trails/apps/journal/app/lib/config.server.ts
Ullrich Schäfer 5a7bb76ff1
fix(journal): fail loud in production when secrets are unset
Adds `requireSecret(name, devFallback)` in lib/config.server.ts and
`getDatabaseUrl()` in @trails-cool/db. Both:
- return the env var when set,
- fall back to the dev default in non-production,
- throw at boot in production if the env var is missing OR matches the
  known dev fallback (which would otherwise silently ship a public
  secret / point at localhost).

Applied to:
- JWT_SECRET (lib/jwt.server.ts) — was `?? "dev-jwt-secret-change-in-production"`
- SESSION_SECRET (lib/auth/session.server.ts) — was `?? "dev-secret-change-in-production"`
- DATABASE_URL (server.ts health + boss; packages/db migrate-data) — was
  `?? "postgres://trails:trails@localhost:5432/trails"`

Why: these strings are in the repo and known to attackers. A
misconfigured prod deploy that forgot to set them would either run with
guessable signing keys (full session/JWT forgery) or connect to a
non-existent localhost DB. Better to refuse to start than to silently
operate insecurely.

Tests:
- packages/db/src/get-database-url.test.ts (5 cases)
- lib/config.server.test.ts gains `requireSecret` cases (4 new)

Full repo: pnpm typecheck, pnpm lint, pnpm test all green.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-24 11:37:20 +02:00

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TypeScript

// Centralized access to the canonical origin for this Journal instance.
// `ORIGIN` is set in production to the public HTTPS URL; in dev it falls
// back to http://localhost:3000. Use the helper everywhere so the default
// can be changed in one place if needed.
export function getOrigin(): string {
return process.env.ORIGIN ?? "http://localhost:3000";
}
/**
* Read a required secret from the environment. Returns the env value when
* set. In production, throws if the env var is missing or matches the
* known-public dev fallback — silently shipping a default secret to prod
* is a credential leak. In dev/test, returns the supplied fallback so the
* local loop keeps working without ceremony.
*
* Use this for any value where a leaked default would be a security
* incident: signing keys, session secrets, database credentials.
*/
export function requireSecret(name: string, devFallback: string): string {
const value = process.env[name];
const isProd = process.env.NODE_ENV === "production";
if (isProd) {
if (!value || value === devFallback) {
throw new Error(
`Refusing to start: ${name} is unset or matches the known-public dev fallback. ` +
`Set ${name} to a strong, unique value in production.`,
);
}
return value;
}
return value ?? devFallback;
}