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mr.zeroandClaude Opus 5 8511ccbef8 WarpEngine Client: the whole catalog, and a build that can point elsewhere
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**The app is called WarpEngine Client.** "Store" named the thing it opens rather than the
thing you run, and the store is a catalog on a site, not a window on your machine. The
window title, the bundle, the packages and the menu entry follow; the repository already
did. The store being driven is named in the side menu, so the bar stopped repeating it as
a badge — the element stays in the page, hidden, because the window check reads it.

**Every title is listed, including the ones this machine cannot install.** They arrive
from the engine with `installable: false` and a reason, and they are drawn dimmed, with an
*unsupported platform* or *no build for this machine* badge, the engine's own sentence
underneath, and nothing to press: a disabled Install would invite a click that can never
work. They get a category of their own — *Not for this machine* — and they are kept out of
the native/hosted categories and counts, because a title with no build has no mode to be
counted under. An engine older than desktop 1.2.0 is unaffected: a missing `installable`
field reads as installable, which is what those engines mean.

**A build can be pointed at another site's registry:**

    make dist STORES_API=https://games.example.org/api/stores

BuildConfiguration reads the packaged package.json, where electron-builder's
extraMetadata writes that address, so a client for somebody else's catalog needs no source
change and nothing set on the user's machine. Precedence is runtime environment, then
build, then ours — three audiences, most specific first.

Also: the scrollbars are the window's own, because the platform's light track down the
side menu of a dark window looked like a mistake.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-18 19:45:54 +02:00
mr.zeroandClaude Opus 5 526c67b069 Registry-only stores, a quieter window, and a CI that builds
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A store no longer needs a repository of its own. The engine's built-in defaults
already cover the host-to-asset mapping, the install modes, the platforms and the
behaviour; what they cannot know is identity — a slug, a name and a catalog URL — and
that is exactly what a registry record carries. So `storeRepositoryUrl` is optional: a
record with a name and a catalog is a complete store, the id falls back from the
repository name to the catalog host (`teletypegames.org` becomes `teletypegames`) to the
display name, and the client writes a three-section config. Given a repository it still
reads it, and that file stays the authority on how the store behaves; a repository
without a config.json is treated as no repository at all.

Measured end to end against a local registry serving one record with a null repository:
the engine and the core downloaded, engine 1.1.0 accepted the written config, it listed
the same ten titles the configured store does, and a hosted title synced into a sandbox
with its menu entry written.

The "Install all" button is gone, and with it the string it used. Titles are installed
one at a time from their own cards.

No footer. The window carried a bar at the bottom at all times — a toggle and a line of
absolute paths — for something most sessions never need. The log is still there, folder
buttons included, behind a quiet switch at the bottom of the side menu; it takes no room
until it is opened, and an arriving line does not open it, because the store logs on
every refresh and a window that unfolds panels by itself is worse than one that keeps
quiet.

Three faults that every automated count had passed, found by photographing the setup
screen: the store badge rendered as an empty pill with no store open; the gate's picker
showed as an empty dropdown stub, because an explicit `display` beats the browser's own
`[hidden]` rule; and the gate went up while the empty-catalog line stayed on screen
underneath it. The last was a design fault — whether the gate is up was a call on a
view rather than state, so the two could disagree. The setup screen is now a field in
the state store, and that one field decides which of the gate and the grid is drawn.
The window test's gate assertion was wrong too: it demanded a store picker, which only
appears when the registry offers more than one store, so one store — the ordinary case —
failed it.

CI builds the packages this machine cannot. `.woodpecker.yaml` runs the checks on every
push and, on a tag or by hand, builds the Linux packages in
`electronuserland/builder:22` and the Windows ones in `:22-wine`, then attaches them to
the release with scripts/ci-upload.sh. The pipeline lives here rather than in the update
server's `/build/config` extension, which serves game-platform pipelines publishing into
the site's catalog — a different product with a different target. macOS stays a local
build: Apple's toolchain and its signing exist only on a Mac.

Both build steps verify what they produced, because a half-finished Wine build leaves a
162 KB stub named like the real installer and `ls` is happy with it. The Linux step was
rehearsed locally in the same image (AppImage 128 MB, deb 100 MB); the Wine step cannot
be rehearsed on Apple Silicon, where 16 KB host pages break Wine's 4 KB assumption, so
the runner is where it is proven. The size check was tested against both outcomes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-18 16:52:59 +02:00
mr.zeroandClaude Opus 5 3d63c8a0b0 TypeScript, in layers, with a strict linter
The client was one main.js, one preload.js, three files in lib/ and one renderer
script. It is now a typed application whose imports point inward: domain (models,
ports, errors) knows nothing about Electron, Node or Python; application orchestrates
it through those ports; infrastructure holds the adapters — the Python CLI, HTTP, the
filesystem, Electron itself — and main, preload and renderer sit on top as hosts.

STRUCTURE.md is the map, and the deliverable as much as the code is: every layer, every
pattern in use (ports and adapters, repository vs gateway, service, DTO and mapper,
composition root, controller and router, single flight, observer streams, state store
with unidirectional flow, passive view, coded error hierarchy, frozen constant tables,
untrusted-data readers) and the naming rules — files, classes, and a verb vocabulary
for methods where find/require/read/list/apply/render/handle each state a contract.

Two properties fell out of the move, and they are why it was worth doing:

  - The catalog can be driven with no window and no Electron at all. The smoke test
    assembles the same services against the same ports in a plain Node process; it used
    to be a script that reimplemented the bridge.
  - The window never receives a filesystem path. A title crosses the bridge without
    one, and launching is asked for by name, resolved in the main process from the
    store's own state. Verified with a fake launcher: an unknown name answers false, a
    native title resolves to its menu entry, a hosted one to its catalog URL.

Types are mandatory, including where inference would manage: explicit return,
parameter and property types, strict plus noUncheckedIndexedAccess,
exactOptionalPropertyTypes, noImplicitOverride and noPropertyAccessFromIndexSignature,
typescript-eslint strictTypeChecked and stylisticTypeChecked, exhaustive switches, no
any, no non-null assertions, and no casts on foreign data — engine stdout and the
registry go through readers that turn unknown into typed values. naming-convention
enforces the patterns rather than trusting them.

Two rule conflicts had to be decided rather than papered over. typedef and
no-inferrable-types disagree about `fallback: string = ''`: the annotation wins, since a
signature states its types. erasableSyntaxOnly is off, because it forbids constructor
parameter properties, which are how dependencies are declared here.

The preload and the renderer are bundled by esbuild into one file each: a sandboxed
preload may not require its own modules, and a module script over file:// is blocked by
the page's own origin rules. tsc compiles the rest. The package ships build/** and
package.json — 111 entries, no sources, no toolchain.

New targets: build, typecheck, lint, lint-fix, and check — typecheck, lint, then both
test suites, cheapest failure first. Every script that runs the app builds first, so a
stale bundle cannot be tested.

Nothing about the window changed: same side menu, same categories, same switcher, same
two languages. make check is clean, both test suites pass with one store and with two,
the packaged 1.3.0 bundle drives the real store, and the window was photographed before
and after — the two are the same picture.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-18 15:29:18 +02:00