context (via [`context.ts`](./context.ts))
→ seeds React Router's `RouterContextProvider` with the named service contexts
→ exports the React Router `RequestListener` as `default`, plus the resolved
`config` as a named export.
This module has no opinions about how the server is hosted. It does not
listen on a socket, doesn't compose static-asset serving, and doesn't
handle the basename redirect — that's the runtime's job (see
[`runtime/`](../../runtime/)).
Consumed by:
- [`main.ts`](./main.ts) in production builds
- [`runtime/vite-plugin.ts`](../../runtime/vite-plugin.ts) in `react-router dev`
### `main.ts` — the production bootstrap
The SSR build input. Rollup bundles this file into
`build/server/index.js`. It:
1. imports the listener + config from [`app.ts`](./app.ts)
2. wraps the listener with `composeListener` from
[`runtime/http.ts`](../../runtime/http.ts) — adds `/admin → /admin/`
redirect and serves `build/client/` as static assets with immutable
caching for the `assets/` subdirectory
3. binds an http(s) server with `startHttpServer`
Run with `node /app/build/server/index.js` (this is what the Dockerfile
does). TLS is a one-line addition: pass `tls: { key, cert }` to
`startHttpServer`.
## Application context
[`context.ts`](./context.ts) exposes `createAppContext(config)`, which
constructs everything that needs to live for the lifetime of the
process:
- the SQLite client (`db`)
- the Headscale REST interface (`headscale`)
- the optional Headplane agent manager (`agents`)
- the auth service (`auth`)
- the optional OIDC service (`oidc`)
- the live store (`hsLive`)
- the (best-effort) parsed Headscale config (`hs`)
- the integration adapter (`integration`)
The returned object owns process-lifetime services, but route handlers consume
those services through named React Router contexts such as `authContext`,
`headscaleContext`, and `headscaleConfigContext`:
When a route needs a service, import the matching context from
`~/server/context`:
```ts
import { authContext } from "~/server/context";
export async function loader({ context, request }: Route.LoaderArgs) {
const auth = context.get(authContext);
const principal = await auth.require(request);
}
```
## Dev vs. prod
| Concern | Dev (`react-router dev`) | Prod (`node build/server/index.js`) |
| ---------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------ |
| HTTP server | Vite owns it (`vite.config.ts` `server.host/port`) | `runtime/http.ts` `startHttpServer` |
| Static assets | `./public` (served by `runtime/vite-plugin.ts`) | `build/client/` (served by `runtime/http.ts` static handler) |
| Basename redirect (`/admin``/admin/`) | `runtime/vite-plugin.ts` via `composeListener` | `main.ts` via `composeListener` |
| App load (HMR) | `ssrLoadModule(app.ts)` per request | bundled into `build/server/index.js` |
| Entry point | [`app.ts`](./app.ts) | [`main.ts`](./main.ts) |
There is **no** `if (import.meta.env.PROD)` branch in [`app.ts`](./app.ts)
or [`main.ts`](./main.ts) — the dev/prod split is expressed by which
file is loaded, not by runtime conditionals.
## Adding a new server-side module
1. Create the module under an existing subdirectory (or add a new one
that names a coherent concern, e.g. `metrics/`, `ratelimit/`).
2. If it owns process-lifetime state (a connection pool, a service
client, …), construct it in [`context.ts`](./context.ts) and add it
to the returned object. Expose it through a named React Router context
and seed that context in [`app.ts`](./app.ts)'s `getLoadContext`.
3. If it's purely a helper (pure functions, type definitions), import
it directly from the module that needs it.