package-lock.json was missing "hasInstallScript": true for better-sqlite3.
npm ci reads this flag to decide whether to run a package's install scripts;
without it, the native .node binding is never compiled and the server crashes
at startup with "Cannot find module '...better_sqlite3.node'".
Running npm install regenerates the field correctly. npm ci (used in
update-server.sh) can now compile the native module during deployment.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_013AQYLFrscmMnzMiXAAANoa
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