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ksmith 89be497fdb Add markdown rendering for chat messages (issue #14)
Renders message content with markdown-to-jsx: bold/italic/strikethrough,
inline code, fenced code blocks, blockquotes, lists (incl. nested and
task lists), tables, footnotes, headings, and highlight (==text==).
Raw HTML in message content is parsed to escaped literal text rather
than rendered (disableParsingRawHTML), which is the XSS mitigation for
this being user-generated content -- verified against both <img
onerror> and <script> probes. Markdown image embeds degrade to a link
instead of an <img>, since the app already has a first-class image
upload and a second silent remote-image-embed path would duplicate it
and leak the viewer's IP to arbitrary URLs.

The inline message-edit control is upgraded from a single-line <input>
to a <textarea> so multi-line markdown can actually be edited without
losing newlines, mirroring the Composer's Enter-sends/Shift+Enter-
newlines convention.

Since CommonMark treats a single newline as a soft break (collapses to
a space) rather than a visible line break, added a small code-fence-
aware preprocessor that converts single newlines to hard breaks --
without it, existing multi-line messages sent via the Composer's
Shift+Enter would silently collapse onto one line.

Also fixes heading levels rendering at an identical capped size
(should still step down by level, just capped lower than default), and
adds CSS for markdown constructs the library already parsed but hadn't
been styled for the dark theme: table borders, highlight/mark color,
task-list checkbox accent, and footnote divider.
2026-08-14 21:42:57 -06:00
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KeepItTalking 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