Share a turn with the world: /watch links, cards and chrome included

The share button lands on the instant replay. One click mints a slug —
persistent, unguessable, one per (room, turn) — and copies a /watch
link anyone can open: the server rebuilds exactly that turn for the
nameless SPECTATOR, public knowledge only, none of the rest of the
game visible. The page arrives with its OpenGraph card pre-baked into
the head (crawlers never run the app): the turn's title and round in
the text, and an og.png of the maze itself — cells, walls, doors, warp
mouths, homes, standees — painted server-side and PNG-encoded with
nothing but node's own zlib. The viewer page wears its chrome: the
WIZ-WAR masthead linking home, the turn's title, the reel opening
straight into the turn-owner's eyes with a "watch it again" loop, and
a footer that says what this table is and deals the visitor in.

The share page loads as its own entry so a shared link never drags the
full app's socket appetite along; the reel's modal scrim learns to
stand in a page instead of over one.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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// Share links: a minted slug names one turn of one game, and anyone
// holding it may watch that turn — spectator-redacted, nothing else of
// the game visible. Shares persist beside the rooms and survive restarts.
import { appendFileSync, existsSync, readFileSync } from "node:fs";
import { join } from "node:path";
import { randomInt } from "node:crypto";
import { statsDir } from "./store";
export interface Share {
id: string;
roomId: string;
turn: number;
createdAt: string;
}
const SHARE_ALPHABET = "abcdefghjkmnpqrstuvwxyz23456789";
const SHARE_ID_LENGTH = 10; // 31^10 ≈ 8×10^14 — unguessable, typeable
const shares = new Map<string, Share>();
function sharesFile(): string {
return join(statsDir(), "shares.jsonl");
}
export function loadShares(): void {
const file = sharesFile();
if (!existsSync(file)) return;
for (const line of readFileSync(file, "utf8").trim().split("\n")) {
if (!line) continue;
try {
const s = JSON.parse(line) as Share;
if (s.id) shares.set(s.id, s);
} catch {
// A torn tail line loses one share, never the server.
}
}
}
export function mintShare(roomId: string, turn: number): Share {
// One link per (room, turn): sharing the same turn twice hands back
// the same slug, so a re-share never splits an audience.
for (const s of shares.values()) {
if (s.roomId === roomId && s.turn === turn) return s;
}
let id = "";
for (let i = 0; i < SHARE_ID_LENGTH; i++) {
id += SHARE_ALPHABET[randomInt(SHARE_ALPHABET.length)];
}
const share: Share = { id, roomId, turn, createdAt: new Date().toISOString() };
shares.set(id, share);
appendFileSync(sharesFile(), JSON.stringify(share) + "\n", "utf8");
return share;
}
export function getShare(id: string): Share | undefined {
return shares.get(id);
}