feat: load PR web UI previews into a workspace [ARCH-2457] - #3525
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Navigate logical layers of code changes, visualize relationships, and explore their blast radius. WalkthroughThis change adds UI preview retrieval and application for server workspaces. It adds preview source validation, confirmation and restore flows, settings controls, deep-link handling, and tab indicators. Preview state is cleared when settings load and is not persisted across restarts. ChangesUI Preview
Priority: ⬇️ Low Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Change: Feature Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant SettingsRow
participant UiPreviewIPC
participant requestUiPreview
participant resolveUiPreviewSource
participant pullUiPreview
participant askForUiOverride
participant applyUiOverride
SettingsRow->>UiPreviewIPC: Send server URL and preview input
UiPreviewIPC->>requestUiPreview: Request preview
requestUiPreview->>resolveUiPreviewSource: Resolve PR or bundle source
resolveUiPreviewSource->>pullUiPreview: Retrieve PR preview bundle
requestUiPreview->>askForUiOverride: Ask to load preview
askForUiOverride-->>requestUiPreview: Return confirmation
requestUiPreview->>applyUiOverride: Apply loaded bundle
Suggested reviewers: Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Loading a web UI preview can cache a corrupted bundle if the archive is truncated. A very large bundle can also freeze or exhaust the desktop app while it is extracted. Some new tests may be flaky. These issues should be addressed before merge. Security Architecture ReviewSecurity architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Preview loading requires Developer Mode and confirmation, but approved content runs in the selected workspace’s authenticated session. HTTP bundles can change after approval, and overlapping load and restore operations may leave a preview active when the user expects it to be gone. Retained concerns
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In `@src/ui/components/SettingsView/features/UiPreviewRow.tsx`:
- Around line 44-48: Update handleRestore to reset the loading state in a
finally block when ui-preview/restore rejects. Update handleLoad to reset to
idle in finally only if ui-preview/apply did not complete, preserving the
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In `@src/ui/main/serverView/uiPreviewPackage.ts`:
- Around line 99-103: Update the bundle extraction flow around extractTar to use
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Adds a `rocketchat://ui-preview?host=<server>&bundle=<url>` deep link that serves a standalone Rocket.Chat web client build (Vite) in place of the server's own UI, while keeping the server's origin so login, cookies and SSO keep working. - Requires Developer Mode and an explicit confirmation, since the bundle runs with the user's session. - HTML navigations and `/bundle/*` come from the bundle; every other request is forwarded to the server with the session's cookies. - The override lives in memory only; View > Restore server UI or an app restart returns to the server's UI. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
`rocketchat://ui-preview?pr=<number>[&sha=<commit>][&host=<server>]` now pulls the bundle Rocket.Chat's CI publishes to ghcr.io/rocketchat/rocket.chat-ui-preview, using the registry's anonymous pull token, so testers need no GitHub login and no extra hosting. - The layer digest is verified before the ustar archive is extracted into userData/ui-previews/<digest>, which also serves as the cache; entries escaping that directory are refused and links are skipped. - The extracted bundle is served through the existing override via file://. - Without `host`, the preview applies to the workspace in focus. - A failed pull shows an error dialog. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Adds a "Web UI preview" section to the Developer tab (shown with Developer Mode on): pick a workspace, enter a Rocket.Chat PR number or a bundle URL, and Load or Restore. The section shows which preview is active on the selected workspace. The deep link and the section share one flow in serverView/uiPreview.ts (resolve the source, confirm, pull, apply). The new `ui-preview/*` IPC handlers only answer the root window, check Developer Mode and that the server is configured. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The settings window (App settings) is where Developer Mode options live now, under Advanced; the section is added there too and is searchable. The `ui-preview/*` IPC handlers accept any of the app's own file:// pages instead of only the root window, so the settings window can call them while server content still cannot. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Settings lists every workspace with its own field and Load/Restore buttons, instead of one field and a workspace picker. - Each row reports what happened: downloading, the active preview, cancelled, or why it failed (e.g. the registry's 403), instead of failing silently. - The confirmation opens on the window that asked. It used to attach to the main window, hidden behind the settings window, so a Load looked like it did nothing. - `requestUiPreview` returns the outcome; the deep link still shows failures as a dialog. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The settings sections already render inside a <form>, and a nested form is invalid HTML whose submit can reach the outer form. Load now runs on click or Enter in the field. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The "UI preview" banner injected into the page is gone. A server running a preview now carries a red "UI" badge on its tab (and sidebar entry), and the tab's tooltip says which build is loaded. The login warning still wins over it; mention and unread badges give way while a preview is on. The preview is tracked as `uiPreview` on the server in redux, cleared when settings load since previews do not survive a restart. Settings read it from there, so the `ui-preview/list` IPC channel is removed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The preview badge no longer takes part in the one-badge rule: the login warning, mention count and unread dot keep their priority, and a tab running a preview also shows "UI". In the vertical sidebar it sits in the bottom-right corner so both fit. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A rejected ui-preview/apply or ui-preview/restore left the row loading with both buttons disabled. Show the error in the row's status instead, so the action can be retried.
Two pulls of the same layer digest shared one partial directory, and the second removed the first one's completed bundle before renaming its own, while the first caller may already be serving from it. Extract each pull into its own temporary directory and keep an existing completed bundle. The temporary directory is removed even when extraction fails.
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- Around line 44-45: In UiPreviewRow.spec.tsx, ensure all three asynchronous
status assertions wait for the expected text rather than resolving as soon as
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- Line 48: In the archive extraction flow around `pullUiPreview`, validate each
entry’s declared size and ensure its full data range is within the archive
before writing it; reject invalid or truncated entries instead of caching
partial files. Require a complete `index.html` before publishing the extracted
directory.
- Line 103: Add a compressed-size limit before reading the selected preview into
memory, and cap synchronous decompression in the `gunzipSync` call with a
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[warning] 46-46: Filesystem path is not a string literal; a request-/variable-derived path can enable path traversal. Validate and normalize the path before use.
Context: fs.readFileSync(path.join(dir, 'index.html'), 'utf8')
Note: [CWE-22] Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal').
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[warning] 49-49: Filesystem path is not a string literal; a request-/variable-derived path can enable path traversal. Validate and normalize the path before use.
Context: fs.readFileSync(path.join(dir, 'bundle/index.js'), 'utf8')
Note: [CWE-22] Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal').
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[warning] 47-47: Filesystem path is not a string literal; a request-/variable-derived path can enable path traversal. Validate and normalize the path before use.
Context: fs.writeFileSync(target, tar.subarray(dataStart, dataStart + size))
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| expect(await screen.findByRole('status')).toHaveTextContent( | ||
| 'settings.options.uiPreview.failed responded 403' |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Wait for changed status text in all three asynchronous tests. UiPreviewRow always renders a status element, so findByRole('status') can resolve before the IPC result changes its text. These assertions can fail while loading is still shown. Use waitFor around each text assertion or query for the expected text. (testing-library.com)
src/ui/components/SettingsView/features/UiPreviewRow.spec.tsx#L44-L45: wait for the apply-failure text.src/ui/components/SettingsView/features/UiPreviewRow.spec.tsx#L75-L76: wait for the rejected-load text.src/ui/components/SettingsView/features/UiPreviewRow.spec.tsx#L89-L90: wait for the rejected-restore text.
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In UiPreviewRow.spec.tsx, ensure all three asynchronous status assertions wait
for the expected text rather than resolving as soon as the status element
appears. At lines 44-45, wait for the apply-failure text; at lines 75-76, wait
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| fs.mkdirSync(target, { recursive: true }); | ||
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Reject truncated tar entries before caching the bundle.
If an entry declares more bytes than the archive contains, subarray returns the available bytes and writeFileSync writes a partial file. pullUiPreview can then cache that bundle when index.html exists. Check that every declared data range fits in the archive, reject invalid sizes, and require a complete index.html before publishing the directory.
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Review comment at @src/ui/main/serverView/uiPreviewPackage.ts at line 48:
In the archive extraction flow around `pullUiPreview`, validate each entry’s
declared size and ensure its full data range is within the archive before
writing it; reject invalid or truncated entries instead of caching partial
files. Require a complete `index.html` before publishing the extracted
directory.
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| fs.mkdirSync(path.dirname(dir), { recursive: true }); | ||
| const partialDir = fs.mkdtempSync(`${dir}.partial-`); | ||
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| extractTar(gunzipSync(blob), partialDir); |
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
Bound bundle size before synchronous decompression.
A selected preview can reach arrayBuffer() and gunzipSync() without an application-level compressed or expanded size limit. A large bundle can exhaust memory or keep the Electron main process unresponsive during extraction. Enforce a download limit and a decompressed-output limit before extracting. Node supports maxOutputLength for the synchronous zlib convenience methods. (nodejs.org)
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Review comment at @src/ui/main/serverView/uiPreviewPackage.ts at line 103:
Add a compressed-size limit before reading the selected preview into memory, and
cap synchronous decompression in the `gunzipSync` call with a maximum output
length. Keep `extractTar` operating only on the size-bounded decompressed data.
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Jira: ARCH-2457
What
Adds a
rocketchat://ui-previewdeep link. It loads a standalone Rocket.Chat web client build (the Vite build inapps/meteor/vite) into a workspace in place of the server's own UI. People can test a web client PR against a real server, including their own workspace, from a link.rocketchat://ui-preview?pr=<n>ghcr.io/rocketchat/rocket.chat-web:pr-<n>…?pr=<n>&sha=<commit>…?bundle=<http(s) url>vite previewof a local build)…&host=<server>The ghcr.io artifact is published by RocketChat/Rocket.Chat#42364, which also posts these links on each PR. The web counterpart is tracked in ARCH-2445.
How
uiPreviewPackage.ts):userData/ui-previews/<digest>, which doubles as the cache. Entries that escape the directory are refused, and links are skipped.uiOverride.ts): on the server's session (persist:<serverUrl>),protocol.handleintercepts the server's scheme.index.html.__meteor_runtime_config__,<base href>and a visible "UI preview" badge are injected into it./bundle/*is served from the bundle, eitherfile://or http(s).session.fetch(..., { bypassCustomProtocolHandlers: true, credentials: 'include' }).rc_token), login and SSO callbacks behave as usual. WebSockets are not intercepted.Safety
ghcr.io/rocketchat/rocket.chat-web.bundle=accepts only http(s).Known limitations
Testing
tsc --noEmitand eslint pass.uiOverride.main.spec.ts: HTML preparation and route classification.uiPreviewPackage.main.spec.ts: ustar extraction, path traversal refusal, links skipped.extractTarreproduced a real 1445-file bundle exactly (archive made withbsdtar --format=ustar).net.fetchpassed the digest check.session.fetchoffile://returnstext/javascriptandtext/css.https://open.rocket.chat, a local develop build rendered the server's login page with its OAuth services.Summary by CodeRabbit