GMW (Guild Moderation Watcher) is a Discord bot + web dashboard for AI-powered moderation. A monorepo with three services: a selfbot gateway that captures Discord events and runs LLM moderation, an Express/oRPC backend that serves the dashboard API, and a Next.js 16 SSR frontend. They communicate via Redis pub/sub (gateway→backend) and WebSocket (backend→browser).
Source files use `@/*` path aliases (mapped in tsconfig to `./src/*`). Relative imports **must include the `.js` extension** (e.g., `from "./embed.js"`). The `moduleResolution: "bundler"` tsconfig setting allows bare specifiers during dev, but `tsc` emits them as-is. A post-build script (`scripts/fix-imports.mjs`) rewrites both `@/` aliases and extensionless imports in `dist/` so Node ESM can resolve them at runtime.
### Error handling
Both gateway and backend define an `AppError` base class in `@/shared/errors/index` with subclasses: `ValidationError` (400), `NotFoundError` (404), `UnauthorizedError` (401), `DatabaseError` (500), `ConfigError` (500). Services throw these; callers or middleware map them to HTTP status codes.
### Logging
Use `createChildLogger('module-name')` from `@/shared/logger/index`. Never use raw `console`. It wraps pino; in development it pretty-prints via `pino-pretty`.
### Config
Environment variables are validated with Zod at startup in `shared/config/index.ts` of both gateway and backend. Do not read `process.env` directly outside config modules.
### Module boundaries
- Gateway: each feature lives in `src/modules/<name>/` with its own `index.ts` barrel. Modules register event listeners and are composed in `src/app/bootstrap.ts`.
- Backend: `modules/<name>/` follows schema → repository → service → controller → routes. Data flows up only. No cross-module repository imports.
- Frontend: `page.tsx` is a server component that fetches data via `src/lib/api/server.ts` (oRPC over HTTP, server-side only) and passes it to a `view.tsx` client component. Browser code uses `src/lib/orpc/client.ts` (oRPC over WebSocket via partysocket). Never import the server API client from a client component.
### API layer
The backend exposes an oRPC router mounted at `/trpc` (both HTTP and WebSocket). The frontend does **not** use a REST `/api/*` layer — all data goes through oRPC procedures. The server-side client (`src/lib/api/server.ts`) uses a fetch-based RPCLink; the browser client uses a WebSocket-based RPCLink backed by partysocket for auto-reconnection. Results are asserted to the frontend's local types at each call site (the backend's router type is not imported into the frontend).
### Testing
- **Gateway**: Vitest, tests in `tests/` at the service root. Config sets env vars (`DISCORD_TOKEN`, `DATABASE_URL`, etc.) so tests run without real services.
- **Backend**: Vitest, tests in `tests/` and `src/`. Includes an `e2e.test.ts` excluded from CI (needs a live backend).
- **Frontend**: No test runner configured.
- Tests are pure-function / unit-level. Mock external dependencies; do not start real DB/Redis in tests.
1.**Never commit without running `fix-imports.mjs` after `tsc`** — gateway and backend builds will produce ESM that crashes at startup (`ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND`).
2.**Don't add `@discordjs/opus` build-from-source flags** — it ships prebuilt binaries for Node 22. Forcing source builds in CI/Nix will fail or add minutes of compile time.
3.**Frontend SSR fetches are always `cache: "no-store"`** — the server API client bypasses Next.js fetch cache. Do not add caching without understanding the live dashboard requirement.
4.**oRPC types are loosely coupled** — the frontend casts oRPC results to its own types with `as unknown`. Adding a field to the backend schema does not automatically update the frontend type. Update both sides.
5.**Gateway is a selfbot** (`discord.js-selfbot-v13`) — it uses a user token, not a bot token. It must not be deployed as a standard Discord bot.