Show upload progress — spinner placeholder in photo grid, status text on submit

TaskModal: grey placeholder thumb with spinning loader appears in the photo grid immediately on file pick, replaced by the real thumb once upload+resize completes.
NewTaskModal: submit button shows spinning icon with 'Creating task…' then 'Uploading photo N of M…' instead of just greying out.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

frontend/src/components/NewTaskModal.tsx

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import { useEffect, useMemo, useState } from 'react'
-import { X, Camera } from 'lucide-react'
+import { X, Camera, Loader2 } from 'lucide-react'
 import type { Category, Location, Task, Priority, AppConfig, Asset } from '../types'
 import { PRIORITIES, PRIORITY_LABELS } from '../types'
 import { createTask, fetchTasks, uploadTaskPhoto, fetchAssets } from '../api'
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ export default function NewTaskModal({ categories, locations, config, onClose, o
   const [assets, setAssets] = useState<Asset[]>([])
   const [existing, setExisting] = useState<Task[]>([])
   const [saving, setSaving] = useState(false)
+  const [saveStatus, setSaveStatus] = useState('')
   const [error, setError] = useState<string | null>(null)
 
   const [assignment, setAssignment] = useState<Assignment>({
@@ -58,6 +59,7 @@ export default function NewTaskModal({ categories, locations, config, onClose, o
   async function submit() {
     if (!title.trim() || !locationId) { setError('Title and location are required'); return }
     setSaving(true)
+    setSaveStatus('Creating task…')
     setError(null)
     try {
       const task = await createTask({
@@ -74,8 +76,9 @@ export default function NewTaskModal({ categories, locations, config, onClose, o
         contractor_id: assignment.contractor_id,
       })
 
-      for (const file of files) {
-        await uploadTaskPhoto(task.id, file, 'report').catch(() => {})
+      for (let i = 0; i < files.length; i++) {
+        setSaveStatus(`Uploading photo ${i + 1} of ${files.length}…`)
+        await uploadTaskPhoto(task.id, files[i], 'report').catch(() => {})
       }
 
       onCreated()
@@ -84,6 +87,7 @@ export default function NewTaskModal({ categories, locations, config, onClose, o
       setError(err instanceof Error ? err.message : 'Failed to create task')
     } finally {
       setSaving(false)
+      setSaveStatus('')
     }
   }
 
@@ -193,7 +197,7 @@ export default function NewTaskModal({ categories, locations, config, onClose, o
         <div className="modal-actions">
           <button className="btn" onClick={onClose}>Cancel</button>
           <button className="btn btn-primary" onClick={submit} disabled={saving}>
-            {saving ? 'Saving…' : 'Submit'}
+            {saving ? <><Loader2 size={14} strokeWidth={1.75} className="spin" /> {saveStatus}</> : 'Submit'}
           </button>
         </div>
       </div>

frontend/src/components/TaskModal.tsx

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import { useEffect, useState } from 'react'
 import {
   X, Camera, MessageSquare, ArrowRight, RotateCcw, PlusCircle,
-  CheckCircle2, Image as ImageIcon, PoundSterling, UserRound, Pencil, Trash2,
+  CheckCircle2, Image as ImageIcon, PoundSterling, UserRound, Pencil, Trash2, Loader2,
 } from 'lucide-react'
 import type { TaskDetail, TaskStatus, TaskEvent, AuthUser, Priority } from '../types'
 import { STATUS_LABELS, TRANSITIONS, PRIORITIES, PRIORITY_LABELS, can } from '../types'
@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ export default function TaskModal({ taskId, onClose, onChanged }: {
   const [assignment, setAssignment] = useState<Assignment | null>(null)
 
   const [lightboxSrc, setLightboxSrc] = useState<string | null>(null)
+  const [photoUploading, setPhotoUploading] = useState(false)
 
   const [showEdit, setShowEdit] = useState(false)
   const [editTitle, setEditTitle] = useState('')
@@ -276,6 +277,13 @@ export default function TaskModal({ taskId, onClose, onChanged }: {
               )}
             </div>
           ))}
+          {photoUploading && (
+            <div className="photo-thumb-wrap">
+              <div className="photo-thumb photo-thumb-uploading">
+                <Loader2 size={22} strokeWidth={1.5} className="spin" />
+              </div>
+            </div>
+          )}
           {canReport && (
             <label className="btn btn-sm" style={{ cursor: 'pointer', alignSelf: 'center' }}>
               <Camera size={14} strokeWidth={1.75} /> Add
@@ -283,7 +291,10 @@ export default function TaskModal({ taskId, onClose, onChanged }: {
                 type="file" accept="image/*" capture="environment" style={{ display: 'none' }}
                 onChange={e => {
                   const f = e.target.files?.[0]
-                  if (f) run(() => uploadTaskPhoto(task.id, f, task.status === 'submitted' ? 'report' : 'progress'))
+                  if (!f) return
+                  setPhotoUploading(true)
+                  run(() => uploadTaskPhoto(task.id, f, task.status === 'submitted' ? 'report' : 'progress'))
+                    .finally(() => setPhotoUploading(false))
                 }}
               />
             </label>

frontend/src/index.css

@@ -374,6 +374,12 @@ html, body, #root { height: 100%; margin: 0; font-size: 14px; }
   border: 1px solid var(--card-border);
   cursor: pointer;
 }
+.photo-thumb-uploading {
+  display: flex; align-items: center; justify-content: center;
+  background: var(--card-border); color: var(--text-mid);
+}
+@keyframes spin { to { transform: rotate(360deg); } }
+.spin { animation: spin .75s linear infinite; }
 .photo-thumb-wrap { position: relative; }
 .photo-del {
   position: absolute;