With Settings -> Appearance -> Startup turned off, every NEW tab or window still
opened on Home; only a same-tab reload honoured it. The provider tree mounted
before /api/me answered, so NavigationProvider's initializer could not read the
per-account opt-out, landed on Home and mirrored ?page=home into the address bar.
When App pinned the account a moment later, the re-hydrate re-read that mirror
and stayed on Home. The same mount-then-patch shape made a new tab start on
default filters, the default theme and the browser language, and correct each
after the first paint.
BootGate (main.tsx, above the providers) now owns the setup-status and /api/me
queries and mounts the tree only once the identity is settled: it pins the tab's
account and adopts the account's language in a layout effect, so the first frame
of the app is already right. The tree is keyed on the account id, which makes
"per-account state is read once, for this account" a structural guarantee.
With that, the whole re-hydrate machinery is gone: useAccountRehydrate, the
reactive active-account store, the markDirty guards, the pin-deferred saved-view
seed and the present-dimension bookkeeping of the shared Channels/Plex links.
PrefsProvider, FeedFiltersProvider, usePref and App's panel layouts seed from the
me cache instead of adopting it in an effect; the theme is applied in layout
effects. The app chunk is fetched in parallel with the probe, and the boot screen
only fades its label in after 400 ms, on one clock across the gate and the
Suspense fallback.
Module switches no longer flash a placeholder either. Measured frame by frame
in Chromium and WebKit, every first visit to a module showed "Loading..." for
17-70 ms: the lazy chunk's Suspense fallback, then often the first fetch's
LoadingState. Pages are now lazyWithPreload components, and App fetches the
chunks of every module the account can reach (plus the channel page) once the
first page is idle; a preloaded page renders synchronously and never suspends.
LoadingState, the one shared loading visual, fades in only after 300 ms, so a
fast load shows nothing in between and a slow one still gets its spinner.
The provider tree mounts above <App>, which pins this tab's account only after /api/me
resolves — so on a genuinely fresh tab (empty sessionStorage) the manager's sort, filters,
view and layout initialised from an unknown account and stayed at defaults until a second
reload. Make the active account reactive (a subscribable store + useActiveAccountId via
useSyncExternalStore; setActiveAccount/clearActiveAccount notify) and re-read the stored
value when the account transitions null→id, via a shared useAccountRehydrate hook. A
markDirty guard (called by each owning setter) prevents clobbering a value the user changed
in the brief pre-pin window; the effect is keyed on the account id only, so the user's own
writes can't loop it. useSortState, useFilterState and ChannelsProvider (view/layout) all
adopt it. Affects sort identically — this was a long-standing caveat, not new to R13.
ChannelsProvider and ChannelDiscovery each hand-rolled the same sort plumbing
(useState<SortState> + parseSortState + a persist key). Both now use the shared
useSortState hook. hydrateSort gains an empty-options rule: with no vocabulary
passed it parses without healing (these owners heal for display via
ColumnSortControl against the live columns), so the un-healed provider store is
preserved. plexSortKeys made module-private (knip).
Closes R13 S1: feed, Plex, and the two channel tables all sort through one
SortControl + one SortState model. Gate green: tsc/eslint(0 err)/prettier/knip
clean, vitest 94.
Introduce the one sort control every content surface will share:
- columnSort.ts gains the SortOption vocabulary + pure pickSort/healSort/
hydrateSort helpers (direction lives in SortState, never in the key).
- SortControl.tsx: the generic dropdown + asc/desc toggle, with an optional
"no sort" choice (tables) and a trailing adornment slot (the feed's reshuffle).
- ColumnSortControl is now a thin wrapper over SortControl (API unchanged, so
Channels + ChannelDiscovery are untouched); optionsFromColumns moved to
lib/sortOptions.ts to keep the component file fast-refresh clean.
- useSortState.ts: the per-account persist/hydrate/heal plumbing the channel
manager and discovery each hand-rolled, ready to replace both.
Pure logic is fully unit-tested (columnSort.test.ts 10 -> 23). Gate green:
tsc/eslint/prettier clean, vitest 93 pass. Feed/Plex/channels migration follows.
peter