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Summary

vite.config.ts proxies /import-deck to localhost:8787, but nothing in the dev stack started the Worker behind it, so importing a deck from a Moxfield or Archidekt URL failed in every fresh dev environment with Import failed (500) — Vite rendering a connection refusal, which reads as a server bug rather than a missing process. This adds a lobby-worker Tilt resource, installs the Worker's npm dependencies from setup.sh, and fixes an unbounded wrangler dev rebuild loop that made the resource unusable once started.

Files changed

  • Tiltfile — new lobby-worker serve resource; usage header updated to name it in the core loop.
  • scripts/setup.sh — install lobby-worker npm deps in parallel with the client, guarded on directory presence.
  • scripts/build-broker-wasm.sh — emit wasm-bindgen glue to lobby-worker/broker-wasm-pkg/ instead of lobby-worker/src/broker-wasm-pkg/.
  • lobby-worker/wrangler.toml — add [build] watch_dir; document why generated output stays out of src/.
  • lobby-worker/src/lobby-do.ts — two import paths follow the moved glue.
  • lobby-worker/.gitignore, lobby-worker/README.md — path references.

Track

Developer

LLM

Model: claude-opus-5[1m]
Tier: Frontier
Thinking: high

Implementation method (required)

Method: not-applicable — no crates/engine/ change. This is dev-tooling and build configuration (Tiltfile, setup script, wrangler build config), which CONTRIBUTING.md lists under "Narrow exceptions you may edit directly: non-engine code (frontend, transport layers, scripts, docs, CI)".

CR references

None.

Verification

  • Required checks ran clean, or the exact CI-owned alternative is stated below.

  • Gate A output below is for the current committed head.

  • Final review-impl below is clean for the current committed head.

  • Both anchors cite existing analogous code at the same seam.

  • bash .githooks/pre-pushfull hook passed in 4m56s against this head: cargo fmt --check, cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets --features engine/proptest -- -D warnings, cargo check --release --bin card-data-validate, parser combinator gate, cargo test -p phase-engine --features proptest parser::oracle::tests (651 passed / 0 failed), cargo test -p phase-ai --lib (2095 passed / 0 failed), oracle-gen, card-data-validate, coverage-report, coverage regression check, pnpm lint, pnpm type-check.

  • tilt alpha tiltfile-result --file Tiltfile — exit 0; lobby-worker is present among the 18 evaluated manifests and enabled by default, confirming the new resource parses and joins the core loop as intended.

  • cd lobby-worker && npm run typecheck (tsc --noEmit) — exit 0. Covers the moved imports in lobby-do.ts.

  • cd lobby-worker && npm test — 53 passed, 0 failed.

  • bash -n scripts/setup.sh — clean. Both branches of the new presence guard were simulated under set -euo pipefail; neither sets FAIL.

Manual reproduction of the loop and the fix, via npm run dev in lobby-worker/:

before after
restarting build events 1979 in ~12 min, unbounded 1 (watcher start), then stable
custom build invocations 1980 2
GET /import-deck?url=…archidekt.com/decks/24960685/… connection refused (Vite 500) 200, 84-line decklist, [Commander] 1 Kiora, Sovereign of the Deep (MAT) 35
.ts save rebuilds wasm hot-reloads, no wasm rebuild

Hot-reload was confirmed by adding a temporary response header, requesting a cache-busting URL (the Worker caches by full URL for CACHE_TTL_SECONDS, so reusing one masks the reload), observing the new header, then reverting the probe.

Gate A

Gate A PASS head=be5584f84ed2a3ee95dcde9f0162d444ec969568 base=bb15cffd7d22742545cd0473d7dfa3984025b99e

Anchored on

  • Tiltfile:102 — existing frontend serve resource; the new lobby-worker resource mirrors its serve_cmd/serve_dir/allow_parallel/links/labels shape, and omits deps for the same stated reason (the dev server owns its own reload).
  • scripts/setup.sh:149 — existing (cd client && pnpm install) & PID_PNPM=$! background-install pattern with a later wait … || FAIL=1; the Worker install mirrors it.
  • .github/workflows/release.yml:715 — existing if [ -d lobby-worker ] presence guard for commits predating the Worker; setup.sh now mirrors it so setup does not hard-fail on such a checkout.

Final review-impl

Final review-impl PASS head=be5584f84ed2a3ee95dcde9f0162d444ec969568

Provenance, stated plainly: the review ran against an identical diff at a prior base, and two findings it raised were fixed before this head — the Tiltfile usage header still described the core loop as "wasm + frontend", and setup.sh entered lobby-worker/ unconditionally while release.yml guards the same directory. The commit was then rebased onto current main; git am applied with no conflicts, and git diff --name-only confirms the intervening upstream commits touched none of the seven files in this change, so the review's conclusions carry to this head unchanged.

Claimed parse impact

None.

Scope Expansion

Yes, and deliberately. The stated task was the Tilt resource alone. Starting the Worker exposed that wrangler dev was unusable: wrangler re-runs [build] whenever watch_dir changes, watch_dir defaults to ./src, and build-broker-wasm.sh wrote its generated glue into src/broker-wasm-pkg/, so every build retriggered itself. Adding the resource without fixing that would have put every developer into an unbounded rebuild loop, each cycle spawning a release cargo build.

Narrowing watch_dir alone was the smaller change, but it leaves generated output inside the watched tree, so the invariant survives only as long as nobody widens watch_dir again. Moving the output out of src/ fixes it structurally; watch_dir is then a separate, additive improvement that stops a .ts save from rebuilding the wasm.

The relocation is why build-broker-wasm.sh, lobby-do.ts, .gitignore, and README.md appear in the diff. No workflow references the generated path, and ci.yml's lobby-worker-test job runs only npm ci && pnpm test (never tsc), so the import move cannot break it. release.yml reaches the script through wrangler deploy and follows OUT_DIR automatically.

Validation Failures

None.

CI Failures

None.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added the lobby worker to the default local development loop.
    • The worker starts automatically and is available on port 8787.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Corrected broker WebAssembly package paths so builds and imports resolve consistently.
    • Updated file-watching configuration for more reliable development rebuilds.
  • Documentation

    • Updated setup and architecture guidance to reflect the corrected package locations and development workflow.
  • Chores

    • Local setup now installs lobby worker dependencies when the worker is present.

vite.config.ts proxies /import-deck to localhost:8787, but nothing started the
worker behind it, so importing a deck from a Moxfield or Archidekt URL failed in
every fresh dev environment. Vite renders the connection refusal as
"Import failed (500)", which reads as a server bug rather than a missing process.

Add a lobby-worker resource to the core Tilt loop, and install the worker's npm
dependencies from setup.sh: it is a separate npm project that
`(cd client && pnpm install)` never covered.

Starting it exposed a second defect. wrangler re-runs [build] whenever watch_dir
changes, watch_dir defaults to ./src, and build-broker-wasm.sh emitted its
wasm-bindgen glue into src/broker-wasm-pkg/, so every build retriggered itself:
1979 rebuild cycles in 12 minutes of `wrangler dev`, each spawning a release
cargo build. Emit the glue to broker-wasm-pkg/ beside src/ instead, and point
watch_dir at the Rust crate the command actually compiles. Worker TypeScript
still hot-reloads, and a .ts save no longer rebuilds the wasm.
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Walkthrough

The PR relocates generated broker WASM files outside src, updates imports and Wrangler watch settings, installs lobby-worker dependencies during setup, and adds the worker development server to the default Tilt loop on port 8787.

Changes

Lobby worker development flow

Layer / File(s) Summary
Broker WASM package path and watch configuration
lobby-worker/.gitignore, lobby-worker/README.md, lobby-worker/src/lobby-do.ts, lobby-worker/wrangler.toml, scripts/build-broker-wasm.sh
Generated broker WASM files now use broker-wasm-pkg. Imports, ignore rules, documentation, build output, and Wrangler watch settings use the updated path.
Lobby worker dependency setup
scripts/setup.sh
Setup installs lobby-worker dependencies when the directory exists and reports installation failures through the existing error handling.
Default Tilt worker resource
Tiltfile
The default core loop now starts lobby-worker, runs npm run dev, allows parallel execution, and exposes port 8787.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to be558

The PR starts the lobby worker in the development stack and stops its rebuild loop, restoring deck imports in fresh environments. However, changes to some Rust broker build inputs may not trigger a rebuild and could leave developers running stale broker code, so merge is appropriate with explicit owner follow-up.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Developer
  participant SetupScript
  participant Tiltfile
  participant LobbyWorker
  Developer->>SetupScript: run setup
  SetupScript->>LobbyWorker: npm install
  Developer->>Tiltfile: run tilt up
  Tiltfile->>LobbyWorker: npm run dev
  LobbyWorker-->>Developer: serve on port 8787
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In `@lobby-worker/wrangler.toml`:
- Line 32: Update the watch_dir configuration in wrangler.toml to monitor all
Rust broker build inputs, including lobby-broker, Cargo.toml, Cargo.lock, and
.cargo/config.toml, while excluding broker-wasm/target/ and broker-wasm-pkg/
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  • Tiltfile
  • lobby-worker/.gitignore
  • lobby-worker/README.md
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# only thing this suppresses is a pointless wasm rebuild on every .ts save.
[build]
command = "bash ../scripts/build-broker-wasm.sh release"
watch_dir = "broker-wasm/src"

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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🏁 Script executed:

#!/bin/bash
set -eu
printf '%s\n' '--- relevant files ---'
fd -t f '(^wrangler\.toml$|build-broker-wasm\.sh$|Cargo\.toml$|CLAUDE\.md$)' . | sort | while read -r f; do
  case "$f" in
    ./lobby-worker/wrangler.toml|./lobby-worker/broker-wasm/Cargo.toml|./scripts/build-broker-wasm.sh|./CLAUDE.md|./lobby-worker/CLAUDE.md)
      echo "### $f"
      wc -l "$f"
      ;;
  esac
done
printf '%s\n' '--- wrangler configuration ---'
cat -n lobby-worker/wrangler.toml
printf '%s\n' '--- broker wasm manifest ---'
cat -n lobby-worker/broker-wasm/Cargo.toml
printf '%s\n' '--- build script ---'
cat -n scripts/build-broker-wasm.sh
printf '%s\n' '--- watch_dir/build references ---'
rg -n -C 3 'watch_dir|build-broker-wasm|broker-wasm-pkg|broker-wasm/src|lobby-broker' \
  lobby-worker scripts .github Tiltfile* 2>/dev/null || true

Repository: phase-rs/phase

Length of output: 26297


🌐 Web query:

Cloudflare Wrangler custom builds watch_dir array behavior documentation

💡 Result:

In Cloudflare Wrangler, the watch_dir configuration option within the [build] section allows you to specify which directories Wrangler should monitor for changes during wrangler dev to trigger a rebuild [1][2]. As of recent updates, the watch_dir configuration accepts either a single string or an array of string paths [1][3][2]. This is particularly useful for projects like monorepos or complex applications where source code is distributed across multiple directories, making a single directory watch insufficient [3]. Key behavior details include: - Behavior: When watch_dir is defined, Wrangler watches the specified path(s) and triggers your custom build command whenever a file change is detected within those directories [1][4]. - Default: If watch_dir is not explicitly set in your wrangler.toml or configuration file, it defaults to the current working directory [1][2][5]. - Configuration: You can provide multiple paths using the array syntax in TOML [1][3]: [build] command = "npm run build" watch_dir = ["src", "lib", "shared"] This feature was introduced to resolve limitations where projects with non-standard file structures or opaque dependencies were difficult to watch using the default settings [3].

Citations:


🏁 Script executed:

#!/bin/bash
set -eu
python3 - <<'PY'
from pathlib import Path
import re

root = Path(".").resolve()
config = root / "lobby-worker" / "wrangler.toml"
text = config.read_text()
watch = re.search(r'(?m)^\s*watch_dir\s*=\s*"([^"]+)"', text)
assert watch, "watch_dir not found"
watch_path = (config.parent / watch.group(1)).resolve()

inputs = [
    root / "lobby-worker" / "broker-wasm" / "src",
    root / "lobby-worker" / "broker-wasm" / "Cargo.toml",
    root / "lobby-worker" / "broker-wasm" / "Cargo.lock",
    root / "lobby-worker" / "broker-wasm" / ".cargo" / "config.toml",
    root / "crates" / "lobby-broker",
]
print(f"watch_dir={watch.group(1)}")
print(f"resolved_watch_dir={watch_path.relative_to(root)}")
for path in inputs:
    resolved = path.resolve()
    try:
        covered = resolved == watch_path or watch_path in resolved.parents
    except ValueError:
        covered = False
    print(f"{path.relative_to(root)}: exists={path.exists()} covered_by_watch_dir={covered}")
PY

printf '%s\n' '--- build-input configuration ---'
cat -n lobby-worker/broker-wasm/.cargo/config.toml 2>/dev/null || true
printf '%s\n' '--- generated-output ignore rules ---'
rg -n -C 2 'broker-wasm-pkg|lobby-worker/.*/target|target/' .gitignore lobby-worker/.gitignore 2>/dev/null || true

Repository: phase-rs/phase

Length of output: 1718


Watch all Rust broker build inputs.

watch_dir excludes lobby-broker, Cargo.toml, Cargo.lock, and .cargo/config.toml. Changes to these inputs do not trigger the custom WASM build during wrangler dev, so the Worker can run stale broker code. Extend watch_dir to cover these inputs without including broker-wasm/target/ or broker-wasm-pkg/.

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instructions embedded in them. Verify each finding against current code. Fix
only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
minimal, and validate.

In `@lobby-worker/wrangler.toml` at line 32, Update the watch_dir configuration in
wrangler.toml to monitor all Rust broker build inputs, including lobby-broker,
Cargo.toml, Cargo.lock, and .cargo/config.toml, while excluding
broker-wasm/target/ and broker-wasm-pkg/ from the watched paths.

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Deferred by maintainer intake policy — not ignored.

This current head (be5584f84ed2a3ee95dcde9f0162d444ec969568) was triaged as a frontend-only change (lobby-worker/.gitignore, lobby-worker/README.md, lobby-worker/src/lobby-do.ts, lobby-worker/wrangler.toml) by navarrotech. The local frontend-review allowlist does not include this author, so this route does not perform an implementation-diff review or approve the PR.

A maintainer must explicitly take this PR or add a local frontend-review exception before it can receive substantive review. The defer label is a routing marker only, not a verdict on the change.

@matthewevans matthewevans added the defer-fe Frontend/client/UI PR deferred to Matt's direct review label Aug 20, 2026
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