A vertical line crossing both dashboard cards, appearing at random on hover and hard to catch deliberately. Diagnosed from the screenshot rather than by reproduction. Decoding it and scanning column by column found a lone brightness step at CSS x=633 that never returns — every legitimate container edge in the page shows up as a PAIR of steps 2px apart (the card borders at CSS 255, 288, 850, 875, 1437), so an unpaired one is not a border. Sampling by region placed it inside the cards and nowhere else: 10/13 rows inside My Apps, 11/11 inside Wallet, 2/10 in the gap between them, 2/13 above them. Same screen x in both cards, which means the boundary lives in screen space and cuts whatever backdrop-filter surface it crosses. style.css already neutralises backdrop-filter for the shared glass classes inside the dashboard's animated perspective/scroll containers, because Chromium/Brave mis-rasterise it there — that block was written for the black-rectangle corruption. `.home-card-shell` declares its own `backdrop-filter: blur(18px)` in Home.vue and was never added to the list, so it was the only unmitigated blur surface on the dashboard. That is exactly the set of pixels the seam appears in. A hover repaint re-rasterises part of the backdrop, and the refreshed half meets the stale half at the damage boundary. Adding it to the existing list also makes the shell consistent with the tiles beside it: its fill is already rgba(0,0,0,0.65), the same as .glass-card, which renders unblurred here. The list is hand-maintained, which is how this shipped — a component declaring backdrop-filter in its own <style> is simply not covered and nothing fails. So the fix comes with a test that parses Home.vue for locally-declared backdrop-filter rules and asserts each is in the mitigation list. Verified it catches the real bug: reverting the one-line fix makes it fail naming `.home-card-shell`. Tests: 3/3 new, vue-tsc clean, mitigation confirmed in the built CSS. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Archipelago Web UI
Vue 3 + TypeScript + Vite + Tailwind CSS + Pinia
The web interface for Archipelago — a self-sovereign Bitcoin Node OS.
Quick Start
cd neode-ui
npm install
npm start
Visit http://localhost:8100 — login with password: password123
This starts:
- Mock backend on port 5959 (no Docker required)
- Vite dev server on port 8100 with HMR
Stop with npm stop.
Architecture
neode-ui/
├── src/
│ ├── api/ # RPC client (rpc-client.ts), WebSocket, container client
│ ├── stores/ # Pinia stores (app, container, appLauncher, monitoring)
│ ├── views/ # Page components (Dashboard, Marketplace, Settings, etc.)
│ ├── components/ # Reusable components (SplashScreen, AppSession, etc.)
│ ├── router/ # Vue Router configuration
│ ├── types/ # TypeScript type definitions
│ └── style.css # Global styles + Tailwind utilities
├── public/assets/ # Static assets (images, fonts, app icons, audio)
├── mock-backend.js # Mock backend server (simulates Rust backend)
├── docker/ # Docker configs (nginx, entrypoint)
└── vite.config.ts # Vite config with backend proxy
Dev Modes
The mock backend supports multiple startup modes via VITE_DEV_MODE:
| Mode | Command | Behavior |
|---|---|---|
| default | npm start |
Fully set up, login screen |
| existing | VITE_DEV_MODE=existing npm run dev:mock |
Same as default |
| setup | VITE_DEV_MODE=setup npm run dev:mock |
First-time password setup flow |
| onboarding | VITE_DEV_MODE=onboarding npm run dev:mock |
Post-setup onboarding flow |
| boot | npm run dev:boot |
25s simulated boot sequence |
Mock Backend
The mock backend (mock-backend.js) simulates the full Rust backend for local development:
Pre-installed apps (always visible in My Apps):
- Bitcoin Core, LND, Electrs, Mempool, FileBrowser, LoraBell, Fedimint
Marketplace: 30+ curated apps with Docker images, install/uninstall simulation
Features simulated:
- Authentication (login, password change, TOTP 2FA)
- System metrics (CPU, memory, disk — randomized for realism)
- Node identity (DID, Nostr pubkey, Tor address)
- Federation (3 mock nodes with apps, metrics, trust levels)
- Mesh networking (4 LoRa peers, encrypted messaging, invoices)
- Peer-to-peer messaging
- FileBrowser API (mock file system with Music, Documents, Photos, Videos)
- DWN sync status
- Transport layer (mesh/LAN/Tor routing)
- Notifications (5 realistic entries)
- Claude AI chat proxy (requires
ANTHROPIC_API_KEY)
Container runtime: If Docker/Podman is available, the mock backend will run real containers for installed apps. Otherwise, it simulates them.
Demo Deployment (Portainer)
Deploy the demo via Docker Compose for showcasing:
docker compose -f docker-compose.demo.yml build
docker compose -f docker-compose.demo.yml up -d
Or deploy through Portainer Stacks:
- Stacks > Add stack > name:
archy-demo - Web editor: paste
docker-compose.demo.ymlcontents - Add environment variable:
ANTHROPIC_API_KEY(for Claude chat) - Deploy
Access at http://your-host:4848 — password: password123
Development Commands
npm start # Start mock backend + Vite (recommended)
npm stop # Stop all servers
npm run dev:mock # Same as start, without port cleanup
npm run dev:boot # Boot mode (simulated startup delay)
npm run backend:mock # Mock backend only
npm run dev # Vite only (needs backend running separately)
npm run dev:real # Vite with real Rust backend
npm run build # Production build (outputs to ../web/dist/neode-ui/)
npm run build:docker # Build for Docker (no type checking)
npm run type-check # TypeScript type checking
npm test # Run tests
Design System
Glass Classes
| Class | Use |
|---|---|
.glass-card |
Content containers, modals, panels |
.glass-button |
ALL buttons (primary and secondary) |
.path-option-card |
Interactive cards with hover lift |
.info-card |
Status badges, metric displays |
Tokens
- Font: Avenir Next (primary), Montserrat (
font-archipelago) - Glass:
bg: rgba(0,0,0,0.60),blur: 24px,border: rgba(255,255,255,0.22) - Accent:
#fb923c(Bitcoin orange),#4ade80(green),#ef4444(red) - Text:
rgba(255,255,255,0.9)primary,rgba(255,255,255,0.6)muted
Rules
- Global CSS classes in
style.cssonly — never inline Tailwind in components .gradient-buttonis banned — use.glass-button- All components use
<script setup lang="ts">
API
import { rpcClient } from '@/api/rpc-client'
await rpcClient.login('password')
await rpcClient.startPackage('bitcoin')
const metrics = await rpcClient.getMetrics()
State management via Pinia stores. WebSocket patches applied automatically.
Build Output
- Dev build:
../web/dist/neode-ui/ - Docker build:
dist/(deployed to nginx) - Production deploy: via
scripts/deploy-to-target.sh --live
License
MIT