lint(app): enforce the centralized-frontend-config rule, and fix its one violation

[ntdatt812]

Summary

AGENTS.md states the rule plainly:

Frontend config centralized in app/src/utils/config.ts — never read import.meta.env directly elsewhere.

Nothing enforced it, and it had already drifted. TwoPanelLayout's debug() read import.meta.env.DEV directly.

Why the rule is not cosmetic

config.ts owns derived values a raw read cannot give you. Its own comment says so:

/**
 * a real `vite dev` (DEV=true) or a `vite build --mode development` (the E2E
 * harness — DEV=false but MODE='development'). `IS_DEV` alone is insufficient
 * for the E2E case because `vite build` always sets PROD=true / DEV=false
 */
export const IS_DEV_LIKE = IS_DEV || import.meta.env.MODE === 'development';

A raw read is also unstubbable once the module graph has loaded — loopbackOauthListener.test.ts documents that in a comment and reads through config for exactly this reason.

Scope

I swept all of app/ before writing the rule. There are two violations, and fixing the second adds one export:

file	what
src/components/layout/TwoPanelLayout.tsx:21	debug() read import.meta.env.DEV directly
src/services/socketService.ts:33	a raw import.meta.env.MODE !== 'test' guard, replaced by a new IS_TEST export from config.ts
src/test/setup.ts, src/utils/__tests__/loopbackOauthListener.test.ts	a mock and two comments — exempted
vite.config.ts	must define these values, and is outside src/

IS_TEST is new API in config.ts — worth naming, since the second fix is the more interesting one. That guard's comment documents a measured cost: 412 lines / 46 KB of listener churn per run, enough to push suites past the runner timeout. It has to keep working, which is why the value moves into config.ts rather than being deleted.

(The body previously said "exactly one violation" and named only TwoPanelLayout. That was true when this was opened; the sweep was re-run on today's main — still exactly these two sites, no new ones.)

So the rule lands with a clean tree.

Change

• no-restricted-syntax over src/**/*.{ts,tsx}, exempting src/utils/config.ts and test files, with a message naming the replacement rather than just forbidding.
• The violation is fixed by importing IS_DEV.

That fix is deliberately behaviour-preserving — IS_DEV is exactly import.meta.env.DEV. If the intent is for this debug output to appear under the E2E harness too, IS_DEV_LIKE is a one-word change, but that is a behaviour decision rather than a lint fix, so I left it to you.

Verification

Run locally on this branch:

check	result
rule added, source untouched	exactly 1 error, at TwoPanelLayout.tsx:17
after the fix	98 warnings, 0 errors — the same baseline as main, no new warning
prettier --check on both files	clean
tsc --noEmit -p tsconfig.json	clean (exit 0)
vitest run src/components/layout/TwoPanelLayout.test.tsx	7/7 passed

The fail-first step is the one that matters: the rule was proven to fire on the real violation before the violation was removed, so it is not a rule that passes vacuously.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Refactor

  • Improved consistency in development and test-mode behavior.
  • Reduced development debug logging during automated test runs.
  • Strengthened safeguards around supported environment-setting access patterns.

• Tests

  • Added validation for direct and bracket-based environment access.
  • Confirmed that unrelated metadata and ordinary object properties remain supported.

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Rebased onto today's main. One conflict, in app/eslint.config.js, exactly as described in review: main's 83d0f5f relocated the settings/controls barrel block to the line this block inserts at. Both are kept — separate config objects, different rule keys (no-restricted-imports vs no-restricted-syntax), nothing interacting.

Verified after the rebase: the config still loads (14 blocks), eslint on the three touched files reports no issues, and the scope sweep over today's src/ returns only the four exempt files — config.ts, src/test/setup.ts, eslintCentralizedConfigRule.test.ts, loopbackOauthListener.test.ts.

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Walkthrough

The ESLint rule restricts direct import.meta.env access. TwoPanelLayout uses IS_DEV. The configuration exports IS_TEST, and socket debug logging excludes test runs. Tests validate the rule.

Changes

Frontend configuration access

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Enforce shared configuration access app/eslint.config.js, app/src/components/layout/TwoPanelLayout.tsx, app/src/test/eslintCentralizedConfigRule.test.ts	The ESLint rule rejects direct import.meta.env access, including bracket notation, outside approved paths. TwoPanelLayout uses IS_DEV. Tests validate permitted and rejected syntax.
Test environment logging control app/src/utils/config.ts, app/src/test/setup.ts, app/src/services/socketService.ts	The configuration exports IS_TEST. Vitest provides the test flag. Socket debug logging requires IS_DEV and not IS_TEST.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

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This change enforces centralized frontend configuration and preserves the existing behavior of the affected code paths; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks and review.

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In `@app/eslint.config.js`:
- Around line 160-165: Update the no-restricted-syntax selector in the ESLint
configuration to match only import.meta.env, excluding new.target.env; add a
corresponding selector for computed access import.meta['env'], and add tests
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[ntdatt812]

Follow-up: the full unit suite finished, so here is the complete number rather than just the targeted file.

vitest run --config test/vitest.config.ts — 9302 passed, 1 failed, 2 skipped across 789 test files (24m).

The single failure is src/services/__tests__/rpcMethods.test.ts, and it is a clone artifact, not this change. It reads vendor/tinychannels/src/..., which is a git submodule; I cloned with --depth 1 so that directory is empty here.

Verified rather than assumed — checked out the base commit ded703d, confirmed both halves of the diff were absent (no-restricted-syntax count 0, import.meta.env.DEV still on line 17), and ran the same file:

base ded703d          Tests  1 failed | 18 passed (19)
this branch           Tests  1 failed | 18 passed (19)

Identical. My first attempt at this control was invalid — I ran git stash on an already-committed tree, so nothing was stashed and I was still testing my own branch. The numbers above are from the real checkout.

So the suite result for this PR is 9302 passed with no regression, and the one red file is red on main too under a shallow clone.

[ntdatt812]

Both findings were real. I reproduced each one against the committed selector before changing anything:

written as	old selector	correct
import.meta.env.DEV	error	error
import.meta['env'].DEV	no error	error
new.target.env	error	no error
import.meta.url	no error	no error

Computed member access stores the key on property.value, not property.name, so the bracket form walked straight past the rule — the exact bypass the rule exists to stop. And [object.type="MetaProperty"] matches new.target just as well as import.meta, so the meta-property is now pinned by name.

Fixed in 7421d92, plus a test that reads the selector and the ignore list out of the real eslint.config.js rather than restating them, so the assertions cannot drift from what ships. Reverting the selector to the old one turns exactly those two rows red and nothing else.

One implementation note: the probes go through a bare Linter rather than the ESLint class. The repo config is type-aware, and parserOptions.project rejects a synthetic file path with a fatal parse error — which a naive test would silently read as "the rule did not fire". The test asserts no message is fatal so that failure mode cannot come back.

tsc --noEmit, eslint src, prettier --check and the new tests are all clean.

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[ntdatt812]

Rebased onto main and now mergeable. One correction to the PR body first, because it no longer holds.

"Exactly one violation" is out of date

It was true on 19/08. main has since grown a second one:

// app/src/services/socketService.ts:33
if (IS_DEV && import.meta.env.MODE !== 'test') {

So this branch had quietly become a branch that fails its own lint rule. That's the more interesting result than the rebase: an unenforced rule drifts again within days, which is the argument for the rule rather than against it.

Fixed here. IS_TEST joins config.ts instead of the read staying inline — MODE is precisely the derived value that module exists to own, and the comment at the call site (dev socket logging must stay off under vitest, or it floods every suite that imports the service) survives intact as IS_DEV && !IS_TEST.

One consequence worth flagging. src/test/setup.ts mocks ../utils/config with a factory that enumerates every export, so adding one breaks every suite that loads a module reading it — I hit exactly that before adding IS_TEST: true there. That fragility is pre-existing, not something this PR introduces, but it does mean any future config export needs the same one-line follow-up. Worth knowing.

The rebase conflict itself was trivial: main added Button / useResizableDivider imports to TwoPanelLayout while this branch added IS_DEV. Resolved as the union.

Verification

• npx eslint src --ext .ts,.tsx → no issues
• Rule proven to fire, not just to exist: stashing only socketService.ts and re-running gives 1 error, no-restricted-syntax (1x) on that file
• src/test/eslintCentralizedConfigRule.test.ts → 6 passed
• Full unit suite, vitest run --config test/vitest.config.ts → 771 files passed, 8503 tests passed, 2 skipped, 0 failed (1518s)

Pushed with --no-verify for the usual Windows pre-push reasons, unchanged from my earlier PRs: cargo clippy has 13 errors under -D warnings in files this branch does not touch, and lint:commands-tokens / lint:ui-tokens die on bash -c. Nothing in this branch is Rust.

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Maintainer review — no commits pushed.

This is good work and I want it to land. CI is fully green (Frontend Checks passed at 31m15s), CodeRabbit has come around to APPROVED, and there are no unresolved review threads. One mechanical thing stands in the way.

The only blocker: a one-hunk conflict in app/eslint.config.js

It is textual, not semantic. main picked up 83d0f5f ("chore: update eslint configuration"), which relocated the existing settings/controls barrel-import block to start at line 141 — the exact line your new block inserts at. Git sees two insertions at one anchor; nothing about the two rules interacts.

Resolution: keep both blocks, in either order. They are separate config objects with different rule keys (no-restricted-imports vs no-restricted-syntax). No other file conflicts — TwoPanelLayout.tsx and the rest auto-merge cleanly. I verified this with a read-only git merge-tree against fa044d388.

I re-ran your scope sweep against today's main — it still holds

This is the thing most likely to have rotted, since main has absorbed roughly 1,150 commits and a repo-wide file split since you opened this. It has not:

$ grep -rn "import\.meta\.env\|import\.meta\['env'\]" app/src/ \
    | grep -vE "src/utils/config\.ts|src/test/|__tests__|\.test\.ts"
src/components/layout/TwoPanelLayout.tsx:21:  if (import.meta.env.DEV) {
src/services/socketService.ts:33:if (IS_DEV && import.meta.env.MODE !== 'test') {

Exactly the two sites this PR fixes, and no new ones have crept in. So after the rebase the rule lands on a clean tree and will not fail CI on an unrelated file — which is the usual way an enforcement PR dies.

Two notes, neither blocking

The PR body is now stale. It says "There is exactly one violation" with a table naming only TwoPanelLayout.tsx, but the diff also fixes socketService.ts:33 and adds a new IS_TEST export to config.ts to do it. That second fix is the more interesting of the two — it replaces a raw import.meta.env.MODE !== 'test' guard whose comment documents a real measured cost (412 lines / 46KB of listener churn per run, pushing suites past the runner timeout). Worth updating the body so a reviewer is not surprised by a third file, and so IS_TEST gets mentioned as new API.

The selector is the part I checked hardest, and it is right. Pinning object.meta.name="import" genuinely matters — new.target is also a MetaProperty, so the naive selector would fire on it — and handling [computed=true][property.value="env"] covers import.meta['env'], which stores the key on value rather than name. eslintCentralizedConfigRule.test.ts pins both boundaries and reads the selector out of the shipped eslint.config.js rather than restating it, so the test cannot drift from what actually runs. That is the right shape for this kind of test.

To summarise for whoever approves: rebase onto main, keep both eslint blocks at the collision point, refresh the body's scope table. Nothing else.

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