chore: remove legacy Express entry and supporting files

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Summary

• Delete the legacy Express entry point and all supporting files (-2,226 lines)
• npm run dev now exclusively uses the Hono dev server (server/dev.ts)
• Remove dev:legacy script — no longer needed

Removed

• server/index.ts — Express entry point (72 lines)
• server/routes.ts — Express API routes (2,056 lines, duplicated by Hono route modules)
• server/storage.ts — Legacy storage shim (9 lines)
• server/vite.ts — Express Vite middleware (89 lines)

Context

PR #81 migrated npm run dev to Hono and removed 15 legacy lib modules. This PR completes the migration by removing the Express entry itself.

Test plan

• 212 tests pass (26 files)
• TypeScript clean
• No remaining imports of these files
• Workers Build deploys

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Summary by CodeRabbit

Refactor

• Backend infrastructure restructured: Local development server, API routing system, and storage components have been removed as part of a comprehensive backend architecture reorganization.
• Development environment updated: Development setup and deployment configuration have been revised to accommodate changes in backend infrastructure.

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• package.json
• server/index.ts
• server/routes.ts
• server/storage.ts
• server/vite.ts

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The pull request removes the entire backend Express server infrastructure, including the server entrypoint, HTTP routing module, storage initialization, Vite development utilities, and the associated npm script. Total deletion spans five files containing backend request handling, middleware, route registration, and development server setup logic.

Changes

Cohort / File(s)	Summary
NPM Scripts package.json	Removed the dev:legacy npm script entry that previously ran NODE_ENV=development tsx server/index.ts.
Server Infrastructure server/index.ts, server/routes.ts, server/vite.ts, server/storage.ts	Deleted entire backend modules: Express server entrypoint with middleware and startup logic (index.ts), HTTP route registration and API endpoint handlers covering /api, /health, and operational endpoints (routes.ts), Vite dev server utilities and static asset serving (vite.ts), and storage abstraction initialization (storage.ts).

Estimated code review effort

🎯 2 (Simple) | ⏱️ ~15 minutes

Poem

🐰 The server hops away, into the digital morn,
Routes and handlers, forever gone, not worn,
Express and Vite dust settle quiet and still,
A backend farewell, by developer's will! ✨

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PR Review: Remove Legacy Express Entry and Supporting Files

This is a clean, well-scoped deletion PR completing the Express to Hono migration. Overall looks good to merge. A few observations:

WHAT IS RIGHT

Aligns with documented roadmap: CLAUDE.md explicitly calls out these four files as legacy Express code kept for standalone dev reference and Phase 1.5 marked the Hono route migration as COMPLETED. This PR is the logical follow-through.

routes.ts was a liability: The file had @ts-nocheck at the top and contained direct Drizzle queries in route handlers (e.g. db.select().from(schema.properties)), which violates the storage abstraction rule documented in CLAUDE.md. Removing 2,056 lines of type-unsound, pattern-violating code is unambiguously good.

storage.ts shim was genuinely dead weight: The 9-line file with @ts-nocheck just re-exported from ./storage/system and ./storage/standalone. If nothing imports ./storage anymore (which the PR claims), this is clean.

212 tests passing across 26 files is solid signal that nothing live was depending on these files.

ONE THING TO VERIFY BEFORE MERGE

The test plan has one unchecked item: Workers Build deploys. Given this removes the Vite middleware shim (server/vite.ts) and Express entry (server/index.ts), the Workers build itself should not be affected since it targets server/worker.ts, not server/index.ts. But if there is a CI run that validates the Workers build, worth confirming it passes before the auto-merge squash fires.

MINOR OBSERVATIONS (non-blocking)

server/db.ts is not removed here — consistent with CLAUDE.md noting it separately as standalone dev reference, intentionally out of scope. Worth a follow-up cleanup ticket if/when standalone mode is retired.

The index.ts had an indentation anomaly on lines 63-64 (PORT declaration outdented vs the rest of the IIFE). Not a concern since it is deleted, but confirms the file was accumulating drift.

No security surface changes — purely removing dead code paths.

VERDICT: Approve once the Workers build check is confirmed green. Nothing in this diff introduces risk; it only removes it.

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Pull request overview

Removes the legacy Express development entrypoint and its supporting modules so local development runs exclusively via the Hono dev server (server/dev.ts), completing the migration started in PR #81.

Changes:

• Deleted the legacy Express server entrypoint and route/middleware helpers (server/index.ts, server/routes.ts, server/vite.ts, server/storage.ts).
• Removed the dev:legacy npm script so npm run dev is the only dev entrypoint.

Reviewed changes

Copilot reviewed 5 out of 5 changed files in this pull request and generated 1 comment.

Show a summary per file

File	Description
server/index.ts	Removed the legacy Express server entrypoint.
server/routes.ts	Removed the monolithic legacy Express routes implementation.
server/storage.ts	Removed the legacy Express-mode storage shim.
server/vite.ts	Removed Express-coupled Vite dev/static serving helpers.
package.json	Removed dev:legacy script; dev now points only to server/dev.ts.

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npm run dev no longer starts the legacy Express server (and no longer serves the Vite client). There are still repo docs that describe npm run dev as “Express API + React/Vite client on :5000” and reference server/index.ts/server/routes.ts (e.g., README.md and CLAUDE.md). Please update those docs to reflect the Hono-only dev workflow (and how to run the Vite dev server/proxy) so new contributors don’t follow broken instructions.

Suggested change

	"dev": "NODE_ENV=development tsx server/dev.ts",
	"dev": "NODE_ENV=development tsx server/dev.ts",
	"dev:api": "NODE_ENV=development tsx server/dev.ts",
	"dev:client": "vite",
	"dev:client:host": "vite --host",