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pj 661100dfdc Margin Calendar: a Google Calendar client for desktop and phone
Tauri 2, React 19 and zustand on the front, Rust behind. Rust owns auth,
all HTTP to Google, the SQLite store, the sync loop, recurrence expansion
and timezone maths. TypeScript owns rendering and never talks to Google,
which keeps the content security policy locked to ipc:.

Week, day and agenda views, and no month view: it would be a second layout
engine, and the fit and fold logic that makes a day fit the window without
scrolling is the whole point of the app.

Runs on macOS, Linux, Android and iOS. Desktop catches Google's OAuth
redirect on a loopback port. A phone cannot, and Google rejects loopback
for mobile client types anyway, so it redirects to a custom URI scheme and
needs its own public OAuth clients, which docs/mobile.md covers. Refresh
tokens are sealed with XChaCha20-Poly1305 in the app data directory on
every platform, with no OS credential store in the picture.

On a phone the chrome becomes a top bar and a bottom tab bar, overlays
become sheets, hover affordances become taps, and dragging out an event
waits for a long press. Navigation moves one day at a time everywhere,
a swipe included.
2026-08-12 17:09:21 +05:30

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Conventions

This project is a sibling to ../margin and follows its conventions deliberately rather than inventing new ones. When something here is unclear, the answer is almost always "do what margin does", and the file to look at is named below.

Rust

Result<T, String> everywhere. No anyhow, no custom error enum except google::api::ApiError, which exists only because the sync engine has to distinguish a 410 and a 412 from everything else.

DTOs crossing the IPC boundary live in src-tauri/src/dto.rs and are marked #[serde(rename_all = "camelCase")]. That file is the contract and is frozen: implementation modules add bodies, not fields. Its mirror is src/ipc.ts.

Read Google's responses through google::auth::read_json, which takes the body to a String first so the error payload survives into the message. Ported from margin/src-tauri/src/gdrive.rs:286.

Heavy synchronous work goes behind #[tauri::command(async)] on a synchronous fn, which is margin's pdf.rs:90 trick for getting off the main thread without hand-writing spawn_blocking.

Comments are rare and explain why, never what. Match the density in lib.rs.

TypeScript

One zustand store per domain in src/store/. No middleware. One selector call per field (useThing((s) => s.field), never a destructured object), actions as inline arrow properties, and set((s) => ...) returning {} to no-op. See margin/src/store/useBackup.ts.

Async actions use a string phase union ("idle" | "syncing" | "error"), never boolean loading flags. Errors stringify with String(e) and surface as a toast.

Side effects that touch disk, the DOM or Tauri live in a sibling module, never inside the store.

The OAuth connect flow reuses the promise-holding-its-own-resolver pattern from margin/src/store/useBackup.ts:70: connect() returns a promise whose resolve is stashed in state for a later Tauri event to settle.

Typed IPC wrappers live in src/api/, one module per domain, one thin function per command. They are already written; add bodies to Rust, not new wrappers.

CSS

Flat kebab-case class names, not BEM. State is a data-* attribute, never an is- class.

Every colour, radius and size goes through a token in src/styles/tokens.css. If a value is not in there, add a token rather than a literal.

Dark mode is data-theme on <html>, with both palettes defining an identical variable set. Never a media query for theme.

Transitions name explicit properties and use var(--ease). Never transition: all.

Responsiveness is JS-driven through useCompact(), which writes data-compact on the root. Style against that attribute rather than adding media queries.

usePhone() and useTouch() write data-phone and data-touch the same way, and they answer different questions. data-phone is a window too narrow for the desktop chrome and it governs layout; data-touch is a coarse pointer and it governs interaction. A tablet is touch and not a phone, a narrow desktop window is a phone and not touch, and treating either as a proxy for the other is how a hover-only control ends up unreachable. Both are also set by the boot script in index.html, so the first paint is already the right shape.

A rule that reads "you cannot hover here" belongs on data-touch. A rule that reads "there is no room for this" belongs on data-phone or data-compact.

The one exception is the event block, which uses a container query on its own inline size. That is deliberate: data-compact describes the window, but what decides how many lines of a title fit is the block's own width, and in a three-deep overlap cluster that is a quarter of a column. Nothing else may reach for a container query without the same kind of reason.

Overlays follow margin's .overlay and .panel idiom, already in app.css, and every one of them registers with useEscapeLayer from src/escape.ts so Escape unwinds the layers in order.

Icons

Inline Feather-style 24x24 stroke d strings passed to <Icon d={...} />. There is no icon set and no registry, and there will not be one. An icon-only button always carries a title with its shortcut written in real glyphs.

Storage keys

Anything in localStorage is prefixed margincal-, following margin's convention in theme.ts and panes.ts. Keys read before first paint are restored by the blocking IIFE in index.html.

Never

No CSS framework, no component library, no router, no zustand middleware, no directory trees in any document, and no em dashes anywhere including code comments.