diff --git a/CLAUDE.md b/CLAUDE.md
index 6456fa5..231f07e 100644
--- a/CLAUDE.md
+++ b/CLAUDE.md
@@ -124,6 +124,15 @@ Only a small number of HTML templates remain (platform icon snippets and partial
   - `utils.js` — shared ES-module helpers (`onSwap`, `toISOUTCString`, …)
 - **Widget initialization**: widget JS registers with `onSwap(selector, initializeElement)` from `utils.js` — a port of FastHTML's `proc_htmx` built on `htmx.onLoad`. It runs the initializer once per matching element, on initial page load and inside every htmx-swapped fragment. Never hand-roll `DOMContentLoaded`/`htmx:afterSwap` listeners with per-element guard flags.
 
+### Interactive components: custom elements + TypeScript
+
+New interactive components are **custom elements**, not inline JS in Python. A component that needs behavior emits a semantic tag via `custom_element("tag", Props(...))` (light DOM, server-rendered inner markup built with the htpy-style node builders). Behavior lives in `ts/elements/<tag>.ts` (TypeScript, vanilla DOM, `customElements.define`); the native `connectedCallback` replaces `onSwap` (it fires on parse *and* htmx swap). The server↔client contract is one Python `TypedDict` per element registered with `register_element(...)` in `common/components/custom_elements.py`; `manage.py gen_element_types` codegens `ts/generated/props.ts` (interface + attribute reader) so renaming a prop fails `tsc`.
+
+- **Build:** `tsc` per-module (`tsconfig.json`) compiles `ts/` → `games/static/js/dist/` (build-only, gitignored). `make ts` = codegen + compile; `make ts-check` (in `make check`) = codegen + `tsc --noEmit`; `make dev` runs `tsc --watch`. The Docker image builds CSS + TS in a Node stage. Run `make ts` after editing any `.ts` so e2e/local serving sees fresh output.
+- **htpy-style markup:** generic builders take kwargs attributes and `[]` children — `Div(class_="x", hx_get="/y")[child1, child2]` (`class_`→`class`, `hx_get`→`hx-get`, `True`→bare attr, `False`/`None`→omitted). Still a walkable `Element` tree, so `Media` bubbles.
+- **Do NOT** author HTML/JS as Python f-strings or add new inline Alpine `x-data` blobs. Alpine remains only for trivial pre-existing toggles (toast store, etc.).
+- **Tables collect cell media:** `SimpleTable` stringifies cells, so it explicitly `collect_media`s its rows/header and re-attaches it — a custom element in a table cell still gets its `<script>` emitted by `Page()`.
+
 ### Deployment
 
 Docker-based: multi-stage Dockerfile (uv builder → slim runtime), Caddy as reverse proxy on port 8000, Gunicorn with UvicornWorker (ASGI), Supervisor to manage Caddy + Gunicorn + django-q2. `make dev-prod` mimics production locally. CI/CD via GitHub Actions (`.github/workflows/build-docker.yml`): builds Docker image; Drone CI (`.drone.yml`) also present for deployments via Portainer webhook.
diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 03277ea..7f2f325 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -15,6 +15,23 @@ COPY . .
 RUN --mount=type=cache,target=/root/.cache/uv \
     uv sync --frozen --no-dev
 
+# Codegen the TypeScript prop contracts (needs Django); tsc compiles them in
+# the assets stage below.
+RUN uv run python manage.py gen_element_types
+
+
+# Front-end assets: Tailwind CSS + the TypeScript custom elements. Built here so
+# the compiled output ships in the image (dist/ is build-only, not committed).
+FROM node:22-bookworm-slim AS assets
+
+WORKDIR /app
+COPY package.json pnpm-lock.yaml ./
+RUN npm install -g pnpm && pnpm install --frozen-lockfile
+COPY . .
+COPY --from=builder /home/timetracker/app/ts/generated ./ts/generated
+RUN pnpm tailwindcss -i ./common/input.css -o ./games/static/base.css \
+    && pnpm exec tsc
+
 
 FROM python:3.14-slim-bookworm
 
@@ -44,6 +61,10 @@ WORKDIR /home/timetracker/app
 
 COPY --from=builder --chown=timetracker:timetracker /home/timetracker/app /home/timetracker/app
 
+# Built front-end assets from the Node stage (Tailwind CSS + compiled TS).
+COPY --from=assets --chown=timetracker:timetracker /app/games/static/base.css /home/timetracker/app/games/static/base.css
+COPY --from=assets --chown=timetracker:timetracker /app/games/static/js/dist /home/timetracker/app/games/static/js/dist
+
 COPY --chown=timetracker:timetracker Caddyfile /etc/caddy/Caddyfile
 COPY --chown=timetracker:timetracker supervisor.conf /etc/supervisor/conf.d/supervisor.conf
 COPY --chown=timetracker:timetracker entrypoint.sh /