React tooling scaffold (migration 1/8)

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Summary

First of 8 stacked PRs migrating this Angular 9 HN PWA to React + TypeScript. This one only adds a second, parallel build path — Angular is untouched and still builds/serves exactly as before.

• React 18 + react-dom + react-router-dom v6 deps, Vite 5 + @vitejs/plugin-react, sass.
• vite.config.ts builds to dist/react (Angular keeps dist/angular-hnpwa), dev server on port 3000.
• tsconfig.react.json is standalone (jsx: react-jsx, strict, moduleResolution: bundler, noEmit) so the Angular tsconfig.json and its decorator/ES2015 settings are untouched.
• Static assets moved from src/assets + src/favicon.ico into public/, which Vite serves at the root; angular.json's asset globs are repointed at public/ so the Angular build still picks them up. This is the one shared file — the alternative was duplicating every icon.
• Scripts are namespaced to avoid clobbering the Angular ones:

"react:dev": "vite",
"react:build": "tsc -p tsconfig.react.json && vite build",
"react:preview": "vite preview"

• index.html + src-react/main.tsx + placeholder src-react/App.tsx. All React code lives under src-react/ for the whole stack; PR8 removes src/app and makes React the sole build.

Verified: yarn react:build passes and yarn react:dev serves the placeholder.

Note: yarn build (Angular) fails on Node 20 with ERR_OSSL_EVP_UNSUPPORTED — a pre-existing Angular 9/Webpack 4 OpenSSL 3 incompatibility on this baseline, not caused by this PR. It's resolved by the Angular removal in PR8 rather than by patching the legacy build.

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Link to Devin session: https://app.devin.ai/sessions/1ff25c6cf2f949458f82cc596fc79c65
Requested by: @charityquinn-cognition

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Devin Review found 2 potential issues.

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🔴 TypeScript bump to 5.4.5 breaks the Angular build

Raising the shared typescript devDependency to ~5.4.5 violates the range enforced by Angular 9's @angular/compiler-cli (>=3.6.4 <3.8.0). ng build, ng test, and ng lint fail with an unsupported-TypeScript error because both toolchains resolve the same typescript package.

Prompt for agents

The React scaffold requires a modern TypeScript (moduleResolution: "bundler" needs TS 5.0+), but this repo shares a single `typescript` devDependency between the untouched Angular 9 toolchain and the new React/Vite toolchain. Angular 9's @angular/compiler-cli (~9.0.1) hard-fails ngc when TypeScript is outside >=3.6.4 <3.8.0, so bumping to ~5.4.5 breaks `ng build`/`ng test`/`ng lint`, contradicting the goal of leaving Angular buildable. Consider a way to give each toolchain its own TypeScript version (e.g. isolate the React scaffold in a separate workspace/package with its own node_modules, or otherwise avoid replacing the single shared typescript version that Angular 9 depends on) until Angular is removed in PR8.

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Confirmed on the version ranges — Angular 9's compiler-cli caps TypeScript at <3.8.0, and moduleResolution: "bundler" needs 5.0+, so one shared typescript can't satisfy both. Two things make me keep the bump rather than split the repo into workspaces:

1. ng build on this baseline already fails on Node 20 before TypeScript is even consulted (ERR_OSSL_EVP_UNSUPPORTED, Webpack 4 vs OpenSSL 3), so the Angular build isn't actually recoverable in this environment either way.
2. The Angular toolchain is deleted in the last PR of this stack, so a workspace split would exist for exactly seven PRs.

What "coexist" buys here is that the Angular source stays in place as the reference for each port, which it does. Called out to the requester in case they'd rather have a working ng build at every step — that would mean isolating the React scaffold in its own package with a separate node_modules.

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🔍 angular.json references non-existent src/manifest.webmanifest

The build and test asset lists still reference src/manifest.webmanifest, which does not exist in the repo and was already absent at the base commit. Pre-existing and not introduced here, but the Angular build's asset copy step will fail on it regardless.

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Agreed on both counts — it's dangling at the base commit (the real file is src/manifest.json, which this PR moved to public/ and repointed). Since the whole angular.json asset list is deleted in PR8, I'm leaving the stale entry rather than fixing an Angular config on its way out.