The bar is three groups now: how you are looking at it, at what width, and what to do with it. The
middle is centred against the BAR rather than against its neighbours, because the outer two change
width as sections come and go and a middle that drifted with them would never be in the same place
twice.
A section OPTS IN, the same way it opts into Save. Most have no preview — Media is a file browser,
Administration is a connection form, Messages is an inbox — and offering to view any of them at tablet
width offers something that means nothing. A control that does nothing teaches people that controls do
nothing.
The widths are REAL viewport sizes and the frame is SCALED to fit, never squeezed into whatever the
panel has. That distinction is the whole point: an iframe given the panel's width has the site's own
media queries answering the PANEL's size, so "Desktop" in a narrow panel renders the tablet layout and
labels it desktop — the one thing a preview must not do. Never scaled up either: a 390px phone blown
up to fill a wide panel is a phone nobody has, and every judgement made against it is wrong in the
direction of "looks fine".
390 is the iPhone width slots.ts already assumes. 834 is iPad portrait, deliberately above the site's
md: breakpoint at 768 so it shows the desktop nav rather than the drawer — 768 exactly sits on the
boundary and is the least informative width available. 1440 is past the 1280 the content column caps
at, so the margins either side are visible rather than implied.
View gives the preview the whole panel. That is what makes it worth having: at edit height a phone is
a letterbox, and a phone is the width somebody most wants to look at properly.
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The header and the footer are designed — they belong to whoever writes the site's code, not to whoever
edits its content. A panel offering to rearrange them offers a power that should not exist, and every
use of it would be a decision made in the wrong place.
What is left in Layout is the part that really is a content decision: the colours and the four typeface
roles. The preview above them is still the real page, so what the code decides is visible here even
though nothing here can change it.
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`useClient()` rebuilds its verbs on every render, so `get` has a new identity each time. It was in the
effect's dependency list, so the effect re-ran on every render — and its first act is setReady(false),
which renders again, which builds another `get`, which re-runs the effect. The frame never mounted.
Through a ref instead, with the effect depending only on the port.
This trap is documented in CLAUDE.md and it is the same one that silently disabled every playback
report in the Jellyfin player. The platform's own Preview panel sidesteps it by depending on neither
the client nor the URL, which is what this now does.
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The preview went through a proxy written into this plugin. The platform already had one —
/api/dev-proxy/:port/* — and it is better in exactly the ways the copy was worst.
Authentication. An iframe navigation cannot carry an Authorization header, and the copy answered that
by putting a token on the URL and on every asset the page then requested. The platform's answer is a
short-lived cookie obtained by an ordinary authenticated request, and its own comments say why: a
token on an iframe URL is a guess about which key the browser stored it under. It had been tried
there and rejected before this plugin repeated it.
Coverage. The copy rewrote URLs with a regex over the markup, which catches only what is written into
the document. The platform injects a script that patches fetch, XMLHttpRequest and WebSocket, so URLs
the page BUILDS at runtime are moved as well — which is most of them in a modern dev server. It also
normalises `..`, forwards HMR, and has nineteen tests behind it.
So the plugin's proxy is gone, previewUrl with it, and the panel does what the platform's Preview
panel does: ask for the session, then mount the frame at the dev port.
No sandbox attribute, for the reason that panel gives. Without allow-same-origin a frame has an opaque
origin and no storage; with allow-same-origin and allow-scripts it can reach up and remove its own
sandbox attribute. Claiming a protection that does not hold is worse than not claiming it.
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Two mistakes, and the second would have bitten immediately after the first was fixed.
The iframe pointed at /fofos-admin/preview/layout. But /fofos-admin is a FRONTEND route — the
single-page app owns it, and anything under it no router claims is answered with the app's own
index.html. So the iframe was served Officer. The plugin's API is mounted at /api/fofos-admin, which
every other call already knew: useClient defaults its base to /api, and thumbnail.ts spells the full
path out for <img> tags that cannot use it.
And an iframe cannot send an Authorization header. Neither can the stylesheet, the fonts or the images
the page goes on to request — those are all Officer requests now, so all of them need ?token=, the
same reason every <img> in this plugin carries one. The token comes off the iframe's own query string
and is propagated into every URL the rewrite touches, with the separator decided per URL because many
already carry the site's ?v= stamp.
It is stripped before the request reaches the site. The token is Officer's and the site has never
heard of it.
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The panel drew its own header and footer in React. It looked plausible and it was wrong — the site's
header has a logo hanging past a rule and a nav in the content column — and worse, it was a second
implementation of the layout, so it would have gone on being wrong differently every time either side
moved.
So the admin embeds the site's own `/layout` route instead: the real shell with no page in it. A
designer changing the header in code changes what the admin shows, with no admin change at all. That
is the bridge.
Proxied through Officer rather than linked, because everything this plugin knows about where the site
lives is loopback — 127.0.0.1:<devPort> and nothing else. There is no public hostname stored anywhere
and adding one would be a second fact about the same thing, kept in step by hand. The request goes the
way every other request here goes, server-side, and the browser talks only to Officer.
Same origin, which is also what keeps the door open: the day the page builder wants to draw handles on
top of the real page, it can. A cross-origin iframe never could.
The rewrite is narrow and its limits are the interesting part. The site writes root-relative URLs and
those resolve against Officer's root inside the iframe; a <base> tag does not help, because it moves
relative URLs and leaves root-relative ones exactly where they were wrong. So href, src, srcset and
CSS url() are moved under the prefix — and `//` is excluded deliberately, because that names another
host and prefixing one would turn it into a path on this server.
Only HTML is rewritten. Stylesheets, fonts and images are returned as they came: rewriting bytes we do
not understand is how a proxy corrupts a font.
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The admin was a section each for Home, About Us, Collections, Gallery, Collabs, Drops and Services,
because the site's pages were a constant in site-map.ts and a developer was the only one who could add
one. A page builder is going to replace that, so the nav stops enumerating pages.
What is left is the two things a page is NOT: Layout — the shell every page renders inside — and Pages,
listed but not built. Layout is first because it is first in the work: building pages before the frame
they sit in means building them twice.
The panel is a sketch of the page with the controls under it. Menu across the top, a body, the footer
at the bottom, in the chosen colours and typefaces — the same principle the header editor already
follows, where the admin renders the structure as the page will show it. It is honest about being a
sketch: drawing the logo and the rules would be a second implementation of the layout, and the two
would drift the first time either changed.
Fonts are a mapping, not free text. styles.css already declares four ROLES — body, sub, title,
display — and every template asks for a role rather than a typeface, so choosing a font is choosing
which of the four faces the build subsets plays each part. The list travels with the payload rather
than being copied here, because a picker offering a face the build never subsets renders as a fallback
nobody chose.
The per-page panels are NOT deleted. AboutPanel, HomePanel and RecordsPanel are still in the tree and
still work; they are unreachable, which is a line in sections.ts rather than a rewrite. The page
builder is not finished, and removing the only way to edit the live site's content before its
replacement exists would leave a gap with nothing in it.
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