SRCmail/electron/main.ts

// Electron main process for the VNCmail+ (Bulwark) desktop shell.
//
// Boots the exact same Next.js "standalone" server artifact the Dockerfile
// already produces for production (see next.config.ts's `output:
// "standalone"` and the Dockerfile's builder stage) as a child process on a
// random localhost port, then opens a BrowserWindow pointed at it. This is
// deliberately the same server, not a reimplementation - lib/jmap/client.ts
// and every app/api/** route behave identically to the web deployment.
import { app, BrowserWindow, ipcMain, Notification } from "electron";
import { autoUpdater } from "electron-updater";
import { spawn, type ChildProcess } from "node:child_process";
import { createServer } from "node:net";
import { get as httpGet } from "node:http";
import path from "node:path";
import fs from "node:fs";

let serverProcess: ChildProcess | null = null;
let mainWindow: BrowserWindow | null = null;

/**
 * Locates the standalone server's entrypoint. Packaged builds ship it as an
 * extraResource (see electron-builder.config.js) because .next/standalone
 * isn't inside the app.asar; dev runs read it straight out of the repo via
 * `npm run build:standalone`.
 */
function getStandaloneServerEntry(): string {
  if (app.isPackaged) {
    return path.join(process.resourcesPath, "standalone", "server.js");
  }
  return path.join(app.getAppPath(), ".next", "standalone", "server.js");
}

function getFreePort(): Promise<number> {
  return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
    const server = createServer();
    server.unref();
    server.on("error", reject);
    server.listen(0, "127.0.0.1", () => {
      const address = server.address();
      if (address && typeof address === "object") {
        const { port } = address;
        server.close(() => resolve(port));
      } else {
        server.close(() => reject(new Error("Could not allocate a free localhost port")));
      }
    });
  });
}

function waitForServerReady(url: string, timeoutMs = 20000): Promise<void> {
  const deadline = Date.now() + timeoutMs;
  return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
    const attempt = () => {
      const req = httpGet(url, (res) => {
        res.resume();
        resolve();
      });
      req.on("error", () => {
        if (Date.now() > deadline) {
          reject(new Error(`Standalone server never became reachable at ${url}`));
          return;
        }
        setTimeout(attempt, 200);
      });
    };
    attempt();
  });
}

async function startStandaloneServer(): Promise<string> {
  const serverEntry = getStandaloneServerEntry();
  if (!fs.existsSync(serverEntry)) {
    throw new Error(
      `Standalone Next.js server not found at ${serverEntry}. Run "npm run build:standalone" first.`,
    );
  }

  const port = await getFreePort();
  const url = `http://127.0.0.1:${port}`;

  // Spawn the Electron binary itself as a plain Node process
  // (ELECTRON_RUN_AS_NODE) instead of depending on a system Node install -
  // the packaged app can't assume Node exists on the target machine, and
  // this keeps dev/packaged behavior identical.
  serverProcess = spawn(process.execPath, [serverEntry], {
    env: {
      ...process.env,
      ELECTRON_RUN_AS_NODE: "1",
      PORT: String(port),
      HOSTNAME: "127.0.0.1",
      NODE_ENV: process.env.NODE_ENV || "production",
    },
    stdio: "inherit",
  });

  serverProcess.on("exit", (code, signal) => {
    if (code !== 0 && code !== null) {
      console.error(`[electron] standalone server exited early (code=${code}, signal=${signal})`);
    }
    serverProcess = null;
  });

  await waitForServerReady(url);
  return url;
}

function stopStandaloneServer(): void {
  if (serverProcess && !serverProcess.killed) {
    serverProcess.kill();
  }
  serverProcess = null;
}

async function createMainWindow(): Promise<void> {
  // Test-only escape hatch: when set, skip spawning the standalone server
  // entirely and load this URL instead. Used by
  // integration/tests/11-electron-notification.spec.ts, which needs a
  // dev-mode Next.js server (proxy.ts's CSP only widens connect-src to
  // allow plain-HTTP/ws JMAP in dev - see that file's comments) to reach
  // the integration fixture's deliberately-plaintext local Stalwart,
  // exactly the same trade-off integration/webmail.Dockerfile already makes
  // for the browser-based integration suite. Never set by real users or by
  // any of the packaging/CI paths - those always go through
  // startStandaloneServer() below.
  const url = process.env.ELECTRON_LOAD_URL || (await startStandaloneServer());

  mainWindow = new BrowserWindow({
    width: 1280,
    height: 860,
    webPreferences: {
      preload: path.join(__dirname, "preload.js"),
      contextIsolation: true,
      nodeIntegration: false,
      sandbox: true,
    },
  });

  mainWindow.on("closed", () => {
    mainWindow = null;
  });

  await mainWindow.loadURL(url);
}

// --- Native notification bridge --------------------------------------------
// Called from the preload's `window.vnc.showNotification` (electron/preload.ts),
// itself called from lib/electron-bridge.ts's showElectronNotification(),
// itself called from app/(main)/[locale]/page.tsx's "new mail arrived"
// effect whenever lib/jmap/client.ts's push pipeline (WebSocket, or its SSE/
// polling fallback - see that file's circuit breaker) reports a genuine new
// message. Electron's own Notification API is the desktop shell's
// 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).
ipcMain.handle(
  "vnc:show-notification",
  (_event, title: string, options?: { body?: string; tag?: string }) => {
    // Test-only observability hook, read via Playwright's
    // electronApp.evaluate(({ app }) => ...) - see
    // integration/tests/11-electron-notification.spec.ts. Not gated behind
    // NODE_ENV: it's an inert counter with no behavioral effect, cheaper
    // than maintaining a second code path just for tests.
    const counters = app as unknown as { __notificationCallCount?: number };
    counters.__notificationCallCount = (counters.__notificationCallCount ?? 0) + 1;

    if (!Notification.isSupported()) {
      return { shown: false };
    }
    const notification = new Notification({
      title,
      body: options?.body ?? "",
    });
    notification.show();
    return { shown: true };
  },
);

// --- Auto-update -------------------------------------------------------
// GitHub Releases as the update feed (electron-builder.config.js's
// `publish` block) - the skill's recommendation over standing up a new
// distribution channel, since the repo is already private. "Light
// decision" per VNCprodbuild step 7, not re-litigated here.
//
// Deliberately best-effort: there's no code signing yet (step 9), so on
// macOS in particular an update download/install can fail signature
// verification. A failed check must never take the app down - it's
// background maintenance, not something the user is blocked on.
function setupAutoUpdater(): void {
  if (!app.isPackaged) {
    // Unpacked dev/test runs (npm run electron:dev, the Playwright smoke
    // test) have no latest.yml alongside them - checking would just log a
    // noisy 404 against GitHub Releases for every dev run.
    return;
  }
  autoUpdater.autoDownload = true;
  autoUpdater.autoInstallOnAppQuit = true;
  autoUpdater.on("error", (error) => {
    console.error("[electron] auto-update error:", error);
  });
  autoUpdater.checkForUpdatesAndNotify().catch((error) => {
    console.error("[electron] checkForUpdatesAndNotify failed:", error);
  });
}

app.whenReady().then(() => {
  void createMainWindow();
  setupAutoUpdater();
});

app.on("window-all-closed", () => {
  stopStandaloneServer();
  if (process.platform !== "darwin") {
    app.quit();
  }
});

app.on("before-quit", () => {
  stopStandaloneServer();
});

app.on("activate", () => {
  if (BrowserWindow.getAllWindows().length === 0) {
    void createMainWindow();
  }
});