Fold the hand-rolled server-pref plumbing (savePrefs + local mirror + me-cache
merge + adopt-on-login) into a single usePref<T>(serverKey, default, opts) hook,
plus useSavePref for dynamic multi-key patches.
Migrated (6 savePrefs call sites + 2 duplicated adopt effects -> the hook):
- FeedViewProvider: view
- App: filterCollapsed, playlistsCollapsed (+ their adopt block removed)
- PlayerModal: playerAutoAdvance, playerLoop
- plexDetailUi: plexInfoArtBg/Cast/Related (savePref via useSavePref)
Left as-is by design: panel layouts (a dynamically-indexed Record, not one key),
language (i18n store, no React state), PrefsProvider (debounced multi-field
auto-save + baseline echo-suppression - a different model).
Behaviour-equivalent (net -84 LOC at the call sites). usePref.dom.test covers
the three seed sources, persist path, debounce, adopt, parse, and useSavePref.
Frontend gate green: typecheck, knip, eslint (0 err), prettier, 238 vitest.
Follow-ups on the 7-item batch:
- The slim nav slot was still w-20 while its card is w-14, leaving a ~24px dead
gap the filter tab/bar couldn't dock against. Slot is now w-14 (exactly the
card width), so the filter's flat-left tab sits flush on the rail's right edge
(measured gap 0), both collapsed and expanded.
- The Plex art backdrop was invisible: a position:fixed layer at z-index -1 is
painted BEHIND the body's opaque background here, so nothing showed. Paint the
art on the app root (#root) instead — it's exactly the viewport and a real
ancestor of the transparent nav/header/content, so the art fills the whole page
edge-to-edge and the glass chrome floats over it (verified in-browser).
1A ChannelPage "Full history" button no longer wraps (whitespace-nowrap).
1B Extract the manager's press-and-hold priority stepper into a shared
PriorityStepper and add it to the channel detail header (subscribed, non-demo);
backend channel_detail now returns the per-subscription `priority`.
2 Unify YouTube + Plex media cards onto one look/behaviour: drop the whole-card
hover LIFT (VideoCard) — which also fixes the clipped-top bug — and instead the
inner thumbnail/poster ZOOMS on hover (both); give the flat Plex posters the same
glass-card 3D depth + accent hover border as the feed cards (shadow-md is a
transparent no-op here, so it's glass-card that provides the depth); clamp Plex
card titles to a fixed 2-line height so 1- vs 2-line titles align.
3 Nav rail is now always a slim icon-only column, flush to the left edge; each icon
reveals a floating name label on hover (Tooltip gains `always` + `openDelay`, and
a right side). Removed the pin/unpin toggle, the expand-on-hover mode and the
navCollapsed pref plumbing.
4 Scope the side-panel peek-open HOVER to the tab handle + the card (not the whole
full-height slot next to the rail), so approaching the nav no longer pops the
filter open; focus stays container-wide. useHoverFocusWithin gains a hover-out
grace period + split hover/focus handler groups.
5 Plex art backdrop fills the whole viewport (a fixed inset-0 layer behind the
transparent app) instead of only the inset <main> box.
6 Plex season binge continues across seasons: the season view's play queue now
spans the whole show (allKeys), so a season's last episode rolls into the next
season's first (seasonKeys stays for "add season to playlist").
7 When a Plex video/episode ends with nothing queued next, the player returns to
the previous page (onEnded → onClose) instead of stranding a black screen.
Correctness:
- Escape is now strictly topmost-only for EVERY mode. Hover popovers register in
the shared layerStack too (and floating-ui's own Escape is off for all modes), so
an open tooltip/hover-card no longer either swallows the Escape from a Modal/player
underneath (its document-level stopPropagation vs their window listeners) or
double-closes both. A player's own overlay hover-card now takes Escape before the
player, keeping it alive.
- An invisible (referenceHidden, scrolled-out) surface is no longer a dismissable
layer, so it can't silently eat an Escape aimed at what's actually on screen, nor
make a player defer.
- PopoverSurface splits into a wrapper that returns null before any hook and an inner
that holds them, so a mounted-but-closed popover (≈10 per table row) subscribes no
fullscreen listeners — was ~1800 document listeners on a 100-row table.
- The fullscreen portal no longer remounts on a key: one persistent container is
re-parented body↔fullscreen-element with appendChild (atomic move), so the open
panel's focus/caret/scroll/animation survive a transition and an element SWAP is
handled by the element-identity dependency.
- AddToPlaylist drops `disabled={busy}` on its items (it blurred the focused item to
<body> and permanently killed roving focus); re-entrancy is already guarded in
toggle(), and aria-busy conveys the pending state.
- New `hostsInput` option turns off BOTH typeahead and focus-item-on-hover for the two
menus with an inline text field, so a pointer passing over a list item no longer
steals the field's caret and mis-routes the next Enter. Replaces their `typeahead:false`.
- ChannelTags' single-pass fit loop gains a whole-set fast path, so it stops collapsing
chips into "+N" when they would all have fitted.
- `initialFocus={-1}` is applied only when a `selectedIndex` is set (the sync-focus race
it works around); a plain nav menu now lets the focus manager focus normally, so an
item-less menu (first-run tag editor) still has a keyboard entry point.
a11y:
- `ariaLabel` now wins on menu-role panels — the surface strips useRole's competing
`aria-labelledby` when an explicit label is given (verified: the filter/View menus
are named by their column/label, not the trigger).
- PopoverItem routes caller props THROUGH getItemProps and applies its own
tabIndex/disabled/data-active/className last, so a caller handler or tabIndex can no
longer be silently dropped or clobber the roving model.
Regressions / consistency:
- Tooltip shows/hides on contact again (explicit 0/0 hover delay) instead of inheriting
the platform's 120/140 ms intent delay.
- ChannelTags' editor list regains its useScrollFade overflow mask.
- ChannelTagsControl takes a `bounded` prop; the channel detail page passes false so
tags show inline in the wide header instead of collapsing to "+N".
- ChannelPage's tag-catalog query is gated on subscribed && !demo (matches the only
consumer's render condition); the manager's tag toggle now also invalidates
qk.channel(id) so the detail page's cached tags stay in step.
- DetailCustomizeMenu + PrefToggle revert off the platform to the pre-R8 inline
`absolute` menu: in the player's overlay it renders inside a transform:scale(1.25)
subtree, and portalling out to <body> painted it at 1×. Same reason the player's own
menus stay hand-rolled; this also restores PrefToggle to plain buttons (the rows are
independent toggles, not a radio group). The stale PlayerModal fullscreen comment is
corrected too.
Gate green (tsc/eslint/76 vitest). Self-UAT in-browser: hover-over-item no longer
steals the tag input's caret; text filter keeps caret while narrowing; menu aria-label
is the label not the trigger; selectedIndex lands focus on the checked item; roving +
Escape-close+refocus intact; add-to-playlist items never disabled. NOT verified here
(needs a device / playing media): the fullscreen portal reparent and the player-overlay
paths — owed device UAT, as they already were.
AddToPlaylist, LanguageSwitcher, the Plex DetailCustomizeMenu and ViewSwitcher each
had their own anchoring, dismissal and (for ViewSwitcher) keyboard engine. All four now
use the platform, so their items are PopoverItems with real menuitemradio/aria-checked,
roving focus, typeahead and flip/shift anchoring.
Two platform additions this needed:
- `selectedIndex`: opening a single-choice menu must land on the choice already in
effect, which is what ViewSwitcher's hand-rolled engine did by seeding its roving
index to the current option.
- `ariaLabel` on PopoverSurface: an icon-only trigger leaves the panel with no name.
Fixed while wiring `selectedIndex` up: it stranded focus on the menu container. That
path focuses its item synchronously in a layout effect, and FloatingFocusManager's own
initial focus then ran afterwards and took focus back; the no-selectedIndex path only
escaped this because it defers focus to a microtask while waiting for the item list to
populate. On a roving list the list navigation owns initial focus, so the manager is now
told to take none (initialFocus -1).
Behaviour changes worth naming:
- The header LanguageSwitcher no longer opens on hover. The platform focuses the first
item on open, so a hover-open would yank focus off whatever the user was doing. Both
variants are now click-only, like every other menu in the app.
- PrefToggle became a PopoverItem, so the rows callers inject through the menu's `extra`
prop join the same roving list as the built-in ones.
- AddToPlaylist fetches its list on open, so on the first paint there are no items to
focus and focus stays on the trigger (as it did before the migration); arrows move
into the list once it lands.
Verified in-browser: ViewSwitcher opens on the checked mode, arrows rove, Escape closes
and refocuses the trigger; the ChannelTags pilot is unregressed; AddToPlaylist anchors
bottom-start without the click reaching the feed card underneath; the rail language menu
keeps its right-edge, bottom-aligned anchoring.
Extend lib/queryKeys.ts to the remaining ~34 key roots and migrate every
remaining literal (queryKey: [...] AND the positional useLiveQuery keys) in
36 files. All ~200 React Query keys across the app now route through the
factory; zero raw key literals remain outside queryKeys.ts.
The heterogeneous composite plex keys (plex-library/facets/collections/
playlists carry a filters object, a ratingKeys array, or a union/group
discriminator) take a variadic pass-through — the factory centralizes the
ROOT string; single-id keys stay precisely typed. Nullable keys (thread,
playlist, ytSearch) accept null so a null segment is preserved.
Pure substitution — byte-identical key arrays, so TanStack prefix matching
is unchanged. Gate green: typecheck (app+node+e2e), eslint (0 err),
prettier, 68 vitest. Runtime-verified on a fresh dev server: Feed + Plex
modules load, feed/facets/tags/my-status/plex-library/plex-facets/
plex-collections/plex-playlists all 200, full UI renders.
Prettier 3 (pinned), printWidth 100, double quotes — chosen to match the existing
hand-formatting and minimise reflow. This commit is ONLY the mechanical format pass
(`prettier --write`) plus the config/ignore/scripts, isolated so it never pollutes a
feature diff. Verified behaviour-neutral: typecheck, eslint (0 errors), and vitest
all green before and after. See .git-blame-ignore-revs — `git blame` skips this sha.
Replace ~48 magic z-index values (z-10..z-[9999] + 2 inline zIndex) with named
tailwind zIndex tokens (base/menu/chrome/paneltab/panel/rail/overlay/popover/
tooltip/tuner). Values are UNCHANGED — a rename, not a renumber — so layering is
identical; the names give one source of truth for the stack.
F6: coalesce whole-show/season Plex watch-pushes into ONE background task
(push_bulk_state_to_plex) that reuses a single DB session + keep-alive Plex
client, instead of scheduling one task (own session + HTTP client) per episode.
F8: cache a show's live Plex enrichment (metadata + related) per rating_key for
a short TTL and fetch the two calls in parallel; repeat opens skip the network.
Raw payloads are cached; per-user shaping stays out. An empty related list is not
cached (plex.related swallows a transient failure as [] — don't pin it for the TTL).
F10: remove dead code — the pre-unified /browse route + browse(), the /people
route + people() + _person_photo(), api.plexPeople, interface PlexPerson, and the
orphaned plex.people i18n block. DRY: appendPlexFilters() shared by plexLibrary +
plexFacets; one exported plexDetailUi.Filterable (was Fil + Filterable); PlexInfo
migrated onto the shared plexDetailUi hooks/menu (DetailCustomizeMenu gained
overlay + extra props; useDetailPrefs exposes savePref; PrefToggle exported).
Reviewed (high) → clean. F7 (facet aggregate collapse) deferred: self-exclusion
gives each sub-aggregate a distinct WHERE, and no measurement shows /facets slow.
1. Series detail pages now match the movie info page: the customize menu lives in the
hero panel (top-right), the Cast/Seasons/Related strips sit in glassy panels, and the
menu is dynamic — Related shows can be toggled (new plexInfoRelated pref).
2. The Plex search box now survives F5 (persisted per-account like the filters).
3. Show + season hero posters get a hover Play/Resume overlay.
4. Card top-right watched toggle can now UN-watch: the watched/in-progress badges were
intercepting the click (no pointer-events-none), so the toggle underneath never fired.
5. Episode card: the watched check no longer jumps on hover (badge now shares the
toggle's box); every card's title/meta gets its own glassy translucent background and
the Add-to-playlist button is always visible (not hover-only).
6. Season-card 'In progress' label is readable again (solid dark badge over the poster).
7. On a season page the show title is clickable → back to the show (history-correct).
- Season cards (show page) gain a hover Play overlay, a clickable title, a quick
watched/unwatched toggle (whole season) and an add-whole-season-to-playlist button.
- Episode cards gain a hover watched/unwatched quick toggle (single episode) — in the
season page and the search Episodes section.
- Series show + season pages now use the same glassy HTPC look as the movie info page:
a faint fixed art backdrop + a customize menu (toggle the backdrop / hide the cast
row), factored into a shared lib/plexDetailUi (useDetailPrefs / useArtBackdrop /
DetailCustomizeMenu), reusing the movie info prefs (plexInfoArtBg/plexInfoCast) so the
toggle state is consistent across movies and series.
peter