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grant-outreach-engine/apps/outreach-worker
Croissant Le Doux fe12b032af feat(infra): dockerized Postgres+pgvector and app image, mirroring novelpad compose conventions
docker-compose.yml: pgvector/pgvector:pg16 on host 54341 (side-by-side
with novelpad's 54321/54331), healthcheck-gated worker + review services
from one multi-stage Dockerfile (same image, different command — the
website/auth pattern). No Electric/Redis: nothing client-synced here.

Dockerfile adapted from novelpad-desktop @ 62c56b87, trimmed: no native
modules so no build-tools layer, no pm2. Default CMD = DBOS worker.

Verified end to end: migration applied against the container (vector
0.8.2, 6 tables, 2 HNSW indexes), containerized worker boots, DBOS
system schema lands in helmdocs_outreach ('dbos' schema — the
*_dbos_sys URL in DBOS's boot log is cosmetic; the shared pool wins).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-16 13:49:55 -04:00
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@novelpad/outreach-worker

DBOS executor process for the HelmDocs grant-match outreach engine. Runs the scheduled workflows that keep the outreach schema's grant catalog fresh — nightly ingestion from upstream sources and an hourly expiry sweep — decoupled from any HTTP-facing app in this monorepo (mirrors the workflow-worker split in novelpad-desktop).

Boot order (load-bearing)

src/main.ts imports ./workflows/ingest-grants.js and ./workflows/expire-grants.js before calling DBOS.launch(). Each of those modules calls DBOS.registerWorkflow + DBOS.registerScheduled at module-evaluation time — DBOS only dispatches scheduled/queued jobs for functions that were registered before launch, so importing them after launch (or not at all) silently means the cron jobs never fire.

The db handle is then threaded into each workflow module via its set*Deps injector (setIngestGrantsDeps / setExpireGrantsDeps), also before launch — DBOS serializes scheduled-function arguments, so a Drizzle client can't be passed through the scheduler call itself. This is the same module-scope-registry pattern novelpad-desktop's workflow-worker uses for setStartDeps.

1. import workflow modules       → registers ingestGrants / expireGrants
2. build pg Pool + drizzle(db)
3. set*Deps({ db })              → populates each workflow's registry
4. DBOS.setConfig(...)
5. DBOS.launch()                 → scheduler starts firing

Workflows

  • ingestGrants (0 3 * * *, nightly) — fetchGrantsGov (stub; real implementation calls the Grants.gov Search2 API, POST https://api.grants.gov/v1/api/search2) → normalize → upsert via serverInsertGrants from @novelpad/outreach-core/server. NH state postings and 990-PF extracts land as additional fetch+normalize steps later.
  • expireGrants (0 * * * *, hourly) — marks grants whose close date has passed as closed via serverExpireClosedGrants, so they drop out of the active match/scoring pool.

Both are registered as a DBOS workflow and a scheduled function referencing the same function object (DBOS.registerWorkflow then DBOS.registerScheduled) — see the doc comments in src/workflows/*.ts for why the dual registration is required.

Scripts

  • yarn devnode --env-file=.env --env-file-if-exists=.env.local --import tsx/esm ./src/main.ts
  • yarn build — esbuild bundle to build/main.js (--packages=external)
  • yarn start — run the built bundle
  • yarn typechecktsc --noEmit

Environment

Copy .env.example to .env and fill in DATABASE_URL (required — main.ts throws on boot without it) and GCP_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_KEY_PATH (used by future ingestion/scoring steps that call Google-hosted APIs).