@jant/core 0.6.16 → 0.7.1

package/src/lib/view-language.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,436 @@
+/**
+ * View language: which language's browsing surface a request is asking for.
+ *
+ * A multilingual site keeps its primary language at the root (`/`, `/archive`,
+ * `/feed`) and gives every other language a URL prefix (`/en`, `/zh-hant`).
+ * The prefix selects a *view* — it filters the timeline, feeds and collection
+ * pages to that language — and it does not change any post's own address.
+ *
+ * Everything a handler needs to stay inside its view goes through
+ * `toViewPath()`, so a page rendered at `/en` links to `/en?page=2` rather
+ * than throwing the reader back to the primary language on the second page.
+ */
+
+import type { Context } from "hono";
+import type { Bindings } from "../types/bindings.js";
+import type { AppVariables } from "../types/app-context.js";
+import type {
+  LanguageAlternate,
+  LanguageSwitcherOption,
+} from "../types/views.js";
+import { toLanguagePrefix } from "../i18n/locales.js";
+import { getOrBuildEntry } from "../i18n/supported-locales.js";
+import { isPerLanguageSurface } from "./per-language-surfaces.js";
+import { toAbsoluteSiteUrl, toPublicPath } from "./url.js";
+
+type ViewContext = Context<{ Bindings: Bindings; Variables: AppVariables }>;
+
+export type { LanguageAlternate, LanguageSwitcherOption };
+
+/**
+ * What the first path segment of a request means.
+ *
+ * - `pass` — not a language prefix; the request belongs to another route.
+ * - `redirect` — a language prefix that has no view right now (the primary
+ *   language's own prefix, or any prefix left over from before multilingual
+ *   was switched off). Old links and feed subscriptions keep working.
+ * - `view` — serve this language's view.
+ */
+export type LanguageViewDecision =
+  | { kind: "pass" }
+  | { kind: "redirect"; to: string }
+  | { kind: "view"; lang: string };
+
+const PASS: LanguageViewDecision = { kind: "pass" };
+
+/** First segment of an internal path, without its slashes. */
+function firstSegment(path: string): string {
+  const rest = path.startsWith("/") ? path.slice(1) : path;
+  const slash = rest.indexOf("/");
+  return slash === -1 ? rest : rest.slice(0, slash);
+}
+
+/** The same path with its first segment removed, always rooted at `/`. */
+function stripFirstSegment(path: string): string {
+  const rest = path.startsWith("/") ? path.slice(1) : path;
+  const slash = rest.indexOf("/");
+  return slash === -1 ? "/" : rest.slice(slash);
+}
+
+/** Query string of the current request, including `?`, or an empty string. */
+function queryString(c: ViewContext): string {
+  const index = c.req.url.indexOf("?");
+  return index === -1 ? "" : c.req.url.slice(index);
+}
+
+/**
+ * Decide what the language prefix in the current URL means.
+ *
+ * A site that has never configured a second language gets `pass` for every
+ * request — its posts are free to use any first segment they like, including
+ * ones that happen to look like language tags (`/is`, `/it`, `/no`).
+ *
+ * @param c - Request context, after `withConfig()`
+ * @returns How the request should be handled
+ * @example
+ * // On a site serving zh-Hans (primary) and en:
+ * resolveLanguageView(c); // GET /en/archive  → { kind: "view", lang: "en" }
+ * resolveLanguageView(c); // GET /zh-hans     → { kind: "redirect", to: "/" }
+ * resolveLanguageView(c); // GET /hello       → { kind: "pass" }
+ */
+export function resolveLanguageView(c: ViewContext): LanguageViewDecision {
+  const { siteLanguage, additionalLanguages, multilingualEnabled } =
+    c.var.appConfig;
+
+  const primaryPrefix = toLanguagePrefix(siteLanguage);
+  const configured = additionalLanguages.filter(
+    (tag) => toLanguagePrefix(tag) !== primaryPrefix,
+  );
+  if (configured.length === 0) return PASS;
+
+  const segment = firstSegment(c.req.path).toLowerCase();
+  if (!segment) return PASS;
+
+  const redirect = (): LanguageViewDecision => ({
+    kind: "redirect",
+    to: `${toPublicPath(
+      stripFirstSegment(c.req.path),
+      c.var.appConfig.sitePathPrefix,
+    )}${queryString(c)}`,
+  });
+
+  // The primary language is served from the root, so its own prefix is only
+  // ever an alias for it (§4.3).
+  if (segment === primaryPrefix) return redirect();
+
+  const match = configured.find((tag) => toLanguagePrefix(tag) === segment);
+  if (!match) return PASS;
+
+  return multilingualEnabled ? { kind: "view", lang: match } : redirect();
+}
+
+/**
+ * Every URL prefix a path on this site can arrive under.
+ *
+ * The site's own languages, the primary one included: its prefix has no view
+ * of its own but still redirects to the root, so `/zh-hans/hello` names the
+ * same page as `/hello`. Empty on a site with one language, where a first
+ * segment that looks like a language tag is just a post's slug.
+ *
+ * Use it to resolve an address the author pasted; requests themselves are
+ * decided by {@link resolveLanguageView}, which knows view from redirect.
+ *
+ * @param config - Site language settings
+ * @returns Prefixes without slashes, e.g. `["zh-hans", "en"]`
+ */
+export function languageUrlPrefixes(config: {
+  siteLanguage: string;
+  additionalLanguages: readonly string[];
+}): string[] {
+  const primaryPrefix = toLanguagePrefix(config.siteLanguage);
+  const others = config.additionalLanguages
+    .map((tag) => toLanguagePrefix(tag))
+    .filter((prefix) => prefix !== primaryPrefix);
+
+  return others.length === 0 ? [] : [primaryPrefix, ...new Set(others)];
+}
+
+/**
+ * Whether the current URL carries a language prefix.
+ *
+ * Distinct from `getViewLang()`: the root URLs of a multilingual site show the
+ * primary language, so they *have* a view language while having no prefix.
+ *
+ * @param c - Request context
+ * @returns True when the request came in under `/en`-style URLs
+ */
+export function isPrefixedLanguageView(c: ViewContext): boolean {
+  return c.var.viewLang !== undefined;
+}
+
+/**
+ * The language the current view shows, for filtering content.
+ *
+ * On a multilingual site the root is the primary language's view, so this
+ * returns the primary language there rather than "no filter" — otherwise `/`
+ * would show every language while `/en` showed one, and the primary language
+ * would have no view of its own.
+ *
+ * @param c - Request context
+ * @returns Canonical BCP 47 tag, or `null` when the site is single-language
+ */
+export function getViewLang(c: ViewContext): string | null {
+  if (c.var.viewLang) return c.var.viewLang;
+
+  const { siteLanguage, additionalLanguages, multilingualEnabled } =
+    c.var.appConfig;
+  if (!multilingualEnabled) return null;
+
+  const primaryPrefix = toLanguagePrefix(siteLanguage);
+  const hasSecondLanguage = additionalLanguages.some(
+    (tag) => toLanguagePrefix(tag) !== primaryPrefix,
+  );
+  return hasSecondLanguage ? siteLanguage : null;
+}
+
+/**
+ * URL prefix of the current view, for building in-view links.
+ *
+ * @param c - Request context
+ * @returns `/en`-style prefix, or an empty string on the root view
+ */
+export function viewBasePath(c: ViewContext): string {
+  const lang = c.var.viewLang;
+  return lang ? `/${toLanguagePrefix(lang)}` : "";
+}
+
+/**
+ * URL prefix of the view a given language is served under.
+ *
+ * A post page belongs to its own language's site: its chrome — logo, nav,
+ * search — links into that language's view, so a reader on a Japanese post
+ * stays among Japanese surfaces. Post pages render at language-neutral URLs,
+ * so this is derived from the post's language rather than the request path.
+ *
+ * @param c - Request context
+ * @param lang - Content language of the page, or null/undefined when unknown
+ * @returns `/ja`-style prefix for an active non-primary language, otherwise
+ *   an empty string (the root view)
+ * @example
+ * languageScopeBasePath(c, "ja"); // "/ja" on a zh-Hans + ja site
+ * languageScopeBasePath(c, "zh-Hans"); // "" — the primary lives at the root
+ */
+export function languageScopeBasePath(
+  c: ViewContext,
+  lang: string | null | undefined,
+): string {
+  if (!lang) return "";
+  const { siteLanguage } = c.var.appConfig;
+  const prefix = toLanguagePrefix(lang);
+  if (prefix === toLanguagePrefix(siteLanguage)) return "";
+  const active = getViewLanguages(c).some(
+    (tag) => toLanguagePrefix(tag) === prefix,
+  );
+  return active ? `/${prefix}` : "";
+}
+
+/**
+ * Build a public path that stays inside the current language view.
+ *
+ * Use this for every in-page link a handler generates — pagination, filter
+ * chips, feed autodiscovery, JSON-LD. Post permalinks are deliberately *not*
+ * view-scoped: a post has one address whatever view it was reached from.
+ *
+ * @param c - Request context
+ * @param path - Internal app path such as `/archive`
+ * @returns Public path, prefixed by the view language and the site path prefix
+ * @example
+ * toViewPath(c, "/"); // "/" at the root, "/en" under the English view
+ * toViewPath(c, "/archive"); // "/archive" or "/en/archive"
+ */
+export function toViewPath(c: ViewContext, path = "/"): string {
+  const base = viewBasePath(c);
+  const { sitePathPrefix } = c.var.appConfig;
+  if (!base) return toPublicPath(path, sitePathPrefix);
+  const suffix = path === "/" || path === "" ? "" : path;
+  return toPublicPath(`${base}${suffix}`, sitePathPrefix);
+}
+
+/**
+ * The request path with the language prefix removed.
+ *
+ * Handlers that resolve a path against the site's own content — the
+ * `path_registry` catch-all above all — work on this, so `/en/hello` and
+ * `/hello` resolve to the same row.
+ *
+ * @param c - Request context
+ * @returns Internal path rooted at `/`, without the view prefix
+ */
+export function viewRelativePath(c: ViewContext): string {
+  return c.var.viewLang ? stripFirstSegment(c.req.path) : c.req.path;
+}
+
+// The table of per-language surfaces lives in its own module so the client can
+// import it too — a link built in the browser needs the same answer.
+export { isPerLanguageSurface };
+
+/**
+ * Build a path inside an arbitrary language's view.
+ *
+ * Used by the language switcher, which links out of the current view.
+ *
+ * @param c - Request context
+ * @param lang - Target language tag, or `null` for the primary view
+ * @param path - Internal app path such as `/archive`
+ * @returns Public path in that language's view
+ */
+export function toLanguagePath(
+  c: ViewContext,
+  lang: string | null,
+  path = "/",
+): string {
+  const { sitePathPrefix, siteLanguage } = c.var.appConfig;
+  const isPrimary =
+    !lang || toLanguagePrefix(lang) === toLanguagePrefix(siteLanguage);
+  if (isPrimary) return toPublicPath(path, sitePathPrefix);
+  const suffix = path === "/" || path === "" ? "" : path;
+  return toPublicPath(`/${toLanguagePrefix(lang)}${suffix}`, sitePathPrefix);
+}
+
+/**
+ * Every language the site serves a view for, primary first.
+ *
+ * @param c - Request context
+ * @returns Canonical tags, or an empty array when multilingual is off
+ */
+export function getViewLanguages(c: ViewContext): string[] {
+  const { siteLanguage, additionalLanguages, multilingualEnabled } =
+    c.var.appConfig;
+  if (!multilingualEnabled) return [];
+  const primaryPrefix = toLanguagePrefix(siteLanguage);
+  const rest = additionalLanguages.filter(
+    (tag) => toLanguagePrefix(tag) !== primaryPrefix,
+  );
+  return rest.length === 0 ? [] : [siteLanguage, ...rest];
+}
+
+/**
+ * The site's languages as the composer offers them.
+ *
+ * Empty on a single-language site, which is what makes the composer show no
+ * language UI at all — an author who never turned multilingual content on
+ * should never meet it.
+ *
+ * @param c - Request context
+ * @returns Tag and native label per language, primary first
+ */
+export function buildComposeLanguages(
+  c: ViewContext,
+): Array<{ tag: string; label: string }> {
+  return getViewLanguages(c).map((tag) => ({
+    tag,
+    label: getOrBuildEntry(tag).native,
+  }));
+}
+
+/**
+ * Build the site's language switcher for the current page.
+ *
+ * The switcher means "take me to this language's site", not "translate this
+ * page": from a list surface it goes to that surface in the other language,
+ * from a post it goes to the translation when one exists, and from anywhere
+ * without a counterpart in that language — a post with no translation, a
+ * settings page — it goes to that language's home. It is never disabled and
+ * never warns: a reader who lands on a language's home page has still
+ * arrived somewhere, and it never links to a 404.
+ *
+ * @param c - Request context
+ * @param options - Per-language destinations, and where to go without one
+ * @returns Switcher entries in configured order, or an empty array when the
+ *   site serves one language
+ * @example
+ * buildLanguageSwitcher(c); // list surfaces: same path, each language
+ * buildLanguageSwitcher(c, {
+ *   hrefByLanguage: new Map([["en", "/my-post"]]),
+ *   fallbackPath: "/",
+ * }); // a post: its translations, else that language's home
+ */
+export function buildLanguageSwitcher(
+  c: ViewContext,
+  options: {
+    hrefByLanguage?: ReadonlyMap<string, string>;
+    fallbackPath?: string;
+    /** Language to mark as current. Defaults to the view's own language. */
+    currentLang?: string;
+  } = {},
+): LanguageSwitcherOption[] {
+  const languages = getViewLanguages(c);
+  if (languages.length === 0) return [];
+
+  const currentPath = viewRelativePath(c);
+  const fallbackPath =
+    options.fallbackPath ??
+    (isPerLanguageSurface(currentPath) ? currentPath : "/");
+  const currentPrefix = toLanguagePrefix(
+    options.currentLang || getViewLang(c) || c.var.appConfig.siteLanguage,
+  );
+  const primaryPrefix = toLanguagePrefix(c.var.appConfig.siteLanguage);
+
+  return languages.map((lang) => {
+    const override = options.hrefByLanguage?.get(lang);
+    return {
+      lang,
+      label: getOrBuildEntry(lang).native,
+      href: override
+        ? toPublicPath(override, c.var.appConfig.sitePathPrefix)
+        : toLanguagePath(c, lang, fallbackPath),
+      isCurrent: toLanguagePrefix(lang) === currentPrefix,
+      isPrimary: toLanguagePrefix(lang) === primaryPrefix,
+    };
+  });
+}
+
+/**
+ * `hreflang` alternates for the surface the current request is rendering.
+ *
+ * List surfaces exist once per language at the same path, so every language's
+ * copy of the current path is an alternate of it.
+ *
+ * An `x-default` alternate pointing at the primary language closes the set,
+ * so a reader whose language the site does not publish lands somewhere
+ * deliberate. Surfaces where it has no defined meaning — Atom feeds — opt out
+ * with `xDefault: false`.
+ *
+ * Returns an empty array on a single-language site, and when the site has no
+ * absolute URL configured — an hreflang `href` must be absolute to be honoured.
+ *
+ * The request's own query string rides along by default, so a filtered surface
+ * points at the same filter in each language. A page that also emits a
+ * `rel="canonical"` must pass `query` instead: every member of an hreflang set
+ * has to be a canonical URL, so the self-referential alternate cannot carry
+ * params the canonical strips — the two tags would give one page two
+ * identities.
+ *
+ * @param c - Request context
+ * @param options - `query` overrides the request's own query string, leading
+ *   `?` included; `xDefault: false` omits the trailing `x-default` entry
+ * @returns Alternates for this surface, primary first
+ * @example
+ * // Rendering /en/archive on a zh-Hans + en site:
+ * buildSurfaceAlternates(c);
+ * // [{hreflang: "zh-Hans", href: "https://…/archive"},
+ * //  {hreflang: "en", href: "https://…/en/archive"},
+ * //  {hreflang: "x-default", href: "https://…/archive"}]
+ * @example
+ * // On /archive?utm_source=nl, whose canonical is /archive:
+ * buildSurfaceAlternates(c, { query: "" });
+ */
+export function buildSurfaceAlternates(
+  c: ViewContext,
+  options?: { query?: string; xDefault?: boolean },
+): LanguageAlternate[] {
+  const languages = getViewLanguages(c);
+  const { siteUrl, sitePathPrefix } = c.var.appConfig;
+  if (languages.length === 0 || !siteUrl) return [];
+
+  const path = viewRelativePath(c);
+  const query = options?.query ?? queryString(c);
+  const primaryPrefix = toLanguagePrefix(c.var.appConfig.siteLanguage);
+
+  const alternates = languages.map((lang) => {
+    const prefix = toLanguagePrefix(lang);
+    const internal =
+      prefix === primaryPrefix ? path : `/${prefix}${path === "/" ? "" : path}`;
+    return {
+      hreflang: lang,
+      href: `${toAbsoluteSiteUrl(internal, siteUrl, sitePathPrefix)}${query}`,
+    };
+  });
+
+  // A reader whose language the site does not publish lands on the primary one.
+  const primary = alternates[0];
+  if (primary && options?.xDefault !== false) {
+    alternates.push({ hreflang: "x-default", href: primary.href });
+  }
+  return alternates;
+}

package/src/lib/view.ts

@@ -32,13 +32,22 @@ import {
   formatDate,
   formatTime,
   formatRelativeTime,
+  formatYearMonthLabel,
 } from "./time.js";
 import { getCollectionPagePath } from "./collection-paths.js";
 import { getMediaUrl, getImageUrl, getPublicUrlForProvider } from "./image.js";
-import { extractSummaryHtml, extractBodyText } from "./summary.js";
+import {
+  extractSummaryHtml,
+  extractBodyText,
+  ARTICLE_SUMMARY_MAX_BLOCKS,
+  ARTICLE_SUMMARY_MAX_CHARS,
+  NOTE_SUMMARY_MAX_BLOCKS,
+  NOTE_SUMMARY_MAX_CHARS,
+  NOTE_SUMMARY_MIN_HIDDEN_CHARS,
+} from "./summary.js";
 import { renderTiptapDocumentAroundBoundary } from "./tiptap-render.js";
 import { highlightText } from "./search-snippet.js";
-import { isFullUrl, toPublicPath, toSameSitePath } from "./url.js";
+import { getPostPath, isFullUrl, toPublicPath, toSameSitePath } from "./url.js";
 
 // =============================================================================
 // Media Context
@@ -140,15 +149,6 @@ export function toMediaView(media: Media, ctx: MediaContext): MediaView {
 // Post Conversions
 // =============================================================================
 
-/** Feed summary limits for titled, article-style posts (the excerpt is a teaser). */
-const ARTICLE_SUMMARY_MAX_BLOCKS = 5;
-const ARTICLE_SUMMARY_MAX_CHARS = 500;
-/** Larger feed summary limits for untitled notes — the body itself is the content. */
-const NOTE_SUMMARY_MAX_BLOCKS = 10;
-const NOTE_SUMMARY_MAX_CHARS = 1500;
-/** Don't truncate an untitled note just to hide a tail under this many chars. */
-const NOTE_SUMMARY_MIN_HIDDEN_CHARS = 200;
-
 /**
  * Splice a zero-width marker into rendered body HTML at a summary boundary.
  *
@@ -260,7 +260,7 @@ export function toPostView(
 ): PostView {
   const id = post.id;
   const permalink = toPublicPath(
-    aliasPath ?? `/${post.slug}`,
+    getPostPath(post.slug, aliasPath),
     ctx.sitePathPrefix,
   );
   const timeZone = ctx.timeZone ?? "UTC";
@@ -401,6 +401,9 @@ export function toPostView(
     collections,
     replyToId: post.replyToId ?? undefined,
     threadRootId: post.replyToId ? post.threadId : undefined,
+    // Language is a Thread property, carried on the root. Repeating it on every
+    // reply would invite per-reply controls that the data model does not allow.
+    language: post.replyToId ? undefined : (post.language ?? undefined),
     isLastInThread: isLastInThread ?? true,
     body: post.body ?? undefined,
   };
@@ -507,6 +510,31 @@ export function toPostViewsFromPosts(
  * @param currentPath - Current URL path for active state
  * @param isAuthenticated - Whether the user is logged in (affects system settings item)
  */
+/**
+ * System nav destinations that exist once per language view.
+ *
+ * `settings` is absent on purpose: the dashboard is a single, language-neutral
+ * surface, so a reader browsing `/en` still signs in at `/signin`.
+ */
+const LANGUAGE_SCOPED_SYSTEM_KEYS = new Set<string>([
+  "latest",
+  "featured",
+  "collections",
+  "archive",
+  "rss",
+]);
+
+/** Whether a nav item points at a surface that a language view re-serves. */
+function isLanguageScopedNavItem(item: NavItem): boolean {
+  if (item.type === "system") {
+    return LANGUAGE_SCOPED_SYSTEM_KEYS.has(item.systemKey ?? "");
+  }
+  // Collections keep their slug but filter by language; posts and free-form
+  // links have one address each. A smart collection is a collection in this
+  // respect too — `/en/quotes` is the English half of the same conditions.
+  return item.type === "collection" || item.type === "smart_collection";
+}
+
 export function toNavItemView(
   item: NavItem,
   currentPath: string,
@@ -514,6 +542,7 @@ export function toNavItemView(
   sitePathPrefix = "",
   collectionFreshness?: Map<string, number>,
   siteOrigin = "",
+  basePath = sitePathPrefix,
 ): NavItemView {
   let url = item.url;
   let label = item.label;
@@ -546,14 +575,15 @@ export function toNavItemView(
   // so strip it back to a path and skip external-link affordances.
   const sameSitePath = toSameSitePath(url, siteOrigin);
   const isExternal = sameSitePath === null && isFullUrl(url);
+  const linkPrefix = isLanguageScopedNavItem(item) ? basePath : sitePathPrefix;
   const publicUrl = isExternal
     ? url
-    : toPublicPath(sameSitePath ?? url, sitePathPrefix);
+    : toPublicPath(sameSitePath ?? url, linkPrefix);
 
   let isActive = false;
   if (!isExternal) {
-    if (publicUrl === sitePathPrefix || publicUrl === "/") {
-      isActive = currentPath === (sitePathPrefix || "/");
+    if (publicUrl === linkPrefix || publicUrl === "/") {
+      isActive = currentPath === (linkPrefix || "/");
     } else {
       isActive =
         currentPath === publicUrl || currentPath.startsWith(`${publicUrl}/`);
@@ -571,9 +601,11 @@ export function toNavItemView(
     type: item.type as NavItemType,
     systemKey: item.systemKey,
     collectionId: item.collectionId,
+    smartCollectionId: item.smartCollectionId,
     postId: item.postId,
     label,
     url: publicUrl,
+    targetTitle: item.targetTitle,
     placement: item.placement as NavItemPlacement,
     isActive,
     isExternal,
@@ -596,6 +628,7 @@ export function toNavItemViews(
   sitePathPrefix = "",
   collectionFreshness?: Map<string, number>,
   siteOrigin = "",
+  basePath = sitePathPrefix,
 ): NavItemView[] {
   return items.map((item) =>
     toNavItemView(
@@ -605,6 +638,7 @@ export function toNavItemViews(
       sitePathPrefix,
       collectionFreshness,
       siteOrigin,
+      basePath,
     ),
   );
 }
@@ -703,11 +737,8 @@ export function toArchiveGroups(
     const [year, month] = yearMonth.split("-");
     if (!year || !month) continue;
 
-    const date = new Date(parseInt(year, 10), parseInt(month, 10) - 1);
-    const label = date.toLocaleDateString("en-US", {
-      year: "numeric",
-      month: "long",
-    });
+    const label = formatYearMonthLabel(yearMonth);
+    if (!label) continue;
 
     groups.push({
       year,
@@ -737,11 +768,8 @@ export function toArchiveGroupsWithMedia(
     const [year, month] = yearMonth.split("-");
     if (!year || !month) continue;
 
-    const date = new Date(parseInt(year, 10), parseInt(month, 10) - 1);
-    const label = date.toLocaleDateString("en-US", {
-      year: "numeric",
-      month: "long",
-    });
+    const label = formatYearMonthLabel(yearMonth);
+    if (!label) continue;
 
     groups.push({
       year,

package/src/lib/viewer-context.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
+/**
+ * Request-scoped viewer state for Hono JSX renders.
+ *
+ * Whether the visitor is the signed-in author decides what a Post card should
+ * even emit. The post menu trigger, the reply trigger, and three of the four
+ * status badges only ever become visible under `body[data-authenticated]` or
+ * an article state an anonymous reader cannot reach, so for a logged-out
+ * visitor they are markup that can never be seen — several hundred DOM nodes
+ * of invisible chrome on a full timeline, paid for in style and layout on
+ * every load.
+ *
+ * The flag is bound once per render, alongside the i18n instance and from the
+ * same source (`c.var.isAuthenticated`), rather than threaded through the six
+ * component layers between a page and `PostFooter`. It must stay that same
+ * flag: `BaseLayout` writes it into `data-authenticated`, and a gate that
+ * disagrees with the CSS reveal either hides the author's own controls or
+ * brings the dead markup back.
+ *
+ * Renders are synchronous and single-threaded per request, so a module-level
+ * binding is safe here — the same reasoning the i18n context runs on.
+ */
+
+/**
+ * Whether the current render is for the signed-in author.
+ *
+ * Defaults to `false` so a render that never bound a viewer emits the reader's
+ * markup. That is the safe direction: the author's controls are hidden until
+ * something says otherwise, rather than leaking into an anonymous page.
+ */
+let currentIsAuthor = false;
+
+/**
+ * Bind the viewer for the render that is about to run.
+ *
+ * Called by the render provider, not by components.
+ *
+ * @param isAuthor - Whether this request carries the author's session
+ * @returns Nothing
+ *
+ * @example
+ * ```tsx
+ * bindViewer(c.get("isAuthenticated") === true);
+ * ```
+ */
+export function bindViewer(isAuthor: boolean): void {
+  currentIsAuthor = isAuthor;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Read the current render's viewer.
+ *
+ * @returns `isAuthor` — whether the signed-in author is looking at this page
+ *
+ * @example
+ * ```tsx
+ * const { isAuthor } = useViewer();
+ * return isAuthor ? <PostMenuTriggerButton /> : null;
+ * ```
+ */
+export function useViewer(): { isAuthor: boolean } {
+  return { isAuthor: currentIsAuthor };
+}