* refactor(thumbnails): one resolver for where previews live on disk (#320) Add py/api/preview_store.py: the store of a source, a preview's path, URL parts to disk, containment (owns), a write generation and the lock around every preview's final rename. Every preview reader, writer and remover now asks it instead of joining <source>/thumbnails by hand: serve, on-demand, capture (its path resolved when the write starts), the after-scan queue, the thumbnail plans and job payloads, clear, the temp sweep, History covers, the auto-tag listing and the owned-preview lookups. Source mode only: every path is the one built before, so nothing changes on disk or on the wire. A structural test keeps new thumbnails joins out of the backend. * refactor(thumbnails): keep the after-scan queue's store rule and pin the write lock (#320) A planned target keeps the plan's own containment rule (inside the store, as the thumbnail job writes it); captures keep the serve rule. The structural test also covers PREVIEW_FOLDER joins and the repo-root modules; the write-lock test asserts the lock instead of waiting on a timer; new tests cover nested roots in the after-scan queue and a legacy upper-case preview served through the resolver. * feat(thumbnails): keep previews in one folder, set from config.json (#320) thumbnails.location in config.json can now name one folder for every source's previews: <folder>/<source key>/<rel>_thumb<ext>. A source key is a readable slug plus a short hash of the source's identity, stored in the folder's marker (.promptmanager-thumbnails.json) with the install that made it. Serving, on-demand and capture writes, listings, clear, delete, duplicates, the temp sweep and History covers all follow it; a leftover in <source>/thumbnails is never served and other text under thumbnails/ is refused. A missing, unplugged or foreign folder is unavailable (a probe checks it every 5 s within 2 s; a stalled or failing store call flips it at once): originals are served, nothing is written anywhere, the folder is never re-created, and generate, convert and clear answer 409 location-unavailable. A bad config value is unavailable too, never a fall-back to the sources. No UI yet: POST /settings refuses thumbnail_location (409 location-needs-move); GET /settings reports it with its path, the thumbnail status without one. Sources inside or around the folder and a library move into it are refused. * fix(thumbnails): never follow a marker or a link out of the thumbnail folder (#320) Marker keys are data, not paths: only a single <slug>-<hex> folder name is ever joined onto the thumbnail folder; anything else is dropped and logged. Every preview write and delete passes one ownership check (below a key folder, lexically and resolved, no link, junction or reparse point on the way); make_parent refuses anything else and writes nothing while the folder lacks this install's marker (an unmounted mount point). Clear never descends into a junction. The configured location is in force before any request (unchecked folder mode is unavailable), and a startup check that fails leaves it invalid, never the sources. Older listings that run on the event loop no longer touch the store in folder mode. A leftover under another case of thumbnails/ on a case-insensitive disk is refused too. * test(memory): let the musl test fake os.confstr on Windows (#523) The portability run on main fails since #523: Windows has no os.confstr, so patching it without create=True raises before the test runs. * feat(thumbnails): move thumbnails between the sources and one folder (#320) POST /images/thumbnails/plan reviews a move (what is copied, removed and left, free space, too-long Windows paths, sources no longer listed) and hands out a token; POST /jobs/thumbnails {mode: move} runs it as a thumbnails job: hold automatic previews, copy and check every preview on the job pool, switch with one config commit that records the old copies, then remove them. Per-file errors still switch; a folder-wide error, a cancel before the switch or a crash leaves nothing changed (a journal is undone at the next start); old copies that could not go are removed by a finishing job at the next start. Leaving a folder removes the previews of this install's sources that are no longer listed (Q320-8). Recreate folder and Use this folder answer an unavailable folder; the Thumbnail maintenance scope prune removes the thumbnails of removed sources. * feat(system): choose where thumbnails are kept and move them (#320) System › Sources & scans gains the Thumbnail location row (D196): Inside each source or One folder, the folder path, the status line and Review move…, whose review (D197) lists what is copied, removed and left before Move thumbnails starts; a refused folder is explained under the field, a folder of your own asks for a confirmation first. Activity shows a move and a prune with their own tiles and step line (D198). An unavailable folder shows a notice on Overview and Sources & scans with Recreate folder or Use this folder (D199). Thumbnail maintenance offers Remove thumbnails of removed sources in folder mode (D200), and Move library's review says where the thumbnails stay (D201). Closes #320 * fix(thumbnails): keep a move's own previews and never walk out of a store (#320) A cleanup that waited from an earlier move never names a key folder the new move just filled, so moving back keeps the previews. Removing empty folders walks top-down and never into a link or junction. Any error while copying undoes the copies; once the switch is committed, a journal that cannot be removed no longer undoes it. Hand-edited cleanup entries and marker keys never name a folder outside the stores; removal stops at interpreter exit. The path field carries aria-invalid with its reason, and a review that went stale reviews again. * test(thumbnails): cover the prune scope, the Overview notice and the space refusal (#320) The frontend coverage gate counted the new branches of thumbnail maintenance, the Activity views, the notices' Change location and the api-client's space refusal as uncovered; page and unit tests now drive them. * fix(thumbnails): report removals that fail and explain the quiet excepts (#320) An old thumbnail the finishing move cannot remove (held open on Windows) is now an error row of the job with its path, and logged; a failed copy's temp that cannot go is logged with its path. Every except that only passes says why, and the thread runners say their caller re-raises. * fix(thumbnails): never plan or delete through a linked key folder (#320) Review finding P1 on #591: in folder mode a source key folder that is a link or junction to a folder outside was still handed to the planner, so Convert outdated could remove an older-format file outside the thumbnail folder. ensure_store now refuses a linked store before any planning, and each removal of an old preview passes may_write at the moment it runs. * fix(thumbnails): the temp sweep never walks into a link (#320) Review finding P2 on #591: Clear thumbnails and the startup sweep removed crashed-write temps with a plain os.walk, which on Windows walks into a junction even without followlinks. The sweeper now skips a folder that is a link, junction or reparse point (the top one too), and each temp passes may_write before it is removed. * fix(thumbnails): lock the folder marker across processes (#320) Review finding P2 on #591: two installs sharing one thumbnail folder could each read the marker, add a key and replace it, so the last writer dropped the other's key. write_marker now re-reads, changes and replaces the marker under a lock file made with O_CREAT | O_EXCL beside it (atomic on shares, unlike flock); a lock older than 30 s, left by a writer that died, is taken over, and a wait past 1.5 s fails as a TimeoutError like an unreachable folder. Tested with three processes adding keys at once. * test(thumbnails): cover the space refusal, Overview's Use this folder and the prune review (#320) The frontend coverage floors of activity-kinds, system-overview and thumbnail-review: a disk without the space shows the review but cannot move (a fixture route fakes the free space), Use this folder on Overview reloads the host values, the prune review's text and rows are pure functions with unit tests, and Overview takes the System drafts it is always mounted with. * fix(thumbnails): never copy through a linked folder; refuse a target inside the folder in use (#320) Moving back to Inside each source followed an existing linked folder in the destination and could replace a file outside the source (Codex P1). A target nested inside the thumbnail folder in use was accepted, and the old-copy cleanup then removed the previews just copied there (Codex P2). Every copy now checks the whole destination chain for links, also when the folders exist, and the move refuses a folder inside the one in use with location-inside-current. The cancelled branches no longer mix explicit and implicit returns (code-quality note). * fix(system): one full stop in the move-back review (#320) * fix(thumbnails): a folder check answers for the folder as it is now (#320) Probe.check() joined a check already running, or a finished one nobody had collected. A folder deleted right after configure() woke the probe therefore stayed available until the next probe, which failed the Overview notice spec in the merge queue. It now waits for a running check and starts a new one, still never two at once, and a stuck check still times out. The spec also asserts the fixture's removal took effect.
Viewer.js maintenance
ComfyUI serves the committed files in web/lib/viewerjs/. Node and npm are only
needed by maintainers and CI. Keep upstream files pristine; application behavior
belongs in web/js/, and theme overrides belong in comfyui-theme.css.
Install and verify
Use Node 24 or newer. From the repository root:
npm ci --prefix tools/vendor --ignore-scripts
npm run --prefix tools/vendor check
npm run --prefix tools/vendor test
node --test tests/js/*.test.js
npx --prefix tools/vendor playwright install chromium
npm run --prefix tools/vendor test:browser
On Linux, use playwright install --with-deps chromium when browser system
libraries are missing. The browser tests use synthetic images and mock the
ComfyUI API boundary; they run production viewer methods and the committed
Viewer.js JS/CSS, without a running ComfyUI instance.
check is read-only and fails if any JS, CSS, license, or provenance file differs
from the installed package. The manifest, lockfile, installed package, and asset
version banners must agree. The lockfile records npm's archive integrity;
provenance.json records the upstream source, package integrity, and SHA-256 of
each copied file. A normal npm ci --ignore-scripts verifies archive integrity.
Full-page workflows, frontend coverage gates, and required merge checks are
documented in TESTING.md. The viewerjs CI check runs both
the fixture tests above and the real-page workflows on every PR.
Update
npm run --prefix tools/vendor update
# Or select a specific stable version:
npm run --prefix tools/vendor update -- --version 1.15.2
The command installs an exact version with lifecycle scripts disabled and copies
dist/viewer.min.js, dist/viewer.min.css, and LICENSE. It writes deterministic
provenance with no timestamps. Repeat the checks above and commit the manifest,
lockfile, and all vendor files together. To regenerate files from the current
pin without changing versions, run npm run --prefix tools/vendor sync.
Automated update PRs
Update vendored Viewer.js checks npm's stable release daily at 07:30 UTC and
supports Actions → Update vendored Viewer.js → Run workflow, with an optional
version. It tests the generated update before opening deps/viewerjs-X.Y.Z.
Existing open or closed PRs for that release are left alone. A failed test does
not publish a branch or PR. Changes require review; the workflow never merges
or approves PRs.
The organization and repository must enable Actions → General → Workflow
permissions → Allow GitHub Actions to create and approve pull requests.
Keep default workflow permissions read-only. Only the update job requests
contents: write, pull-requests: write, and actions: write.
The workflow uses GITHUB_TOKEN; no personal token is needed. Because bot-token
pushes do not normally trigger other workflows, it explicitly dispatches the
read-only Viewer.js vendor and compatibility workflow on the update branch.
Both workflow files must be merged into the default branch before scheduling or
manual dispatch becomes available.
Compatibility checklist
Check gallery grid/list views, navigation across 100-image windows, metadata, slideshow/fullscreen, keyboard navigation, Escape and focus cleanup. Check the admin gallery/filmstrip and tag viewer. On touch devices, test long swipes, short drags, and pinch/rotate gestures. Confirm the ComfyUI theme remains usable.
The gallery keeps its bounded viewer and custom slideshow. Upstream navbar windowing is not a replacement for bounding the supplied image list: native slideshow playback can still preload every supplied original. Review new preloading defaults, gesture behavior, CSS changes, and any adapter use of Viewer.js internal methods before adopting another release.
Shared ComfyAssets test tooling
The exact toolkit commit archive in package.json / package-lock.json supplies
host orchestration and coverage helpers. comfyui-host.mjs is PromptManager's
configuration adapter; keep reusable lifecycle changes in the toolkit source.
The existing npm scripts remain the public maintainer entry points. See
TESTING.md for the managed real-host matrix and update policy.
Shared ComfyAssets browser controls
Prompt Manager (Classic) consumes the same pinned toolkit's browser controls.
The node identifier remains PromptManager; existing workflows, sockets, and
immediate result selection are preserved. PromptManager Text is unchanged.
Committed assets in web/js/shared/toolkit/ work without npm or KikoTools installed.
Maintain common controls in ComfyAssets Toolkit,
then update the exact archive pin and lockfile here. Regenerate using
npm run --prefix tools/vendor sync:toolkit; npm run --prefix tools/vendor check
verifies both Viewer.js and the toolkit without rewriting files. The toolkit
distribution includes its license, source history, archive integrity and per-file
hashes. Do not edit its copied files directly. Classic's controller and layout
remain in web/js/classic-node.js and web/js/classic-node.css.
Run the frontend coverage/browser suites and managed Classic/Nodes 2.0 matrix after updates. Shared modules participate in the frontend coverage gate. Pixaroma's reusable framework inspired this architecture; no Pixaroma code, styles or assets are included.