Release | Pack a minimized dist.tar.gz

[BrianGenisio]

Summary

Release archives used to ship the whole checkout plus node_modules, which made dist.tar.gz huge. This mirrors the email-simulator pack flow so releases are a small, runnable tree with no node_modules.

Changes

npm run pack (scripts/pack-dist.mjs) minifies the client, bundles the server (Express + LLM SDKs inlined), copies static assets / design-system / examples, smoke-tests /api/session-config against the packed app, then writes dist.tar.gz.

The release workflow now runs tests and npm run pack instead of tarring the repo. Locally this produced a ~1.4 MB archive vs ~43.3 MB, which expands into 4.4MB vs 175MB. So the unpack/run speed will be much faster with this change.

Worth a close look: the packed server resolves import.meta.url to dist/, so eval-system-prompt.md is copied next to server.js (not under lib/).

Testing

• npm run pack succeeds and prints size breakdown
• Unpacked dist.tar.gz and confirmed GET /api/session-config returns 200
• Create a GitHub release and confirm the uploaded asset is the new small tarball

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The release workflow now runs npm test and npm run pack. The packaging script builds client and server bundles, copies release assets, checks the bundled server’s /api/session-config endpoint, and creates dist.tar.gz. The README documents the packaging command and runtime setup.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 27d30

The packaging and release configuration align with the documented standalone runtime. No actionable merge-blocking issue was found; normal build and release checks remain appropriate.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the main change: packaging a minimized dist.tar.gz release archive.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description directly explains the new packaging flow, workflow changes, archive size reduction, and testing status.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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