The tone spec draws EXPOSURE as `min="-5" max="5" step="0.01"` with a `0.00` readout, and the app's row was still the original whole-unit knob: -10..+10 in one step, printed as a bare `+2`. The recipe file behind it has always carried units where one unit is EV_PER_UNIT = 0.25 of a stop, which is the same ±2.5 EV travel, so the two are the same range said two ways. The def now talks stops on its face and units in the store: `min: -5, max: 5, step: 0.01`, a `twoStops` readout (`0.00`, `+0.50`, `-0.25`, no unit because the label is the unit), and accessors that translate — `get` multiplies by EV_PER_UNIT, `set` divides and rounds to 1/10000. EV_PER_UNIT is exported for that one use. Because the ×10 of `deepen` is not applied here and the store's field is untouched, a recipe that shipped with EXPOSURE 2 still means the two units it always meant: nothing gets brighter or darker, and half a stop is still 2 units in the file. The knob steps by 0.01, which is 0.04 units — the slider can express a quarter stop where the old one could only express quarter stops, and everything between them. TINT and TEMPERATURE keep the web's ranges (tint ±100 on the ±10 store scale, temperature 2500..10000 K). The spec's ±150 tint and its 2000..50000 K temperature were reviewed and left as they are: the tint at ±100 is already what `deepen` publishes and the wider pair would move stored looks. Verified: - `npx tsc --noEmit` clean; `npm run build` clean. - Repo checks re-run green: `highlight-knee-check`, `auto-tone-check`, `half-check`, `white-level-check`, `preview-match-check` — the last two render real looks through the engine, so a shifted EXPOSURE scale would have shown up as a brightness change in recipes that carry a non-zero one. - Live browser pass on the deployed build: the row reports `min=-5 max=5 step=0.01`, prints `+1.00` at a full stop, `+0.01` at a hundredth, `-0.25` at a quarter stop down and `0.00` at rest, and EXPOSURE +1.00 still lifts the graded frame (mean luma 184.3 -> 203.4). ponytail: the CREATE RECIPES form (RecipeCreatePanel) still edits a sim's raw adjustments in store units, EXPOSURE included. Leave it there until that form is asked for stops: it is a store editor, not the develop panel, and every field on it is in the same units. Co-authored-by: PenguinHarness <noreply@penguin.local>
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.