The section reads the site's own admin API, so it requires a CONNECTION where
Media beside it requires only a root. The difference is real rather than
copy-paste: Media is a file browser over a folder on this disk, while a gallery
is a row in the site's database — opening it without the site answering would be
a screen where every action fails.
The context action hands its selection over in the URL and sends you to the
panel rather than opening a dialog of its own. Naming a gallery, seeing the slug
it will get and watching the items land belongs on the screen that owns
galleries, not in a modal over a file browser that would then have to explain
where the result went.
It offers itself only inside originals/, because a gallery item is a path
relative to that folder and an entry that appears everywhere while working in one
place is worse than one that appears where it works. The test is on the PATH, not
on which panel is open — the same browser is mounted in several places and only
the path says where it is pointed.
A mixed selection is refused. A folder among files is either a mistake or a
request to recurse, and neither is something to guess from a right-click.
The handoff is consumed once and stripped from the URL. Left there, a refresh
would create the gallery again, which somebody discovers as four copies.
Nothing is written until Create: the folder's name is a suggestion in the field,
not a decision already taken.
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Galleries become an entity rather than a list hanging off a page: a set of media
somebody has chosen and put in an order is a decision worth keeping once, not
remaking on every page that wants it.
Pinned with Media and above it, because the two are the same kind of thing — the
raw material the site is built from, held on this machine. Media is the files; a
gallery is a chosen, ordered subset of them.
`requires: 'root'`, not `'connection'`. A gallery is made of originals on this
disk, so it is reachable as soon as there is a root location. Gating it behind a
site connection it does not use is the bug that made that distinction necessary
in the first place, and Media already learned it.
Not built yet, so it renders the Planned card — the entity is the next piece and
this is where it will live.
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Hero, intro and an ordered gallery — the shape the old htmx admin had, as a
panel here.
Every write returns the WHOLE payload and this never patches its own state from
what it sent. That matters more than it looks: the server clears the hero crop
when the hero changes, because a rectangle describing a region of a different
picture would crop the new one somewhere arbitrary. A client keeping its own
copy would go on showing a framing the server had already discarded.
Ordering sends every id rather than one item's position, which is what makes it
impossible to end up with two things claiming the same place.
Thumbnails load through this plugin's proxy rather than straight from the dev
server, so they arrive with the session instead of requiring the browser to
reach a port on the host.
It edits DEVELOPMENT, because production is a directory of static files with no
API to write to. An edit lands on dev immediately and becomes public when
somebody presses Build.
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It is the same KIND of thing as the root location and the databases — this
machine, not the site's content — and a nav row leading to one card was a whole
screen to reach three lines.
Last of the three, because it needs both of the others: a server has nowhere to
run without the checkout and nothing to read without a database.
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pm2 for BOTH, development included. A `bun dev` started in a terminal dies with
the terminal, and nobody can tell whether it is running without finding the
window it was started in. Under pm2 the two are the same kind of thing — a named
process with a status, an uptime and a log, startable from here and inspectable
from anywhere. The cost is that development stops printing to a console somebody
is watching, which is what `pm2 logs fofos-dev` is for; the process names are in
the panel so nobody has to guess them.
This plugin owns exactly two names, `fofos-dev` and `fofos-prod`, and every
command is built from that pair and from nothing a caller supplies. No request
can stop, restart or delete another process on the machine. That matters more
than usual here: Officer's own processes share this pm2 daemon, and a plugin
able to name any of them would be a way to take the host down through a web
form.
Start is really a replace — delete, then start. Not `restart`: it fails on a
process that has never existed, and on one that has it reuses the environment it
was started with, so a port or database changed here would be saved, displayed,
and not in effect. That is an hour of somebody's debugging.
The environment is assembled here because this plugin is what knows the ports
and the database names, and it is handed to pm2 through the invoking command's
own environment — pm2 has no flag for it; `--env` names a block in an ecosystem
file. The site reads .env files first and the environment last, so this fills
what is absent rather than overriding what somebody wrote down.
Ports have no default. It is the one setting where a plausible guess is worst:
it binds, the site appears to work, and it is quietly answering on a port
another service wanted.
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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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a new section above Administration. it embeds THE PLATFORM'S OWN file browser rather
than drawing a file list — upload, delete, rename, move, thumbnails, the context
menu and every task hanging off it already exist and are maintained in one place. a
plugin's own would be a second to keep in step, arriving without any of that.
`basePath` IS A JAIL, not a starting folder: `useFileBrowserApp` resets currentPath
whenever it leaves, so pointing it at `<root>/media/originals` means the breadcrumb
stops there and `derived/` is not reachable by navigating. that is what was asked
for — people work in originals, derived is made for them.
IT IS A GUARDRAIL AND NOT A PERMISSION BOUNDARY, and the panel says so in its own
docstring because the difference will matter to whoever reads this next. the
file-browser API is unchanged and still addresses the whole home: anyone with file
access reaches derived/ through the Files screen. this prevents an accident, not a
determined person. confining it properly means scoping that API per user, which is a
platform change and a much larger one.
the panel also says, once, that derived/ exists and is made from these — otherwise
somebody who knows about it would think it had been lost.
`rootRelative` is new on the settings API because only the SERVER knows what home
is. the file browser addresses everything relative to a root, and a browser deriving
that prefix from the absolute path would be guessing. null when the root sits
outside home — a legitimate setting the browser cannot address, which the panel
explains rather than rendering an empty folder.
NOTHING HERE IS FOFOS-SPECIFIC, which matters now that this plugin is the template
for other site admins: the root is a setting, media/originals is the layout this
plugin creates, and both are read from the API. another site's plugin changes the
label.
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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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