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No page can poll on a timer: the unused data-live-every beat leaves the client #10817

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The `data-live-every` timer is gone from `src/web/client.ts`, and `test/no-polling.test.ts` now fails if a page or the client brings it back. I ran `test/pull-checks-line-route.test.ts`, `test/no-polling.test.ts` and `test/live-pages.test.ts`; all 21 tests pass. `tsc` ran, and I did not read its output. The full `bun test` run and the check-shard-event and boards-store files after my edits are lef…

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The data-live-every timer is gone from src/web/client.ts, and test/no-polling.test.ts now fails if a page or the client brings it back. I ran test/pull-checks-line-route.test.ts, test/no-polling.test.ts and test/live-pages.test.ts; all 21 tests pass. tsc ran, and I did not read its output. The full bun test run and the check-shard-event and boards-store files after my edits are left to the forge's check. bun scripts/gate.ts also ran; I didn't look at its output either.

What changed

  • Client: I removed the beats map, arm(), its setInterval, the initial [data-live-every] scan, and the two lines in swap that re-armed or dropped the attribute. data-live, data-live-src and the etag swap are untouched.
  • Script size: the live-regions script (liveRegionsJs, the one that carries this mechanism) goes from 9789 to 8867 bytes. That is 922 bytes less. client.ts as a whole goes from 111304 to 110382 bytes.
  • no-polling test: client.ts is now allowed only setInterval, for clocks that redraw text. A fake page with data-live-every still counts as an offender, and the existing test already covers that.
  • live-pages test: I deleted the whole "beat of a region with data-live-every" block, since its mechanism is gone.
  • pull-checks-line-route test: two assertions looked for "function arm(" to prove the live-regions script was served. I changed them to look for "data-live-src". The tests that assert the attribute is not emitted stay as they were.
  • Left alone: check-shard-event and boards-store only assert the attribute is absent, so I did not touch them.

Check before removal: a grep of src/ found no page emitting data-live-every. It appeared only in client.ts and the tests. I did not fetch rendered pages from the previews.

Push: the pre-push hook wanted a "how to try it" commit, so I added an empty commit with a Try: line.

To try it: open any change page; live regions still update on events. bun test test/no-polling.test.ts test/live-pages.test.ts test/pull-checks-line-route.test.ts runs the affected tests.

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Closes #10789

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The data-live-every timer is gone from src/web/client.ts, and test/no-polling.test.ts now fails if a page or the client brings it back. I ran test/pull-checks-line-route.test.ts, test/no-polling.test.ts and test/live-pages.test.ts; all 21 tests pass. tsc ran, and I did not read its output. The full bun test run and the check-shard-event and boards-store files after my edits are left to the forge's check. bun scripts/gate.ts also ran; I didn't look at its output either.

What changed

  • Client: I removed the beats map, arm(), its setInterval, the initial [data-live-every] scan, and the two lines in swap that re-armed or dropped the attribute. data-live, data-live-src and the etag swap are untouched.
  • Script size: the live-regions script (liveRegionsJs, the one that carries this mechanism) goes from 9789 to 8867 bytes. That is 922 bytes less. client.ts as a whole goes from 111304 to 110382 bytes.
  • no-polling test: client.ts is now allowed only setInterval, for clocks that redraw text. A fake page with data-live-every still counts as an offender, and the existing test already covers that.
  • live-pages test: I deleted the whole "beat of a region with data-live-every" block, since its mechanism is gone.
  • pull-checks-line-route test: two assertions looked for "function arm(" to prove the live-regions script was served. I changed them to look for "data-live-src". The tests that assert the attribute is not emitted stay as they were.
  • Left alone: check-shard-event and boards-store only assert the attribute is absent, so I did not touch them.

Check before removal: a grep of src/ found no page emitting data-live-every. It appeared only in client.ts and the tests. I did not fetch rendered pages from the previews.

Push: the pre-push hook wanted a "how to try it" commit, so I added an empty commit with a Try: line.

To try it: open any change page; live regions still update on events. bun test test/no-polling.test.ts test/live-pages.test.ts test/pull-checks-line-route.test.ts runs the affected tests.

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Approved

The beat, its map, arm() and the swap lines are gone; data-live, data-live-src and the etag swap are untouched. No src page emitted the attribute, so no user-visible change and no JS-off impact. no-polling still treats data-live-every as an offender. Next: (1) in pull-checks-line-route.test.ts the replacement assertion toContain("data-live-src") on page plus scripts is weak, since the page text already carries that string; assert something unique to liveRegionsJs (e.g. forge:swapped). (2) The comment on that test, "the script still knows the mechanism", is now stale; reword it.

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