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Valere db0f6837ce Give the component what the app shell was providing
The component built and typechecked in the previous commit, but only because
nothing had rendered it. Everything Element Call needs that `src/main.tsx`
side-loads was missing from it.

Its stylesheet: only main.tsx imported index.css, so the library build emitted
CSS-module styles with every `--cpd-*` and `--font-size-*` unresolved. Split
into base.css, which both the app and the component import, and the rules that
are about owning a page, which only the app does. The split is a straight move
— comment-stripped and sorted, the old file and the two new ones differ by
exactly one line — and that line is the deliberate part: `.no-scroll-body`
becomes `body.no-scroll-body`. Element Call adds that class to whatever it
treats as its root, and since the root can now be a container, `position:
fixed` would have taken that container out of the host's layout. Pinning the
page is what it always meant.

Its translations: `initializeElementCall` called `i18n.init` with neither
resources nor a backend, so every key would have rendered as itself. English is
bundled in. The app fetches locale files from URLs its own build emits, which a
host serving the library from somewhere else could not resolve, so how a host
picks a language is left open.

And the types a host needs: `HostBridge` alone is not enough to implement
`HostBridge` — `HostRequest`, `DeviceMuteState`, `DeviceMuteRequest` and
`JoinCallData` all appear in its signatures, and `ConfigOptions` in
`initializeElementCall`'s.
2026-09-03 16:10:26 +02:00
Valere 979b521563 Build Element Call as a component a host can import
Adds component/index.tsx as a fourth build target: <ElementCall client
roomId /> and an initializeElementCall to await once beforehand. It gives
Element Call everything it would otherwise take from the page it is on —
the parameters, the host bridge, media devices, translations, a container
to confine itself to — and hands it the host's client rather than finding
one of its own.

React, the Matrix SDK and LiveKit stay external, since the host has them
and a second copy of any would not merely be wasteful: React would hold
two sets of hooks and the client would run two sync loops. Every subpath
has to be listed by name, because the pattern and callback forms of
rollupOptions.external are silently ignored here — a lesson worth the
comment that records it.

Element Call's own navigation runs in a MemoryRouter, so being embedded
cannot disturb the host's URL. ClientContext and GroupCallView both
navigate, so some router has to be present.

The bundle is not yet a reasonable size: library mode base64-inlines
assets referenced through import.meta.url, so MediaPipe's vision runtime
lands in it whole. Left for its own change, since the fix — loading the
background blur transformer lazily — is worth doing for the standalone app
too.
2026-09-03 15:18:03 +02:00