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Follow-up to #1023, prompted by #1021 bumping 44 packages.

The existing checks reach Phoenix, Absinthe, Ash and Postgres through a single GraphQL read. Several of the bumped packages sit on paths nothing in bin/smoke touched — cowboy 2.13 → 2.18, cowlib, websock_adapter 0.5 → 0.6 and phoenix_pubsub are all under the websocket stack, and ash_authentication went 4.9 → 4.11.

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  • Websocket handshake, expecting 101. Must be HTTP/1.1 — an upgrade over HTTP/2 is rejected with 400, which reads as a broken socket rather than a malformed request, and cost me a few minutes to spot. A successful upgrade then leaves the connection open with nothing to read, so curl waits out its timeout and exits 28; that is the shape of a pass, hence the short limit and suppressed stderr.
  • /api/json/feeds, checking the JSON:API content type. Exercises AshJsonApi and a different ash_sql query path than GraphQL takes.
  • /sign-in renders, where an ash_authentication break would surface long before anyone tried to log in.

Already covered, worth noting

The riskiest bump is absinthe 1.7 → 1.11, and an existing check happens to cover it well: /listen/<unknown> -> 404 depends on Absinthe still emitting data: null plus a non-nullable message carrying the field path, which is exactly what isMissingRecordError in ui/src/graphql/client.ts matches to decide between a 404 and a 500. Across a jump that size that could easily have changed. It passes on staging and production.

README correction

The Deployment section claimed a compile_env divergence makes the app "raise on startup". That is not borne out here: ENABLE_SEED_FROM_PROD is currently true on dev and staging and unset on production, and all three boot fine. I have not pinned down why — this deploy runs under Mix rather than as a release, and there is a compile step in the release phase — so I have removed the claim rather than replace it with another guess. The actionable rule stands on its own: don't use compile_env for anything that varies per environment.

Verified against dev, staging and production; all pass.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Documentation

    • Clarified deployment configuration guidance, including when build-time and runtime settings are applied.
  • Tests

    • Added smoke checks for WebSocket upgrades, JSON:API feed responses, and successful sign-in page access.
    • Improved diagnostic messages when server-surface checks fail.

The existing checks reach Phoenix, Absinthe, Ash and Postgres through one
GraphQL read. #1021 bumped 44 packages, several of them across paths nothing
here touched: cowboy 2.13 -> 2.18, cowlib, websock_adapter 0.5 -> 0.6 and
phoenix_pubsub all sit under the websocket stack, and ash_authentication
went 4.9 -> 4.11.

Adds three checks:

- The websocket handshake, expecting 101. Must be HTTP/1.1: an upgrade over
  HTTP/2 is rejected with 400, which reads as a broken socket rather than a
  malformed request. A successful upgrade then leaves the connection open
  with nothing to read, so curl waits out its timeout -- expected, hence the
  short limit and the suppressed complaint.
- /api/json/feeds, checking the JSON:API content type. Exercises AshJsonApi
  and a different ash_sql query path than GraphQL takes.
- /sign-in renders, which is where an ash_authentication break would surface
  long before anyone tried to log in.

Worth noting one existing check already covers the riskiest bump: absinthe
1.7 -> 1.11, where /listen/<unknown> -> 404 depends on the error shape that
graphql/client.ts matches on. It passed on staging and production.

Also corrects the README's claim that a compile_env divergence makes the app
raise on startup. ENABLE_SEED_FROM_PROD is currently true on dev and staging
and unset on production, and all three boot, so the claim is not borne out
by this deployment. The actionable rule -- do not use compile_env for
anything that varies per environment -- stands on its own.

Verified against dev, staging and production.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The deployment documentation clarifies compile-time and runtime configuration. The smoke script adds checks for WebSocket upgrades, JSON:API responses, and the sign-in page.

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Deployment configuration guidance

Layer / File(s) Summary
Compile-time configuration guidance
README.md
The documentation states that Application.compile_env/2 values are captured during artifact compilation. Runtime configuration is evaluated at application boot.

Server-surface smoke checks

Layer / File(s) Summary
Endpoint smoke validation
bin/smoke
The smoke script checks WebSocket status 101, JSON:API status 200 and content type, and sign-in status 200.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to cb385

The new JSON:API smoke check can report success for an error response because it does not verify the HTTP status, allowing endpoint regressions to go undetected. The PR is mergeable with explicit owner awareness or a follow-up to assert a successful status.

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In `@bin/smoke`:
- Around line 240-247: Update the /api/json/feeds check to capture both the
response content type and HTTP status from curl, then require status 200
alongside an application/vnd.api+json content type before calling pass; retain
the existing failure reporting for responses that do not meet either condition.

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JSON:API error documents carry application/vnd.api+json too, so checking
only the content type would have passed on a 500. Confirmed against
production: /api/json/nonexistent returns 404 with that exact media type.

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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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