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Bounded contexts

The seven modules shipped in apps/server/src/modules/, what each owns, and what crosses the boundary.

A bounded context = a folder under apps/server/src/modules/ with its own domain/, application/, infrastructure/, interfaces/http/. Modules don't import from each other's domain/ or application/. They communicate through:

  1. Domain events on the in-memory event bus (preferred for fan-out).
  2. HTTP when a stable API contract is wanted.
  3. Shared kernel in packages/shared (only for true primitives — IDs, errors, Result).

iam — Identity & access

apps/server/src/modules/iam/

Owns User, email verification, sessions (delegated to BetterAuth). Repo:

domain/
  user.ts                  Aggregate. Username, locale, picture, active flag, lastLogin.
  email.ts                 Value object.
  user-repository.ts       Interface.
application/
  ports/
  use-cases/               Register, login, change-password, update-profile, list-users…
infrastructure/
  Prisma adapter, BetterAuth glue.
interfaces/http/
  auth.controller.ts       /api/auth/*
  auth.middleware.ts       authMiddleware (401), sessionHydration (anon-friendly).
  users.routes.ts          /api/users — admin CRUD gated by users:* permissions.

Cookie-based auth flows because apiClient.withCredentials = true on the client. Don't reintroduce bearer tokens.

tenancy — Organizations & memberships

apps/server/src/modules/tenancy/

Owns Organization, Membership, dynamic Role rows, and the organizationContext middleware that hydrates req.organization (active org) and its computed permissions for the current user.

A user can belong to many organizations; each membership has its own role and therefore its own permission grant. Switching org = updating the active-org cookie; the next request sees a different req.grants.

billing — Subscriptions, plans, providers

apps/server/src/modules/billing/

Owns Subscription, Plan, webhook ingest. Provider-agnostic: PaymentProvider interface in domain/, three concrete implementations in infrastructure/ (Stripe, Mercado Pago, Polar). PAYMENT_PROVIDER env decides which one binds.

Webhooks land at /webhooks/<provider>, get verified, are turned into domain events (subscription.activated, subscription.canceled, …), and update the local Subscription row. The frontend reads Subscription.status — never the provider's API.

requireActiveSubscription middleware (infrastructure/http/require-subscription.ts) gates premium endpoints.

usage — Free-tier metering & quota enforcement

apps/server/src/modules/usage/

Owns UsageMeterDefinition, UsageCounter, UsageEvent. Downstream products register meters at boot (e.g. tickets_created, jobs_created), provide a plan → cap map, and call QuotaEnforcer.checkAndIncrement from use cases that produce billable events. Reads the active subscription from billing via the IGetActiveSubscriptionPort cross-module port — no peeking into billing's tables.

Three reset cadences (lifetime / monthly / yearly); periodic windows roll over via the usage-period-rollover BullMQ job. Disabled by default (USAGE_METERING_ENABLED=false); see Usage metering for the full reference.

notifications — Email & in-app

apps/server/src/modules/notifications/

application/ declares the port (EmailSender); infrastructure/ provides Resend, SES, and a no-op adapter. Listeners (e.g. user.created → welcome email) live in bootstrap and enqueue a emails BullMQ job; the worker pulls it off and calls the sender.

This is why this module has no domain/ folder — there's no aggregate, only a side effect.

storage — File uploads

apps/server/src/modules/storage/

Owns avatar uploads (and any other binary the app needs). StorageProvider interface with null / local / s3 / uploadthing implementations. STORAGE_PROVIDER=null returns 503 from upload endpoints — no silent failure.

Keys are content-addressed: avatars/{userId}-{sha256:16}.{ext}. The hash makes the immutable cache header (Cache-Control: public, max-age=31536000, immutable) safe across re-uploads — a new upload writes a new key, so a CDN never serves stale bytes.

Local-provider URLs are built from BETTER_AUTH_URL (the server's URL) because the static middleware that serves uploads runs on the server, not on Next.js.

audit — Audit log

apps/server/src/modules/audit/

Append-only record of sensitive actions (role changes, billing events, admin user mutations). Listeners on the event bus write rows; there is no public mutation API.

feature-flags — Runtime gates

apps/server/src/modules/feature-flags/

Per-org, per-user, or global flags. Reads are cached in-process; writes invalidate. The req.featureFlags middleware exposes a typed accessor so handlers don't sprinkle string keys.

What crosses a boundary

ConcernMechanism
User signs up → send welcome emailiam publishes user.creatednotifications listener enqueues job
Stripe webhook activates subscriptionbilling publishes subscription.activatedaudit listener writes log
Endpoint needs to know if subscription is activeMiddleware reads tenancybilling (cross-module HTTP-style call inside the process)
Branded ID, Result, DomainError@app/shared
HTTP body / response shape@app/contracts

If you find yourself reaching from one module's domain/ into another's, stop — that's an event or a port, not an import.

Cross-cutting: platform admin

The platform admin console (/admin/* and /api/v1/platform/*) is deliberately hybrid. Cross-cutting infrastructure — first-run bootstrap, impersonation, the requirePlatformAdmin middleware, the platform overview reader — lives in modules/platform/ so the auth and gating story is centralized. Mutations live in the owning context: user lifecycle in iam/, org lifecycle in tenancy/, billing operations in billing/, audit reads in audit/, flag toggles in feature-flags/. Each module exposes an interfaces/http/admin.routes.ts mounted under /api/v1/platform. See Platform admin for the user-facing surface.

apps/server/src/modules/links/

Vertical link-in-bio for coaches and consultants — the mibio product. Page is the public profile (slug, theme, publish state). Block is the smart link entry with type + config: jsonb, validated by Zod schemas per BlockType (LINK, HEADER, PAYMENT_LINK, BOOKING_LINK, WHATSAPP, LEAD_CAPTURE, IMAGE, SOCIAL_ROW; EMBED and TESTIMONIAL reserved). Block ordering uses sparse position integers (10, 20, 30…) so reorders don't have to renumber every row.

Lead records form captures from LEAD_CAPTURE blocks. @@unique([pageId, email]) prevents duplicate signups per page.

Repositories follow the standard DDD layout. HTTP surface mounted at /api/v1/links/* with links:read / links:write permissions; lead PII is gated separately by links:leads:read / links:leads:export.

Public surface. Two unauthenticated endpoints power the live page:

  • GET /api/v1/public/pages/by-slug/:slug — returns the published page + enabled blocks, served by an in-process LRU cache (60s TTL, 1000 entries) wrapped around the Prisma repos. Cache invalidation lives in infrastructure/cache/caching-repositories.ts: every save / delete on the page or a block evicts the relevant slug + page-id keys, so admin writes are visible on the next public read. The response sets X-Cache: HIT|MISS for debug + Cache-Control: public, max-age=60, stale-while-revalidate=300 so any CDN in front gets coherent caching.
  • POST /api/v1/public/leads — captures { blockId, email, name? }, derives pageId from the block (so the public surface can't spoof a different page), upserts on (pageId, email) to dedupe, rate-limited per IP via the authIpLimiter tier.

Authed lead access. The dashboard reads captured leads via:

  • GET /api/v1/links/pages/:id/leads?cursor=&limit= — cursor-paginated list (newest-first), gated by links:leads:read.
  • GET /api/v1/links/pages/:id/leads/export.csv — streams a CSV of all captured leads in 500-row batches; gated by links:leads:export.

Templates. Four hardcoded coach archetypes ship in modules/links/infrastructure/templates/registry.ts (Coach Ejecutivo, Wellness, Terapeuta, Consultor B2B). They are NOT a Prisma model — at page creation the applyTemplate use case translates a BlockSeed[] into real Block rows on positions 10, 20, 30, … and copies the template's theme, title, and bio onto the page. GET /api/v1/links/templates lists them (name / description / thumbnail).

Public render. The Next App Router catch-all app/[slug]/page.tsx SSR-fetches /api/v1/public/pages/by-slug/:slug and renders the page with eight block components under apps/client/components/public/blocks/ (LeadCapture is the only client component — it owns the form state). Reserved slugs are filtered server-side via apps/client/lib/public/reserved-slugs.ts (mirror of the contract's SLUG_RESERVED augmented with marketing routes) so /admin, /login, etc. cannot collide with a real route. A dynamic OG image at app/[slug]/opengraph-image.tsx (next/og) renders a 1200×630 PNG of the profile for shared links.

Editor is plan 4.

analytics (mibio)

apps/server/src/modules/analytics/

Append-only event store for mibio page traffic. PageView and BlockClick are immutable rows; DailyRollup is the materialized aggregate ((pageId, date) unique) that powers the editor's analytics tab without re-scanning raw events.

Ingest path. Two public, unauthenticated POST endpoints under /api/v1/public/analytics/{view,click} validate a tiny Zod payload and return 204 before the work runs. The handler then resolves the page (by slug for views, by blockId for clicks) and inserts a row; bad payloads / unknown slugs are logged at warn and never surface to the caller. This is fire-and-forget by design — the SSR public page emits these beacons via navigator.sendBeacon (clicks) and fetch({ keepalive: true }) (initial view), so neither blocks render nor gets cancelled on navigation away to a third-party URL.

Read path. GET /api/v1/links/pages/:id/analytics?range=7d|30d|90d returns totals + per-block click counts + a dense per-day series. Gated by links:read and scoped to the owning organization.

Background jobs. Two BullMQ schedules:

  • analytics-rollup — daily at 03:15 UTC. For every page with activity in the last 36h, materializes yesterday's totals into DailyRollup. Idempotent via the unique key on (pageId, date).
  • analytics-prune — weekly Sunday 04:00 UTC. Deletes raw PageView + BlockClick rows older than 90 days. DailyRollup rows are kept forever (cheap, one per page per day).

Both processors live in analytics/infrastructure/jobs/ and register in bootstrap/worker.ts; the schedule installer (scheduleAnalyticsJobs) runs on every cold start from index.ts and is a no-op when Redis isn't configured.

Public render ships now (see links above). Editor analytics UI lands in plan 4.

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