- Rust: Replace fragile body.contains("status") with proper JSON
deserialization validating status=="healthy", model_loaded (bool),
and gpu_available (bool) to prevent misidentifying non-Voicebox services
- Frontend: Validate health response has Voicebox-specific fields before
marking server as ready during fallback polling
- Frontend: Discriminate port-in-use errors (poll for external server) from
real startup failures (missing sidecar, signing issues) — surface errors
immediately with a startupError state and Retry button in the UI
- Frontend: Set explicit startup-error state when 2-minute polling timeout
expires so the loading screen shows actionable feedback instead of hanging
- Architecture: Extract QueryClient to standalone side-effect-free module
(lib/queryClient.ts) to decouple serverStore from React bootstrap entrypoint
Two fixes for issue #312:
1. GUI stuck on loading screen when backend is already running externally
(e.g. via python/uvicorn/Docker):
- Rust: add HTTP health check fallback when the process on the port
doesn't have 'voicebox' in its name. If /health responds with a
valid Voicebox response, reuse the server instead of erroring.
- Frontend: when startServer() fails, fall back to polling the
health endpoint every 2s instead of permanently blocking.
2. No data refresh when switching server URLs in settings:
- serverStore.setServerUrl() now invalidates all React Query caches
when the URL actually changes, so profiles/history/models/stories
are re-fetched from the new server.
- Export queryClient from main.tsx for store-level cache invalidation.
Fixes#312
- Added a voicebox logo to the loading screen in the App component for improved branding.
- Introduced fade-in animations for the logo and loading text to enhance user experience.
- Updated Sidebar component styles for better visual consistency.
- Refactored HistoryTable to implement a new fixed-height row layout, improving readability and interaction.
- Removed unused Badge component from GenerationForm for cleaner code.
James Pine