The award card was a 340px column with a 46px gap to the copy, which left the photograph the whole point of the card small and the two halves of the hero visibly apart rather than one composition. The column is now 440px and the gap 24px, so the card is a third again as wide and sits closer to the headline. Measured on the built app at 1280px: .lp-award 440px wide (was 340), and the photo box inside it 410px (was 310) — 440 less the 1px border and 14px padding on each side. At 4:5 the image goes 387.5px tall to 512.5px. The copy's right edge is now 824 against the card's left edge 848, where before it was 902 against 948: the same 24px of air between them, but the copy's right edge moved 78px left and the card 100px left, so the hero reaches further across and the extra width is photograph rather than margin. The stacking breakpoint below 980px carried the same 340px cap, which would have made the card narrower than the column it replaces; raised to 440px to match. Measured at 900px: the card stacks under the copy at 440px wide. Verified: award-column-probe.cjs (scratchpad) — 18/18 on http://localhost:8090, with the width check now 440 and the geometry line reading copy.r=824 card.l=848. landing-test.cjs clean, lp-arrows-test.cjs 33/33, landing-rating-test.cjs 21/21, landing-photo-guard-test.cjs 21/21 — 0 fail against the rebuilt app. web tsc --noEmit clean. Dark and light themes both eyeballed on the built app (award-hero-dark.png, award-hero-light.png). ponytail: the width is a literal in two places — the grid column and the 980px cap — rather than a custom property, because the two are the same value today and a token would need the media query to read it too; when a third width shows up, lift both to --lp-award-w. The light-theme box-shadow is still the dark card's rgba(0,0,0,0.35); widening the card makes it no more or less wrong, so it is left as it was.
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.