- A tile no longer lifts under the pointer. A finger does not move away afterwards the way a cursor does, so whatever hover raised stayed raised until something else was touched: a tile stuck, not answering. - The ground's blobs wander a closed path on their own clock instead of sliding back and forth along one line, which read as things moving rather than as light in a room. - A bar is one grid now, its rows borrowing its columns, so names of different lengths no longer start and end their tracks in different places — two bars that share no baseline cannot be compared, which is the one thing a stack of them is for. The names read rightward into their tracks, with room either side. - A reading on its way somewhere is written to as many decimals as the value it is heading for. Without that a slider stepping in halves passed through 22.37460937 on its way to 24: a number nobody asked for, a different width every frame. - The brightness column is the same control as the slider widget's, stood on its end and thicker, and exactly as tall as the disc beside it. Getting there meant drawing a slider's rail, fill and handle rather than styling `::-webkit-slider-*`: those need one set of rules per orientation, each with its own centring quirk, and the handle landed off its track when the writing mode turned. The native input stays, laid transparent over the top, so the keyboard, the pointer and every `aria-` are still its.
Fluksio App
Fluksio has the goal to build a revolutionary system to tackle any sort of automation challenge.
The core of Fluksio: a node-based, test-driven automation software built to scale. This
repo holds the FastAPI backend, the flow engine, and the dashboard SPA. It is served on
app.${DOMAIN} (SPA) and api.${DOMAIN} (API); the marketing site lives in the sibling
index repo.
Layout
backend/ FastAPI + SQLModel + Alembic + SQLite — the `fluksio` distribution
fluksio/flow/ the flow engine (nodes, pipeline, state backends, controller)
fluksio/cli.py `fluksio serve` / `enroll` / `worker`
worker/ the `fluksio-worker` distribution: the agent and the node runner
frontend/ React 19 + TanStack Router + Tailwind 4 + shadcn/ui
docs/ the public documentation site (zensical), served on docs.${DOMAIN}
docker/ compose.yml → compose.dev.yml → compose.local.yml (+ compose.traefik.yml)
scripts/ generate-client.sh, test.sh
Install without Docker
pip install fluksio
fluksio serve # ~/.fluksio, SQLite, prints an admin password once
fluksio enroll <code> --portal https://hub.fluksio.com # watch it from the portal
Nothing else has to be running. --data-dir puts the installation somewhere else —
worth it on a cluster, where $HOME is often a network filesystem SQLite cannot use.
git is not required but is worth having: flows are files either way, and it is what
turns each save into a commit.
The dashboard is served by the portal, so a machine with no inbound route is reached
without opening a port: it dials out.
A machine that should only run nodes for an engine elsewhere installs less:
pip install fluksio-worker
fluksio-worker --url wss://api.example.com/api/v1/workers/attach --token "$TOKEN" --labels gpu
Getting started
Normally driven from the workspace root (make init once, then make dev). Standalone:
make install # uv sync + bun install
make dev-utils # proxy and mailcatcher only
make dev-backend # FastAPI on :8000, hot reload
make dev-frontend # Vite on :5173
make test # pytest + Playwright (the e2e half needs the stack up)
make lint # ruff + mypy + biome
make generate-client # regenerate the frontend SDK from the OpenAPI schema
make help lists every target.
Documentation
The public site lives in docs/ and is built with zensical:
make docs-serve # live preview on :8000
make docs # static build into ./site
It is served at docs.${DOMAIN} by the docs service in docker/compose.yml,
and .gitea/workflows/docs.yml builds it with --strict on every push. Style
follows the root DESIGN-GUIDELINES.md; the tokens are mirrored in
docs/stylesheets/extra.css.
Repo-only material:
ROADMAP.md— strategy and feature recordNOTEPAD.md— deferred work and findingsDESIGN.md— points at the workspace root'sDESIGN-GUIDELINES.mddocs/architecture/in the siblingdocsrepo — the requirement sources