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EthanHealy01 5b5e922069 Make the upgrade banner neutral instead of gradient purple (#7696)
## What

The `promo` banner tone was a full-bleed `indigo-500 → purple-500`
gradient with white text and a black drop-shadow on the CTA. It was the
only saturated fill in the app, and against the warm neutral palette it
read as a foreign object above the workbench.

The bar is now app chrome:

| | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| Background | 135° indigo→purple gradient | `--c-bg-raised` |
| Border | `transparent` | `--c-border-subtle` hairline |
| Icon | white glyph, no container | neutral glyph in a
`--c-surface-sunken` chip |
| Text | forced white | `--c-text` / `--c-text-muted` |
| CTA | `premium` accent (violet gradient) | `default` accent (same
primary button as the rest of the app) |


Before

<img width="1504" height="739" alt="Screenshot 2026-08-27 at 4 49 00 PM"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/a912d9e9-9590-4e1d-8202-1abb22a00f23"
/>


After

<img width="1061" height="665" alt="Screenshot 2026-08-27 at 4 48 30 PM"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/3be14aec-ccfe-4448-93b3-339a57be4937"
/>


Only caller is the friendly variant of `UpgradeBanner` (self-hosted,
under the free-tier user limit).

## Notes

- **No new theme tokens.** Every value is an existing `--c-*` semantic
token, so light and dark both follow automatically with no per-theme
overrides.
- The `premium` accent itself is untouched, so the upgrade CTAs in
`OfflineActivationCard` and `PairingPanel` are unaffected.
- `--c-hue-indigo` / `--c-hue-purple` are still used by
`SaaSOnboardingSlides`, `PaygFree` and `UpgradeModal`, so no tokens are
orphaned.
- Deleted comments describe rules that no longer exist (the gradient,
the white-on-gradient text overrides, the CTA shadow). No new comments
added.

## Verification

- `task frontend:check:all` passes (typecheck, oxlint, all four theme
linters, stylelint, format, tests, build, storybook build).
- `task frontend:storybook:a11y:changed` passes light and dark: 7
AppBanner stories, 0 violations. Both a11y baselines are empty, so this
is zero known violations rather than a baselined pass.
- Checked in Storybook under **Shared / AppBanner → All Top Bars**,
which renders every top bar the app can show side by side, in both
themes.
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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, oxfmt — 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

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Tauri

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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
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Clean

task desktop:clean

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