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Summary

Admins can now set the full-screen background behind the login page and the home screen from Admin → Appearance, and optionally let users personalise their own. Until now it was the bundled home_background.png, hard-coded in ten component stylesheets.

Two surfaces

Surface Pages Who can change it
Login welcome/sign-in, setup, approval-pending, password & passkey recovery admins only
Home home, create-project, user profile admins, and users if allowed

Each resolves as uploaded image → external URL → bundled default. An unset login background inherits the home one, so a single upload brands both. Nobody is signed in when the login pages render, so a user preference can never apply there.

Admin

  • Upload/remove an image per surface (transcoded to WebP, capped at 2560×1440, metadata stripped; SVG rejected by magic-byte sniffing). Or point at an external https URL.
  • Scrim opacity and background blur controls, with live previews.
  • Toggles: let users choose a preset (default on — presets are CSS gradients, zero storage) and let users upload an image (default off — one slot per user, stored server-side, removed with the account).

Users

  • Background picker in Account settings: site default, seven built-in presets, and their own upload when enabled. Renders nothing when the admin has personalisation off.
  • Works in local/offline mode from the presets alone, with the choice kept in localStorage — verified to make zero API calls.

Under the hood

  • _app-background.scss mixins + CSS custom properties replace the ten hard-coded URLs; BackgroundService applies the resolved background to the root element with a per-surface first-paint cache, so a branded login page doesn't flash the default (and a signed-out user's gradient doesn't flash on the login page). Switching to the login surface forgets the loaded preference so a later sign-in as someone else can't inherit it.
  • New appearance config category, appearance.service.ts, single-slot image storage on both the filesystem and R2 adapters, users.preferences JSON column + hasBackground (migration 0030).
  • GET /api/v1/appearance/config and /appearance/background/{surface} are public by necessity (the login page resolves before sign-in) — which also makes branding images world-readable; documented. /appearance/user-background is authenticated and self-only.
  • URL values are validated on both sides so a stored value can never break out of the CSS url() token; the localStorage cache is re-validated on read.
  • Service worker caches the immutable branding image (URL carries a per-upload token) so the branded login page works offline; the config endpoint is deliberately left uncached.
  • Mobile drops background-attachment: fixed, which janks on mobile browsers and matters more now the image can be an arbitrary upload.

Also in this PR, as a separate commit: snapshot-element-refs.spec.ts used Control+A for select-all, which is a cursor move on macOS, so it failed on every Mac. Now ControlOrMeta+A (no change on Linux CI).

Docs

New admin-guide/appearance page, .env.example entries, AGENTS.md notes on the CSS-variable indirection and the two-spellings-of-blur rule.

Testing

  • Backend: 1492 pass (62 new) — resolution/inheritance/clamping, URL safety, storage slots, image sniffing/transcoding.
  • Frontend unit: 8027 pass (55 new); coverage thresholds pass.
  • e2e online (4): admin upload → applied live → served publicly as immutable WebP → anonymous visitor sees it on the login page → remove/fallback; URL validation + scrim; preset persistence across reload; user upload, privacy, and the admin kill switch.
  • e2e local (2): bundled default and stored presets with zero API calls (enforced by the local fixture).
  • Full local (74) and online (150) suites pass; lint, typecheck, prod build and docs build clean.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added an Appearance admin section for configuring login and home backgrounds.
    • Added support for image uploads, external URLs, opacity, blur, and background inheritance.
    • Added user-selectable background presets and optional personal image uploads in account settings.
    • Added background support for local and offline use, with faster cached loading.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved background image validation, processing, and safe URL handling.
  • Documentation

    • Added administrator guidance for configuring and managing backgrounds.

…pshot spec

Control+A is a cursor movement on macOS rather than select-all, so the
'delete everything' step left the chip in place and the spec failed on every
Mac while passing in CI. ControlOrMeta+A resolves to Control on Linux and
Windows, so nothing changes there.
The full-screen background behind the login page and home screen was the
bundled home_background.png hard-coded in ten component stylesheets. It is now
driven by CSS custom properties, configurable by admins, and optionally
personalisable by users.

Backend
- New `appearance` config category: per-surface external URL and uploaded-asset
  version token, scrim opacity, blur, and the two user-personalisation toggles.
- `appearance.service.ts` resolves each surface as uploaded asset -> external
  URL -> bundled default. An unset login background inherits the home one, so a
  single upload brands both. External URLs are validated so a stored value can
  never break out of the CSS url() token the client builds from it.
- Public `GET /api/v1/appearance/config` and `/appearance/background/{surface}`
  (unauthenticated by necessity: the login page resolves its background before
  anyone signs in). Authenticated, self-only `/appearance/user-background` and
  `/appearance/preference`. Admin `PUT/DELETE /api/v1/admin/appearance/
  background/{surface}`.
- Single-slot image storage on both the filesystem and R2 adapters, namespaced
  `branding` (two admin slots) and `backgrounds` (one per user). Uploads are
  transcoded to WebP capped at 2560x1440 with metadata stripped; SVG is
  rejected by magic-byte sniffing, which is also the only check available on
  Workers where sharp is unavailable.
- `users.preferences` JSON column plus `hasBackground`, with a migration and
  the usual idempotent schema patch. A user's background is removed with their
  account.

Frontend
- `_app-background.scss` mixins replace the ten hard-coded urls; theme.scss
  declares the defaults so the first paint, LOCAL mode and an unreachable
  server all still look right. Mobile drops background-attachment: fixed.
- `BackgroundService` applies the resolved background to the root element with
  a per-surface first-paint cache, and switches between the admin-only login
  surface and the personalisable app surface as authentication resolves on the
  home page. A user's preference only ever affects the app surface.
- Admin -> Appearance page: live previews, upload/remove per surface, external
  URL, scrim and blur controls, and the personalisation toggles.
- Background picker in Account settings offering seven built-in presets (CSS
  gradients, so no new binary assets) and, when the admin allows it, one
  uploaded image per user. Renders nothing when personalisation is off.
- Service worker caches the immutable branding image so a branded login page
  works offline; the config endpoint is deliberately left uncached.

Docs: new admin-guide/appearance page, .env.example entries, AGENTS.md notes.
Tests: 62 backend, 55 frontend unit, and 6 e2e (online admin -> login-page
chain, user presets/uploads/kill-switch; local-mode presets with no API calls).
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The Docker e2e job runs the compiled Bun binary, where sharp is unavailable,
so uploads are stored in their original format and served as image/png rather
than image/webp. Accept either. Also clear any leftover branding image at the
start so a retried run does not inherit the previous attempt's upload.

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frontend/src/app/pages/setup/setup.component.scss (1)

35-38: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Keep the configured blur in dark setup mode.

These declarations override the blur added at Line 27 with a saturation-only filter. As a result, BACKGROUND_BLUR has no effect on the setup surface in dark mode. Replace both declarations with @include appBackground.scrim-blur-append(saturate(70%));.

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In `@frontend/src/app/pages/setup/setup.component.scss` around lines 35 - 38, In
the dark setup-mode styles, update the declarations near the existing background
blur to use appBackground.scrim-blur-append(saturate(70%)) instead of separate
-webkit-backdrop-filter and backdrop-filter saturation declarations, preserving
the configured BACKGROUND_BLUR behavior.
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backend/src/services/appearance.service.ts (1)

117-117: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Consider rejecting http: background URLs.

The PR describes external backgrounds as HTTPS URLs, but this predicate also accepts http:. On an HTTPS deployment the browser blocks the mixed-content image request. The background then silently fails to render, and the admin receives no error at the point of configuration.

If plain HTTP must stay supported for local deployments, keep it. Otherwise restrict the check to https: so an unusable value is rejected when it is entered.

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-    const parsed = new URL(trimmed);
-    return parsed.protocol === 'https:' || parsed.protocol === 'http:';
+    const parsed = new URL(trimmed);
+    return parsed.protocol === 'https:';
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In `@backend/src/services/appearance.service.ts` at line 117, Update the
background URL protocol validation predicate to accept only https: URLs, unless
explicit local HTTP support is required; ensure unsupported http: values are
rejected during configuration.
frontend/src/app/services/core/background.service.ts (1)

5-11: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Use configured path aliases for service imports. Replace the three service-relative imports with @services/core/... imports. Retain the relative background-presets import because no @config/* alias exists.

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In `@frontend/src/app/services/core/background.service.ts` around lines 5 - 11,
Update the LoggerService, SetupService, and StorageContextService imports in
background.service.ts to use the configured `@services/core/`... path aliases,
while retaining the relative background-presets import.

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frontend/src/app/services/admin/admin-appearance.service.ts (1)

5-5: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Use the @services alias for SetupService.

Import it as @services/core/setup.service in frontend/src/app/services/admin/admin-appearance.service.ts. The configured @services/* alias applies, and the repository convention requires aliases instead of relative imports.

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In `@frontend/src/app/services/admin/admin-appearance.service.ts` at line 5,
Update the SetupService import in admin-appearance.service.ts to use the
configured `@services/core/setup.service` alias instead of the relative path,
without changing other imports or behavior.
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Inline comments:
In `@backend/src/routes/admin-appearance.routes.ts`:
- Around line 60-100: Add a request body-size limit for the
uploadBackgroundRoute flow before c.req.parseBody() consumes multipart data,
ensuring requests larger than the intended 12 MB maximum are rejected early.
Apply the limit at the route or server configuration level while preserving the
existing validation and upload behavior in adminAppearanceRoutes.openapi.

In `@backend/src/routes/appearance.routes.ts`:
- Around line 149-155: Update the branding image handler around the existing
response to require a query `v` token that matches the current surface token
before loading or returning bytes; return 404 when it is missing or mismatched.
Preserve the versioned response and its immutable caching headers only for valid
tokens.
- Around line 257-263: Add Hono bodyLimit middleware before the /user-background
route to cap the entire multipart request, including a bounded envelope
allowance beyond the 12 MB file limit, and ensure it returns 413 for oversized
bodies even when Content-Length is missing or inaccurate. Keep
imageService.validateBackground for exact file-size validation, and optionally
add an early Content-Length check without relying on it as the sole protection.

In `@backend/src/services/file-storage.service.ts`:
- Line 326: Update the SLOT_EXTENSIONS configuration used by getSlotImage,
hasSlotImage, and deleteSlotImage to include the bin extension, so octet-stream
fallback objects written with the .bin suffix can be discovered and removed.

In `@backend/test/appearance.service.test.ts`:
- Around line 55-60: Update the isSafeExternalImageUrl test cases so the
http://localhost:8080/bg.png URL is covered by the rejected cases rather than
the accepted cases, while retaining the valid HTTPS examples.

In `@frontend/e2e/online/appearance.spec.ts`:
- Around line 75-76: Update the appearance test setup around test.beforeEach to
capture the initial backend-backed appearance values, including background, URL,
and feature toggles, then restore them in an afterEach teardown even when the
test fails. Keep browser-context isolation unchanged and ensure cleanup runs for
every test.

In `@frontend/src/app/pages/admin/appearance/appearance.component.ts`:
- Line 200: Update both external background URL validation checks in the
appearance component to accept only non-empty URLs matching https://, replacing
the current http-or-https scheme pattern while preserving the existing
trimmed-value validation.

In `@frontend/src/app/pages/approval-pending/approval-pending.component.scss`:
- Line 21: Update the dark-theme pseudo-element rule in the approval-pending
styles to preserve the configured backdrop blur while applying the dark-theme
saturation adjustment, following the existing scrim-blur-append pattern used by
forgot-password. Keep the appBackground.scrim-blur setup and other theme styling
unchanged.

---

Outside diff comments:
In `@frontend/src/app/pages/setup/setup.component.scss`:
- Around line 35-38: In the dark setup-mode styles, update the declarations near
the existing background blur to use
appBackground.scrim-blur-append(saturate(70%)) instead of separate
-webkit-backdrop-filter and backdrop-filter saturation declarations, preserving
the configured BACKGROUND_BLUR behavior.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@backend/src/services/appearance.service.ts`:
- Line 117: Update the background URL protocol validation predicate to accept
only https: URLs, unless explicit local HTTP support is required; ensure
unsupported http: values are rejected during configuration.

In `@frontend/src/app/services/admin/admin-appearance.service.ts`:
- Line 5: Update the SetupService import in admin-appearance.service.ts to use
the configured `@services/core/setup.service` alias instead of the relative path,
without changing other imports or behavior.

In `@frontend/src/app/services/core/background.service.ts`:
- Around line 5-11: Update the LoggerService, SetupService, and
StorageContextService imports in background.service.ts to use the configured
`@services/core/`... path aliases, while retaining the relative background-presets
import.

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The top-level wrangler.toml.example (which CI copies for the Wrangler e2e job)
bound D1 and the Durable Object but no R2 bucket. Any server-side upload in
that environment therefore fell through to the filesystem storage adapter,
which cannot exist in the Workers runtime:

  [unenv] fs.mkdir is not implemented yet!
    at FileStorageService.saveSlotImage

It went unnoticed until now because the existing upload specs (project cover)
are local-first and never write to the server. `wrangler dev --local`
simulates R2 on disk, so binding STORAGE costs nothing and lets the suite
exercise the R2 adapter for real.
- Bound both multipart upload routes with Hono's bodyLimit (file cap plus a
  small envelope allowance) so an oversized request is rejected before
  parseBody() buffers it.
- Serve a branding image only when the requested ?v= token matches the current
  one. The response is cached as immutable by browsers and the service worker,
  so an unversioned or stale URL must never be able to pin old bytes.
- Require https for external background URLs on both sides; plain http would be
  blocked as mixed content on the https app anyway. The app's own asset paths
  are exempt, since a self-hosted or local server base may be http.
- Refuse unsupported content types in slot storage instead of writing a .bin
  that reads and deletes could never find.
- Compose the configured blur with the dark-mode desaturation on the setup and
  approval-pending pages, which still clobbered it.
- e2e: restore the server-side appearance state in afterEach so a failed run
  cannot leak an uploaded image or a flipped toggle into other online specs.
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Sonar flagged seven inputs without an id/label association: the hidden file
pickers, the external-URL and scrim-opacity fields, and the blur slider. Each
now carries an id and an aria-label, following the pattern used elsewhere in
settings. Test ids are unchanged.
…ight

The external-URL and scrim-opacity inputs save on blur but were disabled
while isSaving() was true. Chrome does not dispatch blur when a focused
element becomes disabled, so an edit made right after another save started
was silently dropped — a race the slower wrangler e2e backend hit every time,
and one a user tabbing quickly could hit too. Only the buttons stay disabled
during a save now; the e2e step also waits for one save to land before
starting the next.
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- Background picker tiles are real radio inputs inside labels instead of
  buttons with role=radio, so they behave as a radio group for assistive
  tech and keyboards. Test ids stay on the labels.
- Split BackgroundService.resolve() into resolvePersonal()/resolveAdmin() to
  bring its cognitive complexity under the limit.
- Use startsWith over a regex for the https check; alias the repeated binary
  union in the R2 service; sharpen two spec assertions.
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