Phase 1 step 3 of VNCprodbuild. electron/preload.ts's contextBridge now
exposes window.vnc.showNotification(title, options), routed via
ipcRenderer.invoke("vnc:show-notification") to a new ipcMain.handle in
electron/main.ts that calls Electron's own Notification API. This is the
desktop shell's native notification path - it sits alongside, not in place
of, the browser/PWA's service-worker push path (public/sw.js's push/
notificationclick handlers + lib/web-push.ts), which is untouched.
lib/electron-bridge.ts gives the renderer a `isElectronShell()` +
`showElectronNotification()` wrapper so app code can detect the shell and
use the native path instead of/alongside SW push - not wired to any real
mail-delivery trigger yet, that's Phase 1 steps 4-6 (JMAP realtime
capability investigation, the background/foreground strategy decision, and
implementing it).
Extended e2e/electron-smoke.spec.ts to prove the IPC plumbing actually
fires end-to-end: calls window.vnc.showNotification from the renderer and
asserts the round-trip resolves (not that a real OS toast appears - not
observable in CI). Verified locally: the call resolves {"shown":true} on
this machine, confirming it genuinely reaches Electron's Notification API
and back, not just that window.vnc exists.
Also fixes a real bug caught by this step's typecheck: the smoke test's
Playwright Page variable was named `window`, shadowing the DOM global
inside every evaluate() callback and silently breaking their types. Renamed
to `appWindow`.
All 4 smoke-test assertions green: npm run build:electron && npm run
test:electron.
Phase 1 step 1 of VNCprodbuild: electron/main.ts boots the same Next.js
"standalone" server artifact the Dockerfile already produces (next.config.ts's
output: "standalone") as a child process on a random localhost port, then
opens a BrowserWindow at it. electron/preload.ts is a contextBridge stub
(window.vnc.isElectron) for now.
scripts/assemble-standalone.mjs copies public/ and .next/static into
.next/standalone, mirroring what the Dockerfile does by hand, since `next
build` deliberately leaves both out of the standalone output.
scripts/build-electron.mjs bundles main.ts/preload.ts to CommonJS via esbuild
(already a devDependency).
New npm scripts: build:standalone, build:electron, electron:dev.
electron-builder.config.js is intentionally minimal - no signing, no
platform targets yet, just enough to prove the concept end to end.
Also fixes a pre-existing repo-wide lint gap: vnc/plugins/smime is an
independent sub-package (own package.json/esbuild build, browser-only
globals) that was never added to eslint's ignores alongside repos:: and
examples/**, so `npm run lint` - and the husky pre-commit hook - was failing
on every commit regardless of what changed. Excluded it the same way those
are, and added node globals for scripts/**/*.mjs so the new build helpers
above lint cleanly too.
Verified manually: npm run build:standalone && npm run build:electron &&
electron . boots the server and opens a window with no errors.
Bernd Rodler