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feat(ui): autofocus login fields; keep verification code out of form history
The two-step e-mail login now drops the cursor on each step's primary
field as it mounts — the e-mail field on load, the code field once the
e-mail step advances — via a small `use:` action. Focusing fires each
input's onfocus, which clears the readonly autofill guard, so the field
is editable straight away.

The code input now requests `autocomplete="one-time-code"` instead of
`new-password`. The latter is a password-manager hint and does not stop
Firefox saving the typed code to form history (it was offering the
previous code back in a dropdown). `one-time-code` is the semantic token
for a verification code; Firefox honours it specifically to keep the
value out of form history (Mozilla bug 1547294). The e-mail field keeps
`new-password` to fend off saved-login autofill.

Tests: new Vitest cases assert autofocus on both steps and the code
field's `one-time-code` token; a new Playwright case covers the same in
Chromium and WebKit (Safari engine). Firefox form history is owner
manual-QA — there is no Firefox project in the e2e matrix.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-25 23:53:20 +02:00

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# Auth Flow (UI)
The Galaxy UI client uses a two-step e-mail-code login: the user
submits an e-mail address, receives a six-digit code by mail, then
submits the code together with a freshly generated Ed25519 public
key. The gateway returns a `device_session_id`, which the client
persists for subsequent visits. This doc covers the UI side; the
backend behaviour, throttling, and account-creation rules are
authoritative in [`docs/FUNCTIONAL.md` §1](../../docs/FUNCTIONAL.md).
## Surface
- `ui/frontend/src/api/auth.ts``sendEmailCode`,
`confirmEmailCode`, and the `AuthError` taxonomy.
- `ui/frontend/src/lib/session-store.svelte.ts` — singleton
reactive state (`status`, `keypair`, `deviceSessionId`) plus
`init`, `signIn`, `signOut`.
- `ui/frontend/src/lib/revocation-watcher.ts` — minimal
`SubscribeEvents` watcher that triggers `signOut("revoked")` on
any non-aborted stream termination.
- `ui/frontend/src/lib/screens/login-screen.svelte` — two-step form.
- `ui/frontend/src/lib/screens/lobby-screen.svelte` — lobby that
issues the first authenticated `user.account.get`.
- `ui/frontend/src/routes/+page.svelte` — the state-based auth gate /
screen dispatcher (anonymous → login, authenticated → the
`appScreen` screen). The single-URL app-shell has no per-screen
routes; see [`navigation.md`](navigation.md).
- `ui/frontend/src/routes/+layout.svelte` — boot-time session init,
the `loading` / `unsupported` interception, and the
browser-not-supported blocker.
## State machine (`SessionStatus`)
```text
init()
┌─────────────┐
│ loading │
└──┬───────┬──┘
│ │
│ ▼
│ Ed25519 missing → unsupported
device id?
┌────┴────┐
│ │
▼ ▼
anonymous authenticated
│ │
signIn signOut(*)
└────────►│
anonymous
```
`signOut("revoked")` shares the same observable end state as
`signOut("user")`; the reason exists only for telemetry. Both settle
`status` to `anonymous`, which the dispatcher renders as the login
screen — there is no URL redirect (the app-shell stays at `/game/`).
## UX states and error mapping
The send-email-code endpoint deliberately returns a uniform
response shape regardless of whether the address is new, existing,
throttled, or rate-limited (see
[`docs/FUNCTIONAL.md` §1.2](../../docs/FUNCTIONAL.md)). The UI
therefore treats every 200 the same and never tries to distinguish
those branches.
| Condition | UI behaviour |
| ------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| 200 from `send-email-code` | advance to step `code`, focus the code input |
| `invalid_request` from `send` | stay on step `email`, surface the gateway message |
| `service_unavailable` from `send` | stay on step `email`, surface "service is temporarily unavailable" |
| 200 from `confirm-email-code` | persist `device_session_id`, settle `status` to `authenticated` (dispatcher shows the lobby) |
| `invalid_request` from `confirm` | bounce to step `email`, message: "code expired or already used" |
| any other error from `confirm` | stay on step `code`, surface the gateway message |
`permanent_block` and any other authoritative rejection from the
backend collapse into the same `invalid_request` envelope from the
UI's perspective; the gateway does not differentiate them externally.
## Focus and autofill suppression
The login screen drops the cursor on each step's primary field the
moment it mounts — the e-mail field on load, the code field once the
e-mail step advances — so the user can type without first clicking.
This is wired with a one-line `use:` action that focuses the node on
the next tick.
Both inputs render `readonly` initially and drop the attribute on
first focus (user-driven or via the autofocus action). Safari ignores
`autocomplete="off"` on login-shaped fields and pops the Keychain
suggester on load, but it never autofills a readonly field, so the
page loads quiet and each field turns editable as soon as it is
focused.
Autofill intent then differs per field:
- the **e-mail** field asks for `autocomplete="new-password"` to keep
password managers from injecting a saved login;
- the **code** field asks for `autocomplete="one-time-code"`, the
semantic token for a verification code. It is the reliable way to
keep Firefox from saving the code to form history and offering it
back in a dropdown — Firefox honours that token specifically, while
plain `autocomplete="off"` is not respected for this field
([Mozilla bug 1547294](https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1547294)).
Playwright covers the autofocus and the code field's token in WebKit
(Safari engine) and Chromium; Firefox form-history behaviour is
verified by hand, as there is no Firefox project in the e2e matrix.
## Resend and change-email
- **send a new code** — re-issues `sendEmailCode` for the same
address. The backend may throttle by reusing the most recent
challenge id; the UI does not need to know about that.
- **change email** — clears the in-progress challenge and returns
to step `email`. No backend call.
## Persistence and returning users
After `confirm-email-code` succeeds, `session.signIn` writes the
`device_session_id` into the IDB cache (`namespace=session`,
`key=device-session-id`). On the next page load,
`SessionStore.init` reads it back and settles `status` to
`authenticated`, so the dispatcher renders the authenticated screen
straight away. Which authenticated screen it is comes from the
restored `appScreen` snapshot (lobby by default; see
[`navigation.md`](navigation.md)), not from the URL.
The keypair lives next to the id in the same database (object
store `keypair`, key `device`). Clearing site data wipes both;
the next load generates a fresh keypair and the user must log in
again. This is the documented re-login path — there is no paired
"reissue device session" flow.
## Browser support
The keystore relies on WebCrypto Ed25519, which currently lands in
Chrome ≥ 137, Firefox ≥ 130, Safari ≥ 17.4 (see
[`storage.md`](storage.md) for the rationale). On boot the root
layout runs a sanity probe (`crypto.subtle.generateKey` for
`Ed25519`); if it rejects, `status` settles to `unsupported` and the
layout renders a `browser not supported` page instead of the login
screen. The client deliberately does not ship a JavaScript Ed25519
fallback — the design decision is modern-browser baseline only.
## Revocation
The root layout opens a long-running `SubscribeEvents` stream as
soon as `status` becomes `authenticated`. Its only contract is
liveness: any non-aborted termination of the stream is treated as
a server-side session revocation, the watcher calls
`session.signOut("revoked")`, `status` settles to `anonymous`, and
the dispatcher swaps to the login screen on the next render — the
URL stays `/game/`.
Session revocation closes the active client within one second: the
gateway closes the stream the moment it observes a
`session_invalidation` push event from backend, and the watcher
reacts on the next event-loop tick.
## Localisation
The login form, the root layout's blocker page, and the lobby
screen go through the i18n primitive in `src/lib/i18n/`. The
language picker on the login screen lists every entry in
`SUPPORTED_LOCALES` by its native name and is initialised from
`navigator.languages` (web) with `en` as the fallback. Picking a
different language re-renders the form in place and is forwarded
to the gateway in the JSON body of `send-email-code` (`locale`
field) — the body channel is the canonical one because Safari
drops JS-set `Accept-Language` headers. See
[`i18n.md`](i18n.md) for the architecture and the recipe for
adding a new language.
The locale is **not** persisted between page reloads; detection
runs again on every visit. Persistence and message-format
pluralisation are deferred to the finalization plan
(../Plan-finalize.md).
## Configuration
Build-time environment, read by `lib/env.ts`:
| Variable | Format | Notes |
| ------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| `VITE_GATEWAY_BASE_URL` | URL string | gateway public REST surface and Connect-Web edge listener (same host); defaults to `http://localhost:8080` |
| `VITE_GATEWAY_RESPONSE_PUBLIC_KEY` | standard base64, 32 raw Ed25519 bytes | response-signing public key; only needed on authenticated routes |
For local development against the integration suite, use the
public key the gateway container exposes (`ResponseSignerPublic` in
`integration/testenv/gateway.go`). Playwright derives both halves
of the pair from `tests/e2e/fixtures/gateway-key.ts` and pins the
public half through `playwright.config.ts`'s `webServer.env`.
An empty `VITE_GATEWAY_RESPONSE_PUBLIC_KEY` does not block app
boot; the lobby surfaces an inline error when the first
`executeCommand` would have otherwise been issued.
## Testing
- **Vitest** — `tests/auth-api.test.ts`, `tests/session-store.test.ts`,
`tests/login-page.test.ts` cover the wire shape, persistence
state machine, and the form behaviours respectively.
- **Playwright** — `tests/e2e/auth-flow.spec.ts` exercises the
full happy path, returning-user resume, revocation within one
second, and the browser-not-supported blocker. The gateway is
mocked via `page.route(...)`; the lobby's `user.account.get`
call is answered with a fixture-signed `ExecuteCommandResponse`.
The Go-side integration suite (`integration/auth_flow_test.go`)
covers the live wire contract; this UI doc deliberately stops at
the boundaries above.