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- Create urlManager utility for encoding/decoding coordinates in URL
- Auto-read URL params on app mount and render scene
- Update URL when scene is rendered
- Add Share button to header with copy-to-clipboard
- Show visual feedback when link is copied
- Add JournalEntry and TemporalJournal types
- Create temporalJournal utility for localStorage persistence
- Build TemporalJournal component with collapsible UI
- Auto-save visits when scenes are rendered
- Support export/import journal as JSON
- Add clear all with confirmation
- Display visit timestamps and image indicators
- Add to left sidebar (desktop) and controls tab (mobile)
- Add GalleryImage type for storing images with metadata
- Create galleryService using idb for IndexedDB operations
- Build ImageGallery component with grid view and image viewer
- Add Gallery button with count badge to header
- Auto-save generated images to gallery
- Support download as PNG with location-based filename
- Add storage usage display and clear all functionality
- Support jumping to coordinates from saved images
- All 3 Phase 1 features implemented:
  - URL-Based Coordinate Sharing
  - Temporal Journal (Visit History)
  - Image Gallery & Export
- Update sprint status to Phase 2
- Add completion checkmarks to deliverables
- Update version history with v1.1.0
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@BioInfo BioInfo merged commit f8c0545 into main Nov 28, 2025
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This pull request significantly enhances the user experience by completing the "Phase 1: Essential UX Foundations" roadmap items. It introduces robust features for sharing specific spacetime coordinates via URL, maintaining a temporal journal of visited locations, and providing an image gallery to save and manage generated scene images. These additions make the application more interactive, shareable, and user-friendly, laying the groundwork for future temporal navigation capabilities.

Highlights

  • Roadmap Update: Phase 1: Essential UX Foundations is now marked as completed, and the project is transitioning to Phase 2: Temporal Navigation.
  • URL-Based Coordinate Sharing: Implemented functionality to encode and decode spacetime coordinates directly in the URL, enabling easy sharing and direct navigation.
  • Temporal Journal (Visit History): Introduced a new component and utility to automatically log visited locations and times, allowing users to revisit past scenes.
  • Image Gallery & Export: Added a new component and service for saving generated images to IndexedDB, viewing them in a gallery, and exporting them as PNG files.
  • New Dependencies: The 'idb' library was added to manage IndexedDB for the image gallery.
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This pull request successfully implements the 'Essential UX Foundations' from Phase 1 of the roadmap, including URL-based sharing, a temporal journal for visit history, and an image gallery. The implementation is comprehensive, introducing several new components, services, and utility functions. The code is generally well-structured and clean. However, I've identified a couple of high-severity bugs related to state management and race conditions in App.tsx and the journaling logic, which could lead to incorrect behavior. I've provided detailed suggestions to address these. I also have a medium-severity suggestion to improve the user experience for the journal import feature. Overall, this is a significant and well-executed feature addition.

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useEffect(() => {
const urlCoords = getCoordinatesFromUrl();
if (urlCoords) {
setCoordinates(urlCoords);
// Small delay to ensure state is set before rendering
setTimeout(() => {
renderScene();
}, 100);
}
}, []); // eslint-disable-line react-hooks/exhaustive-deps

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high

The use of setTimeout to delay renderScene is an anti-pattern in React and can lead to bugs. The renderScene function is closed over from the initial render and will not have the updated coordinates from setCoordinates, which can cause it to work with stale state. This is a race condition that might appear to work due to timing luck but is not reliable.

A more idiomatic and robust approach is to use separate useEffect hooks to first set the state, and then react to that state change to perform the render. This ensures you are always working with the latest state.

Consider replacing this useEffect with the following two hooks:

// Read URL coordinates on mount
useEffect(() => {
  const urlCoords = getCoordinatesFromUrl();
  if (urlCoords) {
    setCoordinates(urlCoords);
  }
}, [setCoordinates]);

// Auto-render scene from URL on initial load
useEffect(() => {
  const urlCoords = getCoordinatesFromUrl();
  // Only auto-render if there's no current scene and the input coordinates match the URL.
  if (urlCoords && !state.currentScene && JSON.stringify(state.inputCoordinates) === JSON.stringify(urlCoords)) {
    renderScene();
  }
}, [state.inputCoordinates, state.currentScene, renderScene]);

This change also allows you to remove the eslint-disable comment, as dependencies are correctly managed.

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useEffect(() => {
if (state.currentScene) {
updateUrlWithCoordinates(state.currentScene.coordinates);

// Save to journal
addJournalEntry(
state.currentScene.coordinates,
state.currentScene.locationName,
!!state.generatedImage
);

// Notify journal component to refresh
window.dispatchEvent(new Event('journalUpdated'));
}
}, [state.currentScene]); // eslint-disable-line react-hooks/exhaustive-deps

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high

This effect has a bug related to journaling. It only runs when state.currentScene changes. If an image is generated for the current scene later (state.generatedImage changes), this effect does not re-run, and the journal entry is not updated to reflect hasGeneratedImage: true. Adding state.generatedImage to the dependency array would cause duplicate entries to be created with the current logic.

To fix this, addJournalEntry should be made idempotent for recent, identical coordinates. I've left a specific suggestion on src/utils/temporalJournal.ts to address this. Once that change is made, you can update this useEffect to correctly track image generation by adding state.generatedImage to the dependency array.

Suggested change
useEffect(() => {
if (state.currentScene) {
updateUrlWithCoordinates(state.currentScene.coordinates);
// Save to journal
addJournalEntry(
state.currentScene.coordinates,
state.currentScene.locationName,
!!state.generatedImage
);
// Notify journal component to refresh
window.dispatchEvent(new Event('journalUpdated'));
}
}, [state.currentScene]); // eslint-disable-line react-hooks/exhaustive-deps
useEffect(() => {
if (state.currentScene) {
updateUrlWithCoordinates(state.currentScene.coordinates);
// Save to journal
addJournalEntry(
state.currentScene.coordinates,
state.currentScene.locationName,
!!state.generatedImage
);
// Notify journal component to refresh
window.dispatchEvent(new Event('journalUpdated'));
}
}, [state.currentScene, state.generatedImage]);

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export function addJournalEntry(
coordinates: SpacetimeCoordinates,
locationName: string,
hasGeneratedImage: boolean = false,
thumbnail?: string
): JournalEntry {
const journal = getJournal();

const newEntry: JournalEntry = {
id: crypto.randomUUID(),
coordinates,
locationName,
timestamp: Date.now(),
hasGeneratedImage,
thumbnail,
};

// Add to the beginning (most recent first)
journal.entries.unshift(newEntry);

// Trim to max entries
if (journal.entries.length > journal.maxEntries) {
journal.entries = journal.entries.slice(0, journal.maxEntries);
}

saveJournal(journal);
return newEntry;
}

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As mentioned in the comment on App.tsx, addJournalEntry should be modified to handle updates to recent entries. This prevents duplicate entries when, for example, an image is generated for a scene that was just rendered. By checking if the last entry is for the same location and was created very recently, you can update it instead of adding a new one. This makes the function idempotent for recent, identical coordinates and fixes the journaling bug.

export function addJournalEntry(
  coordinates: SpacetimeCoordinates,
  locationName: string,
  hasGeneratedImage: boolean = false,
  thumbnail?: string
): JournalEntry {
  const journal = getJournal();
  const lastEntry = journal.entries[0];

  // If the last entry is for the same coordinates and very recent, update it.
  if (
    lastEntry &&
    JSON.stringify(lastEntry.coordinates) === JSON.stringify(coordinates) &&
    Date.now() - lastEntry.timestamp < 15000 // 15-second window to update
  ) {
    lastEntry.hasGeneratedImage = lastEntry.hasGeneratedImage || hasGeneratedImage;
    if (thumbnail) {
      lastEntry.thumbnail = thumbnail;
    }
    saveJournal(journal);
    return lastEntry;
  }

  const newEntry: JournalEntry = {
    id: crypto.randomUUID(),
    coordinates,
    locationName,
    timestamp: Date.now(),
    hasGeneratedImage,
    thumbnail,
  };

  // Add to the beginning (most recent first)
  journal.entries.unshift(newEntry);

  // Trim to max entries
  if (journal.entries.length > journal.maxEntries) {
    journal.entries = journal.entries.slice(0, journal.maxEntries);
  }

  saveJournal(journal);
  return newEntry;
}

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alert(`Imported ${count} new entries`);
} catch (error) {
alert('Failed to import journal. Please check the file format.');

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medium

Using alert() for user feedback is generally discouraged in modern web applications as it provides a jarring and blocking user experience. Consider replacing the alert() calls with a more integrated notification system, such as a non-blocking toast message or an inline status message within the component, to inform the user about the import status without interrupting their workflow.

@BioInfo BioInfo deleted the claude/roadmap-feature-branches-01M22wgQFfVyGZYaPShW1M9k branch December 1, 2025 16:30
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