sdp-request-watcher/CLAUDE.md

CLAUDE.md

Context for Claude Code sessions in this repo. Keep this short. Longer notes live in docs/.

Project

A help desk dashboard for ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus Cloud (ithelp.mainecc.edu). It's a stateless Node/Express server, shipped as the Docker image v0idf1sh/sdp-dashboard, running behind Nginx Proxy Manager with an MCCS IP allow list. Each user signs in with their own Zoho account; the session is an encrypted cookie. The central region (KVCC, EMCC, CMCC, MCCS) is configured through .env.

• Goal and next steps: per-browser settings and panel modules. See docs/ROADMAP.md.
• Decisions, API gotchas and known issues: docs/NOTES.md. Read it before touching any SDP query.
• Latest session summary and handoff: SESSION.md.

Run

npm install
npm run app        # node src/server.js from the repo root; .env lives in the repo root

The app is served at http://localhost:3000. .env needs CLIENT_ID/CLIENT_SECRET from a Zoho Server-based Application client with http://localhost:3000/auth/callback as a redirect URI, plus a SESSION_SECRET of 32 or more characters.

Releases: push a v*-prod* tag. .gitea/workflows/docker.yml builds and pushes the image; the VPS is updated by hand.

Layout

• src/server.js: reads .env, holds the region settings and timing, and starts Express.
• src/auth.js: Zoho web OAuth (authorization URL, code exchange, renewal, revoke, user info).
• src/session.js: the encrypted session cookie and the requireSession middleware, which renews the access token when it's due.
• src/routes.js: /auth/* (login, callback, logout) and /api/* (session, closed, workload, weather; all need a sign-in).
• src/tickets.js: all SDP queries (closed feed, status table, closed today, unassigned). A 401 from SDP is rethrown so the route signs the user out.
• src/weather.js: OpenWeatherMap, cached for 10 minutes and shared by all users.
• src/public/index.html: the whole front end in one file (inline CSS and JS, no build step). It runs the polling timers and keeps the closed feed.
• Dockerfile, docker-compose.yml (example for the VPS), .gitea/workflows/docker.yml.

Working agreements

• Never print or commit .env values (Zoho client secret, SESSION_SECRET, OpenWeatherMap key). Redact them when inspecting.
• Never send Zoho tokens to the page or put them in logs. They stay inside the encrypted cookie and server memory for the length of a request.
• There are no automated tests yet. Verify server logic by stubbing axios.get and axios.post. Resolve axios from the project with require.resolve('axios', { paths: [dir] }) so the stub hits the same instance. Verify the page by evaluating its <script> with stubbed document, fetch, location and history, or by taking a screenshot with headless Edge.
• The sandbox can't bind TCP ports, but it can listen on a unix socket with a short relative path (cd to the scratchpad and listen on x.sock). To run server.js end to end, patch express.application.listen. Docker isn't available in the sandbox.
• Match the existing style: 4-space indent and CommonJS on the server, 2-space indent in index.html, lowercase // comments explaining why rather than what. Some files have CRLF line endings, so use the Edit tool rather than sed for multi-line changes.
• Keep the core closed-ticket watcher (feed and ding) working and on by default.
• Don't commit unless asked. Commit messages end with the Co-Authored-By line for Claude.
• Record new decisions and gotchas in docs/NOTES.md, and move roadmap items as they're done.