fix(compute): migrate compute backend initialization to async and update consumers

Refactor compute backend initialization to use asynchronous loading and promise caching, replacing previous synchronous singleton pattern. Update all consumers—including TTS segment alignment and PDF layout parsing jobs—to await compute backend resolution before invoking methods. This change improves compatibility with dynamic imports and future-proofs backend selection logic.

src/app/api/tts/segments/ensure/route.ts

@@ -150,6 +150,11 @@ async function deleteEntryIfUnused(userId: string, segmentEntryId: string): Prom
 export async function POST(request: NextRequest) {
   let didCreateDeviceIdCookie = false;
   let deviceIdToSet: string | null = null;
+  let computeBackendPromise: ReturnType<typeof getCompute> | null = null;
+  const getComputeBackend = async () => {
+    if (!computeBackendPromise) computeBackendPromise = getCompute();
+    return computeBackendPromise;
+  };
   try {
     if (!isS3Configured()) return s3NotConfiguredResponse();
 
@@ -372,7 +377,8 @@ export async function POST(request: NextRequest) {
         // previously unavailable, retry alignment using the current segment text.
         if (!alignment) {
           try {
-            const aligned = (await getCompute().alignWords({
+            const computeBackend = await getComputeBackend();
+            const aligned = (await computeBackend.alignWords({
               audioObjectKey: existing.audioKey,
               text: segment.text,
             })).alignments;
@@ -523,7 +529,8 @@ export async function POST(request: NextRequest) {
         let alignment: TTSSegmentManifestItem['alignment'] = null;
         try {
           const whisperBytes = Uint8Array.from(persistedBuffer);
-          const aligned = (await getCompute().alignWords({
+          const computeBackend = await getComputeBackend();
+          const aligned = (await computeBackend.alignWords({
             audioBuffer: whisperBytes.buffer,
             audioObjectKey: audioKey,
             text: segment.text,

src/lib/server/compute/index.ts

@@ -2,21 +2,23 @@ import type { ComputeBackend, ComputeMode } from '@/lib/server/compute/types';
 import { isComputeModeAvailable, readComputeMode } from '@/lib/server/compute/mode';
 import { WorkerComputeBackend } from '@/lib/server/compute/worker';
 
-let backend: ComputeBackend | null = null;
+let backendPromise: Promise<ComputeBackend> | null = null;
 
-function createBackend(): ComputeBackend {
+async function createBackend(): Promise<ComputeBackend> {
   const mode: ComputeMode = readComputeMode();
   if (mode === 'worker') return new WorkerComputeBackend();
-  // Intentionally lazy-load local compute to avoid tracing heavy ONNX
+  const { LocalComputeBackend } = await import('@/lib/server/compute/local');
-  // dependencies unless the backend is actually local.
-  // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-require-imports
-  const { LocalComputeBackend } = require('@/lib/server/compute/local') as typeof import('@/lib/server/compute/local');
   return new LocalComputeBackend();
 }
 
-export function getCompute(): ComputeBackend {
+export async function getCompute(): Promise<ComputeBackend> {
-  if (!backend) backend = createBackend();
+  if (!backendPromise) {
-  return backend;
+    backendPromise = createBackend().catch((error) => {
+      backendPromise = null;
+      throw error;
+    });
+  }
+  return backendPromise;
 }
 
 export function isComputeAvailable(): boolean {

src/lib/server/jobs/parsePdfJob.ts

@@ -28,7 +28,8 @@ export async function parsePdfJob(input: ParsePdfJobInput): Promise<void> {
       .set({ parseStatus: 'running' })
       .where(and(eq(documents.id, input.documentId), eq(documents.userId, input.userId)));
 
-    const parsed = await getCompute().parsePdfLayout({
+    const compute = await getCompute();
+    const parsed = await compute.parsePdfLayout({
       documentId: input.documentId,
       namespace: input.namespace,
       documentObjectKey: documentKey(input.documentId, input.namespace),