The FX row had grown into a flat list where a brush and a filter and a shape sat side by side, and it lied about what the tools are: HEAL and MOSAIC only paint, LINEAR and RADIAL only make a mask. The row now carries FIX and GRADIENT MASK, in that order, before MONOCHROME, and each one opens its own strip holding the tools that belong to it — turning amber when it has a spot or a mask to show for itself, so the state still reads from the row without opening anything. The two brushes moved into the FIX strip with the header FIX above them, the two shapes into the GRADIENT MASK strip under the header GRADIENT MASK, and each CLEAR moved in with the tool it clears instead of sitting at the end of the row. Opening FIX still arms the brush the same way — the strip only changes where the chip lives, not what clicking it does. The mask column (shine, bearing, feather, and the rest) still hangs off the shape you pick, so it now stands right after the options column: the strip that brought it out comes first, then the column it belongs to. Nothing else in the column order moved. ponytail: the two strips ride the existing openGroup and toggleGroup, so a strip key is just a widened GroupKey rather than new state to keep in sync; the option-strip body itself stayed where it was, keeping the diff to the chips that moved. Verified: - npx tsc --noEmit clean. - Frontend probes against the built production bundle on :8090 and the dev server: mask-probe 53/0, brush-edit-probe 35/0, heal-idle-probe 23/0, heal-zoom-drag-probe 28/0, grain-controls 20/0, temp-swatch 33/0, and landing, pro-gate, award-column, otp-code, tone-curve, hsl-panel, chip-edge, chips-desk, slider-reset all PASS rc=0 fails=0. - Backend npm test 180/0. - panel-test keeps exactly its four pre-existing failures (rail labels, WB swatch); they reproduce on the commit before this one.
RecipesCam web — self-contained stack
A Docker-hosted web build of RecipesCam. Everything it needs is in this folder: move it to another machine, run two commands, and the app is up. It does not need the React Native project around it.
cp .env.example .env
docker compose up -d --build
# → http://localhost:8090
What runs where
| Service | Image | Role |
|---|---|---|
frontend |
nginx:1.27-alpine (built by frontend/Dockerfile) |
Static SPA + /api/ reverse proxy |
api |
node:22-slim (built by backend/Dockerfile) |
Accounts + saved recipes, SQLite on ./data |
frontend resolves api through Docker's embedded DNS and proxies /api/* to
it — that is why the API container is named api and why it is not published on
the host. Only ${WEB_PORT:-8090} is exposed.
Photos never leave the browser. The CanvasKit render pipeline (grade, frame, watermarks, JPEG encode) runs in the visitor's tab; the API only stores recipes as JSON.
Layout
docker-compose.yml the stack
.env.example WEB_PORT
data/ SQLite (created on first run, gitignored)
backend/ Fastify + better-sqlite3 API, own Dockerfile
frontend/ Vite + React + CanvasKit SPA, own Dockerfile + nginx.conf
shared/ vendored copies of the app's types + utils (see below)
src/engine/ skiaShim.ts (CanvasKit) + exportEngine.ts (render pipeline)
+ session.ts (localStorage/IndexedDB studio persistence)
Vendored files
frontend/shared/{types/index.ts,utils/*.ts} are byte-identical copies of
src/types/index.ts and ten src/utils/*.ts files from the React Native
project (@shopify/react-native-skia is aliased to src/engine/skiaShim.ts in
vite.config.ts + tsconfig.json, so those files compile unchanged):
cinemaShader colorUtils defaultRecipes exifWrite frameUtils jpegDpi
paramDefs recipeShare skiaImage toneShader.
The landing page needs no CDN: frontend/public/assets/fonts/*.woff2 are the
seven self-hosted faces behind the three font groups the Themes menu offers
(Plus Jakarta Sans / Inter / JetBrains Mono, Fraunces / Be Vietnam Pro /
Courier Prime, Be Vietnam Pro / Space Mono — all SIL OFL, pulled from Google
Fonts, vietnamese + latin + latin-ext subsets), and
frontend/public/assets/samples/s*.jpg are the six placeholder negatives the
film strip, preset tester and QR card show (swap them for real graded stills
whenever we have them). Its one foreign request is the QR image from
api.qrserver.com, which degrades to an empty slot offline.
When the app changes one of them, copy it back in — the renderer is only "parity" for as long as these stay in sync:
cd <repo>/docker/frontend/shared/utils
cp <repo>/src/utils/<name>.ts .
Operations
docker compose logs -f api # API log
docker compose restart api # after backend/src changes (rebuild: --build)
docker compose down # stop; ./data survives
Backup is the ./data folder — that is the whole database.
Checks
curl -s http://localhost:8090/api/health # {"ok":true}
curl -sI http://localhost:8090/ # 200, index.html
Then open the UI, drop a photo in, and confirm the preview shows the picture and
EXPORT downloads a JPEG that opens. The preview going solid black while the
export still reports a plausible size is the one failure mode worth knowing: it
means the CanvasKit GPU surfaces lost their shared GrDirectContext (see
frontend/src/engine/skiaShim.ts), and with no GPU the raster fallback renders
the same pipeline correctly, just slower.