fix: ask in the page instead of native confirm/alert

2026-09-21T17:53:33Z

A native confirm() or alert() leaves the desktop client unable to type until the window is refocused. ask.js draws both in the page; the SPA test now bans all three browser dialogs. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5

fix(client): New folder did nothing — prompt() throws in the desktop client

2026-09-06T22:18:54Z

The same `static/` tree is the web page and the application, and Electron does not implement `window.prompt`: Chromium leaves it to the embedder and Electron declines. It does not return null — it **throws**. The call sat above its own try, so clicking produced no folder, no error and nothing on screen to react to. A dead button, which is exactly how it was reported. Measured against this repo's own Electron 44 rather than assumed, because the first two diagnoses this session were reasoned and wrong: prompt('name?') -> Error: prompt() is not supported. confirm('sure?') -> opens a real modal alert('hi') -> opens a real modal So `confirm` and `alert` stay — a dozen call sites depend on them — and only `prompt` is banned. `test_no_prompt_in_the_spa.py` holds the whole tree to it, with the near-misses it must not flag (`mkdir_prompt`, `promptForName`). The name now comes from a field in the toolbar, which works in both clients and can show the node's refusal beside the input instead of after a dialog has closed. Navigating away drops a half-typed name: it would otherwise create the folder somewhere the person is no longer looking. The rest of the chain was verified end to end and was sound: `dir_create` {dir,name} → the node's handler → `dir_create_ack`, and `list_dirs` walks the filesystem rather than the index, so a folder with nothing in it appears on the very fetch that follows. The field itself was then driven inside a real Electron window — typing, Enter, the click, and the icon rendering. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_011pvMdvLBG92jyhvD5pD6us

meshbay.git/packages/meshbay-hub/tests/test_no_prompt_in_the_spa.py, branch main

fix: ask in the page instead of native confirm/alert

fix(client): New folder did nothing — prompt() throws in the desktop client