Three small moves in the column, plus the rule they needed. LIGHT: the PROFILE panel is gone — PHOTO STYLE under PRESETS already covers what it did — and the tone curve chip leaves the column's chip row. It becomes the last line of the TONE panel's body, at the foot TONE always had room for. PRESETS: IMPORT .RECIPE leaves the recipes strip and sits in the main column, directly under the RECIPES chip, which is the set it imports into. The strip now carries the recipes and nothing else, so its empty hint fires at length zero. HSL: the mixer's PICK and the IMAGE label each get a rule above them. The rule is a chip — divider: true in ChipDef — that renders a separator instead of a button, so a row can say that what follows is a different kind of thing. Verified by probe against the built app (exit 0, no console errors): - LIGHT panel heads read WB, TONE, PRESENCE, DETAIL & EFFECTS, with no PROFILE; the TONE body's last row is the "∿ TONE CURVE" chip, box [94,647,300,27]. - PRESETS main chips read PHOTO STYLE, RECIPES, IMPORT .RECIPE (y 159, under RECIPES at y 124), RESET; the strip no longer carries the import chip. - HSL order is PICK [94,91,148,27], rule [94,127,148,1], the eight bands, rule [94,404,148,1], IMAGE, then HUE/SAT/LUM. The same order holds at 393x852, where the rules measure [8,560,377,1] and [8,639,377,1]. - The rule is a 1px line: width 100% with height 1px, which keeps it a line in both the desktop column and the phone's wrapped strip. 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.