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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

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.