# Description of Changes
Changes the strategy for autoformatting to reject PRs if they are not
formatted correctly instead of allowing them to merge and then spawning
a new PR to fix the formatting. The old strategy just caused more work
for us because we'd have to manually approve the followup PR and get it
merged, which required 2 reviewers so in practice it rarely got done and
just meant everyone's PRs ended up containing reformatting for unrelated
files, which makes code review unnecessarily difficult. If the PR's code
is not formatted correctly after this PR, a comment will be added
automatically to tell the author how to run the formatter script to fix
their code so it can go in.
This also enables autoformatting for the frontend code, using Prettier.
I've enabled it for pretty much everything in the frontend folder, other
than 3rd party files and files it doesn't make sense for. I also
excluded Markdown because it sounds likely to be more annoying to have
to autoformat the Markdown in the frontend folder but nowhere else. Open
to changing this though if people disagree.
> [!note]
>
> Advice to reviewers: The first commit contains all of the actual logic
I've introduced (CI changes, Prettier config, etc.)
> The second commit is just the reformatting of the entire frontend
folder.
> The first commit needs proper review, the second one just give it a
spot-check that it's doing what you'd expect.
## Summary
This PR adds full desktop (Tauri) support for the shared signing feature
when connected to a self-hosted server, and fixes several bugs
discovered during that work.
### Feature gating
Shared signing, file sharing, and share links are proprietary server
features that require an authenticated self-hosted session. Previously
these were read directly from `config` with no awareness of connection
mode or auth state, meaning the UI could appear in SaaS/local mode or
when logged out.
- Introduce `useGroupSigningEnabled` and `useSharingEnabled` hooks with
core implementations (web behaviour unchanged) and desktop overrides
that require `selfhosted` mode + an active authenticated session
- Extract shared subscription logic into `useSelfHostedAuth` (connection
mode + auth state + config refetch)
- `QuickAccessBar` now derives all three flags from the hooks instead of
raw config
### Config timing fix
When a user logs in via the SetupWizard, the `jwt-available` event fires
a config fetch *before* the mode is switched to `selfhosted`. This meant
the config was fetched from the local bundled backend (port ~59567)
which has no knowledge of `storageGroupSigningEnabled`, causing the
group signing button to stay hidden until a full page refresh.
`useSelfHostedAuth` detects the mode transition and triggers a fresh
config fetch at the correct moment, after the self-hosted URL is active.
### Bug fixes
**`SignPopout.tsx`** — Manually setting `Content-Type:
multipart/form-data` on two `FormData` POST requests stripped the
auto-generated boundary, causing a `400 bad multipart` from the server.
Removed the explicit headers so Axios sets them correctly.
**`tauriHttpClient.ts`** — `response.json()` was called before
`response.ok` was checked. A plain-text error body from the server (e.g.
`"Cannot sign..."`) caused a `SyntaxError` that fell into the network
error catch block and was reported as `ERR_NETWORK`, hiding the real
failure. The fix checks `response.ok` first, reads error bodies as text,
and handles empty 200 bodies (returning `null` instead of throwing).
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## Testing
### Prerequisites
- Desktop app running in self-hosted mode pointed at a local
Stirling-PDF instance (`http://localhost:8080`)
- The self-hosted instance has group signing and storage enabled in
settings
- At least two user accounts on the self-hosted instance
### 1. Feature gating — group signing button
| Step | Expected |
|---|---|
| Open the desktop app in **local mode** (no server configured) | Group
signing button absent from QuickAccessBar |
| Switch to self-hosted mode but **do not log in** | Group signing
button absent |
| Log in to the self-hosted server | Group signing button appears
without requiring a page refresh |
| Log out | Group signing button disappears immediately |
| Log back in | Group signing button reappears without a page refresh |
### 2. Feature gating — file sharing
Repeat the same steps above, verifying the share and share-link buttons
in the file manager follow the same visibility rules.
### 3. Create a signing session
1. Log in, open the group signing panel from QuickAccessBar
2. Select a PDF, add a participant, configure signature defaults and
submit
3. Verify the session is created successfully (no `400 bad multipart`
error)
### 4. Participant signing
1. As the invited participant, open the signing request from
QuickAccessBar
2. Upload or draw a signature and submit
3. Verify signing completes successfully (no `ERR_NETWORK` error)
### 5. Error surfacing
1. Attempt an action that the server rejects (e.g. sign a document with
an invalid certificate)
2. Verify the actual server error message is shown rather than a generic
network error
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