Render image URLs inline in posts

Recognize common image file extensions in post URLs (query string and
fragment ignored), render them as inline images inside new-tab anchors
with the filename as alt text, and fall back to a plain link when the
image fails to load. Non-image URLs keep the existing plain-link
behavior.

By coder.

psf-memo-client/acceptance/lib/handlers.js

@@ -3214,6 +3214,60 @@ const handlers = [
         throw new Error('Feed unexpectedly shows an embedded video player.')
       }
     }
+  },
+  {
+    name: 'feed shows an image',
+    pattern: /^the feed shows an image with the URL (.+) and alt text (.+)$/,
+    run (m, example, world) {
+      const url = resolveParam(m[1], example)
+      const alt = resolveParam(m[2], example)
+      const rendered = getRenderedFeed(world)
+      const found = rendered.some((html) =>
+        imagesIn(html).some((image) =>
+          image.attrs.includes(`src="${url}"`) &&
+          image.attrs.includes(`alt="${alt}"`)
+        )
+      )
+      if (!found) {
+        throw new Error(`Feed does not show an image with URL ${url} and alt text "${alt}".`)
+      }
+    }
+  },
+  {
+    name: 'feed shows no image',
+    pattern: /^the feed shows no image$/,
+    run (m, example, world) {
+      const rendered = getRenderedFeed(world)
+      const found = rendered.some((html) => imagesIn(html).length > 0)
+      if (found) {
+        throw new Error('Feed unexpectedly shows an image.')
+      }
+    }
+  },
+  {
+    name: 'feed does not show the URL as text',
+    pattern: /^the feed does not show the URL (.+) as text$/,
+    run (m, example, world) {
+      const url = resolveParam(m[1], example)
+      const rendered = getRenderedFeed(world)
+      const found = rendered.some((html) =>
+        html.replace(/<[^>]+>/g, '').includes(url)
+      )
+      if (found) {
+        throw new Error(`Feed unexpectedly shows the URL ${url} as text.`)
+      }
+    }
+  },
+  {
+    name: 'image fails to load',
+    pattern: /^the image at (.+) fails to load$/,
+    run (m, example, world) {
+      const url = resolveParam(m[1], example)
+      world.failedImages = new Set([...(world.failedImages || []), url])
+      world.renderedFeed = world.recentFeedPage.posts.map((post) =>
+        renderPostText(post.text, { initialFailedImages: [...world.failedImages] })
+      )
+    }
   }
 ]
 
@@ -3237,6 +3291,18 @@ function anchorsIn (html) {
   return anchors
 }
 
+// Extract the image tags from a rendered HTML string. The acceptance adapter
+// renders a small, controlled HTML subset, so a regex match is sufficient.
+function imagesIn (html) {
+  const images = []
+  const re = /<img\s([^>]*?)\/?>/g
+  let match
+  while ((match = re.exec(html)) !== null) {
+    images.push({ attrs: match[1] })
+  }
+  return images
+}
+
 // Decode a raw create-poll payload into poll_type, option_count, and question.
 function decodeCreatePollPayload (raw) {
   const buf = Buffer.from(raw)

psf-memo-client/acceptance/lib/render-post.js

@@ -12,8 +12,11 @@ const React = require('react')
 const ReactDOMServer = require('react-dom/server')
 const PostContent = require('../../src/components/post-feed/post-content')
 
-function renderPostText (text) {
+function renderPostText (text, options = {}) {
-  const element = React.createElement(PostContent, { text })
+  const element = React.createElement(PostContent, {
+    text,
+    initialFailedImages: options.initialFailedImages
+  })
   return ReactDOMServer.renderToStaticMarkup(element)
 }
 

psf-memo-client/src/components/post-feed/post-content.js

@@ -11,11 +11,59 @@ const {
   parsePostText,
   YOUTUBE_EMBED_BASE_URL
 } = require('../../services/youtube-embed')
-const { parsePostLinks } = require('../../services/post-links')
+const {
+  parsePostLinks,
+  isImageUrl,
+  imageAltText
+} = require('../../services/post-links')
 
-function PostContent ({ text = '' }) {
+// A post image that falls back to a plain link if the image fails to load.
+function PostImage ({ href, alt, failed, onError }) {
+  if (failed) {
+    return React.createElement(
+      'a',
+      {
+        href,
+        target: '_blank',
+        rel: 'noopener noreferrer',
+        className: 'posts-feed-item-link'
+      },
+      href
+    )
+  }
+
+  return React.createElement(
+    'a',
+    {
+      href,
+      target: '_blank',
+      rel: 'noopener noreferrer',
+      className: 'posts-feed-item-image-link'
+    },
+    React.createElement('img', {
+      src: href,
+      alt,
+      className: 'posts-feed-item-image',
+      onError
+    })
+  )
+}
+
+function PostContent ({ text = '', initialFailedImages }) {
+  const [failedImages, setFailedImages] = React.useState(
+    () => new Set(initialFailedImages || [])
+  )
   const children = []
 
+  const failImage = (href) => {
+    setFailedImages((previous) => {
+      if (previous.has(href)) return previous
+      const next = new Set(previous)
+      next.add(href)
+      return next
+    })
+  }
+
   for (const segment of parsePostText(text)) {
     if (segment.type === 'youtube') {
       children.push(
@@ -38,22 +86,35 @@ function PostContent ({ text = '' }) {
     }
 
     for (const link of parsePostLinks(segment.text)) {
-      if (link.type === 'link') {
+      if (link.type !== 'link') {
-        children.push(
-          React.createElement(
-            'a',
-            {
-              href: link.href,
-              target: '_blank',
-              rel: 'noopener noreferrer',
-              className: 'posts-feed-item-link'
-            },
-            link.text
-          )
-        )
-      } else {
         children.push(React.createElement('span', null, link.text))
+        continue
       }
+
+      if (isImageUrl(link.href)) {
+        children.push(
+          React.createElement(PostImage, {
+            href: link.href,
+            alt: imageAltText(link.href),
+            failed: failedImages.has(link.href),
+            onError: () => failImage(link.href)
+          })
+        )
+        continue
+      }
+
+      children.push(
+        React.createElement(
+          'a',
+          {
+            href: link.href,
+            target: '_blank',
+            rel: 'noopener noreferrer',
+            className: 'posts-feed-item-link'
+          },
+          link.text
+        )
+      )
     }
   }
 

psf-memo-client/src/services/post-links.js

@@ -72,7 +72,37 @@ function parsePostLinks (text) {
   return segments
 }
 
-module.exports = { parsePostLinks }
+// Common image file extensions recognized in a URL path.
+const IMAGE_EXTENSION_RE = /\.(?:jpg|jpeg|png|gif|webp|bmp)$/i
+
+/**
+ * True when a URL's path ends in a recognized image file extension. Only the
+ * parsed pathname is examined, so query strings and fragments are ignored.
+ */
+function isImageUrl (url) {
+  if (typeof url !== 'string') return false
+  try {
+    return IMAGE_EXTENSION_RE.test(new URL(url).pathname)
+  } catch {
+    return false
+  }
+}
+
+/**
+ * Derive accessible alt text for an image URL: its filename, or "post image"
+ * when the URL carries no filename.
+ */
+function imageAltText (url) {
+  try {
+    const segments = new URL(url).pathname.split('/')
+    const filename = segments[segments.length - 1]
+    return filename || 'post image'
+  } catch {
+    return 'post image'
+  }
+}
+
+module.exports = { parsePostLinks, isImageUrl, imageAltText }
 
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psf-memo-client/test/unit/post-content.test.js

@@ -14,8 +14,8 @@ const React = require('react')
 const ReactDOMServer = require('react-dom/server')
 const PostContent = require('../../src/components/post-feed/post-content')
 
-function render (text) {
+function render (text, props = {}) {
-  return ReactDOMServer.renderToStaticMarkup(React.createElement(PostContent, { text }))
+  return ReactDOMServer.renderToStaticMarkup(React.createElement(PostContent, { text, ...props }))
 }
 
 test('renders an http URL as an anchor that opens in a new tab', () => {
@@ -48,3 +48,44 @@ test('renders an embedded YouTube player and a separate link together', () => {
   assert.match(html, /<a[^>]+href="https:\/\/memo\.fullstackcash\.net"/)
   assert.doesNotMatch(html, /<a[^>]+href="https:\/\/youtu\.be\/dQw4w9WgXcQ"/)
 })
+
+test('renders an image URL as an inline image inside a new-tab anchor', () => {
+  const html = render('https://i.imgur.com/swCI56T.jpeg Anong breed ng basil ito?')
+  assert.match(html, /<a[^>]+href="https:\/\/i\.imgur\.com\/swCI56T\.jpeg"[^>]*>[\s\S]*<img/)
+  assert.match(html, /<a[^>]+target="_blank"/)
+  assert.match(html, /<img[^>]+src="https:\/\/i\.imgur\.com\/swCI56T\.jpeg"/)
+  assert.match(html, /<img[^>]+alt="swCI56T\.jpeg"/)
+})
+
+test('renders image alt text from the filename while keeping the full src URL', () => {
+  const html = render('https://example.com/img/photo.webp?w=500 a wide shot')
+  assert.match(html, /<img[^>]+src="https:\/\/example\.com\/img\/photo\.webp\?w=500"/)
+  assert.match(html, /<img[^>]+alt="photo\.webp"/)
+})
+
+test('does not render an image URL as visible text', () => {
+  const html = render('https://i.imgur.com/swCI56T.jpeg basil leaves')
+  const textOnly = html.replace(/<[^>]+>/g, '')
+  assert.doesNotMatch(textOnly, /i\.imgur\.com/)
+  assert.match(textOnly, /basil leaves/)
+})
+
+test('preserves surrounding text around an image', () => {
+  const html = render('https://cdn.example.com/pics/Sunset.PNG over the bay')
+  assert.match(html, /over the bay/)
+})
+
+test('renders a non-image URL as a plain link with no image element', () => {
+  const html = render('view https://example.com/photo?format=jpg here')
+  assert.match(html, /<a[^>]+href="https:\/\/example\.com\/photo\?format=jpg"/)
+  assert.doesNotMatch(html, /<img/)
+})
+
+test('falls back to a plain link when the image fails to load', () => {
+  const url = 'https://i.imgur.com/swCI56T.jpeg'
+  const html = render(`${url} basil leaves`, { initialFailedImages: [url] })
+  assert.doesNotMatch(html, /<img/)
+  assert.match(html, /<a[^>]+href="https:\/\/i\.imgur\.com\/swCI56T\.jpeg"/)
+  assert.match(html, />https:\/\/i\.imgur\.com\/swCI56T\.jpeg<\/a>/)
+  assert.match(html, /basil leaves/)
+})

psf-memo-client/test/unit/post-links.test.js

@@ -12,7 +12,11 @@
 
 const test = require('node:test')
 const assert = require('node:assert/strict')
-const { parsePostLinks } = require('../../src/services/post-links')
+const {
+  parsePostLinks,
+  isImageUrl,
+  imageAltText
+} = require('../../src/services/post-links')
 
 test('parsePostLinks returns a single text segment for plain text', () => {
   const text = 'just a normal memo'
@@ -129,3 +133,40 @@ test('parsePostLinks round-trips: segments reconstruct the original text', () =>
     assert.equal(rebuilt, text)
   }
 })
+
+test('isImageUrl recognizes every supported image extension', () => {
+  for (const ext of ['jpg', 'jpeg', 'png', 'gif', 'webp', 'bmp']) {
+    assert.equal(isImageUrl(`https://example.com/photo.${ext}`), true, ext)
+  }
+})
+
+test('isImageUrl is case-insensitive', () => {
+  assert.equal(isImageUrl('https://example.com/photo.PNG'), true)
+  assert.equal(isImageUrl('https://example.com/photo.JPEG'), true)
+})
+
+test('isImageUrl ignores query strings and fragments', () => {
+  assert.equal(isImageUrl('https://example.com/photo.webp?w=500'), true)
+  assert.equal(isImageUrl('https://example.com/photo.png#section'), true)
+})
+
+test('isImageUrl rejects URLs that are not images', () => {
+  assert.equal(isImageUrl('https://example.com/page'), false)
+  assert.equal(isImageUrl('https://example.com/logo.svg'), false)
+  assert.equal(isImageUrl('https://example.com/photo?format=jpg'), false)
+  assert.equal(isImageUrl('not a url'), false)
+})
+
+test('imageAltText returns the URL filename', () => {
+  assert.equal(imageAltText('https://i.imgur.com/swCI56T.jpeg'), 'swCI56T.jpeg')
+  assert.equal(imageAltText('https://cdn.example.com/pics/Sunset.PNG'), 'Sunset.PNG')
+})
+
+test('imageAltText ignores query strings when deriving the filename', () => {
+  assert.equal(imageAltText('https://example.com/img/photo.webp?w=500'), 'photo.webp')
+})
+
+test('imageAltText falls back to "post image" when there is no filename', () => {
+  assert.equal(imageAltText('https://example.com/'), 'post image')
+  assert.equal(imageAltText('not a url'), 'post image')
+})