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hermes-agent/web
emozilla ddd2542ba5 fix(dashboard): persist chat tab state across tab switches
The dashboard's Chat tab (hermes dashboard --tui) lost its session
whenever the user navigated to another tab and came back.  React Router
unmounted ChatPage on path change, which ran the cleanup function,
closed the PTY WebSocket, and terminated the underlying TUI child -
so the next mount generated a fresh channel id, spawned a new PTY, and
started a brand-new conversation.

Rather than rebuild the destroyed state (session id capture + resume
via HERMES_TUI_RESUME would reload history from disk but drop in-flight
tool state, scrollback, and picker position), keep the component tree
alive.

* Pull ChatPage out of Routes into a sibling always-mounted host that
  toggles visibility via display:none keyed off the current route.  A
  tiny ChatRouteSink still claims /chat so the catch-all redirect
  does not fire.
* xterm instance, WebSocket, PTY child, and TUI/agent state all
  survive; returning to /chat shows the exact conversation the user
  left.
* Respect plugin `/chat` overrides: if a plugin manifest declares
  `tab.override: "/chat"`, the Routes tree already swaps the element
  for <PluginPage /> — we additionally suppress the persistent host
  so the two don't paint on top of each other.  Preserves the
  pre-persistence contract that a plugin owning /chat replaces the
  built-in chat UI entirely.
* Wait for usePlugins() to finish loading before mounting the
  persistent host.  Manifests arrive asynchronously from
  /api/dashboard/plugins, so without the `!pluginsLoading` gate the
  host would mount with manifests=[], spawn a PTY, and then unmount
  mid-session when the manifest list resolves and reveals a /chat
  override.  Typical delay is <50ms; worst case is the 2s plugin-
  registration safety timeout.  Cheaper than killing someone's
  conversation underneath them.
* Gate page-header slot (`setEnd`), the mobile sheet's portalled
  render, and body-scroll lock on a new `isActive` prop so the hidden
  ChatPage doesn't fight the active page for shared state.  The
  scroll-lock effect keys on the *derived* `mobilePanelOpen` (which is
  `isActive && mobilePanelOpenRaw`) rather than the raw state — that
  way tab-switch flips the dep false, fires the cleanup, and releases
  `document.body.style.overflow`.  Keying on the raw state would leave
  body.overflow="hidden" stuck on /sessions and every other tab until
  the user navigated back to /chat and explicitly closed the sheet.
* When isActive flips false to true, force a double-rAF fit:
  display:none collapses the host box and ResizeObserver does not fire
  on display changes, so xterm would otherwise stay at a stale or 1x1
  grid.  Also early-return from syncTerminalMetrics when the host has
  zero area, since fit() on a zero-sized element produces a 1x1
  terminal.
* Focus handling on tab return: only steal focus into the terminal if
  focus wasn't already parked somewhere inside ChatPage (e.g. the
  sidebar model picker, a tool-call entry).  Yanking focus away from
  whatever the user last clicked is surprising and a screen-reader
  foot-gun; the typical "first activation" case still focuses the
  terminal because document.activeElement is <body> at that point.

Trade-off worth flagging, deliberately not mitigated in this change:
while hidden, ChatPage still holds a PTY child + WebSocket + xterm
instance for the dashboard's full lifetime.  The WS keeps delivering
bytes and xterm keeps parsing them into a display:none host (cheap —
no paint work, but not free).  Reasonable costs to pay for the session
preservation; if they become a problem we can pause `term.write` when
!isActive or idle-disconnect after N minutes hidden.

Lint clean on touched files.  tsc -b && vite build pass.
2026-04-28 02:40:25 -04:00
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2026-04-19 15:21:57 -04:00
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Hermes Agent — Web UI

Browser-based dashboard for managing Hermes Agent configuration, API keys, and monitoring active sessions.

Stack

  • Vite + React 19 + TypeScript
  • Tailwind CSS v4 with custom dark theme
  • shadcn/ui-style components (hand-rolled, no CLI dependency)

Development

# Start the backend API server
cd ../
python -m hermes_cli.main web --no-open

# In another terminal, start the Vite dev server (with HMR + API proxy)
cd web/
npm run dev

The Vite dev server proxies /api requests to http://127.0.0.1:9119 (the FastAPI backend).

Build

npm run build

This outputs to ../hermes_cli/web_dist/, which the FastAPI server serves as a static SPA. The built assets are included in the Python package via pyproject.toml package-data.

Structure

src/
├── components/ui/   # Reusable UI primitives (Card, Badge, Button, Input, etc.)
├── lib/
│   ├── api.ts       # API client — typed fetch wrappers for all backend endpoints
│   └── utils.ts     # cn() helper for Tailwind class merging
├── pages/
│   ├── StatusPage   # Agent status, active/recent sessions
│   ├── ConfigPage   # Dynamic config editor (reads schema from backend)
│   └── EnvPage      # API key management with save/clear
├── App.tsx          # Main layout and navigation
├── main.tsx         # React entry point
└── index.css        # Tailwind imports and theme variables