Report: Month 1

Project: LaWallet NWC Period: January 5 – February 5, 2026 Grant: OpenSats — Fifteenth Wave of Bitcoin Grants

Summary

The first month focused on building a solid backend foundation. We exceeded the original scope by pulling work forward from Months 2 and 3 — delivering structured logging, JWT authentication, RBAC authorization, and full integration test coverage ahead of schedule. The result is a hardened, well-tested backend ready to support the SDK, dashboards, and new services planned for the coming months.

Stats: 118 files changed, 13,391 insertions, 3,215 deletions — 66 commits across 18 merged PRs.

What Was Delivered

Configuration & Environment

PR #137

Zod-based environment variable validation replacing raw process.env access
Structured AppConfig with per-environment configuration and caching

Error Handling

PR #138, PR #139

ApiError class hierarchy with typed error responses
withErrorHandling higher-order function applied to all 30 API routes

Structured Logging

PR #165, PR #166

Pino logger with request context, correlation IDs, and configurable log levels
Replaced all console.log/console.error calls across the codebase

Authorization & Security

PR #168–PR #171, commit ee8629b

RBAC model with four roles: USER < VIEWER < OPERATOR < ADMIN
Prisma schema migration from string to enum for user roles
Role management API endpoint with hierarchy validation
Maintenance mode middleware with admin bypass

Input Validation

PR #173, PR #174, PR #175

Centralized Zod validation schemas for all API inputs
Validation middleware applied to every route

Security Middleware

PR #178, PR #179

Rate limiting for public endpoints
Request size limits (body size and file upload constraints)

Testing Infrastructure

PR #176, PR #180

Vitest 3.2.4 with MSW mock server, happy-dom, and coverage thresholds
12 unit test suites covering all lib utilities and auth functions
21 integration test files covering all 32 API route handlers (154 tests)

Framework Upgrade

PR #167, PR #177

Next.js 16 with ESLint 9 flat config
Migrated @getalby/sdk to v7 and react-resizable-panels to v4

Epics Completed (7)

Epic	Title	Closed
#128	Bug Fixes & Critical Issues	Jan 15
#129	Error Handling & Infrastructure	Jan 15
#131	Configuration & Environment	Jan 15
#130	Logging & Observability	Jan 23
#132	Authorization & Security	Jan 30
#133	Security Middleware	Feb 5
#134	Testing Infrastructure	Feb 5

Next Quarter (Feb – Apr 2026)

With the backend foundation complete — including testing infrastructure, error handling, auth, and security middleware — the next quarter focuses on developer tooling and user-facing features. Month 2 wraps up CI/CD pipelines, a TypeScript Client SDK covering all 30 API endpoints, and a React Hooks package. Month 3 shifts to the frontend: enhancing the Admin Dashboard with user management and activity monitoring, adding Nostr login (NIP-07/NIP-46), and introducing Playwright E2E tests. Month 4 delivers the User Dashboard (profile, NWC connection, address management), launches the Courtesy NWC Proxy as a new containerized service, and adds white-label customization support.

See the full Roadmap for the 6-month timeline.