LIBRARY, RESET, SAVE PHOTO and EXPORT are icons on a phone from here on. The recipe is the one the file already used for the stage's toolbar: font-size 0 takes the word out of the paint, never out of the button, so every accessible name is exactly the word that is no longer drawn, and a ::before carries the glyph (▤ ⟲ ⤓ ↗ — all of them already spoken in this app). The row's own content measured 990px wide with the words and 716px with the icons, and the bar it sat in measured 135px tall on a 390px screen before this and 88px after: three rows to two. RESET also gains a data-key (`reset-look`) — the CSS has to be able to name it. EXPORT moves to the end of the <header>, after the three menus. It is the end of the job and now the end of the row, which is the button the eye should land on once the edit is done. SAVE PHOTO's PRO marker goes with the word: a 9px badge inside a 34px button is a word in a box too small for it, and the count that shares the label has no room either. The button keeps its title, and the count is the one thing the phone loses here — the wide screen still counts. The header is now `position: sticky; top: 0; z-index: 5` on a phone. The page never scrolls (the stage does), so nothing moved before this and nothing moves now — but that is a promise the layout can keep rather than a coincidence of who scrolls. `.adm-bar` already carried the same three lines. The tab strip at the foot grows to the size a thumb is: pills 10px on 8x12 and 28px tall become 12px on 0x16 with a 44px floor, and the bar's own padding goes 6x8 to 8x10. Measured: a pill 28px to 44px, the bar 40px to 61px. This commit also lands the strip work from the session before it, which was written and probed but never committed: under 860px the rail of tabs and the tab's chips become one bar at a time (`.workspace.strip-open`), a TABS chip stands the rail back up, the open chip's sub-chips stand over the bar as 60px tiles, and the ruler is drawn as ticks on a bare input. It shares app.css with the bar above, so the phone's block lands in one piece. Checks: - npm run build (tsc --noEmit + vite) clean. - The ten browser-free image checks (tone-base, highlight-knee, half, white-level, auto-tone, preview-match, raw-develop, roll-walk, wb-table, mask-wb) all pass. - Playwright at 390x844, light and dark (scratchpad topbar-probe.mjs): header sticky, top 0px, z-index 5, y=0 h=88, lastElementChild data-key export-photo; the four buttons 34x30 with font-size 0 and a 15px ::before; the rail at y=783 h=61 with a 93x44 pill at 12px; the theme popover inside the screen (x=47, right=382); every scroller set to 400 leaves headerY at 0; strip-open keeps headerY 0 with the rail display:none; no page errors. - Playwright at 1280 (scratchpad topbar-desktop.mjs): header static, one row 50px, the same four buttons at 14px with no ::before, EXPORT last. Skipped: no new aria-label — the words the icons replace are still the buttons' own text, so nothing needs one. Add one only if a label leaves the DOM.
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.