Social: Integrate the unified modal for preview

[manzoorwanijk]

Completes SOCIAL-242

Proposed changes:

• Wires up the unified modal to render the Social post preview.
• It currently renderes only the accounts list in the modal
• It also renders the dummy button for edit template modal for demonstration purposes. Extracted to Social: Add edit template modal #46120

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• Have you written new tests for your changes, if applicable?
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Testing instructions:

• Add the feature flag to your blog: Run wpsh > add_blog_sticker( 'jetpack-social-unified-ui-v1', null, null, <your-blog-id> );
• Go to the editor
• Open Jetpack sidebar
• Open the preview social posts modal
• Confirm that the accounts list is rendered as expected
• Toggle the accounts ON/OFF
• Confirm that it works as expected

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Pull request overview

This PR integrates a unified modal for social post preview and editing capabilities, introducing a centralized navigation-based modal system powered by Redux state management. The modal supports multiple screens (social post preview and template editing) with configurable navigation and screen locking capabilities.

Key changes:

• Added Redux store state management for unified modal (actions, selectors, reducers)
• Created NavigatorModal-based UI with social post preview and edit template screens
• Refactored ConnectionsToggleList to support flexible interaction patterns (item click vs toggle click)

Reviewed changes

Copilot reviewed 30 out of 30 changed files in this pull request and generated 23 comments.

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File	Description
src/social-store/types.ts	Added UnifiedModalState type for modal state management
src/social-store/actions/unified-modal.ts	Created actions for opening/closing modal and managing navigation state
src/social-store/actions/constants.ts	Added action type constants for unified modal
src/social-store/selectors/unified-modal.ts	Added selectors to retrieve modal state (open status, path, screen lock)
src/social-store/reducer/unified-modal.ts	Implemented reducer for unified modal state updates
src/components/unified-modal/index.tsx	Main modal component integrating NavigatorModal with Redux store
src/components/unified-modal/social-post-preview/use-modal-screen.tsx	Hook providing screen configuration for social post preview
src/components/unified-modal/social-post-preview/sidebar.tsx	Sidebar with account list and customization options
src/components/unified-modal/social-post-preview/content.tsx	Content area displaying post preview for selected connection
src/components/unified-modal/edit-template/use-modal-screen.tsx	Hook providing screen configuration for template editor
src/components/unified-modal/edit-template/sidebar.tsx	Sidebar with template editing controls (font selector)
src/components/unified-modal/edit-template/content.tsx	Content area displaying generated image preview
src/components/unified-modal/edit-template/types.ts	TypeScript types for template editor local state
src/components/unified-modal/edit-template/utils.ts	Utility function for determining image type
src/components/connections-toggle-list/index.tsx	Refactored to support customizable click handlers and styling
src/components/form/connections-list.tsx	Updated to use new ConnectionsToggleList API with click handlers
src/components/form/preview-posts-trigger.tsx	Button component to open unified modal for post preview
src/components/social-image-generator/panel/edit-template.tsx	Button to open modal for template editing
src/components/global-modals/index.tsx	Integrated UnifiedModal into global modals renderer
src/components/form/styles.module.scss	Added styles for connections list and preview trigger button
src/components/connections-toggle-list/styles.module.scss	Moved border/margin styles to parent component
changelog/add-social-unified-modal	Added changelog entry for unified modal feature

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Code Coverage Summary

Coverage changed in 3 files.

File	Coverage	Δ%	Δ Uncovered
projects/js-packages/publicize-components/src/components/form/connections-list.tsx	0/10 (0.00%)	0.00%	5 💔
projects/js-packages/publicize-components/src/components/connections-toggle-list/index.tsx	0/14 (0.00%)	0.00%	3 ❤️‍🩹
projects/js-packages/publicize-components/src/social-store/actions/constants.ts	22/22 (100.00%)	0.00%	0 💚

9 files are newly checked for coverage. Only the first 5 are listed here.

File	Coverage
projects/js-packages/publicize-components/src/components/form/preview-posts-trigger.tsx	0/13 (0.00%) 💔
projects/js-packages/publicize-components/src/components/unified-modal/index.tsx	0/10 (0.00%) 💔
projects/js-packages/publicize-components/src/components/unified-modal/social-post-preview/content.tsx	0/1 (0.00%) 💔
projects/js-packages/publicize-components/src/components/unified-modal/social-post-preview/sidebar.tsx	0/8 (0.00%) 💔
projects/js-packages/publicize-components/src/components/unified-modal/social-post-preview/use-modal-screen.tsx	0/4 (0.00%) 💔

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[robertsreberski]

It also renders the dummy button for edit template modal for demonstration purposes.

You can create a draft PR with the dummy button. It would be preferable not to merge the code for presentation purposes into trunk

[manzoorwanijk]

You can create a draft PR with the dummy button. It would be preferable not to merge the code for presentation purposes into trunk

It’s behind a feature flag.

[manzoorwanijk]

You can create a draft PR with the dummy button. It would be preferable not to merge the code for presentation purposes into trunk

Thank you for the suggestion. I have extracted all the edit template related changes to #46120