Pressing Layout while a band was open gave `?section=layout&band=footer`, so the row for the whole
section led to one part of it. Pressing a section carried whatever the last one had left behind.
Every link built a copy of the current query string and deleted the parameters known to be scoped —
`media`, then `page`, and `band` would have been the third. That is a list of exceptions that has to
grow every time a section gains a parameter, and it fails silently when somebody forgets: the link
still works, it just goes somewhere more specific than it says.
Starting from an empty query string inverts the default. A parameter survives a navigation only if the
link says so, which is one decision at each link rather than a list of everything that must not leak.
So a section row is `?section=x`, and a sub-item is that plus its own `band` or `page`. Nothing else
rides along, including the device and the open tab — both are restored to their defaults by the panel
that owns them, which is where a default belongs.
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Top Menu, Content, Footer — the layout IS a page, and those are the only three things on it. They were
reachable by scrolling and by knowing which tab held what; as rows they take the shape the nav already
teaches with the pages under Pages, and the open one is `band` in the query string.
Fixed rather than fetched, unlike pages. A band cannot be added or removed from the admin — only the
code that draws it can — so reading them from the database would be a query that can only ever return
the same three rows in the same order.
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`?page=about` instead of `?page=2`. A URL that names the page can be read, sent to somebody, and still
means the right thing after a database is restored from a dump with different ids — which happened
once in this project already, earlier today.
Home needs a word, because its slug is empty by design: that is the check constraint, and it is what
makes `/` fall out of joining a slug to the root. An empty string is no use in a query parameter that
has to name a page unambiguously, so the admin says `home` — and the site's API now REFUSES that slug,
which is what makes the mapping total in both directions rather than merely usual.
One reserved address costs nothing. Anybody who wanted /home wanted the front page, which they have.
One place maps a page to its URL value and back — pageParam and pageFromParam — so the nav, the detail
panel and the builder cannot disagree about what `?page=` means.
`record` is deleted on every navigation. It belonged to the per-page record panels, which are
unreachable now; nothing reads it, so it was not a bug, but every URL anybody copied carried a
parameter naming a row in a section that no longer exists.
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The nav already said it: Pages is a section, and the pages are rows under it. Two things, two screens.
The detail panel was showing one screen with a row lit up, which made the list the answer to both
questions.
?section=pages the list — what exists, what it is called, where it lives, in what order
?section=pages&page=4 that page — what is on it
Both addressable, which is why the distinction is a query parameter rather than state.
Pressing PAGES itself now clears `page`. Without that the section row and the row for whichever page
was last open lead to the same screen and there is no way back to the list but the browser's back
button. Scoped exactly like `media`, and for the same reason: a parameter belonging to one section
should not ride along into the others.
The list stops having a selection — selecting a page leaves the screen entirely — so its rows are
plain rows again and the panel no longer reads or writes the URL at all.
Adding a page deliberately does NOT open it. The next thing anybody does is name it, and the name lives
on the list; jumping into the builder would mean coming straight back.
SitePreview is now shared, lifted out of LayoutPanel with the dev-port lookup beside it. Layout passes
the theme it is editing; a page passes nothing and just gets its own page. The builder shows the real
page at its real address today, which is what the blocks will be judged against when they exist.
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The section is real, and the nav draws the site's pages as rows beneath it. That is the one place this
admin has a hierarchy and it earns it: a page is a thing you go to, and the list of them is the site.
Drawn whether or not Pages is the open section — hiding the list until you click makes the nav a menu
of menus.
Three kinds of change, saved three different ways, and the split is deliberate. TEXT — a title, a menu
label, an address — is drafted and written by the one Save in the bar, because typing is something
people do halfway and change their minds about. ADDING, DELETING and REORDERING are immediate: each is
a single deliberate gesture with an obvious result, and holding them in a draft would put a list on
screen that does not exist yet, then leave Save to decide what order to apply three kinds of change in.
Only the rows that actually changed are sent, so a save touches what somebody edited and nothing else.
A failed save reloads from the server rather than leaving the typed values on screen, where they would
look saved.
Home's address and delete button are ABSENT, not disabled. A greyed control invites somebody to work
out why they cannot use it; there is nothing to work out, the front page is always `/`.
The two panels share the list through a channel rather than both fetching it. They are siblings and
neither can pass the other a prop, and two fetches means two lists that agree until somebody renames a
page. Selection stays in the URL — `?page=` — because that is addressable and the list is not.
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Two things.
`?media=` is Media's own folder and now goes when you leave it. It survived
every navigation, so `?section=home&media=GALLERY/CALAVERA+1` was an ordinary
URL — a parameter naming a folder in a section that is not open, carried into
every link and shared or bookmarked that way.
And the intro is a tiptap editor rather than a textarea of raw HTML. HTML in and
HTML out, because that is already what the site's database holds and renders —
introducing a second format would buy a migration and a round-tripping bug class
for nothing.
Declared as the PLUGIN's npmDependencies, not added to the platform's
package.json. That lockfile is frozen and shared, and npm-deps.ts exists for
exactly this: everything lands in plugins/node_modules/, so a plugin's editor
cannot move a version the platform depends on.
The toolbar is only what the site's stylesheet can render. Anything more would
produce copy that looks right while editing and wrong when published, which the
person only discovers after saying it was done.
The content effect compares against getHTML() before writing back, and that
comparison is the whole thing: while somebody types the two already agree, so
nothing is pushed in and the caret stays put. Without it this is the classic
controlled-contentEditable bug where the cursor jumps to the end on every
keystroke.
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TWO REPORTS, AND THE SECOND ONE WAS A DESIGN MISTAKE RATHER THAN A SETTING.
Media is pinned now, beside Administration. it sat at the end of the scrolling list,
which is the bottom of the LIST and not the bottom of the panel. it belongs in the
foot for the same reason Administration does: both are about this machine, while
everything above them is about the site's pages.
and it was LOCKED BEHIND A CONNECTION IT NEVER USES. `ready` was one global flag —
"can anything be opened" — and Media is a folder on this disk that never speaks to
fofos. so sections now declare what they need:
'connection' the site's pages, which read fofos
'root' Media, which needs a folder and nothing else
'nothing' Administration, because locking the door you fix things through is
locking somebody out entirely
`sectionOpen` is one function, used by the nav to decide whether to offer a link and
by the detail panel to decide what to render — so the two cannot disagree about a
section. that was already the rule with one flag; it matters more now that each
section asks a different question.
`/status` gained `rootSet`, a BOOLEAN, and stays not-owner-only. the nav needs the
answer for every account that can see the section; the path itself stays behind
`/_config`, which is owner-only. whether a root has been chosen reveals nothing
about the machine — where it is would.
the empty-state line follows too: "set a root location below to begin" before there
is one, "connect fofos to open the rest" after — rather than one sentence naming a
step that is not the next one.
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every section was clickable and every one of them showed the same connection form,
because the panel forced it and the nav did not know. nine doors onto one message
taught nobody anything and made a setup step look like nine faults.
so there is now a gate, `useReady`, and both panels read it. that is the point of
putting it in a hook rather than in either panel: a nav that offers a row the
detail panel then refuses is worse than one that does not offer it.
the nav DECLINES TO OFFER — a locked section is a <div>, not a <Link>, so there is
no href to hover, no cmd-click into a new tab and nothing to focus. rendering a
link and swallowing the click leaves a row that looks navigable and behaves like
one everywhere except the click.
the detail panel HOLDS THE LOCK, and it has to, because `?section=gallery` typed
into the address bar or arriving from an old bookmark never passes through the
nav.
one line of copy in the foot rather than a badge on nine dimmed rows. without it a
locked nav reads as broken instead of as one step not done: the rows go grey and
nothing says why or what to do about it.
THE CONDITION IS HARDCODED FALSE, as asked. the plumbing around it is real — it
asks /status, re-asks when the connection changes, and reports while it is still
asking — so switching the gate on is one line. it returns a single boolean and not
its parts deliberately: "all the info needed in Administration" will grow past
`configured && lastProbeOk`, and callers must not start assembling their own
version of it out of the pieces.
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it was last in SECTIONS, so it rendered as the tenth row and then stopped —
directly under Messages, with empty panel beneath it. that is the bottom of the
LIST. what it wanted is the bottom of the PANEL, the way Update-all sits in the
plugins nav.
`mt-auto` on a second group, divided by the same border the rows already use. it
holds whether there are ten sections or two, and it does not need a spacer element
to push it down.
the split is a `pinned` flag on the section rather than the nav testing for the
key. which sections are the client's site and which are this plugin's own
machinery is a fact about the section, and the nav should be reading it, not
knowing it. one array still — `sectionFor` and `isSectionKey` have to resolve
every key, and a second exported list is a second place to forget one.
the row body came out into `renderRow` so both groups draw the same row. no
change to what a row looks like.
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the connection form — where fofos is, and the token — was reached through
`?config=1` and a link in the detail header, because it was not one of the nine
sections. it is now the tenth, called Administration, last in the nav.
that removes the overlay and the second route to it. the two could disagree: the
form covered whatever section was selected underneath, so the nav highlighted one
thing while the panel showed another, and an unconfigured plugin rendered the form
with no header at all — which reads as the selected section being broken rather
than as one setup step not done yet. unconfigured now goes to Administration and
the header says so.
`site` and `administration` are deliberately separate and the file says why. Site
settings is the CLIENT's — partners, social links, contact details, all of it
public copy. Administration is Officer's end: how this plugin reaches fofos, and
whatever else it will need to know. nothing in it ever appears on the site, and
the people who touch the two are not the same people.
`path: null`, alone among the sections: it reads nothing from fofos, which is why
it keeps working when fofos is unreachable and the others do not.
the header's settings link is replaced by the section's own hint, so the row still
says what it is once you are in it.
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manifest, one table, a router and two panels. Discovery is by convention, so
this is the point at which the directory stops being a directory and becomes
something Officer can install.
The manifest holds only what a listing cannot say. One permission, grantable,
with ownerOnly on /_config — reading and editing the site is exactly what a
member might be brought in for, but the token is unrestricted write authority
over everything the public sees, so handing it over is the owner's.
db/schema.ts is ONE table and should stay that way. fofos owns its own Postgres
and its own media store; this holds a URL and a token. That is what makes the
strongest thing about this plugin true: no operation on it can destroy the
client's work, checkbox ticked or not, because none of it was ever here. A cache
would be the thin end of that.
The router mostly forwards. fofos's /api/admin already answers in the shape a
panel wants, so re-wrapping it would be a second place for the contract to drift.
Two things in it are load-bearing rather than style:
registerProxiedPrefix('/api/fofos-admin/media'). bodyParser calls parseBody on
multipart across the whole protected router, and Hono then caches the parsed
FormData — so asking for the bytes afterwards re-serialises them under a NEW
boundary while the ORIGINAL content-type header is what gets forwarded. Header
and body disagree and every upload fails with "Unexpected end of form".
Narrow to the one route: everything else is JSON that is fine to parse.
The catch-all is LAST in the file. Hono runs matching handlers in registration
order, so /* above /_config would swallow it and the settings form would
forward itself to fofos, which has no such endpoint — a 404 from a plugin that
is working perfectly.
Panels are a nav and a detail pane that never speak to each other: the nav writes
?section=, the detail pane reads it. Real <Link>s rather than the buttons
proxy-manager uses — AGENTS.md says nav items are links, and the file documenting
that pattern says not to copy the older one. <Link> and not <NavLink> because
active state here is a query parameter and NavLink compares paths, which would
light every row at once.
Which component renders which section is a MAP, not a conditional on `built`.
The first version read `built ? <MessagesPanel/> : <Planned/>`, which is correct
only while exactly one section exists — the second one finished would have
rendered Messages under its own name.
Messages is the only section built, chosen because it is one read-only route: it
proves the path from an Officer panel through this proxy to fofos and back with
nothing else able to be wrong at the same time. The other eight are in the nav,
dimmed and labelled, saying what they will do and that the old admin still edits
them. A nav that hides what is unfinished gives no sense of what the thing is for.
Typechecked against the platform — and the typechecker was verified to actually
cover plugins/ by planting an error and watching it fail, because a clean run
that does not include your files is worse than no run.
NOT yet: installed, or run against a live fofos. Nothing here has been through
the permission gate or a real request.
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