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The suite ran only as an admin, so nothing end to end held what a member sees. A second seeded account, a member with its own session, now walks every rail page (no admin entry, no admin call, no error state) and follows links to the admin pages. It found one: a member's link to an admin page showed the feed with no rail row current, and the address bar kept naming the admin page — only the content fell back. The navigation state now derives the page on screen through each module's gate (reachablePage), so the rail, the content, the tab title and the address bar agree, on a link, a Back, and a role taken away mid-session.
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# E2E characterization (golden-master) net
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Playwright tests that lock the app's five core flows — **feed** (scroll + filter), **channel**
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(open → back), **player** (open/close), **settings** (dirty-save + guard), and **page switching** —
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so the Platform refactor can _prove_ it changed nothing. They assert current, correct behavior;
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they deliberately do **not** encode the known Platform bugs (those get their own specs when the
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sprints that fix them land).
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## Run
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```sh
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siftlode e2e # against the baked localdev :8080 stack (authoritative)
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siftlode e2e-ui # same, Playwright UI mode
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siftlode e2e-seed # (re)seed the test account only, no tests
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```
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The localdev stack must be up (`siftlode dev`). `global.setup.ts` reseeds the account and logs in
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once, sharing the session via `e2e/.auth/state.json` (git-ignored).
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**A dropped localhost connect** — on a Windows host, a burst of test traffic can drop a loopback
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connect now and then (every port, any program). The browser resends it and only waits (a loader
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outlives an `expect` timeout); Node does not, so a request from the test side fails with
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`connect ETIMEDOUT`. Those requests go through `retryConnect` (`e2e/retryConnect.ts`), which tries
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that one error again and passes every other failure straight on. Don't run two e2e suites on the
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same machine at once.
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**Browsers** — every flow runs in three projects: `chromium` (Desktop Chrome), `webkit` (Desktop
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Safari) and `ipad` (iPad gen 7 landscape: 1080×810, touch, mobile). Install the engines once per
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machine with `npx playwright install chromium webkit`; run one project with
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`npx playwright test --project=ipad`. WebKit catches what every iOS browser inherits from the engine
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(JS, CSS/layout, event order). It does **not** reproduce iPad media refusals: Playwright's WebKit
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decodes through the host OS (Media Foundation on Windows, GStreamer on Linux), and measured on
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2026-09-14 it played an mp3-in-mp4 and an AV1 mp4 that a real iPad refuses. Check a media format
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on a real iPad against the dev stack over the LAN (`http://<desktop LAN IP>:8080`, e.g. a
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login-free `/watch/<token>` share link).
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**Target** — `PW_BASE_URL` (default `http://127.0.0.1:8080`):
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- **`:8080`** (baked SPA) is authoritative and same-origin. After a **frontend change you must
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`siftlode dev` (rebuild)** for its baked SPA to carry the latest test hooks.
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- **`:5173`** (Vite dev) serves source live — the fast refactor loop; it proxies `/api` to `:8080`,
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so the stack must still be up. All five flows are proxy-safe:
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```sh
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PW_BASE_URL=http://localhost:5173 siftlode e2e
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```
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**Accessibility** — `a11y.spec.ts` runs axe-core's WCAG 2.x A + AA rules (`@axe-core/playwright`)
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over every rail page, every admin page and the player, in `chromium` only (the rules read the DOM,
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which the engines build alike). It does not judge colour contrast: axe files text on a gradient —
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every glass surface — as "incomplete", not as a pass or a hit.
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## Account & fixture
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Tests run as a dedicated **admin** account `e2e@siftlode.local` (never a real account;
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admin so the suite can reach the admin-only pages / render branches, matching the real primary
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user), reset to a deterministic baseline every run by
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[`scripts/e2e_seed.py`](../../scripts/e2e_seed.py) (run
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in-container so it reuses the app's models + argon2 hasher): the top-3 organic channels subscribed,
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one in-progress + one watched + one saved video, prefs pinned to `language: en`. A second account,
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the plain **member** `e2e-member@siftlode.local`, gets the same baseline and its own session
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(`e2e/.auth/member.json`); only `member.spec.ts` runs as it, holding what a non-admin sees (no admin
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entry, no admin call, an admin link lands on the feed). Credentials come from `E2E_EMAIL` (default
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`e2e@siftlode.local`), `E2E_MEMBER_EMAIL` (default `e2e-member@siftlode.local`) and `E2E_PASSWORD`
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(both accounts) — **required, no default**: run the suite through the ops wrapper, which exports it
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from the secret store. Override the container name with
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`E2E_API_CONTAINER`; skip the in-container seed with `E2E_SKIP_SEED=1`.
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## Selectors
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The app has no `data-testid`s of its own and all copy is i18n (en/hu), so the specs key on a thin
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`data-testid` layer (added with this sprint) plus the locale pinned to `en`. Stable ARIA hooks that
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already existed are used directly (`role="dialog"` on the player, `aria-current="page"` on the
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active nav row, `aria-pressed` on the feed toggles).
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## Typecheck
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`npx tsc -p e2e/tsconfig.json --noEmit` (the specs are outside the app's `src` tsconfig).
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