Replaces the simple host:port text prompt with a proper dialog featuring:
- Protocol selector (SSH, Telnet, RAW TCP)
- Host input field
- Port field (auto-updates default when protocol changes)
- Username field (shown only for SSH)
- Enter key submits, Escape cancels
- Uses ConnectQuick API for unsaved ad-hoc connections
Full command snippet library for saving and sending reusable commands:
Backend:
- SQLite migration 003 creates snippets table
- Snippet model with name, command, description, folder, tags
- Store CRUD methods and API endpoints
Frontend:
- SnippetLibrary class with searchable list + detail/editor split view
- Create, edit, delete snippets in modal dialog
- 'Send to Session' button writes command to active terminal
- 'Send Snippet' option in terminal right-click context menu
- Ctrl+Shift+S keyboard shortcut to open library
Broadcast mode sends keystrokes from the active terminal to all other
connected sessions simultaneously. Useful for applying the same
commands across multiple servers.
- Toggle via Ctrl+Shift+B keyboard shortcut or broadcast button in tab bar
- Visual indicator: broadcast button pulses red when active
- Only sends to sessions in 'connected' state
- Notification on toggle
- State stored in app state object
Replaces the basic find bar with a polished overlay that matches the
terminal-search CSS. Features:
- Case sensitivity toggle (Aa button)
- Regular expression toggle (.* button)
- Match status indicator (found/no matches)
- Smooth entrance/exit animation
- Clears search decorations on close
- Re-focuses existing bar if already open
Sessions configured with auto-reconnect will automatically attempt to
re-establish the connection when unexpectedly disconnected. Uses
exponential backoff (1s, 2s, 4s, 8s... up to 30s) with a configurable
maximum number of attempts (default 5).
- New SessionReconnecting state with pulsing indicator in tab bar
- SSH and Telnet profiles gain autoReconnect and maxReconnectTries fields
- RAW protocol already had autoReconnect; now uses the shared mechanism
- CancelReconnect API to abort in-progress reconnection
- Frontend shows reconnect attempt notifications
- Profile editor exposes toggle and max attempts in Advanced/Reconnection
- Added 📁 folder icon button on SSH tabs to toggle the SFTP file browser
- Button appears on hover/active, styled consistently with the close button
- Removed conflicting Cmd+Shift+F shortcut (clashes with macOS find)
- Added platform-specific window options (Mac, Windows, Linux)
- Added F11 fullscreen toggle and Escape to exit fullscreen
- Cleaned up SFTP panel on session close
SFTP file browser:
- Created internal/sftpclient wrapping github.com/pkg/sftp for remote file
operations (list, stat, mkdir, remove, rename, download, upload, pwd)
- Integrated SFTP into session manager with lazy client creation per session
- Added API methods for all SFTP operations with native file dialogs
- Built SFTPBrowser frontend component — right-side resizable panel with
breadcrumb navigation, sorted file listing, context actions (download,
rename, delete), upload, new folder, and custom modal dialogs
- Toggle via Cmd+Shift+F on active SSH sessions
- Auto-refits terminal when panel opens/closes/resizes
- Panel cleaned up automatically when session closes
OpenSSH config import:
- Created internal/sshconfig parser for ~/.ssh/config Host blocks
- Converts to profiles with hostname, port, user, identity file,
ProxyJump (first hop), ForwardAgent, and Compression support
- Skips wildcard-only hosts and Match blocks
- Import button added to Settings > About tab
Automatic update checking:
- Created internal/updater querying GitHub Releases API
- Simple semver comparison, 10-second timeout
- Dev builds never trigger update prompts
- Check button added to Settings > About tab
Session Recording & Playback:
- Add recording package with asciicast v2 format writer and reader
- Recorder captures terminal I/O with timestamps from SSH and Telnet sessions
- Input and output events recorded via hooks in session manager callbacks
- Recording store manages .cast files in ~/Library/Application Support/NexusTerminal/recordings
- Recording browser modal lists all saved recordings with metadata
- Full playback viewer with embedded xterm.js terminal, progress scrubber,
play/pause/restart controls, and 0.5x-10x speed adjustment
- Recording indicator (pulsing red dot) shown on active tab during capture
- Keyboard shortcut Cmd+Shift+R to toggle recording on active session
- Tests for recording, store listing, deletion, and double-close safety
Encrypted Profile Export/Import:
- Add exportimport package with AES-256-GCM encryption (Argon2id key derivation)
- File format: version byte + 32-byte salt + 12-byte nonce + ciphertext
- Same Argon2id parameters as vault (128 MiB, 3 iterations, 4 threads)
- Export modal with profile selection checkboxes and password entry
- Import modal with password entry and conflict strategy (skip/overwrite/duplicate)
- Native save/open file dialogs for .nexus files
- Tests for round-trip encryption, wrong password rejection, corrupt files
- Replaced placeholder import/export with full encrypted implementation
UI:
- Added export and recordings buttons to sidebar footer
- Recording and playback CSS with charcoal design tokens
- Wired RecordingManager and ExportImportUI into app.js
Split Pane Layout:
- Add SplitPaneManager with recursive tree-based pane splitting
- Support horizontal (Cmd+Shift+E) and vertical (Cmd+Shift+D) splits
- Draggable resize dividers with 100px minimum pane size
- Hover-visible close button to unsplit panes
- Session picker in new panes for connecting separate terminals
- Automatic xterm refit on all pane resize operations
Custom Terminal Themes:
- Add themes.js with 8 preset colour schemes: Charcoal (default),
Solarized Dark, Monokai, Nord, Dracula, One Dark, Gruvbox Dark,
Tokyo Night
- Add TerminalTheme preference to AppPreferences model
- Add colour scheme selector to Settings → Terminal tab
- Live-apply theme changes to all active terminals on save
- TerminalManager now uses themed colours instead of hardcoded values
Master Password Strength Meter:
- Add visual strength bar to vault creation dialog
- Entropy estimation based on length, character diversity, uniqueness
- Four levels: Weak (red), Fair (amber), Good (green), Strong (green)
- Animated transitions on strength changes
- Charcoal-themed CSS matching modal design
Port Forwarding (new):
- Add PortForward model with local/remote direction, bind/dest addresses
- Implement ForwardManager in sshclient/portforward.go with full
bidirectional tunnel support for both local and remote forwarding
- Integrate ForwardManager into SSH client lifecycle (auto-start on
connect, clean shutdown on close)
- Add session manager methods: ListPortForwards, StartPortForward,
StopPortForward with event emission
- Add API surface: ListPortForwards, StartPortForward, StopPortForward
- Add validation for port-forward rules in ValidateSSHConfig
- Add port forwarding section to profile editor with direction, bind/dest
host/port, label, and enable toggle
- Add frontend event handling for forward:started/stopped/error
- Style port-forward rows with charcoal card design matching jump hosts
Jump Host UI improvements:
- Add private key path field to jump host editor rows
- Collect privateKeyPath in form value collection
- Restyle jump host rows as two-line cards with clear field grouping
New protocol type 'github' for browsing repositories via the GitHub REST API.
Creates a non-terminal panel showing repos grouped by owner/org, sorted by
last commit date (newest first), with search filtering and auto-refresh.
Backend:
- ProtocolGitHub constant and GitHubConfig/GitHubRepo model structs
- New internal/githubclient package (REST API, pagination, token validation)
- Session manager connectGitHub() with periodic refresh goroutine
- API surface: RefreshGitHubRepos() for on-demand refresh
- Token stored via existing credential infrastructure (keychain/vault)
Frontend:
- GitHub tab in profile editor with API URL and token storage fields
- New github.js viewer component (grouped repos, badges, language dots)
- github.css with charcoal-themed repo cards and org headers
- Protocol colour tokens, tab badge, sidebar indicator for GitHub
- Event wiring for session:github:repos and session:github:error
- Cleanup on tab close
Supports GitHub Enterprise via configurable API base URL.
Root cause: The PTY is allocated at 80x24 during the SSH handshake.
The frontend xterm.js fits correctly to the container (e.g. 120x35),
but term.onResize fires before the backend connection is ready, so the
ResizeSession call is silently rejected. When the connection completes,
fitAddon.fit() sees the terminal already has the right cols/rows and
does NOT fire another onResize event. The PTY stays at 80x24.
Fix: On 'session:state → connected', explicitly read the current
terminal cols/rows and send them to the backend via ResizeSession,
bypassing the onResize event dependency.
Also fix empty-state ordering in addTab() — hide the empty-state
BEFORE activating the panel so the panel-container gets the full
workspace height immediately (empty-state has flex:1 and was stealing
half the height during initial layout).
Simplify createTerminal() fit logic — force a synchronous reflow
via offsetHeight access, then fit immediately.
Theme:
- Replace all purple/blue-tinted backgrounds (#1a1a2e, #1f1f35, etc.)
with true neutral charcoal greys (#1c1c1c, #232323, #2a2a2a, etc.)
- Neutralise text colours (remove blue tint from secondary/tertiary)
- Update xterm.js theme and session overlay to match
Terminal resize:
- Add fitSession(sessionId) method for targeted terminal fitting
- Fire fit at 30ms, 150ms, and 500ms after 'connected' state event
- Ensures terminal fills container even when layout settles late
- Add pencil edit button on each sidebar profile item (visible on hover)
- Fire fitAddon.fit() multiple times after terminal creation (50/150/400ms)
to catch the panel finishing its CSS layout
- Re-fit terminal when session:state transitions to 'connected'
Layout:
- Add panel-container and session-panel CSS so workspace content
doesn't overlap sidebar
- Session panels use position: absolute to fill workspace area
- Workspace is now flex column for proper empty-state/panel stacking
Terminal:
- xterm.js overrides now target .session-panel in addition to
.terminal-container so terminal fills available space
- Added debounced window resize handler for terminal re-fit
Notifications:
- Rewrote Notifications class to emit .notification-* classes matching
the existing polished CSS (was emitting .toast-* with no CSS)
- Icon is now a small coloured circle badge instead of oversized SVG
Sidebar:
- Fixed class mismatches: sidebar-dot → protocol-indicator,
sidebar-item-sub → sidebar-item-host, sidebar-star → sidebar-item-star
- protocolColour() now returns proto-ssh etc. matching CSS selectors
Other:
- Replaced prompt() in tab rename with custom _inputPrompt modal
- Change ConnectSession/ConnectQuick to return SessionInfo (not string)
- Change UpdateProfile to return (Profile, error) for frontend use
- Make session connection asynchronous to avoid Wails event loop deadlock
- Implement event-based secret prompt (backend ↔ frontend via requestID)
- Add TestConnection API for TCP reachability checks with latency
- Add 'Save & Connect' button in profile editor
- Wire _testConnection to real backend TCP check
- Add btn-accent CSS for the green action button
WebKit's WKWebView rejects top-level const/let declarations that shadow
global function names. Since utils.js defines functions like stateLabel()
at the global scope (non-module scripts), and later files destructure
the same names from window.NexusTerminal using const, WebKit throws:
SyntaxError: Can't create duplicate variable that shadows a global property
Fix: wrap every JS file in an IIFE so all declarations are function-scoped.
Also remove temporary diagnostic instrumentation.
Replace ES module import/export with a global namespace pattern to avoid
silent failures in the Wails v2 WKWebView which does not reliably support
<script type="module"> tags.
- Remove all import/export statements from JS files
- Register each module's exports on window.NexusTerminal
- Destructure dependencies from window.NexusTerminal at file top
- Load all scripts in dependency order in index.html as plain <script> tags
Andy Dixon
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