Moonkale

ADR-0005 — Server functions as the remote backend

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Status: accepted

Context

Web and mobile builds cannot link database drivers, spawn language servers or open PTYs. Users on those platforms still need them.

Decision

The api crate (Dioxus fullstack server functions + websockets) runs the same native crates the desktop uses (sources-*, lsp-local, terminal-pty, index) and exposes query/fetch/apply/subscribe, LSP and PTY streams per authenticated user. Clients use RemoteSource / WebSocketTransport / RemoteBackend. The server is “desktop without a screen”.

Consequences

  • Code reuse is total; the platform split is a deployment decision.
  • The server becomes a code-execution service: auth, jail, limits, allow-lists and audit are prerequisites (Platform Matrix).
  • Desktop users can also connect to a team server (shared databases).

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