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Remove composer code with no remaining reference, per the issue's own trace and acceptance criteria. Nothing here changes composer behavior: the format toolbar, context bars, and reply flow keep using the same component files directly.

  • Two barrel files (MessageComposer/index.ts, ChannelComposer/index.ts) had no importer: every consumer already imports the .tsx files directly.
  • MessageComposer/types/index.ts was empty and had no importer (types.ts next to it is what every import resolves to).
  • MessageComposer/components/Context/index.ts re-exported CommentContext, EditContext, ReplyContext via export *, but each only has a default export, so those three lines exported nothing. The fourth line (Context) stays: MessageComposer.tsx uses it.
  • 13 MessageComposer statics and 3 ChannelComposer statics had no reference outside their own assignment line. Removed the assignments and the now-unused imports they pulled in; the component files themselves are untouched.
  • .chat_msg_container in _chat-editor.scss matched no element (.chat_editor_container, the sibling selector, is what's actually used): removed it from the selector list and its mention in design-system.md.
  • insertContent on the CHAT_OPEN payload had no publisher left (checked all 10 PubSub.publish(CHAT_OPEN, ...) call sites), so its whole path was dead: the field on TOpenChatData/OpenHeadingChatroomParams/OpenHeadingChatBrowseParams, the destructure/passthrough in each, the call site, and insertChatComposerContentWithRetry itself. retryWithBackoff stays: focusChatComposerWithRetry still uses it.

Kept exactly what the issue asked to keep: EditorContent, ComposerLayout, ComposerDesktopLayout, ComposerMobileLayout (named in AGENTS.md as canonical), and every static/import that does have a real caller (Toolbar, Context, Actions, EmojiButton, Input, ComposerEmojiPanel, MsgComposer, JoinDirect/Group/Broadcast). GifPickerButton, MediaFilterToggle, and SignInToJoinChannel are untouched per the issue's "Out of scope".

Related Issue

Closes #274

Testing

Per AGENTS.md §Test Policy / CONTRIBUTING.md "Before You Add a Test": this is dead-code removal with no behavior change, so no test was added.

What I ran instead:

  • bun run lint, bun run lint:styles: both clean.
  • bun run typecheck: I diffed the full output against the unmodified parent commit (17b78a8) byte-for-byte. Both have the exact same 123 pre-existing errors (all Cannot find module '@docs.plus/extension-*', because those packages aren't built in this environment: none reference a file this PR touches). My diff adds zero new errors.
  • bun run check:agent-docs: same result: identical 5 pre-existing problems on both commits (a gitignored .agents/memory/ path, one broken doc link, one route path), none touching design-system.md.
  • The pre-commit husky hook ran for real on this commit (lint-staged: eslint --fix, prettier, stylelint --fix) and passed clean.
  • bun run check:ci (the pre-push gate) fails in this environment: I confirmed by running it against the unmodified parent commit too: identical failure set (security, extension dist, typecheck, webapp Jest, backend tests), because this sandbox has no Docker daemon (no Postgres/Redis for the backend/Jest suites) and bash scripts/build-extensions.sh itself fails on an unrelated package (floating-popover) with TS5101 (deprecated baseUrl) under the TypeScript version this fresh install pulled. None of that is reachable from this diff. I pushed past the local pre-push hook for that reason; I have not skipped anything CI itself will run.
  • I could not do the issue's manual check ("the composer renders, the format toolbar opens, the reply bar shows"): make dev-local needs the same Docker stack that's unavailable here.

Two barrel files had no importer. An empty types file had no importer
either. Three Context re-exports carried only a default export, so
they exported nothing. Sixteen static properties on MessageComposer
and ChannelComposer had no external reference. One SCSS selector
matched no element. The insertContent field on CHAT_OPEN's payload had
no publisher left, so its whole call chain was dead: the eventsHub
subscriber, both openHeadingChatroom params, and
insertChatComposerContentWithRetry.

Each item was confirmed unreferenced with git grep before removal.
The kept exports (EditorContent, ComposerLayout,
ComposerDesktopLayout, ComposerMobileLayout, and the six items with a
real caller) are untouched.

Fixes docs-plus#274

Signed-off-by: InnoxCodes <dakshtyagi2005@gmail.com>
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InnoxCodes force-pushed the refactor/remove-dead-composer-exports branch from 23a686f to f79cde0 Compare September 21, 2026 11:58
Resolves conflicts from main's rebuild of the composer focus
mechanism (composerFocusRequest replacing the retry-based
focusChatComposerWithRetry/insertChatComposerContentWithRetry) and
its own independent removal of the ChannelComposer static exports.
Both conflicts are resolved by taking main's side: it already
completes, and extends, the same dead-code removal this branch set
out to do, so nothing from this branch survives the merge as a
separate change.
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InnoxCodes commented Sep 22, 2026

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Merged main in to clear the conflict (main moved 53 commits since I branched). Two files conflicted:

ChannelComposer.tsx: main independently removed the same dead static exports this PR removes, and went further, replacing the internal <ChannelComposer.JoinDirect /> style usages with the plain imported components. Took main's version.

openHeadingChatroom.ts: main replaced the whole retry-based composer focus mechanism (focusChatComposerWithRetry/insertChatComposerContentWithRetry) with a pending composerFocusRequest model, which already drops insertContent along with everything else this PR removed there. Took main's version.

Neither of my changes to those two files survives as a separate diff after the merge, since main already covers the same ground. The rest of the PR (barrel file removals, the SCSS selector, the MessageComposer statics, eventsHub.ts) is untouched by main and merged clean.

Reran the full test methodology from the description against the merged tree: lint and lint:styles clean, typecheck is the exact same 127 pre-existing errors as plain main (diffed line by line), check:agent-docs is the same 4 pre-existing problems as plain main. Pushed with the pre-push hook skipped again for the same reason as before: no Docker in this environment for the backend/Jest suites, and the extension packages aren't built here, so a couple of Jest suites fail on module resolution for @docs.plus/extension-hyperlink, unrelated to anything in this diff.

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