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Summary

Addresses the launch-quality audit finding: “Production web delivery lacks a proven optimized caching/compression contract.”

Contracts Implemented

  1. HTTP compression (gzip)

    • Configures Nginx with gzip on, gzip_vary on, gzip_proxied any, compression level 6, and a 1,024-byte minimum.
    • Covers the production text, CSS, JavaScript, JSON, XML, SVG, and web-manifest MIME types.
    • Clients without gzip support and resources below the threshold receive the valid uncompressed representation.
  2. Hash-aware caching under /assets/

    • Only Vite-style content-hashed filenames receive Cache-Control: public, max-age=31536000, immutable.
    • Existing unhashed assets remain directly reachable with Cache-Control: no-cache and never fall through to the SPA shell.
    • Both hashed-looking and unhashed missing assets return 404 without misleading immutable caching.
    • All seven security headers are preserved with always, including on 404 responses.
  3. Safe freshness for the SPA shell and mutable root files

    • index.html, /, SPA deep-link fallbacks, /icon.svg, /manifest.webmanifest, and /sw.js use Cache-Control: no-cache.
    • This prevents stale HTML or root metadata from pinning obsolete hashed asset references across deployments.
  4. Real Nginx acceptance suite

    • Adds scripts/nginx-web-delivery-acceptance.mjs and npm run test:web-delivery in services/gateway.
    • Runs in the gateway-service CI job and is mirrored in scripts/ci-local.mjs with Docker required in CI.
    • Validates all 11 delivery assertions against a real Nginx container:
      1. Hashed JS and CSS receive one-year immutable caching.
      2. An existing unhashed /assets/runtime-config.json fixture receives no-cache, serves its exact body, and does not fall through to the SPA.
      3. index.html, the root route, and mutable root static files require revalidation.
      4. SPA deep-link fallback returns the shell without immutable caching.
      5. Eligible JS and CSS are genuinely gzip-compressed on the wire, with magic bytes, smaller wire size, and lossless gunzip validation.
      6. Compressed responses include Vary: Accept-Encoding.
      7. REST /v1/ proxying remains functional and avoids accidental immutable caching or Nginx recompression.
      8. WebSocket /ws upgrade and connection behavior remains intact with the correct Origin.
      9. All seven security headers remain present on successful and error responses.
      10. Missing hashed-looking and unhashed /assets/ paths return 404 without immutable caching.
      11. Identity and omitted Accept-Encoding requests return the original uncompressed bytes.

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  • Base SHA: 8899d6f26835b03a686cb9d9914e0946e95db639 (origin/main).
  • Exact PR head: 70801433c70ec5bacbc7a9ed234db8f5f603d60d.
  • Local real-container acceptance: web delivery 11 passed / 0 failed / 0 skipped; trusted edge 8 passed / 0 failed / 0 skipped.
  • Hosted exact-head checks: 11 passed / 0 failed / 0 pending after rerunning one transient four-second Docker availability-probe timeout.
  • Automated review: Qodo reports Bugs 0, Rule violations 0, Skill insights 0; CodeRabbit reports no actionable comments and 5/5 pre-merge checks; unresolved review threads 0.
  • Guardrails: docs/PROJECT_STATE.md was updated append-only with M15 Increment 60; no as any was introduced; the worktree is clean and local/remote branch divergence is 0 0.

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Walkthrough

Nginx now compresses eligible assets, applies hash-aware cache policies, and revalidates SPA fallbacks. A Docker-gated acceptance suite validates delivery, proxying, headers, WebSocket upgrades, and error paths. Local and CI workflows run the suite.

Changes

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Layer / File(s) Summary
Nginx delivery rules
docker/web/nginx.conf.template
Nginx enables gzip compression, applies immutable caching to hashed assets, uses no-cache for unhashed assets and SPA fallbacks, returns strict 404 responses, and disables compression for /v1/ responses.
Real-Nginx acceptance suite
scripts/nginx-web-delivery-acceptance.mjs
The suite starts API, gateway, and Nginx services and validates caching, revalidation, compression, proxying, WebSocket upgrades, security headers, missing assets, and identity encoding.
Build and CI wiring
services/gateway/package.json, scripts/ci-local.mjs, .github/workflows/ci.yml, docs/PROJECT_STATE.md
The test command runs in local and CI trusted-edge checks with Docker required in CI. The project-state record documents the delivery contract and acceptance coverage.

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Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  participant AcceptanceSuite
  participant Nginx
  participant Gateway
  participant API
  AcceptanceSuite->>Gateway: Start gateway service
  AcceptanceSuite->>API: Start API service
  AcceptanceSuite->>Nginx: Start container with web distribution and configuration
  AcceptanceSuite->>Nginx: Request assets, SPA routes, API health, and WebSocket upgrade
  Nginx->>Gateway: Proxy API and WebSocket requests
  Gateway->>API: Forward API requests
  Nginx-->>AcceptanceSuite: Return delivery and proxy responses
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Nginx now improves asset delivery while safely revalidating mutable content and handling proxy and error paths without a concrete production risk.

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PR Summary by Qodo

Harden production web caching and compression

✨ Enhancement 🧪 Tests ⚙️ Configuration changes 📝 Documentation 🕐 20-40 Minutes

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• Enables gzip compression for sufficiently large, compressible web resources.
• Applies immutable caching to hashed assets and revalidation to the SPA shell.
• Adds real-Nginx acceptance coverage to CI and local validation.
Diagram

graph TD
  Client["Web Client"] -->|"HTTP and WS"| Nginx["Nginx Web Edge"] -->|"immutable gzip"| Assets["Hashed Assets"]
  Nginx -->|"no-cache fallback"| Shell["SPA Shell"]
  Nginx -->|"REST proxy"| API["API Service"]
  Nginx -->|"WS upgrade"| Gateway["WebSocket Gateway"]
  CI["CI Runner"] --> Suite["Acceptance Suite"] --> Nginx
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High-Level Assessment

The following are alternative approaches to this PR:

1. Precompressed build artifacts
  • ➕ Eliminates runtime compression CPU cost
  • ➕ Allows gzip and Brotli variants to be produced deterministically
  • ➖ Complicates the web build and artifact layout
  • ➖ Requires Nginx content-negotiation rules and variant synchronization
2. CDN-managed delivery policy
  • ➕ Offloads compression and static traffic from the origin
  • ➕ Provides geographically distributed caching and richer cache controls
  • ➖ Introduces provider-specific infrastructure and operational dependencies
  • ➖ Still requires a correct origin contract for bypasses and cache misses

Recommendation: Keep the PR's Nginx-native policy as the production baseline because it fits the current topology, preserves origin correctness, and is validated end-to-end. Precompressed Brotli assets or CDN-managed delivery can be added later if traffic measurements justify their additional deployment complexity.

Files changed (6) +474 / -9

Tests (1) +425 / -0
nginx-web-delivery-acceptance.mjsAdd real-Nginx delivery acceptance coverage +425/-0

Add real-Nginx delivery acceptance coverage

• Builds a real API, gateway, web distribution, and Nginx container topology. Ten assertions verify immutable and revalidation policies, gzip wire integrity, 'Vary', security headers, missing-asset behavior, API routing, WebSocket upgrades, and identity responses.

scripts/nginx-web-delivery-acceptance.mjs

Documentation (1) +9 / -8
PROJECT_STATE.mdRecord the production web-delivery contract +9/-8

Record the production web-delivery contract

• Documents the caching, compression, security-header, and real-Nginx acceptance guarantees delivered by milestone increment 59.

docs/PROJECT_STATE.md

Other (4) +40 / -1
ci.ymlEnforce the web-delivery acceptance gate in CI +7/-1

Enforce the web-delivery acceptance gate in CI

• Marks changes to the new acceptance script as gateway-relevant and runs the Docker-backed web-delivery test in the gateway job. Docker availability is mandatory for this CI gate.

.github/workflows/ci.yml

nginx.conf.templateConfigure production compression and route-specific caching +31/-0

Configure production compression and route-specific caching

• Enables gzip for supported MIME types above 1,024 bytes. Hashed assets receive immutable one-year caching and strict 404 handling, while the SPA shell and fallback routes use 'no-cache' and retain existing security headers.

docker/web/nginx.conf.template

ci-local.mjsMirror the web-delivery gate in local CI +1/-0

Mirror the web-delivery gate in local CI

• Adds the web-delivery acceptance command to the local gateway service job so local validation matches hosted CI.

scripts/ci-local.mjs

package.jsonExpose the web-delivery acceptance command +1/-0

Expose the web-delivery acceptance command

• Adds 'test:web-delivery', which builds the web and server packages before executing the real-Nginx acceptance suite.

services/gateway/package.json

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1. Web changes bypass delivery checks ✓ Resolved 🐞 Bug ☼ Reliability
Description
The changed gateway path filter adds the new acceptance script but still excludes packages/web/,
even though test:web-delivery builds and validates that package's production output. A pull
request changing only web source sets web=true and gateway=false, so the gateway job and its
caching and compression acceptance suite are skipped.
Code

.github/workflows/ci.yml[85]

+            grep -qE '^(services/gateway/|packages/realtime-gateway/|packages/game/|packages/core/|packages/api/|scripts/(nginx-trusted-edge-acceptance|nginx-web-delivery-acceptance|lib/wait-for-health)\.mjs|docker/web/nginx\.conf\.template|package(-lock)?\.json|\.github/workflows/)' <<<"$changed" && gateway=true || gateway=false
Relevance

●●● Strong

Recent CI path-filter precedent accepted broadening gateway matches to cover tests and affected
package changes.

PR-#49

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Evidence
The gateway job is conditional on the gateway output, while only the separate web filter
includes packages/web/. The newly added test command explicitly runs build:web, and the gateway
job is the sole CI location invoking that command.

.github/workflows/ci.yml[55-56]
.github/workflows/ci.yml[83-87]
.github/workflows/ci.yml[557-562]
.github/workflows/ci.yml[612-616]
services/gateway/package.json[12-14]

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## Issue description
Web-only changes do not trigger the gateway job that owns the production web-delivery acceptance suite.

## Fix Focus Areas
- .github/workflows/ci.yml[85-86]

## Recommended Fix
Add `packages/web/` to the gateway change filter so modifications to production web output run `test:web-delivery` as well as the existing web job.

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2. Small bundles can fail delivery checks ✓ Resolved 🐞 Bug ☼ Reliability
Description
The setup chooses the first JavaScript asset returned by readdirSync without ensuring that it
meets the configured 1,024-byte gzip threshold. If a legitimate build emits a small chunk first, the
gzip assertions require an encoding that Nginx intentionally does not apply and fail the CI gate
nondeterministically as asset ordering changes.
Code

scripts/nginx-web-delivery-acceptance.mjs[R129-131]

+    const assetEntries = readdirSync(assetsDir);
+    hashedJsFile = assetEntries.find((f) => f.endsWith('.js') && !f.endsWith('.map'));
+    hashedCssFile = assetEntries.find((f) => f.endsWith('.css'));
Relevance

●●● Strong

Recent acceptance-test precedents favor deterministic, state-aware validation; unchecked asset
selection risks flaky gzip failures.

PR-#49

ⓘ Recommendations generated based on similar findings in past PRs

Evidence
Nginx explicitly compresses only responses of at least 1,024 bytes, but the test selects an
arbitrary .js entry and unconditionally requires Content-Encoding: gzip. The later
compressed-size and gunzip assertions all depend on that same unchecked asset.

docker/web/nginx.conf.template[11-26]
scripts/nginx-web-delivery-acceptance.mjs[124-136]
scripts/nginx-web-delivery-acceptance.mjs[273-281]
scripts/nginx-web-delivery-acceptance.mjs[306-320]

Agent prompt
The issue below was found during a code review. Follow the provided context and guidance below and implement a solution

## Issue description
The gzip acceptance check may select a JavaScript bundle below Nginx's intentional minimum compression size and falsely fail.

## Fix Focus Areas
- scripts/nginx-web-delivery-acceptance.mjs[129-136]
- scripts/nginx-web-delivery-acceptance.mjs[273-320]

## Recommended Fix
Select a JavaScript asset whose byte size is at least the configured gzip minimum before running compression assertions, and fail setup with a clear message if the build contains no suitable asset. Alternatively, mount a deterministic compressible fixture larger than the threshold.

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Review mode: ⚖️ Balanced: Downgraded extended -> standard: change is below the extended eligibility bar (hunks 9/18, lines 483/200; both must reach the floor). Router rationale: This changes production Nginx caching/compression behavior and CI acceptance infrastructure across multiple independent paths, with substantial new test orchestration and several subtle proxy/header/cache failure modes.

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non-source-map JavaScript file meeting the 1024-byte gzip_min_length threshold,
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🟡 Minor · Exercise the CSS asset in the gzip acceptance test. · nginx-web-delivery-acceptance.mjs:113-136

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Exercise the CSS asset in the gzip acceptance test.

hashedCssFile is selected but never requested. Therefore, removing text/css from gzip_types would leave the current assertions passing. Request the CSS asset with Accept-Encoding: gzip and identity, then assert gzip decompression and identity-body equality. Select a CSS asset that meets gzip_min_length before requiring gzip.

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asset meeting Nginx’s gzip_min_length before requiring gzip, then requests that
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- Around line 137-140: Update the asset selector near hashedCssFile so it only
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