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ds-chat/frontend
ksmithandClaude Sonnet 5 7dcc7104df Push a live signal when a user is added to a room (#26)
Previously GET /api/rooms/mine was only ever fetched once at app mount,
so a room added mid-session stayed invisible until a full page reload
-- add_member had no way to reach an already-open client at all.

Backend: ConnectionManager and Broadcaster (renamed from RoomBroadcaster)
now support per-user channels alongside the existing per-room ones, so a
signal can reach a user's socket even for a room they haven't joined
(and by definition can't have, until this fires). add_member publishes
a room_added event on the target user's channel.

Frontend: the WebSocket connection is no longer scoped to whichever
room is open -- ChatShellPage now owns one persistent connection for
the whole session (including while no room is open, which is exactly
when this bug showed), and ChatPane joins/leaves rooms on top of it.
A room_added event triggers a room-list refetch with no reload needed.

Verified end-to-end in the browser: a user sitting on the empty room
list saw a newly-added room appear live, then chatted in it normally.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-16 10:29:06 -06:00
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DS Chat frontend (Phase 1)

React + Vite PWA. Login, room list, and chat views wired to the backend's REST API and /ws/chat WebSocket endpoint. See ../README.md and ../backend/README.md for full local setup.

Dev

npm install
npm run dev

The dev server proxies /api and /ws to http://localhost:8000 (see vite.config.ts), so the backend must be running for anything beyond the login page to work.

Build

npm run build

Generates the PWA manifest and service worker via vite-plugin-pwa into dist/.

Layout

src/
  main.tsx, App.tsx        routes: /login, /rooms, /rooms/:roomId
  api/                       fetch wrappers (client, auth, rooms)
  ws/useChatSocket.ts          WebSocket hook (join/send/receive)
  context/AuthContext.tsx        current-user state, hydrated via GET /api/auth/me
  components/                      ProtectedRoute, RoomListItem, MessageList, MessageInput
  pages/                             LoginPage, RoomListPage, ChatRoomPage