perf(watch): a shared link loads the player, not the app

A /watch link is opened by whoever it was sent to — signed out, often on a phone on mobile data —
and it booted through main.tsx: every app provider, the app's i18n (every locale of every area),
the flag sprites, ~392 KB gzip before the player could start. It now has its own HTML entry,
watch.html → watchMain.tsx, which imports WatchPage and what it renders; the server hands every
/watch/ path that page (the OG block injected as before), and vite dev does the same.

Measured on the build: /watch JS 290 → 87 KB gzip, CSS 104 → 19 KB; the app's own bytes unchanged.
Two leaks had to go for that: lib/format imported the app's i18n for one "just now" string (the
relative-time formatters now take `t`, like the file's other t-formatters), and the boundary's
crash copy came from the same i18n (CrashBoundary takes its copy; ErrorBoundary is the app's
wrapper, the watch entry gives it the page's own strings). The page's popover tree went too: it
renders no popover.

Held by: a contract test walking the entry's runtime imports, naming the path to anything only the
app may load (red on a planted i18n import in lib/format), and holding watch.html's head equal to
index.html's; a DB-lane test that every /watch/ path gets the player's page with the link's OG tags
and app paths get the app (red on the old routing). Screenshots at 375 px, EN and HU, video / audio /
password / gone / wrong password / unlocked: identical to the old entry's, bar the video's buffered bar.
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@@ -9,10 +9,11 @@ import { send } from "../lib/http";
import { Input } from "./ui/Input";
import { SURFACE } from "./ui/surfaces";
import { LinkButton } from "./ui/LinkButton";
import { T, lang } from "./watchStrings";
// Standalone, login-free video page for a shared /watch/<token> link. Rendered OUTSIDE the app
// tree (no auth, no providers) — like the /privacy and /terms pages. Uses plain fetch and a tiny
// self-contained i18n dict (the public viewer has no app language preference).
// Standalone, login-free video page for a shared /watch/<token> link. Its own entry (watchMain.tsx,
// watch.html): no auth, no providers, none of the app's bundle. Uses plain fetch and a tiny
// self-contained i18n dict (`watchStrings`: the public viewer has no app language preference).
// Advertise the playing video to the OS via the Media Session API: lock-screen / control-center
// metadata + play/pause handlers. This is also what lets a browser's own "background playback"
@@ -75,72 +76,6 @@ function displayUrl(url: string): string {
}
}
const STR = {
en: {
loading: "Loading…",
gone: "This link is no longer available.",
goneHint: "It may have expired or been revoked by the owner.",
passwordTitle: "This video is password-protected",
passwordPlaceholder: "Enter password",
watch: "Watch",
wrong: "Wrong password.",
download: "Download",
file: "File",
links: "Links",
brand: "Shared via Siftlode",
repeat: "Repeat",
failed: "Couldn't load this link.",
failedHint: "Check your connection and try again.",
retry: "Try again",
tooMany: "Too many attempts. Try again in a few minutes.",
unlockFailed: "Couldn't check the password. Try again.",
},
hu: {
loading: "Betöltés…",
gone: "Ez a link már nem elérhető.",
goneHint: "Lehet, hogy lejárt, vagy a tulajdonos visszavonta.",
passwordTitle: "Ez a videó jelszóval védett",
passwordPlaceholder: "Add meg a jelszót",
watch: "Megnézem",
wrong: "Hibás jelszó.",
download: "Letöltés",
file: "Fájl",
links: "Linkek",
brand: "Megosztva a Siftlode-dal",
repeat: "Ismétlés",
failed: "Nem sikerült betölteni a linket.",
failedHint: "Ellenőrizd a kapcsolatot, és próbáld újra.",
retry: "Újrapróbálás",
tooMany: "Túl sok próbálkozás. Próbáld újra pár perc múlva.",
unlockFailed: "Nem sikerült ellenőrizni a jelszót. Próbáld újra.",
},
de: {
loading: "Wird geladen…",
gone: "Dieser Link ist nicht mehr verfügbar.",
goneHint: "Er ist möglicherweise abgelaufen oder wurde widerrufen.",
passwordTitle: "Dieses Video ist passwortgeschützt",
passwordPlaceholder: "Passwort eingeben",
watch: "Ansehen",
wrong: "Falsches Passwort.",
download: "Herunterladen",
file: "Datei",
links: "Links",
brand: "Geteilt über Siftlode",
repeat: "Wiederholen",
failed: "Der Link konnte nicht geladen werden.",
failedHint: "Prüfe deine Verbindung und versuche es erneut.",
retry: "Erneut versuchen",
tooMany: "Zu viele Versuche. Versuche es in ein paar Minuten erneut.",
unlockFailed: "Das Passwort konnte nicht geprüft werden. Versuche es erneut.",
},
} as const;
const lang =
((navigator.language || "en").slice(0, 2) as keyof typeof STR) in STR
? ((navigator.language || "en").slice(0, 2) as keyof typeof STR)
: "en";
const T = STR[lang];
export default function WatchPage() {
const token = window.location.pathname.split("/watch/")[1]?.split(/[/?#]/)[0] ?? "";
// Seeded from the URL rather than corrected by the effect below: with no token there is nothing