Vellum/web
mithral dc95a9f78a Redesign the user-facing experience: home, browse, item pages
The app looked like an admin panel. This is the product people actually see
when they open their library.

- Home: a landing screen with a Continue shelf (progress bars, straight from
  the progress table) and per-type shelves of recent additions. One request
  feeds it, so it does not pop in piece by piece.
- Browse: cover grid per media type with type chips, plus browse-all. Powered
  by a new GET /items that lists across every visible library, filtered by
  kind, through the same access chokepoint.
- Item page: cover, kind, title, authors, progress, a primary action that says
  Continue when you have started, description, and the file list for
  multi-file items. Cards now open the item page rather than jumping straight
  into a reader.
- Search: results grouped by media type, cover-forward.
- Navigation moved from "libraries" to "media types" — you browse Ebooks, not
  "the Ebooks folder". Libraries became an admin concern.
- Design system: dark by default, cover-forward, one accent, tighter type
  scale, horizontal shelves, skeleton loaders.
- media: GET /home, GET /items, and authors on item detail.

Verified by screenshot in a live instance: home shelves, browse grid, and item
page all render correctly.
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Vellum web

Svelte 5 + Vite + TypeScript single-page app. It is built to a static bundle in dist/ and embedded into the Go binary, so all asset paths are relative (base: './' in vite.config.ts).

Commands

pnpm install
pnpm dev      # dev server on :5173, proxying /api to :7788
pnpm build    # writes dist/
pnpm check    # svelte-check

Run the Go server on :7788 (make run from the repo root) and pnpm dev proxies API and health requests to it, so cookies and sessions behave exactly as they will in production.

Layout

src/
  main.ts                 entry point
  App.svelte              login gate -> shell
  app.css                 design tokens and base styles
  lib/
    api.ts                typed client; mirrors the Go handlers
    session.ts            auth + library stores
    nav.ts                view state
    components/
      Login.svelte
      Shell.svelte        nav + view switch
      Libraries.svelte    library list, create, scan, delete
      LibraryView.svelte  item grid with covers
      Reader.svelte       epub.js reader with progress sync
      Users.svelte        admin user management

The reader resumes from a spine index, which is why progress positions are integers: it round-trips through the polymorphic progress table without needing a text column.