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Reece Browne 22ec0947c9 Storybook coverage: scan harness + stories (#7073)
## What

Gets most of the app's components into Storybook and adds a scan that
runs every story in a real browser, so we have a base to build
accessibility testing on next.

- **~380 new stories**, taking story files from 144 to 526. Components
with a story:

  | Layer | Before | After |
  |---|---|---|
  | core | 41 / 309 (13%) | **183 / 309 (59%)** |
  | portal | 91 / 161 (57%) | **127 / 161 (79%)** |
  | proprietary | 1 / 105 (1%) | **39 / 105 (37%)** |
| cloud / desktop / saas / portal-saas / prototypes | 0 / 84 | 0 / 84
(unchanged) |
  | **Total** | **133 / 659 (20%)** | **349 / 659 (53%)** |

Both columns are counted the same way — every `.tsx` exporting a
component, so the denominator includes things that aren't really visual
units (contexts, providers, barrels). Excluding those it's 22% → 58%.
Either way it's reproducible from the tree rather than a number you have
to take on trust.

- **Scan harness** — the Storybook Vitest addon runs each story in
headless Chromium as a **render/smoke check** (a story must mount
without throwing). New task: `task frontend:storybook:test` (pass a
filter, e.g. `-- Button`). Separate Vitest config so it doesn't touch
the existing jsdom unit tests.

## Scope

- **Stories and Storybook config only, with one exception:** a one-line
fix to `ProviderCard`, which re-rendered forever whenever its optional
`settings` prop was omitted. Called out because it's the only component
source change here.
- The preview gains a `QueryClientProvider` (the portal app has one, so
stories reaching a query hook threw without it), and the scan task now
installs the browser it drives.
- **a11y is report-only** and **nothing runs the scan in CI yet** —
enforcing a11y and wiring it into CI is the follow-up, #7086.
- Components that can't render as an isolated unit are **not** included:
anything needing the full editor runtime (ToolWorkflow / FileManager /
AppConfig / a live PDF engine) or that's headless (providers, gates, API
bridges, config factories). Stories that only rendered by mounting the
whole `AppProviders` tree were dropped for the same reason — that isn't
isolation, and the tree's ErrorBoundary swallowed render failures so
those stories could never fail. A few that need assets the headless
browser can't serve are tagged `!test`, so they still show in the UI but
sit out the scan.

## Testing

Typecheck (all build variants), ESLint, Prettier and the unit suite
pass. Every story in the scanned set mounts without throwing.

## Notes for reviewers

- Stories use the `@app`/`@core`/`@portal`/`@proprietary` aliases (no
deep relative imports) and mock data-fetching components with MSW.
- Running the full suite in one go can flake on the Vite dep-optimizer;
scan in small batches (or by filter) for a stable local run.
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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 ESLint + cycle detection
  • 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/, ESLint, 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.