Site admins can invite a brand-new person by email from the Admin portal
Users tab -- a signup-link email lets them set their own username/password
and lands them in the app already logged in. Existing users invited to a
room now also get an email. Closes the "invited but never notified" gap
from both directions.
SMTP is configured through the Admin Settings tab at runtime (not the env
file), persisted in a new smtp_settings table with the password encrypted
at rest via a Fernet key derived from SESSION_SECRET -- the first
reversible secret this app stores in the database. A "send test email"
button surfaces real delivery errors; the invite/notification paths
themselves never fail loudly, since an SMTP outage shouldn't block an
action that already succeeded in the database.
New site_invites table mirrors RoomInvite's shape but targets an email
address with no room context; the raw signup token is hashed the same way
API tokens are, and only ever exists in the email link. POST /api/signup
is the first genuinely public, unauthenticated account-creation endpoint
in this app, reusing the existing register_user path for identical
validation.
Replaces the Phase 1 placeholder UI with a single persistent app shell (top
bar + sidebar + chat pane, 860px responsive breakpoint) matching the
"PWA chat system UI" design handoff: message bubbles with consecutive-run
avatar/name grouping, auto-growing composer, room search, and the real
DarkSingularity logo (also used to regenerate the PWA icons).
The handoff didn't cover Phase 2 (private rooms, roles, invites) or
browsing/joining open rooms, so those are added using the same visual
language: a room info panel with role badges, invite-by-username with a
pending-invites list, member management (remove/promote/demote/transfer
ownership), room settings (rename/describe/delete), and separate
browse-rooms/invites-inbox modals. Unread badges, last-message preview, and
the typing indicator are deliberately deferred -- both need new backend
features (read-tracking, a WS typing event) that weren't in scope this pass.
Two small backend additions round out data the new UI needs but the API
didn't expose: MessageRead.username (historic messages had no sender name)
and InviteRead.target_username / MyInviteRead.room_name+invited_by_username
(a recipient's invite list can't otherwise resolve a room they're not in).
Both are additive; 35 backend tests still pass.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds room_invites table + migration, owner/admin/member role enforcement
(require_room_role), and endpoints for private room creation, room
management (update/delete/leave/transfer-ownership/change-role/remove-member),
and the invite lifecycle (create/list/accept/decline/revoke). Registration
stays invite-only via the CLI from Phase 1 — this is a separate, room-level
invite system for adding existing users to private rooms.
Frontend is untouched: the UI redesign is happening separately, so this phase
is backend + tests only (35 passing). Verified no regressions in the Phase 1
open-room/WebSocket flow via manual smoke test.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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