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fix(web): project actions open their preview URL again - #13418

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Problem

A project action can have a Preview URL and Open preview automatically. These are still editable in the action editor and in t3.json, but running the action no longer opens the preview panel. The block that opened it after writing the command to the terminal was dropped in the client connection rewrite (#2978), and nothing has read autoOpenPreview since.

Fix

After runProjectScript writes the command to the terminal, it opens script.previewUrl in the integrated browser with openUrlInPreview. This happens when autoOpenPreview is set and the runtime supports the preview. openUrlInPreview is the same helper links and files use, so browser defaults (viewport, profile) apply and the right panel switches to the new tab. If the terminal write fails, it now returns early instead of also opening the preview.

Surfaces:

  • Entry points: the header action buttons and action keybindings both go through runProjectScript, so both are covered.
  • Clients: desktop only. Web and mobile have no integrated browser, and isPreviewSupportedInRuntime() gates the call as before.
  • Providers, contracts, docs: no changes needed. The fields already exist.

Verification

  • tsc --noEmit for apps/web passes.
  • vp lint on ChatView.tsx passes with no new warnings.
  • Not yet exercised in a running desktop client.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Scripts configured to open a preview now open their preview URL automatically after running successfully, when preview support is available.
  • Bug Fixes
    • When a script’s terminal output cannot be written, the app now stops the follow-up actions instead of continuing.

The "Open preview automatically" option on project actions stopped doing
anything when the client connection rewrite (pingdotgg#2978) dropped the block that
ran after the command was written to the terminal. Restore it using
openUrlInPreview, and stop there if the terminal write fails.

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if (previewResult._tag === "Failure" && !isAtomCommandInterrupted(previewResult)) {
console.error(previewResult.cause);

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🟡 Medium components/ChatView.tsx:4305

When openUrlInPreview fails, including BrowserSettingsReadError, an action with autoOpenPreview still completes while the requested preview does not open and the user sees no error or recovery path. Because openPreview uses reportFailure: false, console.error is the only handling here; surface the failure through a user-visible toast or restore failure reporting.

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In file @apps/web/src/components/ChatView.tsx around line 4305:

When `openUrlInPreview` fails, including `BrowserSettingsReadError`, an action with `autoOpenPreview` still completes while the requested preview does not open and the user sees no error or recovery path. Because `openPreview` uses `reportFailure: false`, `console.error` is the only handling here; surface the failure through a user-visible toast or restore failure reporting.

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Verdict: Would Approve

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This one-file fix restores the existing opt-in preview behavior only after a project action writes successfully, while leaving defaults and unsupported runtimes unchanged. Preview-open failures are currently only logged, so the unresolved Medium-severity handling concern remains a separate approval blocker.

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The project script callback now returns after terminal-write failures. After a successful write, it opens the configured preview URL when preview support is available.

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Project script preview handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Script execution and preview handling
apps/web/src/components/ChatView.tsx
The callback returns after terminal-write failures. After a successful write, it opens the preview URL when the script has autoOpenPreview and previewUrl and the runtime supports previews. It logs the cause of an uninterrupted preview failure. The callback dependency list includes openPreview.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

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

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge, maria-rcks, t3dotgg

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to ce992

When automatic preview opening fails, users receive no in-app notice and may not realize the preview did not open. A toast is a localized fix for this bounded issue.

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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the primary change: restoring automatic preview URL opening for project actions.
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In `@apps/web/src/components/ChatView.tsx`:
- Around line 4304-4305: In the non-interrupted failure branch for automatic
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if (previewResult._tag === "Failure" && !isAtomCommandInterrupted(previewResult)) {
console.error(previewResult.cause);

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

🔎 Supported by static analysis

🏁 Script executed:

sed -n '4270,4328p' apps/web/src/components/ChatView.tsx
sed -n '1,110p' apps/web/src/browser/openFileInPreview.ts
rg -n 'openUrlInPreview|openFileInPreview|toast.*error|toast\.error|useToast' apps/web/src

Repository: pingdotgg/t3code

Length of output: 11988


🏁 Script executed:

sed -n '180,215p;3270,3360p;4240,4328p' apps/web/src/components/ChatView.tsx
sed -n '2435,2520p' apps/web/src/components/ChatMarkdown.tsx
sed -n '1,85p' apps/web/src/browser/useOpenLink.ts
sed -n '1,120p' apps/web/src/components/preview/openTerminalLinkInPreview.ts
rg -n -C 10 'toastManager\.add|BrowserSettingsReadError|openUrlInPreview\(' apps/web/src/components/ChatView.tsx apps/web/src/components/ChatMarkdown.tsx apps/web/src/browser/useOpenLink.ts apps/web/src/components/preview

Repository: pingdotgg/t3code

Length of output: 42296


Show a toast when automatic preview opening fails.

openUrlInPreview can fail while loading browser defaults or opening the preview. This branch only logs non-interrupted failures. The nearby openExternalLinkInPreview path shows a toast for browser-settings failures, but it does not surface this automatic-preview result. Add an error toast while retaining the console log.

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        if (previewResult._tag === "Failure" && !isAtomCommandInterrupted(previewResult)) {
          console.error(previewResult.cause);
+         toastManager.add({ type: "error", title: "Could not open preview" });
        }
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if (previewResult._tag === "Failure" && !isAtomCommandInterrupted(previewResult)) {
console.error(previewResult.cause);
if (previewResult._tag === "Failure" && !isAtomCommandInterrupted(previewResult)) {
console.error(previewResult.cause);
toastManager.add({ type: "error", title: "Could not open preview" });
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In `@apps/web/src/components/ChatView.tsx` around lines 4304 - 4305, In the
non-interrupted failure branch for automatic preview opening, keep the console
error log and add an error toast using toastManager with the title “Could not
open preview.” Locate this branch by the previewResult failure check and
isAtomCommandInterrupted.

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Closing for missing verification. The PR explicitly says this has not been exercised in a running desktop client. Show the action button and keybinding opening the configured preview, with no preview after a failed terminal write, using before/after captures and a short recording. See verification. Add the evidence and request reconsideration.

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