`nix develop` now yields the toolchain the repository actually needs — Node,
`git`, `tea`, and `curl` — giving a declarative answer to "what do I need to
work on this", which the repository previously specified nowhere.
The shell takes its Node from the package's `passthru` rather than naming
`pkgs.nodejs` a second time, so development and the shipped artifact cannot
drift onto different majors and cannot be set independently. `package.nix`
declares that `passthru` as an interface rather than leaving the shell to read
an incidental build attribute; it does not enter the derivation, so the store
path is unchanged.
The checks output aliases the package, so `nix flake check` builds it and
thereby runs both its verification phases instead of being a silent no-op. No
per-stage checks: the only stage adding coverage is the full typecheck, which
spans `test/` and `bench/` and would drag the benchmark harness into the
derivation's inputs, undoing the source filtering. It stays in CI.
The shell deliberately omits `gitea-axi` itself. The benchmark's arm resolves
that binary by name off PATH and must get the locally built `dist/main.js`, so
supplying the packaged one would silently substitute the wrong artifact.
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