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Reece BrowneandEthanHealy01 d2844c4f90 Super search across Editor and Processor (#6734)
One search bar for the whole app, in both the Editor and the Processor.
**Cmd/Ctrl+K** from anywhere.

- **Editor** — your files, tools, settings, and everything in the
Processor: its pages plus live users, policies, pipelines, sources, and
full-text developer docs.
- **Processor** — the same bar over its own data (users, policies,
pipelines, sources, docs) plus tools and settings. Files stay
editor-only; pages stay out (the sidebar covers them).
- **Filter chips** (and typed prefixes like `policy: invoice`) narrow to
one lane; each group shows a few results with **Show more** to expand.
- **Access-gated**: users only see lanes and settings sections they can
actually open — no Processor chips, results, or entity fetches without
portal access, no admin settings for non-admins, no account-bound
sections for anonymous SaaS sessions. Asserted by unit tests and a
stubbed Playwright suite.
- Selecting a result takes you straight there, across apps when needed —
results group under collapsible sections.

Replaces the separate search boxes that previously lived in the file
sidebar, the tool panel header, the settings modal, and the docs page.

### Editor

<img
src="https://gist.githubusercontent.com/reecebrowne/5879e797c5ab6abc027a7bfd5cd4de17/raw/editor-search.png?v=2"
width="800" alt="Editor super search" />

### Processor

<img
src="https://gist.githubusercontent.com/reecebrowne/5879e797c5ab6abc027a7bfd5cd4de17/raw/portal-search.png?v=2"
width="800" alt="Processor super search" />

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Co-authored-by: EthanHealy01 <ethan.healy.21@gmail.com>
2026-08-13 12:38:45 +00:00
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2026-04-27 11:35:50 +01:00

Frontend

All frontend commands are run from the repository root using Task:

  • task frontend:dev — start Vite dev server (localhost:5173)
  • task frontend:build — production build
  • task frontend:test — run tests
  • task frontend:test:watch — run tests in watch mode
  • task frontend:lint — run linting
  • task frontend:typecheck — run TypeScript type checking
  • task frontend:check — run typecheck + lint + test
  • task frontend:install — install npm dependencies

For desktop app development, see the Tauri section below.

Layout

frontend/ is a workspace containing one or more apps. Today it holds the PDF editor under frontend/editor/; new apps (the developer portal, etc.) will sit alongside it as siblings. Shared tooling — package.json, node_modules, .storybook/, oxlint, Prettier — lives at frontend/ so every app installs once and lints with the same config.

Environment Variables

The editor's environment variables live in committed .env files at frontend/editor/:

  • .env — used by all builds (core, proprietary, and as the base for desktop/SaaS)
  • .env.desktop — additional vars loaded in desktop (Tauri) mode
  • .env.saas — additional vars loaded in SaaS mode

These files contain non-secret defaults and are checked into Git, so most dev work needs no further setup.

To override values locally (API keys, machine-specific settings), create an uncommitted sibling editor/.env.local / editor/.env.desktop.local / editor/.env.saas.local. Vite automatically layers these on top of the committed files.

Docker Setup

For Docker deployments and configuration, see the Docker README.

Tauri

All desktop tasks are available via Task. From the root of the repo:

Dev

task desktop:dev

This ensures the JLink runtime and backend JAR exist (skipping if already built), then starts Tauri in dev mode.

Build

task desktop:build

This does a full clean rebuild of the backend JAR and JLink runtime, then builds the Tauri app for production.

Platform-specific dev builds are also available:

task desktop:build:dev           # No bundling
task desktop:build:dev:mac       # macOS .app bundle
task desktop:build:dev:windows   # Windows NSIS installer
task desktop:build:dev:linux     # Linux AppImage

You can also run JLink steps individually:

task desktop:jlink          # Build JAR + create JLink runtime
task desktop:jlink:jar      # Build backend JAR only
task desktop:jlink:runtime  # Create JLink custom JRE only
task desktop:jlink:clean    # Remove JLink artifacts

Clean

task desktop:clean

Removes all desktop build artifacts including JLink runtime, bundled JARs, Cargo build, and dist/build directories.