etherpad-lite/admin/README.md
John McLear b97baa3ef5 chore(admin): typesafe API client + TanStack Query rails (#7638) (#2)
* docs(admin): design for typesafe API client + TanStack Query rails (#7638)

Rails-only scope: codegen toolchain, runtime client, and provider — no
call-site migrations. Admin endpoints are not yet covered by the OpenAPI
spec, so a separate issue will follow before any migration is useful.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs(admin): implementation plan for typesafe API client rails (#7638)

Step-by-step task breakdown for the rails-only PR: codegen toolchain,
runtime client, TanStack Query provider, CI freshness check, docs. No
call-site migrations until admin endpoints are added to the OpenAPI
spec (separate follow-up).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(api): export generateDefinitionForVersion from openapi hook

Required by the admin codegen script (#7638) to dump the OpenAPI spec
without booting Express. No behavior change for the request hook.

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* chore(admin): add OpenAPI codegen + TanStack Query deps (#7638)

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* chore(admin): add OpenAPI spec dump entry (#7638)

Loaded via tsx by gen-api.mjs in the next commit. Writes JSON to a file
path argument so log4js stdout output (from Settings init) does not
pollute the spec output.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* chore(admin): wire OpenAPI codegen into build (#7638)

Adds gen:api script and amends build/build-copy to regenerate
admin/src/api/schema.d.ts before compiling. The generated file is
checked in so it shows up in PR review and so a fresh checkout doesn't
need codegen to typecheck.

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* feat(admin): typed openapi-fetch + react-query client (#7638)

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* feat(admin): TanStack Query provider, dev-only devtools (#7638)

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* feat(admin): mount TanStack Query provider at root (#7638)

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* test(admin): smoke test for typed openapi-fetch client (#7638)

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* ci(admin): verify generated OpenAPI schema is up to date (#7638)

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* docs(admin): document OpenAPI codegen workflow (#7638)

Replaces the default Vite scaffold README with admin-specific scripts
table and codegen workflow notes.

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* build(admin): exclude __tests__ from tsc include (#7638)

The smoke test imports node:test/node:assert which need @types/node.
Admin source is browser-only, so excluding __tests__ from the production
typecheck is cleaner than adding Node types to the bundle config. The
test still runs under tsx, which doesn't share this constraint.

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* chore: regenerate lockfile with pnpm 10 to restore overrides block (#7638)

Adding admin deps with pnpm 11 stripped the top-level \`overrides:\`
section from pnpm-lock.yaml, which CI uses pnpm 10 to verify. Result:
ERR_PNPM_LOCKFILE_CONFIG_MISMATCH on every job. Re-running pnpm 10
\`install --lockfile-only\` restores the overrides block; the new admin
package entries land in the same commit. Two stale lockfile entries
not present in package.json (\`serialize-javascript\` version pin and
\`uuid@<14.0.0\`) were normalized by the regen — package.json is the
source of truth for those.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* build(docker): preserve strictDepBuilds=false in trimmed workspace yaml (#7638)

Adding tsx as an admin devDep brings esbuild@0.27.x into the resolved
subgraph, and the Dockerfile's runtime stage was overwriting
pnpm-workspace.yaml with a stripped-down version that lost the
strictDepBuilds=false setting from the source repo. With pnpm 10's
default of strictDepBuilds=true, the install then errors on
ERR_PNPM_IGNORED_BUILDS for esbuild + scarf rather than warning.

Restore the strictDepBuilds=false and the @scarf/scarf ignore in the
trimmed yaml so the production install matches develop's behavior.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(admin): point client baseUrl at /api/<version> via codegen (#7638)

Qodo flagged: with baseUrl='/' and schema paths like '/createGroup',
calls landed at /createGroup, but the backend mounts the FLAT-style
spec under /api/<version>/. So once a call site lands, every request
404s.

gen:api now also emits admin/src/api/version.ts containing
LATEST_API_VERSION (read from info.version in the spec) and a derived
API_BASE_URL = `/api/<version>`. client.ts imports API_BASE_URL.
Workflow freshness check covers both generated files.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* build(admin): cross-platform spawn in gen-api.mjs (#7638)

Windows CI failed because spawnSync('pnpm', ...) cannot resolve
pnpm.cmd without a shell. Set shell:true on win32 only so Linux/macOS
runs avoid Node's DEP0190 warning. All spawn args are literal strings,
so the shell variant is not an injection risk.

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Admin UI

Vite + React 19 single-page app served at /admin. Talks to the backend over socket.io for the existing settings / plugins / pads pages, and (when endpoints are added to the OpenAPI spec) over a typed REST client.

Scripts

Script What it does
pnpm dev Vite dev server. Expects an etherpad backend on :9001.
pnpm gen:api Regenerates src/api/schema.d.ts from the OpenAPI spec.
pnpm build gen:api + tsc + vite build.
pnpm build-copy Same, but writes into ../src/templates/admin.
pnpm test Smoke tests for the API client wiring.
pnpm lint ESLint.

Typed API client

The admin uses openapi-typescript to generate types from src/node/hooks/express/openapi.ts, openapi-fetch for typed requests, and openapi-react-query for TanStack Query bindings.

Regenerating the schema

pnpm --filter admin gen:api

This runs admin/scripts/gen-api.mjs, which loads src/node/hooks/express/openapi.ts, calls generateDefinitionForVersion for the latest API version, pipes the JSON through openapi-typescript, and writes the result to admin/src/api/schema.d.ts. The latest API version read from the spec is also emitted to admin/src/api/version.ts so client.ts can build the right /api/<version>/ baseUrl. Both generated files are checked in.

Run gen:api after any change to:

  • src/node/hooks/express/openapi.ts
  • src/node/handler/APIHandler.ts (changes to latestApiVersion)
  • the resource definitions referenced by openapi.ts

CI freshness check

.github/workflows/frontend-admin-tests.yml runs pnpm gen:api and fails the build if admin/src/api/schema.d.ts is out of date. If you see the failure locally, run pnpm --filter admin gen:api and commit the regenerated file.

Using the client

import { $api } from './api/client';

const SettingsPanel = () => {
  const { data } = $api.useQuery('get', '/admin/settings'); // example
  return <pre>{JSON.stringify(data, null, 2)}</pre>;
};

The admin endpoints are not yet present in the OpenAPI spec — this client is in place to support upcoming work (see issue #7638 follow-up). For now, it is exercised only by the smoke test.