Reduce production bundles while preserving host registration

src/apps/readVersion.ts

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+import { fs } from "@vrtmrz/livesync-commonlib/node";
+
+/** Read a string-valued version field from a JSON file during Node builds. */
+export function readVersion(filePath: string): string | undefined {
+    const parsed: unknown = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(filePath, "utf-8"));
+    if (typeof parsed !== "object" || parsed === null || !("version" in parsed)) {
+        return undefined;
+    }
+    return typeof parsed.version === "string" ? parsed.version : undefined;
+}