feat(hub-ui): assign keyboard shortcuts to dock group members

docs/content/1.guide/16.hub.md

@@ -46,6 +46,22 @@ ctx.commands.register({
 
 `args` takes positional [Standard Schema](https://standardschema.dev/) schemas (a single `v.object(...)` unwraps into the input); omit for zero-arg. `safety` defaults to `'action'`; `when` clauses are unenforced for agent calls.
 
+## Nested commands
+
+A command's `children` nest arbitrarily deep. The palette drills into each level, and every command in the tree is bindable at any depth — a shortcut assigned to a leaf several levels down fires as directly as one on a top-level command, and each appears as its own row under **Settings → Shortcuts**, indented by nesting level.
+
+```ts
+ctx.commands.register({
+  id: 'app:cache',
+  title: 'Cache',
+  children: [
+    { id: 'app:cache:clear', title: 'Clear', keybindings: [{ key: 'Mod+Shift+K' }], handler: clearCache },
+  ],
+})
+```
+
+Set `showInPalette: 'without-children'` on a parent to keep its whole subtree out of root search while leaving it reachable by drilling down.
+
 ## Cross-iframe dock activation
 
 A mounted devframe's iframe uses `hub:docks:activate` to switch the active dock.
@@ -181,7 +197,7 @@ ctx.docks.register({
   title: 'Nuxt',
   icon: 'logos:nuxt-icon',
   category: 'framework',
-  defaultChildId: 'nuxt:overview', // optional; popover-only when omitted
+  defaultChildId: 'nuxt:overview', // optional; see "Activating a group" below
 })
 
 ctx.docks.register({
@@ -194,7 +210,19 @@ ctx.docks.register({
 })
 ```
 
-Group and members stay independent top-level entries in `devframe:docks`. Activating the group reopens the member last opened in it (remembered per tab), and `defaultChildId` before any member has been opened. Grouping affects the dock rail, not iframes — to share **one** soft-navigated iframe, give docks a shared `frameId` and mark the anchor with `subTabs` ([Shared-iframe soft navigation](/guide/client-context#shared-iframe-soft-navigation)).
+Group and members stay independent top-level entries in `devframe:docks`. Grouping affects the dock rail, not iframes — to share **one** soft-navigated iframe, give docks a shared `frameId` and mark the anchor with `subTabs` ([Shared-iframe soft navigation](/guide/client-context#shared-iframe-soft-navigation)).
+
+### Activating a group
+
+Activating a group resolves to one of its members.
+
+The dock rail button reopens the member last opened in the group (remembered per tab), then `defaultChildId`; with neither, it reveals the member popover.
+
+A group command — activated by its keyboard shortcut or a command-palette pick — opens that same remembered or default member, then the only visible member when there is exactly one. With several visible peers and no preferred member, it opens the command palette scoped to those members, so the choice stays with the user. Pressing the same shortcut again closes that palette.
+
+`hub:docks:activate` follows programmatic dock switching: it opens the remembered or default member, then the first registered member.
+
+Declare `defaultChildId` when one member is the natural landing spot; leave it off when the members are peers.
 
 ### The dual role of `category`
 

docs/content/8.references/6.hub-api.md

@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ The properties of `DevframeClientContext` — [The client context](/guide/client
 | `clientType` | `'embedded'` (inside the user app) or `'standalone'` (independent hub page). |
 | `docks` | `entries`, `selected`, `groupedEntries`, `switchEntry()`, `toggleEntry()`, `getStateById()`, `register()` / `update()` for [client-only docks](/guide/client-context#client-only-docks). |
 | `panel` | Dock panel state: position, size, drag/resize. |
-| `commands` | Command palette: `register()`, `execute()`, `getKeybindings()`. |
+| `commands` | Command palette: `register()`, `execute()`, `getKeybindings()`, `paletteOpen`, `paletteScopeId`, `openPalette(atCommandId?)`. Passing an id opens the palette drilled into that command's children ([Activating a group](/guide/hub#activating-a-group)). |
 | `renderers` | Dock-renderer registry — `register()`, `get()`, `has()`, `mount(entry, container)`. Routes a dock `type` to a renderer (local boot or the hub's [manifest](/guide/hub-initiate#renderer-modules); local wins). `mount()` resolves a `status`: `mounted` (with `dispose`), `missing-renderer`, or `load-error` (with `error`). |
 | `when` | The [when-clause](/references/when-clauses) context. |
 | `connection` | Live [connection status](/guide/client#handling-connection-and-auth-errors) — `status`, `error`, `events`. |

packages/hub-ui/src/client/components/command-palette/CommandPalette.stories.ts

@@ -45,3 +45,25 @@ export const Open: Story = {
     ),
   }),
 }
+
+/**
+ * The palette opened *scoped* to a dock group, listing only that group's
+ * members — what activating a group with no `defaultChildId` does, so a group
+ * stays reachable by keyboard with the choice of member left to the user.
+ * Backspace or Escape steps back out to the root list.
+ */
+export const ScopedToGroup: Story = {
+  render: () => ({
+    setup: () => mountWithContext(
+      { entries: groupedEntries },
+      ctx => h(defineComponent({
+        setup() {
+          onMounted(() => {
+            ctx.commands.openPalette('devframes:docks:playground')
+          })
+          return () => h(CommandPalette, { context: ctx })
+        },
+      })),
+    ),
+  }),
+}

packages/hub-ui/src/client/components/command-palette/CommandPalette.vue

@@ -1,8 +1,10 @@
 <script setup lang="ts">
-import type { DevframeClientCommand, DevframeCommandEntry } from '@devframes/hub'
+import type { DevframeClientCommand } from '@devframes/hub'
 import type { DocksContext } from '@devframes/hub/client'
+import type { PaletteCrumb, PaletteFlatItem } from '../../state/palette'
 import Fuse from 'fuse.js'
 import { computed, nextTick, ref, useTemplateRef, watch } from 'vue'
+import { flattenPaletteCommands, paletteActionKeepsOpen, paletteScopeTrail, paletteTrailScopeId, reconcilePaletteTrail, resolvePaletteSelection } from '../../state/palette'
 import BrandWordmark from '../icons/BrandWordmark.vue'
 import CommandPaletteItem from './CommandPaletteItem.vue'
 
@@ -23,36 +25,14 @@ const listContainer = useTemplateRef<HTMLElement>('listContainer')
 const visible = ref(false)
 
 // Breadcrumb stack for sub-command drill-down
-const breadcrumb = ref<Array<{ title: string, items: DevframeCommandEntry[] }>>([])
+const breadcrumb = ref<PaletteCrumb[]>([])
 
-// Flattened items for top-level search (includes children with parent prefix)
-interface FlatItem {
-  entry: DevframeCommandEntry
-  parentTitle?: string
-  searchTitle: string
-}
-
-const flattenedItems = computed<FlatItem[]>(() => {
-  const result: FlatItem[] = []
-  for (const cmd of commandsCtx.value.paletteCommands) {
-    result.push({ entry: cmd, searchTitle: cmd.title })
-    if (cmd.children && cmd.showInPalette !== 'without-children') {
-      for (const child of cmd.children) {
-        if (child.showInPalette === false)
-          continue
-        result.push({
-          entry: child as DevframeCommandEntry,
-          parentTitle: cmd.title,
-          searchTitle: `${cmd.title} > ${child.title}`,
-        })
-      }
-    }
-  }
-  return result
-})
+const flattenedItems = computed<PaletteFlatItem[]>(
+  () => flattenPaletteCommands(commandsCtx.value.paletteCommands),
+)
 
 // Current items: either drilled-down sub-items or root items
-const currentFlatItems = computed<FlatItem[]>(() => {
+const currentFlatItems = computed<PaletteFlatItem[]>(() => {
   if (breadcrumb.value.length > 0) {
     const current = breadcrumb.value.at(-1)!
     return current.items.map(entry => ({ entry, searchTitle: entry.title }))
@@ -62,7 +42,7 @@ const currentFlatItems = computed<FlatItem[]>(() => {
 
 // Dynamic sub-items from action() return
 const dynamicItems = ref<DevframeClientCommand[] | undefined>()
-const activeItems = computed<FlatItem[]>(() => {
+const activeItems = computed<PaletteFlatItem[]>(() => {
   if (dynamicItems.value) {
     return dynamicItems.value.map(entry => ({ entry, searchTitle: entry.title }))
   }
@@ -85,12 +65,20 @@ watch(search, () => {
   selectedIndex.value = 0
 })
 
+/** Show the rows at `scopeId`'s level, from a fresh search. */
+function showScope(scopeId: string | null) {
+  search.value = ''
+  selectedIndex.value = 0
+  dynamicItems.value = undefined
+  const next = paletteScopeTrail(commandsCtx.value.paletteCommands, scopeId)
+  breadcrumb.value = next
+  if (scopeId != null && !next.some(crumb => crumb.id === scopeId))
+    commandsCtx.value.paletteScopeId = null
+}
+
 watch(show, (v) => {
   if (v) {
-    search.value = ''
-    selectedIndex.value = 0
-    breadcrumb.value = []
-    dynamicItems.value = undefined
+    showScope(commandsCtx.value.paletteScopeId)
     // Trigger enter animation
     requestAnimationFrame(() => {
       visible.value = true
@@ -99,9 +87,37 @@ watch(show, (v) => {
   }
   else {
     visible.value = false
+    // Every close path funnels through `show` — Escape, the backdrop, running a
+    // command, and a bare `paletteOpen` toggle — so the scope is dropped here
+    // once rather than in each of them. A later Mod+K then opens at the root
+    // instead of resurrecting the group it was last scoped to.
+    commandsCtx.value.paletteScopeId = null
   }
 })
 
+// A scope also arrives while the palette is already open — activating a dock
+// group picked from the root list, say. `show` stays `true` throughout, so the
+// drill-down follows the scope itself rather than the open transition.
+watch(() => commandsCtx.value.paletteScopeId, (scopeId) => {
+  if (show.value)
+    showScope(scopeId)
+})
+
+// A command tree can change while the palette is open (dock registration,
+// `when` context, or a client command update). Rebuild each crumb by id so the
+// rendered rows and their actions always come from the live tree.
+watch(() => commandsCtx.value.paletteCommands, (commands) => {
+  if (!show.value || breadcrumb.value.length === 0)
+    return
+  const scopeId = commandsCtx.value.paletteScopeId
+  const scopeWasActive = scopeId != null && breadcrumb.value.some(crumb => crumb.id === scopeId)
+  const next = reconcilePaletteTrail(commands, breadcrumb.value, scopeId)
+  breadcrumb.value = next
+  selectedIndex.value = Math.min(selectedIndex.value, Math.max(filtered.value.length - 1, 0))
+  if (scopeWasActive && scopeId != null && !next.some(crumb => crumb.id === scopeId))
+    commandsCtx.value.paletteScopeId = null
+})
+
 function moveSelected(delta: number) {
   const len = filtered.value.length
   if (len === 0)
@@ -121,18 +137,17 @@ function scrollToItem() {
 
 const loadingId = ref<string | null>(null)
 
-async function enterItem(flatItem: FlatItem) {
-  const entry = flatItem.entry
+async function enterItem(flatItem: PaletteFlatItem) {
+  // The row may have been rendered just before the command tree changed. Look
+  // it up again so a removed entry no-ops and a replacement runs its new action.
+  const entry = activeItems.value.find(item => item.entry.id === flatItem.entry.id)?.entry
+  if (!entry)
+    return
 
-  // If has static children, drill down
-  if (entry.children && entry.children.length > 0) {
-    breadcrumb.value.push({
-      title: entry.title,
-      items: entry.children as DevframeCommandEntry[],
-    })
-    search.value = ''
-    selectedIndex.value = 0
-    dynamicItems.value = undefined
+  // Ordinary command parents drill down. Dock groups are actionable parents:
+  // their action opens a preferred member or scopes the palette for a choice.
+  if (resolvePaletteSelection(entry, props.context.docks.entries) === 'drill') {
+    commandsCtx.value.paletteScopeId = entry.id
     return
   }
 
@@ -151,6 +166,8 @@ async function enterItem(flatItem: FlatItem) {
     catch (err) {
       console.error(`[@devframes/hub-ui] Command "${entry.id}" failed:`, err)
     }
+    if (paletteActionKeepsOpen(entry, props.context.docks.entries, commandsCtx.value.paletteOpen, commandsCtx.value.paletteScopeId))
+      return
     close()
     return
   }
@@ -195,13 +212,22 @@ function goBack() {
   }
   if (breadcrumb.value.length > 0) {
     breadcrumb.value.pop()
+    commandsCtx.value.paletteScopeId = paletteTrailScopeId(breadcrumb.value)
     search.value = ''
     selectedIndex.value = 0
     return
   }
   close()
 }
 
+/** Jump to the level the crumb at `index` sits above. */
+function goToCrumb(index: number) {
+  breadcrumb.value.splice(index)
+  commandsCtx.value.paletteScopeId = paletteTrailScopeId(breadcrumb.value)
+  search.value = ''
+  selectedIndex.value = 0
+}
+
 function onKeyDown(e: KeyboardEvent) {
   if (e.key === 'Backspace' && !search.value && (breadcrumb.value.length > 0 || dynamicItems.value)) {
     e.preventDefault()
@@ -275,7 +301,7 @@ function getKeybindings(id: string) {
                 v-for="(crumb, i) in breadcrumb"
                 :key="i"
                 class="text-xs op60 hover:op80 mr-1 flex items-center gap-0.5"
-                @click="breadcrumb.splice(i); search = ''; selectedIndex = 0"
+                @click="goToCrumb(i)"
               >
                 {{ crumb.title }}
                 <span class="op40">&rsaquo;</span>

packages/hub-ui/src/client/components/views-builtin/SettingsShortcuts.vue

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ import type { DevframeCommandEntry, DevframeCommandKeybinding } from '@devframes
 import type { DocksContext } from '@devframes/hub/client'
 import DisplayKbd from '@antfu/design/components/Display/DisplayKbd.vue'
 import { computed, nextTick, ref, watch } from 'vue'
-import { filterCommandsByWhen, formatKeybinding, isKeybindingOverrideDifferentFromDefault, isMac, KNOWN_BROWSER_SHORTCUTS } from '../../state/keybindings'
+import { filterCommandsByWhen, findCommandDeep, formatKeybinding, isKeybindingOverrideDifferentFromDefault, isMac, KNOWN_BROWSER_SHORTCUTS, walkCommands } from '../../state/keybindings'
 import { useSettings } from '../../state/settings-defaults'
 import DockIcon from '../dock/DockIcon.vue'
 
@@ -19,7 +19,8 @@ const shortcutSearch = ref('')
 interface ShortcutRow {
   command: DevframeCommandEntry
   parentTitle?: string
-  indent: boolean
+  /** Nesting level — 0 for a top-level command, +1 per ancestor. */
+  depth: number
 }
 
 // This page is only reachable with the dock open and the palette closed, so `when`
@@ -34,20 +35,24 @@ const availableCommands = computed(() => filterCommandsByWhen(
   { ...props.context.when.context, dockOpen: true, paletteOpen: false },
 ))
 
+/**
+ * One row per command at every depth, in tree order, so anything the palette
+ * can run can be given a shortcut here.
+ *
+ * Nesting runs deeper than a parent and its children: a dock group's members sit
+ * two levels below the `Docks` command, and a devframe's own `children` go deeper
+ * still.
+ */
 const shortcutRows = computed<ShortcutRow[]>(() => {
   const rows: ShortcutRow[] = []
-  for (const cmd of availableCommands.value) {
-    rows.push({ command: cmd, indent: false })
-    if (cmd.children) {
-      for (const child of cmd.children) {
-        rows.push({
-          command: child as DevframeCommandEntry,
-          parentTitle: cmd.title,
-          indent: true,
-        })
-      }
-    }
-  }
+  walkCommands(availableCommands.value, (cmd, ancestors) => {
+    const parentTitle = ancestors.at(-1)?.title
+    rows.push({
+      command: cmd,
+      ...(parentTitle ? { parentTitle } : {}),
+      depth: ancestors.length,
+    })
+  })
   return rows
 })
 
@@ -66,6 +71,16 @@ function getEffectiveKeybindings(id: string): DevframeCommandKeybinding[] {
   return commandsCtx.getKeybindings(id)
 }
 
+/**
+ * Indent one step per nesting level. An inline style rather than a class, since
+ * the depth is only known at runtime and UnoCSS generates utilities from source
+ * — a computed `ml-${depth * 6}` would never be emitted. One step is `ml-6`
+ * worth of space.
+ */
+function rowIndentStyle(row: ShortcutRow): Record<string, string> {
+  return row.depth > 0 ? { marginLeft: `${row.depth * 1.5}rem` } : {}
+}
+
 function isExecutable(command: DevframeCommandEntry): boolean {
   return command.source === 'server' || !!command.action
 }
@@ -75,16 +90,7 @@ function isOverridden(id: string): boolean {
 }
 
 function getDefaultKeybindings(id: string): DevframeCommandKeybinding[] {
-  for (const cmd of commandsCtx.commands) {
-    if (cmd.id === id)
-      return cmd.keybindings ?? []
-    if (cmd.children) {
-      const child = cmd.children.find(c => c.id === id)
-      if (child)
-        return child.keybindings ?? []
-    }
-  }
-  return []
+  return findCommandDeep(commandsCtx.commands, id)?.keybindings ?? []
 }
 
 function clearShortcut(commandId: string) {
@@ -281,9 +287,9 @@ watch(editorOpen, async (v) => {
         v-if="row.command.icon"
         :icon="row.command.icon"
         class="w-4 h-4 shrink-0 op60"
-        :class="{ 'ml-6': row.indent }"
+        :style="rowIndentStyle(row)"
       />
-      <div v-else :class="{ 'ml-6': row.indent }" class="w-4 h-4 shrink-0" />
+      <div v-else :style="rowIndentStyle(row)" class="w-4 h-4 shrink-0" />
       <div class="flex-1 min-w-0">
         <div class="flex items-center gap-1.5">
           <span class="truncate text-sm">{{ row.command.title }}</span>