Deployment artifacts for the two-server architecture from ARCHITECTURE.md
§9, grounded in verified Debian 13 (trixie) package facts (Python 3.13,
PostgreSQL 17, Node.js 20, redis-server 8.0, certbot 4.0, ufw --
confirmed rather than guessed) rather than a generic "modern Linux" guide:
deploy/systemd/chatapp.service, deploy/chatapp.env.example,
deploy/backup-postgres.sh, deploy/upgrade.sh, and DEPLOYMENT.md as the
actual numbered runbook.
Revised mid-implementation once the user clarified the app sits behind an
existing, separate Nginx Proxy Manager rather than local Nginx+certbot:
dropped the local Nginx config entirely, gunicorn now binds a TCP port
instead of a Unix socket, and app/main.py gained a static-file mount + SPA
fallback route so gunicorn alone serves the built frontend, /api, and /ws
on one port -- what lets NPM's simple one-upstream-per-domain mode work
with zero custom path routing. Path-traversal-guarded (full_path comes
straight from the URL) and cache-header-differentiated (far-future
immutable on Vite's content-hashed assets, no-cache on index.html/sw.js/
manifest so a deploy actually propagates instead of leaving clients on a
stale service worker) -- verified locally against a real gunicorn process
serving a real frontend build, not just eyeballed.
Two real gaps found and fixed alongside the docs, not just noted: gunicorn
wasn't a dependency anywhere despite being the whole app-server design, and
there was no WebSocket reconnect logic on the client -- a reverse proxy's
idle-connection timeout (NPM's or otherwise) would have silently killed a
quiet chat connection with nothing to recover it. Added exponential-backoff
reconnect to useChatSocket.ts, verified by hand (killed and restarted the
local dev backend mid-session, confirmed auto-reconnect and that a message
sends successfully afterward with no page reload).
Every command in DEPLOYMENT.md that could be verified locally, was: the
exact systemd ExecStart line run against local dev Postgres/Redis with
clean SIGTERM shutdown, the static-file serving behavior against a real
build, both shell scripts syntax-checked. What couldn't be verified from
this sandbox (actual Debian 13 hardware, Nginx Proxy Manager itself) is
flagged explicitly in the plan rather than claimed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Bot accounts (User rows with is_bot=True), scoped API tokens (read:messages,
write:messages, manage:rooms) authenticated via Authorization: Bearer on both
REST and the WS handshake, live bot WebSocket access on the same /ws/chat
endpoint humans use, message editing (WS "edit" envelope -> message_update
broadcast, fans out cross-instance for free via the existing broadcaster),
incoming webhooks (room-scoped, no auth beyond the URL token), and outgoing
webhooks/event subscriptions (HMAC-SHA256 signed, backgrounded delivery,
creation-time SSRF validation against private/loopback/link-local targets).
Token auth is additive, not a parallel system: a bearer-token-authenticated
bot goes through the exact same room-membership/role checks a session-
authenticated human does everywhere; only read:messages/write:messages are
separately scope-gated (the two message endpoints). manage:rooms scope
enforcement, full per-delivery SSRF re-validation, and bot API rate limiting
were explicitly scoped out (confirmed with the repo owner) as disproportionate
to this phase -- documented as known gaps in backend/README.md rather than
silently skipped.
Admin portal gains a Bots tab (create bots, issue/revoke scoped tokens,
cross-room webhook visibility); RoomInfoPanel gains room-scoped webhook/
subscription management, mirroring how invites already work there. The chat
UI also gets a minimal "edit your own message" affordance -- not asked for
by the issue, but the only practical way to exercise the edit pipeline by
hand instead of only via a scripted bot client.
Along the way: fixed a real bug caught while writing the incoming-webhook
test -- offline-push notification relied on the sender being "connected" to
exclude themselves, true for WS-originated messages but not for the new
webhook path, which has no WS connection for the attributed sender at all.
Now explicitly excluded. Also discovered the REST-only test fixture never
triggered ASGI lifespan, so app.state.broadcaster/presence didn't exist for
it; moved their construction out of the lifespan into create_app() itself
(Redis client construction is synchronous/lazy) so both the WS and
REST-only paths always have them.
New tests/test_bots.py, test_message_edit.py, test_webhooks.py (full suite
now 78/78, stable across repeated runs) plus a scripted end-to-end smoke
test (bot WS join/post/edit, incoming webhook, SSRF rejection, outgoing
delivery) and a full browser walkthrough of the new admin/room UI.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Invite-only FastAPI + SQLAlchemy(async) + Postgres backend (session-cookie
auth via CLI-provisioned accounts, open-room CRUD, single-instance /ws/chat)
and a React + Vite PWA frontend (login, room list, chat view). Backend tests
pass against a local Postgres DB. See README.md and backend/README.md for
setup, and ARCHITECTURE.md for the full phased design.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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