The panel shared one column between the two marks, so GPS's colour, its two
switches and its hand-typed place stood open beside the custom mark's text,
colour and size whether or not either mark was on. The two are now collapses,
one per mark: the header chip is the section, and that mark's own controls sit
under it. What opens a section is the mark itself — GPS WATERMARK ON opens
GPS's controls, CUSTOM WATERMARK ON opens the custom mark's — so there is no
new state and no way for a panel to disagree with the pixels.
Both marks gain the FONT strip the phone has had (TEXT FONT for the custom
mark, FONT for GPS, whose stamp the phone also lets you set a face on). A
browser has no font service, so the list is exactly what the bundle carries:
the site's two self-hosted families, Inter and Fraunces (SIL OFL), their latin,
latin-ext and vietnamese woff2 subsets decompressed, pinned to weight 400 @
opsz 14 and merged into ONE TTF per family — drawText has no glyph fallback, so
a family mapped to only the latin subset would print a Vietnamese place name as
tofu. DEFAULT stays the bundled Cousine face, which is what every existing
session and every mark without a family prints.
Two engine bugs came out of it. CanvasKit 0.42's Font.getGlyphWidths passes its
output pointer where the wasm export wants the bounds pointer, so every glyph in
a run comes back holding one identical, rounded width — at 64px on the merged
Inter face, 'H' and 'i' both answered 42, while hmtx says 0.743em and 0.242em,
and a box measured off it was 27% too wide ("Hà Nội 09/23" 510px against a true
403px). The shim now rebinds it with the pointers in the order
_getGlyphWidthBounds reads them, and the stage's boxes measure with linear
metrics, which land on hmtx exactly (403.28px against 403.28; hinted is 407).
And CanvasKit's TypefaceFontProvider.matchFamilyStyle answers null for every
style shape this binding accepts, so a name registered with it never resolved —
the shim keeps its own registry keyed by family name instead.
Measured: tsc clean; the engine harness on the merged faces 26/26, including the
registry's advances against hmtx (Inter 6.3013em, Fraunces 6.3475em); the
deployed app under Playwright 38/38 over the two collapses and both FONT strips
— each mark's controls appear only with its own mark on, the DEFAULT/INTER/
FRAUNCES box widths match hmtx, the baked ink fills the box, the top edge
re-hangs off the new ascent (Inter 0.96875em against Cousine's 0.8325em, 3.4px
at this size) with the left edge fixed, and UNDO round-trips. Opening a section
narrows the stage by 168px with no window resize (955px -> 787px), so the stage
now re-measures its drop boxes off a ResizeObserver on the frame and the
picture rather than on the next render.
Not ported: the phone's GPS watermark still prints in the bundled face only
(no emulator here to verify a phone-side font strip), and the FONT options are
not behind the PRO gate the way the phone gates non-default families.
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.