All three were measured before they were touched, and the diagnosis moved twice.
**Back from a Plex title played off Home landed on the Plex module's root.** One
click pushed three history entries: the page navigation, the sub-view opened by
the `jumpTo` hand-off, and — under StrictMode, whose effect body runs twice
before `setJumpTo(null)` re-renders — that same sub-view a second time. So the
first Back visibly did nothing and the second stranded the user on a Discover
page they had never visited.
A cross-module hand-off is the CONTINUATION of the navigation that brought you
there, not a second navigation, so it now REPLACES the page entry instead of
stacking on it (`useHistorySubview.open(view, {replace})`, asked for by the jump
target). Replacing is also idempotent, which is what disarms the StrictMode
double-run. The intent rides on `PlexJumpTarget` rather than being inferred,
because the header typeahead jumps from INSIDE the module, where the entry being
replaced would be a sub-view the user really was looking at.
**"Mást kérek" cycled nine cards and never left the resume tier.** Measured:
twelve presses, nine distinct titles, period nine, every one `tier: "resume"` —
the shelf and the surprise tier were unreachable by pressing the button. Two
causes multiplied: the tiers were tried in a fixed priority order over a 20-row
resume rail, so the button just walked down it; and the client's rolling
exclusion window of 8 guaranteed the wrap.
The press count now rotates which tier answers first (`start`), so each press
offers a different KIND of answer — the user's call, given the choice between
that, a wider window, and a surprise-only reroll. The fallthrough is kept, so a
press does not come back empty because the tier it led with had nothing. The
window is matched to the server's own cap rather than a smaller number of ours.
**A half-watched series on Home opened the show page.** A movie already went
straight to the player; only shows did not — and the comfort shelf and the hero
both resolved a show to its next episode while this rail alone did not, handing
back six seasons to choose between. The rail row now carries `next`, and the
client already played `next ?? card`, so this is a backend fix.
Affording it needed `queries.next_episode` to stop loading every episode of the
show into Python to pick one of them (236 rows for Friends, 227 for JAG) — three
ordered LIMIT 1 probes instead. The show→episode rule now lives in ONE function
(`rails.playable`), which is what the shelf, the hero and the rail all call; two
implementations are how they came to disagree.
Ten mutations run, all ten red for the right test — including a first pass where
the press count reached `api.discoverPick` and stopped there, invisible because
every Home test mocks that module. The slice now has its own URL test.
Verified in a clean browser tab against the live account: one Back returns to
Home, the rotation gives resume/comfort/surprise across nine presses with no
repeat, and Westworld opens at S1E1 rather than at its show page.
E24 S2. A new `home` module in layout C+ (the mockup the owner picked): the
time-budget chips on top, one large hero that answers them, then the comfort
shelf and a cross-source resume rail. Home is the landing — deliberately OVER
the remembered last module, since landing on whatever you happened to close the
app on is the habit this epic exists to replace; `LS.startOnHome = "0"` opts an
account back out (Settings toggle lands in S4).
No third card component: each unified card carries the native feed / Plex
payload, so the rails render through the existing VideoCard (`cardsSmall`) and
PlexPosterCard, and `aspect` decides the tile shape without branching on source.
Plex playback hands off to the Plex module via a new `jumpTo` type — the player
lives there with its lazy hls.js and its provider tree, and mounting a second one
on the landing page to save one hand-off would be the expensive way round.
Four defects found by driving it in a real browser against the live account, each
now pinned by a mutation-checked test:
- **The reroll gave the same card back.** A new seed only re-draws the SURPRISE
tier; the resume tier deterministically returns the most recently progressed
thing that fits, so anyone with something half-finished pressed a dead button.
`/pick` now takes an `exclude` list of `<source>:<id>` keys and the client keeps
a rolling window of 8. Excluding a SHOW also excludes the episode it resolves
to — otherwise the same suggestion comes back wearing a hat.
- **"Nothing to suggest yet" flashed over a full library** whenever a reroll was
in flight: the new query key has no data for a beat. An empty state standing in
for a loading one is the dishonesty the house rules name outright. The hero now
falls back to the loaded payload while a pick is pending, and only trusts a null
once the pick has RESOLVED.
- **A budget change replaced the page — chips included — with a spinner**, so the
control you just clicked vanished under your cursor. `keepPreviousData`, the
same reason the feed uses it.
- **The hero printed twice**, once as itself and once as the first resume tile.
Two smaller UI calls made from the same session: the budget caption sits NEXT to
its chips rather than in SegmentedToggle's justify-between mode, which on an 80rem
page throws the answers to the far edge; and the feed takes the YouTube mark its
own toolbar already uses, since Home now owns the house icon.
Gate green: ruff, ruff format, 3x tsc, eslint, prettier, knip, vitest 780,
pytest 989. Verified end to end on localdev against the real account: budget
chips re-answer (matched on REMAINING time — a 51-minute video with 2:46 left is
a ten-minute answer), the reroll walks three distinct heroes, and a Plex show
tile opens its drill-down in the Plex module.
Deep-review of the quickfix batch surfaced two data/preference-loss bugs plus
smaller items; all fixed with tests.
- watch_sync _pull_apply: don't let the Plex-authoritative pull overwrite a DIRTY
local row (a change whose immediate push failed) — that stranded the value
forever since _repush_dirty only retries dirty rows. Leave it dirty for re-push.
- PlexProvider / ChannelsProvider: a partial shared link opened in a fresh tab
persisted mount-time DEFAULTS over the account's stored scope/sort/filters
(base read before the account was pinned). Persist/keep only URL-present dims;
re-hydrate the omitted ones from storage.
- playback resume write-back: guard against out-of-order delivery (a superseded
older push now drops) and evict the throttle map so it can't grow unbounded.
- PlexPlayer: announce mid-playback buffering to assistive tech (role=status +
sr-only label); new plex.player.buffering (HU+EN).
- columnSort: hoist the shared key:dir sort codec used by both URL-state modules.
- Tests: dirty-guard + flag-settle + per-key throttle scoping + superseded-push
(backend); hold-repeat/suppress-click/unmount + partial-link no-clobber +
refetch-doesn't-clobber-undo (frontend). Backend pytest 475, FE vitest 519.
Mirror the Plex-browse content state into the address bar so a browse view is
bookmarkable/shareable, the Plex analogue of the feed's urlState. Keys are
NAMESPACED (pscope/psort/pshow/pf) rather than reusing the feed's bare
scope/sort/show: FeedFiltersProvider actively strips its own KEYS from the URL
whenever off the feed page, so a shared key would be deleted out from under the
Plex page. The namespaced keys are Plex-unique (like ?v=/?pl), so no other
provider ever reads or clears them.
- New lib/plexUrlState.ts: plexParamUpdates / plexParamsToState / hasPlexParams.
The pf filter blob reuses the SAME appendPlexFilters wire serializer (new
public plexFiltersToParams + inverse parsePlexFilters, kept next to each other
so a new wire key can't be added on one side only).
- PlexProvider: URL-seed wins over localStorage at mount; the account-pin
rehydrate persists the seed instead of clobbering it (mirrors feed's
initialHadUrlFilters); useUrlMirror mirrors/clears the 4 keys, gated on
page===plex. q/field stay out of the shareable contract.
- NavigationProvider: a page switch now also nulls the 4 plex keys.
Tests: 8 new round-trip cases in plexUrlState.dom.test.ts (FE vitest 483→491).
Plex now has the same personal-views system as the feed — the rail header icon
opens the quick-pick popover, the rail title opens the manager modal (list /
create / rename / delete / reorder / set-default / apply), and the active view
leads the chip row with a "modified" dot.
One SavedViewsProvider serves both modules: it switches `source` (feed ⟷ plex)
by the active page (both filter providers are global, so it reads whichever the
page owns) and runs the same logic on per-source wiring — the live filters,
apply, a stable signature (feed filtersToParams / plex plexFiltersSignature),
coercion (asFilters / coercePlexFilters), and what to strip on save. Moved below
PlexProvider in the tree so it can read plex state; resets sticky/modal on a
source switch. The shared popover/modal/chip are unchanged; the modal describes
a plex view's captured filters via a pure buildPlexActiveFilters (extracted from
usePlexActiveFilters — no duplication). api.savedViews/createView take a source;
`SavedView.filters` is now an opaque blob. New coercePlexFilters/plexFilters-
Signature (also dedups PlexProvider's collection migration). Empty-state copy
genericised (no longer says "feed"). A Plex view captures the rail filters (not
watch-state/sort/scope).
Verified end-to-end on localdev: create/apply/preview/default/delete on plex,
feed views stay separate + unregressed (402 vitest), no console errors.
A title can belong to several Plex collections, so the collection filter becomes
multi-select combining with Any (OR, default) / All (AND) — the same shape as the
genre/actor filters.
Backend (query.py): `collection` (single) → `collections` CSV + `collection_mode`
on LibraryFilters; meta_filter_conds ORs/ANDs `collection_keys.contains` per id.
Frontend: PlexFilters `collection`/`collectionTitle` → `collections` + optional
`collectionMode` + `collectionTitles` map; CollectionPicker is now a multi-select
Combobox with the any/all match footer; one chip per collection (usePlexActive-
Filters); the info-page "Browse collection" strip unions into the list; applyFilter
now shallow-merges label maps so adding one keeps the others' titles. PlexProvider
migrates a legacy persisted single `collection` into the new shape on read.
Test: test_plex_collections_filter (single / any-union / all-intersection).
Add a search scope-pill to the Plex header search box (GitHub-style, one
field-scope at a time) and an instant typeahead of the top matches below it.
Backend (unified_library):
- New `field` param: all | title | people | summary | episode. `all` is
byte-identical to the pre-scope behaviour (untouched weighted search_vector);
a specific field keeps the GIN `search_vector @@ tsq` prefilter AND ANDs a
per-column tsvector recheck, so scoped hits are a strict subset of Everywhere.
Per-field expressions mirror the search_vector Computed def (same TS config,
same left(summary,1000) truncation).
- `episode` scope empties the movie/show grid and title-only-matches the grouped
Episodes section; the title/people/summary scopes suppress that section.
- Unknown field falls back to `all`. New DB-lane characterization tests
(test_plex_field_scoped_search.py): each scope narrows correctly, field=all is
identical to today, episode empties the grid and needs shows in scope.
Frontend:
- PlexSearchBox wraps the shared SearchBar with the scope-pill (reusing
ActionMenu) and the typeahead; SearchBar gains generic leading/below/focus/
keydown slots so other modules' search boxes are untouched.
- Episode scope offered only when shows are in scope (movie-only hides it),
healed at the point of use like the sort state.
- Typeahead reuses /api/plex/library (limit=10), honours scope+field (not the
sidebar filters), shows poster+title+year, keyboard nav (arrows/Enter/Esc),
and jumps straight to a movie's info page or a show's drill-down via a new
provider jumpTo hand-off (mirrors the playlistOpen pattern).
- `field` persisted per-account; en/hu labels added.
The fresh-tab restore bug wasn't Channels-specific: any provider that mounts above
<App> and reads per-account state at useState-init hit it, since <App> pins the tab's
account only after /api/me. Audited all of them — FeedFilters/FeedView/Prefs/App already
self-correct via their own me?.id server-prefs adopt effects, so the still-broken ones
were the pure-localStorage providers with no server adopt: NavigationProvider (landing
page), PlexProvider (scope/show/sort/filters/q), PlaylistsProvider (selected playlist).
Each now adopts the shared useAccountRehydrate hook (markDirty in the setters; page uses
replaceState so the restore doesn't add a phantom Back step). Also baked re-hydrate into
useAccountPersistedState/Object so their consumers (persisted tabs, player prefs) are
robust even if one ever mounts before the pin. Self-E2E'd on a genuinely fresh tab: it
lands on Plex with Movies/In-progress/Year/search all restored on the FIRST load.
- PlexSidebar activeCount now compares the HEALED sort, so an out-of-scope key
(movie "duration" after switching to shows) no longer inflates the
active-filter badge while the control + grid show the default.
- PlexProvider strips the legacy `sortDir` from the filters blob, so it stops
leaking into the facets query key and being re-persisted on every change.
- PlexProvider sort migration guards the fall-through: valid JSON that isn't a
SortState now falls back instead of using the raw JSON string as the key.
- New shared healPlexSort(sort, scope) is the single heal both PlexBrowse and
PlexSidebar use (removes the noop-label plexSortOptions call + the duplication).
- Tests: useSortState.dom.test.ts (hydrate/persist/heal round-trip via renderHook)
and SortControl.dom.test.tsx (options, pick, direction toggle, directionless,
trailing). vitest 94 -> 105.
Gate green: tsc/eslint(0 err)/prettier/knip clean, vitest 105.
Plex sort was a bespoke chip-pill row plus a separate asc/desc chip pair, with
the key in PlexState.sort and the direction hidden in PlexFilters.sortDir. Now:
- sort is one SortState {key,dir}; sortDir is dropped from PlexFilters (and from
the facet-key destructure). The wire call still splits it into sort + sort_dir
at the server boundary, so the backend is untouched.
- The chip sort-row is replaced by the shared SortControl (select + arrow) — the
same idiom the feed and channel manager use. New lib/plexSort.ts owns the
scope-dependent vocabulary (movies add duration) + the title/asc fallback.
- PlexProvider migrates the old storage in place: a legacy bare-key plexSort
string plus the old filters.sortDir become the {key,dir} state, so an existing
sort preference survives the upgrade.
- PlexBrowse and PlexSidebar heal the stored sort against the current scope's
options, so a movie-only key (duration) left over after switching to shows
can't ask the server for an unavailable sort.
Gate green: tsc clean, eslint 0 errors, prettier clean, vitest 93.
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.
Lift the Plex module's shared local state (scope / watch-state / sort / expanded
filters / search term / open-playlist hand-off) out of App into a split-context
PlexProvider with stable useCallback setters. PlexSidebar, PlexBrowse, and the
header search box read it via usePlex()/usePlexActions() instead of props drilled
through App; PlexBrowse is now prop-free. App loses six useStates + the filters
JSON memo/serialise helpers. (Platform S6b.2)
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