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+import React from "react";
+import {
+  Col,
+  Row,
+  Text,
+  Box,
+  Button,
+  ManagedTextInputField,
+  ManagedCheckboxField,
+  ContinuousProgressBar,
+} from "@tlon/indigo-react";
+import { ModalOverlay } from "~/views/components/ModalOverlay";
+import Author from "~/views/components/Author";
+import { GroupSummary } from "../GroupSummary";
+
+import { resourceFromPath } from "~/logic/lib/group";
+
+import useMetadataState, { usePreview } from "~/logic/state/metadata";
+import useInviteState, { useInviteForResource } from "~/logic/state/invite";
+
+export type JoinKind = "graph" | "groups";
+
+export interface JoinDesc {
+  group: string;
+  kind: JoinKind;
+}
+
+interface JoinSkeletonProps {
+  title: string;
+  desc?: JoinDesc;
+  modal: boolean;
+  children: JSX.Element;
+  onJoin?: () => void;
+  body?: JSX.Element;
+}
+
+export function JoinSkeleton(props: JoinSkeletonProps) {
+  const { title, body, children, onJoin, desc, modal } = props;
+
+  const inner = (
+    <Col
+      maxWidth={modal ? "384px" : undefined}
+      borderRadius="2"
+      backgroundColor="white"
+    >
+      <Col
+        gapY="4"
+        p="4"
+        borderRadius="2"
+        backgroundColor="washedGray"
+        justifyContent="space-between"
+        flexGrow={1}
+      >
+        <Box maxWidth="512px">
+          <Text fontWeight="medium" fontSize="2">
+            {title}
+          </Text>
+        </Box>
+        {!!desc ? <JoinBody desc={desc} /> : null}
+      </Col>
+      {children}
+    </Col>
+  );
+  return modal ? (
+    <ModalOverlay dismiss={() => {}}>{inner}</ModalOverlay>
+  ) : (
+    inner
+  );
+}
+
+export function JoinBody(props: { desc: JoinDesc }) {
+  const { desc } = props;
+  const { group, kind } = desc || {};
+  const { preview, error } = usePreview(group);
+  const { ship, name } = resourceFromPath(group);
+
+  const invite = useInviteForResource(kind, ship, name);
+
+  return (
+    <>
+      {!desc ? "Prompt invite link" : null}
+      {preview ? (
+        <GroupSummary
+          memberCount={preview.members}
+          channelCount={preview["channel-count"]}
+          metadata={preview.metadata}
+        />
+      ) : (
+        <FallbackSummary path={group} />
+      )}
+
+      {invite ? (
+        <Col gapY="2">
+          <Box>
+            <Text>
+              <Text mono>{invite.ship}</Text> <Text gray>invited you</Text>
+            </Text>
+          </Box>
+          {invite.text?.length > 0 ? (
+            <Box>
+              <Text>"{invite.text}"</Text>
+            </Box>
+          ) : null}
+        </Col>
+      ) : null}
+    </>
+  );
+}
+
+function FallbackSummary(props: { path: string }) {
+  const { path } = props;
+  const [, , ship, name] = path.split("/");
+
+  return (
+    <Row alignItems="center" gapX="0">
+      <Author gray fullNotIcon size={40} showImage ship={ship} dontShowTime />
+      <Text mono>/{name}</Text>
+    </Row>
+  );
+}