Two follow-ups to the "hold NeedsLogin during the SSO browser wait" change.
Both target the visible state churn the tray showed during the auto-login
handoff (Connect / profile-switch lands on NeedsLogin -> the UI's startLogin
kicks off the SSO flow) and the broken recovery after the user dismisses the
browser-login popup with the window's X.
Background
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When a connect attempt lands on NeedsLogin, the UI's startLogin() drives the
SSO flow: Connection.Login() -> (NeedsSSOLogin) open the browser-login popup
-> Connection.WaitSSOLogin() blocks until the browser leg completes. The tray
and the React status page both paint the raw daemon status, so any transient
state the daemon publishes during this handoff is visible as a flicker.
Previously the handoff churned the daemon status through
NeedsLogin -> Idle -> Connecting -> NeedsLogin
which read as a flicker on the tray icon and the status dot. Two distinct
sources produced the two intermediate states:
* Idle came from the UI's defensive cli.Down() at the top of
Connection.Login (services/connection.go): it tore the engine
down before every login to dislodge a possibly-parked
WaitSSOLogin, emitting a StatusIdle on the way.
* Connecting came from server.go Login() unconditionally setting
StatusConnecting before deciding whether the request is an
SSO flow (which immediately returns NeedsLogin) or a
setup-key flow (which actually dials Management).
Changes
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1. server.go Login(): only set StatusConnecting on the setup-key path, where
we are about to dial Management with the key and the Connecting paint is
meaningful. The SSO path returns NeedsLogin and parks on the browser leg,
so it no longer flashes Connecting first. Removes the Connecting blip.
2. services/connection.go Login(): drop the pre-Login cli.Down(). The daemon
already dislodges a pending WaitSSOLogin at Login entry (actCancel), and an
abandoned browser leg is now torn down by cancelling the WaitSSOLogin RPC
(see 3/4). Removing the Down removes the Idle blip on every login.
3. MainConnectionStatusSwitch.tsx startLogin(): on cancel (the browser-login
popup's Cancel button or its window X, both routed through
EventBrowserLoginCancel), cancel the in-flight WaitSSOLogin gRPC call via
waitPromise.cancel() instead of issuing a heavy Connection.Down(). The
daemon ties the wait to this call's context, so cancelling the call ends
the wait cleanly with no engine teardown and no Idle paint.
4. server.go WaitSSOLogin(): when the wait unblocks with context.Canceled and
the cancellation came from our caller (callerCtx.Err() != nil — the client
cancelled the RPC or went away), clear the cached oauthAuthFlow so a fresh
Login starts a new device code instead of reusing the abandoned one. The
entry NeedsLogin stays in place, so a reattaching client still shows the
login affordance. An internal abort (actCancel fired by a newer
Login/WaitSSOLogin while our callerCtx is still live) is left untouched so
the new owner's flow is not clobbered.
Effect
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The auto-login handoff now goes Connected -> Connecting -> NeedsLogin and
holds, with no Idle/Connecting flicker in between. Dismissing the browser-login
popup with X now recovers the same way as the Cancel button: the WaitSSOLogin
RPC is cancelled, the stale OAuth flow is cleared, and the next connect opens a
fresh browser-login window instead of getting stuck.
NetBird desktop UI (Wails3 + React)
Replaces client/ui (Fyne). One binary on Windows / macOS / Linux,
talks to the NetBird daemon over gRPC, renders a React frontend in a
WebView.
Prerequisites
- Go ≥ 1.25, Node ≥ 20, pnpm (
corepack enable && corepack prepare pnpm@latest --activate) wails3CLI:go install github.com/wailsapp/wails/v3/cmd/wails3@latesttask:go install github.com/go-task/task/v3/cmd/task@latest- A running NetBird daemon (default:
unix:///var/run/netbird.sock, Windowstcp://127.0.0.1:41731) - Linux only:
libwebkit2gtk-4.1-dev,libgtk-3-dev,libayatana-appindicator3-dev
Develop without rebuilding
cd client/ui
task dev
task dev runs Vite (port 9245) + the Go binary + a *.go watcher.
Frontend edits hot-reload instantly. Go edits trigger a rebuild and
relaunch. Pass daemon flags after --:
task dev -- --daemon-addr=tcp://127.0.0.1:41731
For pure UI work (no native window, fastest loop):
cd frontend && pnpm dev
Production build
task build
Output in bin/. Frontend assets are embedded into the binary.
Cross-compile Windows from Linux
Install the mingw-w64 toolchain once:
sudo apt install gcc-mingw-w64-x86-64 # Debian/Ubuntu
sudo dnf install mingw64-gcc # Fedora
sudo pacman -S mingw-w64-gcc # Arch
Then:
CGO_ENABLED=1 task windows:build
Produces bin/netbird-ui.exe. macOS cross-compile from Linux is not
supported (signing and notarization need a real Mac).
Windows console build (logs in the terminal)
Default windows:build links the binary as a Windows GUI app, which
detaches from the launching console — logrus output, fmt.Println,
and panics go nowhere visible. To debug tray/event/daemon issues:
CGO_ENABLED=1 task windows:build:console
Produces bin/netbird-ui-console.exe. Run it from cmd.exe /
PowerShell / Windows Terminal and stdout/stderr land in that
terminal. Same flag works on a native Windows build (drop the
CGO_ENABLED=1 if your toolchain already has it set).
Regenerating bindings
When a Go service signature changes:
wails3 generate bindings
task dev does this automatically on *.go save.
Tray icons
Source SVGs live in assets/svg/ (state.svg + state-macos.svg). After editing
any SVG, rasterize to the PNGs the Go side embeds:
task common:generate:tray:icons
Requires Inkscape. Commit the resulting assets/*.png files alongside the
SVG change so CI doesn't need Inkscape installed.