Diagnosis (reproduced by looping cold-server runs): the recurring
"cold start" failures in the auth/follow specs were a hydration race,
not a Vite dep-reload (the server.warmup config already handles that —
no reload events in the logs). FollowButton is an onClick button, and
Playwright considers it actionable (visible + enabled) before React
attaches the handler on a freshly-navigated page. A click in that
window is dropped (or triggers a native form submit), so the expected
state change never happens — e.g. notifications.test.ts:59 clicked
"Request to follow" with no hydration wait and the button never
flipped to "Requested".
The existing waitForHydration guard was applied per-interaction and so
was easy to forget (test 1 had it, test 3 didn't). Fix it at the
navigation instead:
- add gotoHydrated(page, url) = goto + waitForHydration, documented as
the default for "navigate then interact with a React control"
- use it before every FollowButton interaction in notifications +
social
- consolidate the setProfileVisibility helper (copy-pasted in three
specs, two missing the hydration wait) into e2e/helpers/profile.ts,
built on gotoHydrated
Validation against a fresh Postgres, cold servers: notifications 0/10
failures (was the proven flaker); notifications+social+explore 0/5
(55 tests); planner unaffected (25/25).
Note: two other "cold-start"-attributed flakes are NOT this race and
are out of scope here — planner map-load latency (mitigated by warmup
+ CI retries) and the /explore directory assertion (a local artifact
of the scratch DB accumulating >20 public users; CI's fresh DB stays
under the page size, so it doesn't bite there).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
settings.test.ts, explore.test.ts, and social.test.ts weren't matched
by any Playwright project, so they had silently never run — which is
how they rotted. Register them (one project each) and repair the
selectors against the current UI:
- settings: the page was split into sibling sections
(/settings/{profile,security,account}); the spec assumed one page.
Navigate to the right sub-page per test, use the stable section-nav
links + #id input locators (the Vite dev server transiently
double-renders the profile form during hydration, breaking
getByLabel), and wait for hydration before interacting with
fetcher-backed forms and the avatar dropdown.
- explore: setProfileVisibility now targets /settings/profile and
waits for hydration so the visibility save uses the fetcher.
- social: already green once registered.
Also fixes an app bug the specs surfaced: deleting a passkey redirected
to /settings#security, a stale anchor that now resolves to
/settings/profile — so you'd land on the wrong section. It now
redirects to /settings/security.
Verified locally against Postgres/BRouter: green under CI-style
retries (the residual registration flake is the same cold-start class
the rest of the suite has, which is why CI runs retries=2).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The virtual-authenticator setup and registerUser were copy-pasted into
six spec files and had drifted: the auth spec's copy lost the final
URL assertion, and the settings spec's variant skipped hydration and
the Terms checkbox entirely. Seed-route boilerplate and hardcoded
localhost URLs were repeated across three more files.
- helpers/auth.ts: setup/removeVirtualAuthenticator,
submitRegistration (no outcome assertion, for expected-failure
attempts), registerUser (asserts the signed-in redirect),
registerFreshUser, logout
- helpers/journal.ts: JOURNAL/PLANNER base URLs, seedRoute,
routeHasGeom, seedKomootConnection
- nine spec files now import the helpers instead of re-deriving them
Found while consolidating: settings.test.ts, explore.test.ts, and
social.test.ts are not matched by any playwright project and have
never run — which is how the settings spec's broken register helper
survived. Registering them (and fixing whatever has rotted) is a
follow-up; the config now carries a warning so the trap is at least
documented.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two issues caused the same class of flake locally:
1. Default workers were CPU-count, but the journal/planner are served
by Vite dev (not the production build CI uses). Cold-compiling
`/api/auth/register` under N parallel hits produced 30s timeouts
on a quarter of runs. Set workers to 1 in both environments for
parity with CI.
2. Even sequentially, a button is clickable per Playwright's
actionability check before React has hydrated its `onClick`. So
the first click after a navigation could fire native form submit
(or do nothing), which manifested as "URL never changed to /" or
"menuitem Log Out never appeared". Add a `waitForHydration` helper
that polls for React fibers (`__reactProps$<id>`) attached to a
DOM node and call it after each cross-page navigation that ends
in an interactive form or dropdown.
CI is unaffected (production builds hydrate fast and didn't expose
either bug), but the helper is harmless there.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Stream F implementation. Closes the gap between "I want to follow
someone on this instance" and "I have a username from outside the
app." Anonymous visitors and signed-in users both reach a paginated
directory of local public users; signed-in viewers also see Follow
buttons inline.
- apps/journal/app/lib/explore.server.ts — listDirectory (paginated,
ordered by MAX(public-activity created_at) DESC NULLS LAST,
tiebreaker users.id DESC), listActiveRecently (top 5 in last 30
days), countDirectory, batched countFollowersBatch and
getFollowStateBatch helpers so the page issues two extra queries
regardless of page size. Excludes private profiles and the demo
persona; banned/suspended scaffolding noted for forward-compat.
- apps/journal/app/routes/explore.tsx — loader fans out the four
queries in parallel; component renders an "Active recently" strip
(hidden when empty) above the main directory; FollowButton inlines
per row for signed-in viewers. Bio truncated to 120 chars.
- apps/journal/app/routes.ts — register /explore.
- apps/journal/app/root.tsx — add Explore navbar entry for signed-in
users.
- apps/journal/app/routes/home.tsx — visitor home gains a secondary
"Browse who's here →" link to /explore alongside the Planner
escape hatch.
- packages/i18n/src/locales/{en,de}.ts — explore.*, nav.explore,
home.exploreLink keys.
- apps/journal/app/lib/explore.integration.test.ts — opt-in
(EXPLORE_INTEGRATION=1) integration tests covering inclusion,
exclusion, ordering, NULLS LAST behavior, "Active recently"
30-day filter, count helpers.
- e2e/explore.test.ts — anonymous loads /explore (no auth needed);
private profile is excluded from the directory.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
