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Colby McHenry a72f22a6d3 feat(ui): scaffold the codegraph ui viewer as a Svelte 5 + Vite workspace (CG-40)
Adds `ui/` as an npm workspace (Svelte 5.56 + Vite 7, devDependencies only —
the engine's runtime dependencies are untouched) and chains its build into
`npm run build`, so the browser viewer ships inside `dist/` with everything
else: `build-bundle.sh` already copies `dist` wholesale and `pack-npm.sh`
packs that bundle.

Output is `dist/viewer/`, NOT `dist/ui/`: `src/ui/` is the engine's terminal
ui (shimmer progress + its worker) and tsc compiles it to `dist/ui/`, so
emitting there both deletes those modules — the CLI then dies at startup with
`Cannot find module '../ui/shimmer-progress'` — and would leave the static
server handing out compiled engine internals. The design spec is corrected to
match.

`scripts/check-ui-build.mjs` is the release guard: index.html must exist, be
non-trivial, and every local asset it references must be on disk, and the
compiled engine next door must still be intact. It runs after every UI build,
again in `build-bundle.sh` once the bundle stage has copied `dist`, and again
in `pack-npm.sh` once each archive is unpacked — so a broken viewer fails the
release instead of shipping a CLI that serves a 404.

`vite build` does not override an ambient NODE_ENV, so a shell or runner with
NODE_ENV=development silently shipped dev-mode Svelte (~13 kB of dev-only
runtime checks, warning in the user's console). The config now pins production
for `command === 'build'`; macOS and Windows ARM64 then emit byte-identical
bundle hashes.

The shell itself follows docs/design/codegraph-ui-design-spec.md §2–§3.1:
design tokens as CSS custom properties (light on bare `:root`, dark under both
`prefers-color-scheme` and `[data-theme="dark"]`), square corners, hairline
rules, one oxblood accent; top bar 48px / trail bar 34px / main; a hash router
over `#/s/<id>`, `#/file/<path>`, with `#/map` and `#/flow` reserved for phase
2. Fonts are vendored through @fontsource rather than fetched, so a local
reader works offline and never announces the project to a CDN.

Verified: clean `npm run build` from an empty dist on macOS and on the Windows
ARM64 VM (forward-slash asset URLs, CLI still starts, both assertion failure
modes exit 1); `dist/viewer` present in a real darwin-arm64 bundle and in the
packed npm platform package; shell geometry, tokens, all seven routes, both
themes and font loading checked in headless Chromium with no console errors;
`npm test` unaffected.
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# ui/ — the `codegraph ui` viewer
The browser reader for an indexed project: Svelte 5 + Vite, built as static
files and served by the CLI over loopback. An npm workspace of the engine, so
`npm ci` at the repo root installs its toolchain; nothing here is a runtime
dependency of the engine and nothing here is published to npm on its own.
Design spec (every token, size and measurement):
`../docs/design/codegraph-ui-design-spec.md`.
## Build
```bash
npm run build # from the repo root: tsc -> copy-assets -> this app
npm run build:ui # just this app, plus the dist assertion
npm run dev -w ui # Vite dev server on 127.0.0.1:5174
npm run check -w ui # svelte-check
```
`npm run build` emits **`dist/viewer/`** (`index.html` + hashed assets).
`scripts/check-ui-build.mjs` then asserts the tree is complete, so a broken UI
build fails the release instead of shipping a CLI that serves a 404. The same
check runs again in `scripts/build-bundle.sh` (after the bundle stage copies
`dist`) and in `scripts/pack-npm.sh` (after each archive is unpacked).
### Why `dist/viewer` and not `dist/ui`
`src/ui/` is the engine's **terminal** UI (shimmer progress and its worker) and
tsc compiles it to `dist/ui/`. Pointing Vite there deletes those modules — the
CLI then dies at startup with `Cannot find module '../ui/shimmer-progress'`
and would also leave the static server handing out compiled engine internals.
`check-ui-build.mjs` re-asserts the compiled engine is intact after every UI
build so that mistake cannot land twice.
## Layout
```
src/
main.ts fonts + tokens, mounts App into index.html's #app
app.css design tokens (light/dark), reset, shell grid
App.svelte top bar / trail bar / main, global keys
lib/router.svelte.ts hash router: #/s/<id>, #/file/<path>, #/map, #/flow
lib/trail.svelte.ts the walked path; mirrored into the `t` query param
lib/kinds.ts kind glyph letters
components/ TopBar, TrailBar, KindGlyph
views/ one component per route
```
Fonts (Archivo Variable, IBM Plex Mono) are vendored through `@fontsource*` and
emitted into `dist/viewer/assets`: a local reader must work offline and must not
announce the project to a font CDN.
## Routes
| hash | view |
|---|---|
| `#/` | nothing selected |
| `#/s/<id>?hl=<line>&t=<trail>` | symbol view |
| `#/file/<path>?hl=<line>` | file view |
| `#/map` | module map — reserved, phase 2 |
| `#/flow[/<key>]` | flow strip — reserved, phase 2 |
Node ids and file paths are encoded per slash-separated segment, so
`#/file/src/mcp/tools.ts` stays readable and still round-trips a segment
containing a reserved character. Build hashes with `symbolHref()` /
`fileHref()` rather than by hand.