Users can set a display name (shown instead of username in the message
list, room member list, TopBar, and admin Users tab) and upload a real
avatar, replacing the generated color-initial avatars everywhere a user
appears. Avatars are square-cropped and downscaled to 512px, reusing
app/storage.py's upload primitives from image uploads with a new square
option.
Two deliberate divergences from message-image handling, documented in
backend/README.md: the previous avatar file is deleted on replace/remove
(safe since it's strictly one file per user), and avatar serving is not
room-gated and uses a short cache (identity-addressed and mutable, unlike
a message image's permanent content-addressed URL).
Frontend: new ProfileModal reachable from the TopBar account menu;
AuthContext gains updateUser() so a profile change reflects instantly
everywhere without a refetch.
Adds a real Workbox runtime-caching strategy on top of the Phase 1 app-shell
precache: StaleWhileRevalidate (cache-and-refresh) for the five read
endpoints (rooms/mine, open rooms, room messages, room members, invites/mine)
with a bounded/expiring cache per endpoint, while /api/auth/* and all
mutations stay network-only. An OfflineBanner (navigator.onLine-driven) and
a clearer Composer status line ("Connecting..." vs "You're offline") surface
what's actually happening; api/client.ts gains a NetworkError distinct from
ApiError so a genuine cache-miss-while-offline shows a quiet empty state
instead of a red error.
Manual offline testing (backend stopped, `vite preview` against the real
production service worker) surfaced a real gap the plan hadn't accounted
for: GET /api/auth/me is intentionally NetworkOnly, but that meant
ProtectedRoute could never confirm a session while offline and always
bounced to /login -- none of the newly-cached room/message data was ever
reachable. Fixed by caching a minimal, non-sensitive "last known user" in
localStorage (lib/lastUser.ts) and having AuthContext fall back to it for
any *unconfirmed* auth check (network failure, or a down backend answering
through a live reverse proxy with its own 502/503/504 -- both happen in
real deployments, not just literal airplane-mode). Only a server-confirmed
401 still clears it and signs the user out; every real action still
re-checks the actual session cookie server-side, so this can't grant
anything -- it only keeps cached UI reachable.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Invite-only FastAPI + SQLAlchemy(async) + Postgres backend (session-cookie
auth via CLI-provisioned accounts, open-room CRUD, single-instance /ws/chat)
and a React + Vite PWA frontend (login, room list, chat view). Backend tests
pass against a local Postgres DB. See README.md and backend/README.md for
setup, and ARCHITECTURE.md for the full phased design.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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