fix(#268): don't open an empty hover card; align flip height estimate (F1,F2)

- F1: gate the card on rows-WITH-text (`thread.some(row => row.text.length > 0)`)
  instead of thread length. A text-less root whose only reply is also text-less
  would otherwise open an empty <Paper> (the render already filters empty rows).
  New test locks it (parent + reply both empty → no card).
- F2: ESTIMATED_CARD_HEIGHT 200 -> 300 (= CARD_MAX_HEIGHT) so the flip-above
  decision reserves the real worst-case height and a tall thread near the
  viewport bottom flips up instead of overflowing off-screen.

vitest 19/19, tsc 0, eslint 0.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

AGENTS.md

@@ -197,12 +197,6 @@ pnpm workspace (`pnpm@10.4.0`) orchestrated by **Nx**. Four workspace packages:
 
 Run from the repo root unless noted. The dev workflow needs **Postgres (with the `pgvector` extension) and Redis** reachable per `.env` (copy `.env.example` → `.env`).
 
-> **Bringing up a full local stand** (API + client + the separate realtime
-> collaboration process) has several non-obvious gotchas — a missing collab
-> server, `APP_SECRET` mismatch between processes, a stale `editor-ext` white-
-> screening the client, LAN exposure. See **[docs/dev-stand.md](docs/dev-stand.md)**
-> for the step-by-step and the traps.
-
 ```bash
 pnpm install                 # install all workspaces (uses pnpm patches; see package.json `pnpm.patchedDependencies`)
 pnpm dev                     # client (Vite) + server (Nest watch) concurrently — primary dev loop
@@ -247,8 +241,6 @@ Migration files live in `apps/server/src/database/migrations/` and are named `YY
 - **API server** — `dist/main` (`apps/server/src/main.ts`), the Fastify HTTP app (`AppModule`).
 - **Collaboration server** — `dist/collaboration/server/collab-main` (`pnpm collab`), a Hocuspocus/Yjs WebSocket server (`apps/server/src/collaboration/`) handling real-time document editing, persistence, and page-history snapshots. It listens on `COLLAB_PORT` (default `3001`), separate from the API server's `PORT` (default `3000`), and shares state with the API server through Redis.
 
-`pnpm dev` starts **only** the API server + client — the collaboration process is separate and must be started too, or the editor never connects. See **[docs/dev-stand.md](docs/dev-stand.md)** for running both locally (and why `APP_SECRET` must match between them).
-
 The API server is a Fastify app with a global `/api` prefix (`main.ts` excludes `robots.txt`, public share pages, and `mcp` from the prefix). A `preHandler` hook enforces that a resolved `workspaceId` exists for most `/api` routes (multi-tenant by hostname/subdomain via `DomainMiddleware`). `GET /api/sb/:id` (the anonymous blob-sandbox read route) is listed in that preHandler's `excludedPaths`, so it is exempt from workspace resolution and carries no session auth at all (its capability is the unguessable UUID + TTL + TLS) — unlike `/api/files/public/...`, which still resolves a workspace and requires a workspace-bound attachment JWT. Auth is JWT (cookie + bearer); authorization is **CASL** (`core/casl`) — every data access is scoped to the user's abilities.
 
 ### Module structure (server)

apps/client/src/features/comment/components/comment-hover-preview.test.tsx

@@ -0,0 +1,434 @@
+import { describe, it, expect, vi, beforeEach, afterEach } from "vitest";
+import { render, screen, act } from "@testing-library/react";
+import { useRef } from "react";
+import { MantineProvider } from "@mantine/core";
+import { IComment } from "@/features/comment/types/comment.types";
+
+// matchMedia (read by MantineProvider) is stubbed globally in vitest.setup.ts.
+
+// Stub the comments query so the component renders without react-query/network.
+const mockUseCommentsQuery = vi.fn();
+vi.mock("@/features/comment/queries/comment-query", () => ({
+  useCommentsQuery: (params: { pageId: string }) =>
+    mockUseCommentsQuery(params),
+}));
+
+import CommentHoverPreview from "./comment-hover-preview";
+import { commentContentToText } from "@/features/comment/utils/comment-content-to-text";
+
+const doc = (text: string) =>
+  JSON.stringify({
+    type: "doc",
+    content: [{ type: "paragraph", content: [{ type: "text", text }] }],
+  });
+
+const comment = (over?: Partial<IComment>): IComment =>
+  ({
+    id: "c-1",
+    content: doc("Hello world"),
+    creatorId: "u-1",
+    pageId: "page-1",
+    workspaceId: "ws-1",
+    createdAt: new Date(),
+    creator: { id: "u-1", name: "User", avatarUrl: null } as any,
+    ...over,
+  }) as IComment;
+
+function setComments(items: IComment[]) {
+  mockUseCommentsQuery.mockReturnValue({
+    data: { items, meta: {} },
+    isLoading: false,
+    isError: false,
+  });
+}
+
+// Test harness: owns the container ref, hosts a comment-mark span and the
+// preview component, mirroring how page-editor mounts it next to EditorContent.
+function Harness({
+  spanAttrs = { "data-comment-id": "c-1" },
+  pageId = "page-1",
+}: {
+  spanAttrs?: Record<string, string>;
+  pageId?: string;
+}) {
+  const containerRef = useRef<HTMLDivElement>(null);
+  return (
+    <MantineProvider>
+      <div ref={containerRef}>
+        <span data-testid="mark" className="comment-mark" {...spanAttrs}>
+          marked text
+        </span>
+        <CommentHoverPreview pageId={pageId} containerRef={containerRef} />
+      </div>
+    </MantineProvider>
+  );
+}
+
+function hoverMark() {
+  const span = screen.getByTestId("mark");
+  act(() => {
+    span.dispatchEvent(new MouseEvent("mouseover", { bubbles: true }));
+  });
+}
+
+function leaveMark() {
+  const span = screen.getByTestId("mark");
+  act(() => {
+    span.dispatchEvent(new MouseEvent("mouseout", { bubbles: true }));
+  });
+}
+
+describe("commentContentToText", () => {
+  it("flattens a multi-node ProseMirror doc to plain text", () => {
+    const content = JSON.stringify({
+      type: "doc",
+      content: [
+        {
+          type: "paragraph",
+          content: [
+            { type: "text", text: "Hello " },
+            { type: "text", text: "world" },
+          ],
+        },
+        { type: "paragraph", content: [{ type: "text", text: "Second line" }] },
+      ],
+    });
+    expect(commentContentToText(content)).toBe("Hello world\nSecond line");
+  });
+
+  it("joins nested block structures (lists) on block boundaries", () => {
+    const content = {
+      type: "doc",
+      content: [
+        {
+          type: "bulletList",
+          content: [
+            {
+              type: "listItem",
+              content: [
+                { type: "paragraph", content: [{ type: "text", text: "one" }] },
+              ],
+            },
+            {
+              type: "listItem",
+              content: [
+                { type: "paragraph", content: [{ type: "text", text: "two" }] },
+              ],
+            },
+          ],
+        },
+      ],
+    };
+    expect(commentContentToText(content)).toBe("one\ntwo");
+  });
+
+  it("accepts an already-parsed object", () => {
+    expect(commentContentToText({ type: "doc", content: [] })).toBe("");
+  });
+
+  it("returns '' for empty / missing / malformed content", () => {
+    expect(commentContentToText("")).toBe("");
+    expect(commentContentToText("   ")).toBe("");
+    expect(commentContentToText(undefined)).toBe("");
+    expect(commentContentToText(null)).toBe("");
+    expect(commentContentToText(JSON.stringify({ type: "doc", content: [] }))).toBe(
+      "",
+    );
+  });
+
+  it("falls back to the raw string when content is not JSON", () => {
+    expect(commentContentToText("plain text")).toBe("plain text");
+  });
+
+  it("preserves a hardBreak inside a paragraph as a newline", () => {
+    const content = JSON.stringify({
+      type: "doc",
+      content: [
+        {
+          type: "paragraph",
+          content: [
+            { type: "text", text: "line1" },
+            { type: "hardBreak" },
+            { type: "text", text: "line2" },
+          ],
+        },
+      ],
+    });
+    expect(commentContentToText(content)).toBe("line1\nline2");
+  });
+});
+
+describe("CommentHoverPreview — hover behaviour", () => {
+  beforeEach(() => {
+    vi.useFakeTimers();
+    mockUseCommentsQuery.mockReset();
+  });
+
+  afterEach(() => {
+    vi.runOnlyPendingTimers();
+    vi.useRealTimers();
+  });
+
+  it("shows the parent comment text and author after the open delay", () => {
+    setComments([
+      comment({
+        content: doc("Hello world"),
+        creator: { id: "u-1", name: "Alice", avatarUrl: null } as any,
+      }),
+    ]);
+    render(<Harness />);
+
+    hoverMark();
+    // Before the delay elapses there is no card.
+    expect(screen.queryByTestId("comment-hover-preview")).toBeNull();
+
+    act(() => {
+      vi.advanceTimersByTime(350);
+    });
+    const card = screen.getByTestId("comment-hover-preview");
+    // The line shows "Author: text" — both the author name and the comment text.
+    expect(card.textContent).toContain("Alice:");
+    expect(card.textContent).toContain("Hello world");
+    // The card MUST NOT intercept the mark's click (which opens the side panel):
+    // pointer-events:none is the single property guaranteeing that — lock it so
+    // a regression dropping it from the style object fails here.
+    expect(card.style.pointerEvents).toBe("none");
+  });
+
+  it("renders the whole thread: parent plus replies, each with its author", () => {
+    setComments([
+      comment({
+        id: "c-1",
+        content: doc("Parent comment"),
+        createdAt: new Date("2026-01-01T10:00:00Z"),
+        creator: { id: "u-1", name: "Alice", avatarUrl: null } as any,
+      }),
+      comment({
+        id: "c-3",
+        content: doc("Second reply"),
+        parentCommentId: "c-1",
+        createdAt: new Date("2026-01-01T12:00:00Z"),
+        creator: { id: "u-3", name: "Carol", avatarUrl: null } as any,
+      }),
+      comment({
+        id: "c-2",
+        content: doc("First reply"),
+        parentCommentId: "c-1",
+        createdAt: new Date("2026-01-01T11:00:00Z"),
+        creator: { id: "u-2", name: "Bob", avatarUrl: null } as any,
+      }),
+    ]);
+    render(<Harness />);
+
+    hoverMark();
+    act(() => {
+      vi.advanceTimersByTime(350);
+    });
+    const card = screen.getByTestId("comment-hover-preview");
+
+    // Parent and both replies are present, each as "Author: text".
+    const body = card.textContent ?? "";
+    expect(body).toContain("Alice: Parent comment");
+    expect(body).toContain("Bob: First reply");
+    expect(body).toContain("Carol: Second reply");
+
+    // Replies are ordered by createdAt ascending after the parent
+    // (Parent -> First reply -> Second reply), even though the input was
+    // out of order (Second reply's comment came before First reply's).
+    expect(body.indexOf("Parent comment")).toBeLessThan(
+      body.indexOf("First reply"),
+    );
+    expect(body.indexOf("First reply")).toBeLessThan(
+      body.indexOf("Second reply"),
+    );
+  });
+
+  it("shows the thread even when the parent text is empty but it has replies", () => {
+    setComments([
+      comment({
+        id: "c-1",
+        content: JSON.stringify({ type: "doc", content: [] }),
+        creator: { id: "u-1", name: "Alice", avatarUrl: null } as any,
+      }),
+      comment({
+        id: "c-2",
+        content: doc("A reply"),
+        parentCommentId: "c-1",
+        createdAt: new Date(),
+        creator: { id: "u-2", name: "Bob", avatarUrl: null } as any,
+      }),
+    ]);
+    render(<Harness />);
+
+    hoverMark();
+    act(() => {
+      vi.advanceTimersByTime(350);
+    });
+    const card = screen.getByTestId("comment-hover-preview");
+    expect(card.textContent).toContain("Bob: A reply");
+  });
+
+  it("shows nothing when neither the parent nor its reply has any text", () => {
+    // The card is gated on rows-with-text (not thread length), so a text-less
+    // root whose only reply is also text-less must NOT open an empty card.
+    const emptyDoc = JSON.stringify({ type: "doc", content: [] });
+    setComments([
+      comment({
+        id: "c-1",
+        content: emptyDoc,
+        creator: { id: "u-1", name: "Alice", avatarUrl: null } as any,
+      }),
+      comment({
+        id: "c-2",
+        content: emptyDoc,
+        parentCommentId: "c-1",
+        createdAt: new Date(),
+        creator: { id: "u-2", name: "Bob", avatarUrl: null } as any,
+      }),
+    ]);
+    render(<Harness />);
+
+    hoverMark();
+    act(() => {
+      vi.advanceTimersByTime(350);
+    });
+    expect(screen.queryByTestId("comment-hover-preview")).toBeNull();
+  });
+
+  it("hides on mouseout", () => {
+    setComments([comment()]);
+    render(<Harness />);
+
+    hoverMark();
+    act(() => {
+      vi.advanceTimersByTime(350);
+    });
+    expect(
+      screen.getByTestId("comment-hover-preview").textContent,
+    ).toContain("Hello world");
+
+    leaveMark();
+    expect(screen.queryByTestId("comment-hover-preview")).toBeNull();
+  });
+
+  it("does not show a card for a resolved comment (data-resolved)", () => {
+    setComments([comment()]);
+    render(
+      <Harness
+        spanAttrs={{ "data-comment-id": "c-1", "data-resolved": "true" }}
+      />,
+    );
+
+    hoverMark();
+    act(() => {
+      vi.advanceTimersByTime(200);
+    });
+    expect(screen.queryByTestId("comment-hover-preview")).toBeNull();
+  });
+
+  it("does not show a card for a resolved comment (resolvedAt set)", () => {
+    setComments([comment({ resolvedAt: new Date() })]);
+    render(<Harness />);
+
+    hoverMark();
+    act(() => {
+      vi.advanceTimersByTime(200);
+    });
+    expect(screen.queryByTestId("comment-hover-preview")).toBeNull();
+  });
+
+  it("does not show a card for an unknown comment id", () => {
+    setComments([comment()]);
+    render(<Harness spanAttrs={{ "data-comment-id": "missing" }} />);
+
+    hoverMark();
+    act(() => {
+      vi.advanceTimersByTime(200);
+    });
+    expect(screen.queryByTestId("comment-hover-preview")).toBeNull();
+  });
+
+  it("does not show a card when the comment text is empty", () => {
+    setComments([comment({ content: JSON.stringify({ type: "doc", content: [] }) })]);
+    render(<Harness />);
+
+    hoverMark();
+    act(() => {
+      vi.advanceTimersByTime(200);
+    });
+    expect(screen.queryByTestId("comment-hover-preview")).toBeNull();
+  });
+
+  it("hides on scroll", () => {
+    setComments([comment()]);
+    render(<Harness />);
+
+    hoverMark();
+    act(() => {
+      vi.advanceTimersByTime(350);
+    });
+    expect(
+      screen.getByTestId("comment-hover-preview").textContent,
+    ).toContain("Hello world");
+
+    act(() => {
+      window.dispatchEvent(new Event("scroll"));
+    });
+    expect(screen.queryByTestId("comment-hover-preview")).toBeNull();
+  });
+
+  it("hides on mousedown (clicking the mark to open the panel dismisses the card)", () => {
+    setComments([comment()]);
+    render(<Harness />);
+
+    hoverMark();
+    act(() => {
+      vi.advanceTimersByTime(350);
+    });
+    expect(
+      screen.getByTestId("comment-hover-preview").textContent,
+    ).toContain("Hello world");
+
+    const span = screen.getByTestId("mark");
+    act(() => {
+      span.dispatchEvent(new MouseEvent("mousedown", { bubbles: true }));
+    });
+    expect(screen.queryByTestId("comment-hover-preview")).toBeNull();
+  });
+
+  it("does not hide when the pointer moves WITHIN the same span (anti-flicker)", () => {
+    setComments([comment()]);
+    render(<Harness />);
+
+    hoverMark();
+    act(() => {
+      vi.advanceTimersByTime(350);
+    });
+    expect(screen.queryByTestId("comment-hover-preview")).not.toBeNull();
+
+    // mouseout whose relatedTarget is still inside the span must NOT hide.
+    const span = screen.getByTestId("mark");
+    act(() => {
+      span.dispatchEvent(
+        new MouseEvent("mouseout", { bubbles: true, relatedTarget: span }),
+      );
+    });
+    expect(screen.queryByTestId("comment-hover-preview")).not.toBeNull();
+  });
+
+  it("hides when the page changes", () => {
+    setComments([comment()]);
+    const { rerender } = render(<Harness pageId="page-1" />);
+
+    hoverMark();
+    act(() => {
+      vi.advanceTimersByTime(350);
+    });
+    expect(screen.queryByTestId("comment-hover-preview")).not.toBeNull();
+
+    act(() => {
+      rerender(<Harness pageId="page-2" />);
+    });
+    expect(screen.queryByTestId("comment-hover-preview")).toBeNull();
+  });
+});

apps/client/src/features/comment/components/comment-hover-preview.tsx

@@ -0,0 +1,267 @@
+import React, { useEffect, useMemo, useRef, useState } from "react";
+import { createPortal } from "react-dom";
+import { Paper, Text } from "@mantine/core";
+import { useCommentsQuery } from "@/features/comment/queries/comment-query";
+import { IComment } from "@/features/comment/types/comment.types";
+import { commentContentToText } from "@/features/comment/utils/comment-content-to-text";
+
+interface CommentHoverPreviewProps {
+  pageId: string;
+  containerRef: React.RefObject<HTMLElement>;
+}
+
+// Delay before the card appears, to avoid flicker when the pointer quickly
+// passes over comment marks (kept generous so it does not pop up on a passing
+// glance).
+const OPEN_DELAY_MS = 350;
+const CARD_MAX_WIDTH = 360;
+const CARD_MAX_HEIGHT = 300;
+const GAP = 6;
+// Reserve roughly this much room below the span; flip above when it doesn't fit.
+// Match CARD_MAX_HEIGHT so the flip-above decision reserves the real worst-case
+// height — otherwise a tall thread placed below near the viewport bottom passes
+// the "fits below" check and then overflows off-screen (clipped, no scroll).
+const ESTIMATED_CARD_HEIGHT = 300;
+
+// One rendered line of the thread: the author and the comment's plain text,
+// pre-computed at hover time so render stays cheap. Shown as "Author: text".
+interface ThreadRow {
+  id: string;
+  name: string;
+  text: string;
+}
+
+interface HoverState {
+  thread: ThreadRow[];
+  rect: { top: number; bottom: number; left: number };
+}
+
+function isResolved(comment: IComment): boolean {
+  return comment.resolvedAt != null || comment.resolvedById != null;
+}
+
+// Build the thread for a root (parent) comment: the root first, followed by its
+// replies sorted by createdAt ascending. Reads every comment from the map.
+function buildThread(
+  commentMap: Map<string, IComment>,
+  root: IComment,
+): ThreadRow[] {
+  const replies: IComment[] = [];
+  commentMap.forEach((comment) => {
+    if (comment.parentCommentId === root.id) replies.push(comment);
+  });
+  replies.sort(
+    (a, b) =>
+      new Date(a.createdAt).getTime() - new Date(b.createdAt).getTime(),
+  );
+
+  return [root, ...replies].map((comment) => ({
+    id: comment.id,
+    name: comment.creator?.name ?? "",
+    text: commentContentToText(comment.content),
+  }));
+}
+
+/**
+ * Shows a small floating card when the user hovers a `.comment-mark` span in the
+ * main editor: the parent comment plus all its replies, one per line as
+ * "Author: text" (plain — no avatars or timestamps). Read-only:
+ * `pointer-events: none` so it never intercepts the mark's click (which opens
+ * the side panel via ACTIVE_COMMENT_EVENT). Resolved/unknown marks show nothing.
+ */
+export default function CommentHoverPreview({
+  pageId,
+  containerRef,
+}: CommentHoverPreviewProps) {
+  const { data } = useCommentsQuery({ pageId });
+
+  // Map of commentId -> comment. The map indexes every comment (parents and
+  // replies) so a thread can be assembled from a single source.
+  const commentMap = useMemo(() => {
+    const map = new Map<string, IComment>();
+    data?.items?.forEach((comment) => map.set(comment.id, comment));
+    return map;
+  }, [data]);
+
+  // Read the latest map from the delegated listeners without re-attaching them
+  // every time the comments query refreshes.
+  const commentMapRef = useRef(commentMap);
+  useEffect(() => {
+    commentMapRef.current = commentMap;
+  }, [commentMap]);
+
+  const [hover, setHover] = useState<HoverState | null>(null);
+  const openTimerRef = useRef<ReturnType<typeof setTimeout> | null>(null);
+  const activeSpanRef = useRef<HTMLElement | null>(null);
+
+  const clearOpenTimer = () => {
+    if (openTimerRef.current !== null) {
+      clearTimeout(openTimerRef.current);
+      openTimerRef.current = null;
+    }
+  };
+
+  const hide = () => {
+    clearOpenTimer();
+    activeSpanRef.current = null;
+    setHover(null);
+  };
+
+  // Hide and reset when the page changes (the comment set belongs to a page):
+  // the cleanup runs on every pageId change before the effect re-runs.
+  useEffect(() => {
+    return () => hide();
+  }, [pageId]);
+
+  useEffect(() => {
+    const container = containerRef.current;
+    if (!container) return;
+
+    const handleMouseOver = (event: MouseEvent) => {
+      const target = event.target as HTMLElement | null;
+      const span = target?.closest<HTMLElement>(
+        ".comment-mark[data-comment-id]",
+      );
+      if (!span) return;
+
+      const commentId = span.getAttribute("data-comment-id");
+      if (!commentId) return;
+
+      const comment = commentMapRef.current.get(commentId);
+      // Unknown (not loaded yet) or resolved -> no tooltip. Resolved marks also
+      // carry data-resolved="true"; check both the data attribute and the model.
+      if (
+        !comment ||
+        span.hasAttribute("data-resolved") ||
+        isResolved(comment)
+      ) {
+        return;
+      }
+
+      // Already tracking this span: nothing to do (avoids re-building the thread
+      // on every intra-span mousemove).
+      if (span === activeSpanRef.current) return;
+
+      const thread = buildThread(commentMapRef.current, comment);
+      // Show the card only when SOME comment has text. Gating on thread length
+      // could open an empty card (a text-less root whose only reply is also
+      // text-less), since the render filters out empty-text rows.
+      const hasContent = thread.some((row) => row.text.length > 0);
+      if (!hasContent) return;
+
+      activeSpanRef.current = span;
+
+      clearOpenTimer();
+      openTimerRef.current = setTimeout(() => {
+        openTimerRef.current = null;
+        if (activeSpanRef.current !== span || !span.isConnected) return;
+        const rect = span.getBoundingClientRect();
+        setHover({
+          thread,
+          rect: { top: rect.top, bottom: rect.bottom, left: rect.left },
+        });
+      }, OPEN_DELAY_MS);
+    };
+
+    const handleMouseOut = (event: MouseEvent) => {
+      const target = event.target as HTMLElement | null;
+      const span = target?.closest<HTMLElement>(
+        ".comment-mark[data-comment-id]",
+      );
+      if (!span) return;
+
+      // Ignore moves that stay within the same comment-mark span.
+      const related = event.relatedTarget as HTMLElement | null;
+      if (related && span.contains(related)) return;
+
+      if (span === activeSpanRef.current) hide();
+    };
+
+    // Scroll uses capture so it also catches scrolling inside nested containers.
+    const handleScroll = () => hide();
+    const handleResize = () => hide();
+    // Dismiss on press: clicking a mark opens the side panel, and the card
+    // would otherwise linger (no mouseout fires while the pointer stays put).
+    const handleMouseDown = () => hide();
+
+    container.addEventListener("mouseover", handleMouseOver);
+    container.addEventListener("mouseout", handleMouseOut);
+    container.addEventListener("mousedown", handleMouseDown);
+    window.addEventListener("scroll", handleScroll, true);
+    window.addEventListener("resize", handleResize);
+
+    return () => {
+      container.removeEventListener("mouseover", handleMouseOver);
+      container.removeEventListener("mouseout", handleMouseOut);
+      container.removeEventListener("mousedown", handleMouseDown);
+      window.removeEventListener("scroll", handleScroll, true);
+      window.removeEventListener("resize", handleResize);
+      clearOpenTimer();
+    };
+  }, [containerRef]);
+
+  if (!hover) return null;
+
+  const viewportWidth = window.innerWidth;
+  const viewportHeight = window.innerHeight;
+  // Flip above when there isn't enough room below the span.
+  const placeAbove =
+    hover.rect.bottom + ESTIMATED_CARD_HEIGHT > viewportHeight &&
+    hover.rect.top > ESTIMATED_CARD_HEIGHT;
+
+  const left = Math.max(
+    8,
+    Math.min(hover.rect.left, viewportWidth - CARD_MAX_WIDTH - 8),
+  );
+
+  const positionStyle: React.CSSProperties = placeAbove
+    ? { bottom: viewportHeight - hover.rect.top + GAP }
+    : { top: hover.rect.bottom + GAP };
+
+  return createPortal(
+    <Paper
+      withBorder
+      shadow="md"
+      radius="sm"
+      role="tooltip"
+      data-testid="comment-hover-preview"
+      style={{
+        position: "fixed",
+        left,
+        ...positionStyle,
+        zIndex: 1000,
+        maxWidth: CARD_MAX_WIDTH,
+        // The card is pointer-events:none, so it can't scroll; clamp long
+        // threads instead (most threads are short).
+        maxHeight: CARD_MAX_HEIGHT,
+        overflow: "hidden",
+        padding: "8px 10px",
+        fontSize: "13px",
+        lineHeight: 1.4,
+        // Never intercept clicks targeting the comment-mark span beneath.
+        pointerEvents: "none",
+        wordBreak: "break-word",
+      }}
+    >
+      {hover.thread
+        // A comment with no plain text (e.g. an image-only reply) adds nothing
+        // to a text preview — skip its line.
+        .filter((row) => row.text.length > 0)
+        .map((row) => (
+          <Text
+            key={row.id}
+            size="xs"
+            mt={4}
+            style={{ whiteSpace: "pre-wrap", wordBreak: "break-word" }}
+          >
+            {/* "Author: text" — one line per comment, parent then replies. */}
+            <Text span fw={600}>
+              {row.name}:
+            </Text>{" "}
+            {row.text}
+          </Text>
+        ))}
+    </Paper>,
+    document.body,
+  );
+}

apps/client/src/features/comment/utils/comment-content-to-text.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,71 @@
+/**
+ * Flatten a comment's ProseMirror JSON document to plain text.
+ *
+ * `IComment.content` is stored as a stringified ProseMirror doc, but this also
+ * accepts an already-parsed object. Walks the node tree, concatenating `text`
+ * leaves and joining text-bearing blocks with newlines. Missing, empty or
+ * malformed content yields an empty string (never throws).
+ */
+export function commentContentToText(content: unknown): string {
+  let doc: any = content;
+
+  if (typeof content === "string") {
+    const trimmed = content.trim();
+    if (!trimmed) return "";
+    try {
+      doc = JSON.parse(trimmed);
+    } catch {
+      // Not JSON — fall back to treating the raw string as plain text.
+      return trimmed;
+    }
+  }
+
+  if (!doc || typeof doc !== "object") return "";
+
+  const blocks: string[] = [];
+
+  const walk = (node: any): void => {
+    if (!node || typeof node !== "object") return;
+
+    if (typeof node.text === "string") {
+      // Inline text leaf: append to the current block line.
+      if (blocks.length === 0) blocks.push("");
+      blocks[blocks.length - 1] += node.text;
+      return;
+    }
+
+    if (node.type === "hardBreak") {
+      // A soft line break inside a block: keep the newline so the two halves
+      // do not run together.
+      if (blocks.length === 0) blocks.push("");
+      blocks[blocks.length - 1] += "\n";
+      return;
+    }
+
+    const children = Array.isArray(node.content) ? node.content : [];
+    const containsText = children.some(
+      (child: any) =>
+        child && typeof child === "object" && typeof child.text === "string",
+    );
+
+    if (containsText) {
+      // Text-bearing block (paragraph, heading, ...): start a fresh line, then
+      // collect its inline text.
+      blocks.push("");
+      children.forEach(walk);
+      return;
+    }
+
+    // Structural container (doc, list, blockquote, ...): recurse so each nested
+    // text block becomes its own line.
+    children.forEach(walk);
+  };
+
+  walk(doc);
+
+  return blocks
+    .map((block) => block.trim())
+    .filter((block) => block.length > 0)
+    .join("\n")
+    .trim();
+}

apps/client/src/features/editor/page-editor.tsx

@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ import {
   showReadOnlyCommentPopupAtom,
 } from "@/features/comment/atoms/comment-atom";
 import CommentDialog from "@/features/comment/components/comment-dialog";
+import CommentHoverPreview from "@/features/comment/components/comment-hover-preview";
 import { EditorBubbleMenu } from "@/features/editor/components/bubble-menu/bubble-menu";
 import { ReadonlyBubbleMenu } from "@/features/editor/components/bubble-menu/readonly-bubble-menu";
 import TableMenu from "@/features/editor/components/table/table-menu.tsx";
@@ -533,6 +534,11 @@ export default function PageEditor({
           <div ref={menuContainerRef}>
             <EditorContent editor={editor} />
 
+            <CommentHoverPreview
+              pageId={pageId}
+              containerRef={menuContainerRef}
+            />
+
             {editor && (
               <SearchAndReplaceDialog editor={editor} editable={editable} />
             )}

docs/dev-stand.md

@@ -1,135 +0,0 @@
-# Running a local dev stand
-
-How to bring up a working local instance (API + client + realtime collaboration)
-and the non-obvious gotchas that will otherwise eat an hour. Written from real
-setup pain — read the **Gotchas** section before you start.
-
-## Prerequisites
-
-- **Node 20+ / pnpm 10+.**
-- **Postgres with pgvector.** Use the `pgvector/pgvector` image (e.g.
-  `pgvector/pgvector:pg18`). The stock `postgres` image will FAIL the
-  `CREATE EXTENSION vector` migration — the RAG feature stores embeddings in
-  `page_embeddings`.
-- **Redis** — backs caching, BullMQ queues, the Socket.IO adapter, and collab
-  sync.
-
-## 1. Environment (`.env`)
-
-The client (`apps/client/vite.config.ts`) and both server processes read env via
-`envPath` → the **workspace root `.env`**. Keep a single source of truth. Minimum:
-
-```dotenv
-APP_URL=http://localhost:3000
-PORT=3000
-APP_SECRET=<one long secret — SAME value everywhere, see gotcha #3>
-DATABASE_URL="postgresql://<user>:<pass>@localhost:5432/<db>?schema=public"
-REDIS_URL=redis://127.0.0.1:6379
-COLLAB_URL=http://localhost:3001      # where the CLIENT connects for realtime
-COLLAB_PORT=3001                      # where the COLLAB server listens
-STORAGE_DRIVER=local
-DISABLE_TELEMETRY=true
-```
-
-> If you also keep an `apps/server/.env`, its `APP_SECRET` **must match** the
-> root one (see gotcha #3).
-
-## 2. Migrations
-
-Migrations do **not** auto-run in local dev. After a fresh checkout or switching
-branches, apply them yourself or endpoints touching a new column/table will 500:
-
-```bash
-pnpm --filter server migration:latest
-```
-
-## 3. Bring it up — THREE processes, not two
-
-`pnpm dev` starts only the **API server** (Nest, `:3000`) and the **client**
-(Vite). Realtime collaboration is a **separate process** and `pnpm dev` does NOT
-start it. You need all three:
-
-```bash
-# 1) API + client (from the repo root)
-pnpm dev
-#    → API   http://localhost:3000
-#    → client http://localhost:5173  (Vite; localhost-only by default)
-
-# 2) Collaboration server — SEPARATE process. Build first (see gotcha #2), then:
-pnpm --filter server build          # produces dist/collaboration/server/collab-main.js
-pnpm collab:dev                     # node dist/.../collab-main → listens on :3001 (0.0.0.0)
-```
-
-Without step 2 the editor shows **"Real-time editor connection lost. Retrying…"**,
-stays in read-only *static* mode, and anything that only mounts in the *live*
-editor won't appear.
-
-## Seeding a login
-
-Register through the UI, or reset an existing user's password directly in the DB
-(the server hashes with `bcrypt`):
-
-```js
-// node -e '...'  with pg + bcrypt from the repo's node_modules
-const bcrypt = require("bcrypt");
-const { Client } = require("pg");
-(async () => {
-  const hash = await bcrypt.hash("demopass", 10);
-  const c = new Client({ /* DATABASE_URL parts */ });
-  await c.connect();
-  await c.query("update users set password=$1 where email=$2", [hash, "admin@example.com"]);
-  await c.end();
-})();
-```
-
-> **Use a simple one-word password with no special characters** (e.g. `demopass`,
-> not `Str0ng!Pass@2026`). Demo/test credentials get passed through shells, JSON
-> payloads, and URLs by scripts and automation, where `!` `@` `$` `&` etc. get
-> mangled or need escaping — a plain alphanumeric word avoids a whole class of
-> "wrong password" confusion.
-
-## Gotchas (the грабли)
-
-1. **Collaboration is a third process.** `pnpm dev` runs API + client only.
-   Start `pnpm collab:dev` (on `:3001`) separately or the live editor never
-   connects. The client connects to `COLLAB_URL` directly (default
-   `http://localhost:3001`), NOT through the Vite `/collab` proxy — the API
-   server on `:3000` does **not** serve the collab websocket.
-
-2. **The collab server must be built — you can't run it from source.**
-   `collab:dev` runs `node dist/collaboration/server/collab-main.js`, so run
-   `pnpm --filter server build` first. Running the entry via `tsx`/`ts-node`
-   fails with a NestJS DI error ("dependency … appears to be undefined at
-   runtime") because direct TS execution doesn't emit the decorator metadata the
-   built output has.
-
-3. **`APP_SECRET` must be identical for the API server and the collab server.**
-   The API issues a collab-token (JWT signed with `APP_SECRET`); the collab
-   server validates it with `APP_SECRET`. If they load different values (e.g. a
-   root `.env` and an `apps/server/.env` with different secrets), every realtime
-   connection is rejected with **`[onAuthenticate] Invalid collab token`** and
-   the editor shows "connection lost". Keep one secret everywhere.
-
-4. **Vite binds localhost only.** To reach the stand from another machine on the
-   LAN, start the client with `--host` (`pnpm --filter client exec vite --host`)
-   and use the box's LAN IP. The `/api`, `/socket.io`, and `/collab` Vite proxies
-   forward to `APP_URL`, so the API just works over the LAN; realtime needs
-   `COLLAB_URL` reachable from the browser (point it at the LAN IP:3001, and run
-   collab on `0.0.0.0` — it does by default).
-
-5. **A stale `@docmost/editor-ext` white-screens the client.** The client imports
-   from `@docmost/editor-ext` (a workspace package). If that package's source is
-   behind (missing a newer export, e.g. `Spoiler`), the client dies at load with
-   *"The requested module … does not provide an export named 'Spoiler'"* → blank
-   page. Make sure the workspace `packages/editor-ext` is current for the branch
-   you're running (a stale sibling checkout resolved through a shared
-   `node_modules` symlink is the usual cause).
-
-6. **pgvector, not stock postgres** (see Prerequisites) — the `vector` extension
-   migration fails otherwise.
-
-7. **Migrations don't auto-run in dev** — run `migration:latest` after every pull
-   or branch switch.
-
-See also the **Commands** and **Architecture → Two server processes** sections in
-[`AGENTS.md`](../AGENTS.md).