# Description of Changes
Makes the desktop options to sign in with your Stirling account, or sign
into self-hosted:
<img width="608" height="456" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/a49988ab-db3f-4333-b242-790aee5c07c6"
/>
The first option still runs everything locally, just enforces that
you've signed in for now. Future work will enable sending operations
that can't be run locally to the server.
# Description of Changes
Changes the desktop app to allow connections to self-hosted servers on
first startup. This was quite involved and hit loads of CORS issues all
through the stack, but I think it's working now. This also changes the
bundled backend to spawn on an OS-decided port rather than always
spawning on `8080`, which means that the user can have other things
running on port `8080` now and the app will still work fine. There were
quite a few places that needed to be updated to decouple the app from
explicitly using `8080` and I was originally going to split those
changes out into another PR (#4939), but I couldn't get it working
independently in the time I had, so the diff here is just going to be
complex and contian two distinct changes - sorry 🙁
James Brunton
ConnorYoh