On an iPad a tap's synthetic mouseenter opened the Tooltip; WebKit then took the
tap as a hover and swallowed its click, so every rail button needed two taps,
and with no mouseleave from a finger the caption stayed up. Tooltip now opens
for a mouse and a key's focus only (owner: no captions on touch).
The code cited its plan instead of saying why: `E28 review J4`, `(R6 S3b)`, `S1 justified…`,
`deep-review round 5`. That plan lives in the private ops repo, so for every reader of this one the
citation was noise, and a sentence whose subject was the plan step ("round 2 showed…") hid its
lesson behind an id. Each one is gone and the "why" kept: a bare citation is deleted, a sentence
carrying a lesson is reworded around it ("a later attempt showed…").
Measured (`scripts/audit_metrics.py`, product code): 652 lines in 270 files carried an epic code by
the definition the next commit holds (507 / 241 by the old, two-digit-only one) -> 0. Across all
code, tests, scripts and configs: ~1100 epic-code lines plus ~320 sprint/round ids.
Behaviour unchanged, checked mechanically: every changed .py file has the same AST once docstrings
are blanked; css/sh/toml/yml/json files are identical once comments are stripped; the only
non-comment changes in TS/JS are test titles, one description string in a contract table, and five
ESLint messages, whose text is all the gates snapshot diff holds. Not touched: Markdown (docs and
the changelog keep their history), Alembic migrations, TV episode notation (`S2 · E5`), DESIGN.md
ids (`C1`, `B4`, `S3h`), tracker ids (`SEC-16`, `DX-17`).
One stale claim fixed on the way: test_hls_reaper's docstring said the player checkpoints "every
10 s whether or not it is playing", which plex/stream.py calls wrong; it now says what the code does.
E32 S3. The compiler skipped 93 functions; it now skips 29 (try/finally shapes, two suppressions,
VirtualGrid). react-hooks/refs hits 245 -> 31.
- Popover engine: `ref={pop.refs.setReference}` made the compiler treat the whole popover handle as
a ref, so every component holding one was skipped (21 call sites, the engine and its surface
among them). The setter is destructured now; the same for useScrollFade and useReturnFocus.
- Render-phase `ref.current = x` writes moved to `useEffectEvent` where only effects read them,
else to the new `useLatest` (written in a layout effect) / `useStableCallback`.
- FocusSafeButton (under every Button) read the focused element during render; it reads it through
useSyncExternalStore, which React asks on every render instead of a cached memo.
Bugs this surfaced, fixed:
- Combobox: a chip could keep showing its raw id. The label cache was a ref an effect filled after
the render that needed it; it is state merged during render now (test seen RED).
- useUndoable rendered from a ref plus a forced re-render; compiled, that memoizes a stale value.
The history is state now, mirrored in a ref for the stable callbacks.
- ConfigPanel and the saved-views editor re-seeded their drafts in an effect, painting the stale
draft for a frame; both adjust during render against the remembered key.
- Toaster's handover is written after commit instead of during render; a new test pins that the
inherited set is taken once, at the takeover (seen RED on a per-render re-read).
- IssueComposer mutated a ref prop as a one-shot focus token; it is plain state.
- PlexBrowse wrote its info-scroll memory from an effect declared before the ref, past its own
"one writer" rule; the writer comes first now and the effect goes through it.
The compiler ratchet drops to the measured 29 and now also requires FocusSafeButton and the popover
engine to compile.
- The info overlay's collection strip listing the film itself: Play/Restart restart or resume it in
place instead of pausing it on a frozen 0:00.
- Up/Down on the closed ⋯ and tracks buttons stay the volume (openOnArrowKey: false).
- A keyboard focus in the bands holds them for 10 s after the last key, not the whole film; a tap
leaving a tapped button no longer re-shows the bands its own toggle then hid.
- Next leaving under the focus hands it to its neighbour (the player keeps its focus).
- The chosen audio / subtitle track wears the MenuCheck tick.
- ui/MediaCard + mediaCardStyles: one frame for every video, Plex title and
Home tile; the meta line pinned to the bottom edge, the length a badge on
the picture, the media Play only where the click plays, the hover row at
the picture's bottom-right (the owner's pick C).
- Shelf density: on any strip a one-line title over one meta line; mixed
Home shelves are landscape; rails turn content-visibility off (a card's
reserved height had become the strip's). Home slot 232px, so the Play
and the hover row no longer touch; a landscape shelf takes the small Play.
- Home hero is a card (hover row, the whole menu, a touch "…"), three
quarters wide and centred; channel / playlist tiles get Play, open and
"…"; a show tile acts on its next episode, ⓘ opens the show.
- Plex preview: a ~0.9 s mouse rest opens a passive panel with the whole
title, facts and synopsis (popover `pointerOnly`); the synopsis and title
tooltips are gone.
- Compact list row B: the title leads, "…" at the end, toggles over the
date on hover.
- Media-info layout B (collections, crew, cast beside the facts sidebar;
an empty column is not drawn); filtering values are chips there and on
the show page; "Cast" over the cast-only strips.
- Browse tiles hover like a card; prose capped by the `measure` utility.
Burns the first 14 of the 113 hook suppressions. Three verdicts, applied per site:
A useEffect that should not exist (6):
- Avatar remembered "the image failed" as a boolean an effect reset on src change. The
component is recycled across items in the virtualized feed, so after one avatar 429s the
next item's slot committed the fallback initial over a perfectly good image and only the
post-paint effect cleared it. The failure is now keyed BY URL; derived state cannot be stale.
- Combobox cleared the typed query from an effect on `open`. Moved into setOpenAnd, the single
funnel every close goes through. That also stops a spurious onQueryChange("") AT MOUNT, which
told a controlled caller its own initial query had been cleared before the user touched it.
- CommandPalette reset query + picked row from an effect. Closed now means UNMOUNTED, not
hidden, so a fresh open starts blank because mounting already means that -- and the ranking
memo over every channel, playlist and saved view stops running while the palette is shut.
- Pager's page box held a copy of the page that an effect re-synced; it now derives it and
keeps a draft only while being edited.
- App's ?link= / ?oauth= / ?admin= one-shots asserted "once per mount" with an empty dep list.
The ref guard the codebase already uses in 22 places ENFORCES it, so the honest deps can
include `t` -- which a language switch legitimately changes, and which would otherwise have
re-fired the toast.
Honest deps that also fix something (5):
- App's module preload was keyed on the account id, so a permission change that alters the
module set without moving the id never re-preloaded. `preload()` is idempotent, so depending
on `me` costs nothing.
- App's access-request nudge now re-issues on a language switch; it used to stay in the old
language until the pending count changed.
- App's diagnostics effect: applyDiagnostics already no-ops on an unchanged effective level,
so picking four fields out by hand was guarding nothing and missed any field added later.
- DataTable's two filter effects: a ref holds the latest onFiltersChange so commitFilters can
be stable, which is what lets the effects name it instead of switching the check off.
Genuine escape hatches (7) moved OUT of eslint-suppressions.json into inline directives that
name the invariant at the site -- the toast handover's render-phase global, the live region's
deliberate arming tick, the docked one-slot component, the popover engine's floating-ui list
state, dnd-kit's per-drag `moved` flag, BackToTop's DOM read and the palette's debounced
announcement. A reader of the code now sees why; a JSON file no one opens does not.
Tests: Avatar (3, new file) and Pager (3) pin the derived-state frames with a layout-phase
probe -- layout effects run before any passive effect, so they read the frame the browser would
paint. Combobox (2) pins the close-clears-query contract and the no-callback-at-mount rule.
All three sets mutation-checked against the effect-based originals.
Suppressions 113 -> 99; exhaustive-deps 45 -> 35.
The 43 react-refresh/only-export-components warnings the gate let through meant an edit to a
provider (or AnchoredPopover, Toaster, plexDetailUi, …) could not be hot-swapped: Fast Refresh
reloads a module that also exports hooks or helpers.
- Each provider's contexts, the types its hooks return and the hooks themselves live in a sibling
context module (navigationContext.ts, channelsContext.ts, …); the provider file keeps the
component. loadAccountFilters moved next to the feed filters' defaults (feedFiltersInit.ts),
following navigationInit/playlistsInit.
- Helpers that sat in component files have their own modules: welcomeMode, downloadTitle,
plexPlayable, channelSync, ui/anchoredPopoverHooks, ui/pageToolbarSlot, ui/pagerContent,
ui/toastLevels, ui/overlayOrder, ui/tableAlign, lib/plexDetail; the cells of the channel columns
and the registry's page wrappers are components files of their own (channelCells, modulePages).
- usePersistedTab, an alias of useAccountPersistedState, is gone; its callers use the original.
npm run lint is now eslint --max-warnings 0, so a warning fails the gate like an error does.
peter