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fix(api): run the image with Bun's auto-install off - #859

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What

The api Docker image, and the api start script behind it, now run bun --no-install bundle/index.mjs. Bun's runtime auto-install is off.

Why

Found while testing #857 against the images. The api runner ships bundle/ and no node_modules, so any bare specifier the bundle still carries makes Bun fetch it from npm at runtime. @better-auth/core has one: a guarded, optional import("@opentelemetry/api") that fires on the first Better Auth call. On a fresh container with a network, the first sign-in pulled 639 files into Bun's install cache; without a network, that request stalled while Bun tried the registry. It is pre-existing (canary's image does the same) and not a bug in Better Auth: the import is meant to fail and fall back to its noop. What was wrong is that the container reached npm at all.

With --no-install, the import fails at once and the guard falls back, which is what happened after the fetch anyway.

Proof

Same image, four runs; the control strips the flag from the command:

offline (--network=none) online, database reachable
with the flag health ok; first sign-in answers at once (the database error, nothing is reachable); install cache empty first sign-in 302 at once; install cache empty
flag stripped health ok; first sign-in gives no response in 12 s; Bun creates the cache dir while trying npm first sign-in 302; 639 files fetched into the cache

Then the golden suite against the images through compose: 59 of 59, and docker diff on the api container shows nothing under .bun/install/cache after the whole run. The host-side bun run start with the flag serves health, signs in, and returns the user.

The check that missed it

The docker-test skill's offline self-containment check only hit /api/health, which never reaches the import. It now also signs in and asserts the cache stays empty, with the timing and the failure mode written down, and its dummy env turns the agent route on so the probe can reach it. The Docker docs say why the image runs with the flag.

Not covered

Vercel. The function there runs under Vercel's Bun runtime with a command this repo does not control, and its file system is read-only outside /tmp, so the same import fails and falls back on its own; whether Bun still attempts a registry fetch first is not something I can observe from here. Nothing in the api's behaviour on Vercel changes with this PR.

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lint, format, check-types, test (339 pass), build, the strict docs gate and the skills-table check pass. No UI, so no browser pass beyond the suite's own page tests.

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  • Bug Fixes

    • API containers no longer attempt to install missing packages at runtime, avoiding unexpected network requests and allowing optional functionality to fall back cleanly.
    • Web deployments retain the components needed for Open Graph image generation.
  • Documentation

    • Updated Docker deployment guidance to describe these runtime and image-generation behaviors.

The api runner ships bundle/ and no node_modules, so a bare specifier the bundle still carries makes
Bun fetch it from npm at runtime. @better-auth/core's guarded optional import of @opentelemetry/api
is one: with a network, the first sign-in on a fresh container pulled 639 files; without one, that
request stalled while Bun tried the registry. bun --no-install makes the import fail at once, and
the guard falls back to the noop telemetry, which is what happens anyway once the fetch fails.

The image's CMD and the api start script both carry the flag. The docker-test skill's offline
check now signs in as well as hitting health, since the import fires on the first Better Auth
call and never at boot, and asserts the install cache stays empty; its dummy env turns the agent
route on so that probe can reach it.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01VBYxUtQGsiCZ57FgqffMu3
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The Hono container and package start script now launch Bun with --no-install. Deployment documentation describes how missing bundle imports behave and notes web image tracing changes.

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Bun runtime install control

Layer / File(s) Summary
Disable runtime auto-install
api/hono/Dockerfile, api/hono/package.json, web/next/content/docs/deployment/docker.mdx
The Hono runtime commands add --no-install. The documentation describes missing-import behavior and the web image’s native-binary pruning and retained takumi core.

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The deployment guidance could lead operators to misunderstand import resolution and outbound network behavior. The runtime change is not shown to impair service behavior, but the wording should be narrowed.

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The change reduces the API container’s ability to fetch packages at runtime, and both documented API launch commands apply the same setting. No introduced security issue was established. Deployment rollback behavior and the optional telemetry fallback have not been independently verified.

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  • inferred — The affected authority is Bun package resolution for the API bundle launched by the changed commands. The flag removes that route to runtime npm installation; it is not a general network egress control.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • inferred — The runtime no longer delegates resolution of a missing package to a remote registry through Bun auto-install. Bundle construction remains a separate build-time operation.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — The optional telemetry fallback is documented, but its dependency code and production detection of a noop telemetry state were not available. This is an observability limit, not an established newly introduced security finding.
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- Line 41: Revise the paragraph about the API runner in the Docker deployment
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The callout said the runner resolves every import from the bundle and
starts with no network, which the next sentence contradicted: the
optional telemetry import is not in the bundle, it fails and falls back.
Say what --no-install guarantees instead: resolution never reaches npm,
and a specifier the bundle lacks fails rather than being fetched.

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End-to-end run against the images built from this branch (docker compose build --no-cache, fresh disposable Postgres, migrated):

Offline (--network=none), api image

  • /api/health answers with no network.
  • First and second POST /api/agents/sign-in-as answer a 500 (the database is unreachable) instead of stalling; the ~5 s each took is the unreachable-host connect timeout: the same image with a database address that refuses instantly answers in 5 ms server-side.
  • docker diff | grep .bun/install/cache is empty in both containers.

Online, compose stack

  • Sign-in is a 302 in 59 ms, /api/v1/user answers; docker diff on the api container is empty after sign-in and again after the full suite.
  • Web: /, /docs, /waitlist, /blog 200, /dashboard 307 anonymously; single-libc check on the web image: OK.
  • Golden suite (bun run test:e2e with E2E_POSTGRES_URL): 59 pass, 0 fail, twice in a row, no snapshot drift.

Stack, images and the database container removed afterwards.

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