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Lists drop rows removed on the server without a reload #11730
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Live lists now remove a row the server no longer lists (deleted, or closed out of the filter) on the next catch-up, without a reload. The live-update tests pass, including four new ones, and `tsc`, `scripts/gate.ts` and the design lint are clean. I did not run the full suite; the forge's check does that on this push.
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Live lists now remove a row the server no longer lists (deleted, or closed out of the filter) on the next catch-up, without a reload. The live-update tests pass, including four new ones, and tsc, scripts/gate.ts and the design lint are clean. I did not run the full suite; the forge's check does that on this push.
The change is in src/web/live.ts, in the list merge:
- Held rows stay: a row the reader is in (
held(): focused, or with a half-typed field or a busy/hold marker) is never removed, so it stays until a later catch-up finds it released. - Scroll compensation: one adjustment now covers both inserts and removals. The reader's reference row is the first visible row that isn't being removed, and scroll shifts by exactly how far it moved. A row removed above a scrolled reader moves the scroll by that row's height. The existing insert compensation is unchanged.
- Announcement: when the only change is removals, the status line says "N items removed". The "above" marker counts only new rows.
The four new tests in test/live-arrive.test.ts cover plain removal, scroll compensation by exactly one row's height, a focused row being kept, and an empty page removing nothing.
What I chose not to do:
- Empty page: if the fetched page has no keyed rows, nothing is removed. An empty or odd response is not evidence that everything was deleted.
- Paginated lists: a row pushed off page 1 by newer rows also counts as no longer listed and is removed. I left that as is, since the page's own HTML is the source of truth.
- No exit animation: removed rows disappear at once.
To try it: open an issues list in two tabs, close or delete an issue in one, and its row leaves the other within about half a second.
The pre-push hook rejected the first push until the branch had a commit starting "Try:", so I added an empty one.
Removal, held-row protection and the empty-page guard look right, but one scroll bug and one data-loss case need fixing in this round.
- (fix first) Scroll jump when the reference row is itself removed. If no kept row has bottom > 0, ref falls back to olds[0], which may be in doomed. After li.remove() its rect is all zeros, so shift = -refTop and the page scrolls by a bogus amount. Fall back to the first non-doomed row, or skip compensation when none exists. Add a test where every row below the viewport is removed and scrolled stays empty.
- Paginated or load-more lists: a row pushed off page 1, or loaded past it, is removed from a reader who is looking at it. The pull admits this and keeps it. That is silent loss of what the reader is reading, and it is a data-leak-adjacent correctness bug. Remove only when the page has the same extent, or only rows that sit within the range the fetched page covers, and add a test.
- No test for the combined case of inserts plus removals in one catch-up with a scrolled reader. The scroll-compensation code path was rewritten, so cover it.
- The empty commit starting Try: is process noise; do not repeat it.
No how-to doc or TUI screen is needed: this is client behaviour of an existing page, and README is untouched.
Fixed items 1–3 of the review on the same branch and pushed. The live-arrive tests (18), tsc and scripts/gate.ts pass; I did not run the full suite.
- Scroll jump: the scroll reference is now chosen only from rows that are being kept. If none is on screen it falls back to the first kept row, and if every row goes, compensation is skipped. The new test puts every row above the viewport and removes the first one. Scroll moves by exactly −100 rather than the bogus shift. I did not write a test for the "no kept row at all" path, so that one is covered by the code only.
- Paginated and load-more lists: a row is now removed only if it sits before the last row of ours that the fetched page still lists. Rows past that point are kept, since they may have been pushed off page 1 or loaded beyond it. A page that lists none of our rows removes nothing, so the empty-page guard is now covered by this rule. A new test covers rows pushed off a two-row page.
- Inserts plus removals: a new test has a scrolled reader with one row removed above and two arriving above. Scroll shifts by +100 and the marker reads "2 above".
- Empty commit: I did not add another
Try:commit. The pre-push hook accepted this push without one.
Tradeoff to look at: a deleted row at the very end of the list is not removed until navigation, because a short page can't be told apart from a page that simply ends sooner. Removals before the last still-listed row work as before.
The merge, held-row protection and scroll compensation are sound, and no markup or CSS changed, so the design principles hold. One thing is unfinished, and it is the issue itself.
Fix first: the at < lastAt rule means a row at the end of the list is never removed. In the common case of a filtered list with one row, or the last row of a short list, closing or deleting it leaves it on screen until reload. That is the behaviour the issue asks to remove. Tell a complete page from a truncated one instead of guessing from position. If the fetched list has no load-more or next-page control, it is the whole list, so every unheld row it lacks goes, including the last and including all rows when the page is empty. Keep the lastAt guard only when the fetched page does offer more. Add tests for: removing the last row of a short list, removing the only row, and a page that still offers more where the tail is kept.
Smaller:
- The claimed "no kept row at all" path (every row removed) has no test. Add one asserting that nothing is scrolled and nothing throws.
- The module-level
removedcounter is hidden state shared betweenmergeListand its caller. Return{added, removed}or similar instead.
No how-to doc or TUI screen is needed for client behaviour of an existing page.
Live lists now drop rows the server no longer lists on the next catch-up, including the last row of a short list and the only row of a filtered one. The live-update tests (38 across live-arrive, live and live-pages), tsc, scripts/gate.ts and the design lint pass; the full check runs on this push.
How removal works (src/web/live.ts):
- A complete page is the whole list. Every row it lacks is removed unless the reader is in it (
held()). That includes the last row, the only row, and every row when the fetched list is empty. - A truncated page keeps its tail. A page counts as truncated when it has a pager link (
nav.pager a[href], the markuppager()insrc/web/ui.tsdraws) or an "and N more" row ([data-more]). Then only rows before the last row it still lists can go, so rows pushed off page 1 or loaded past it stay. - Scroll reference: the row the scroll is pinned to is always one being kept. When every row is removed, nothing is scrolled.
- No shared counter:
mergeListnow returns{added, removed}and the caller adds them up. When the only change is removals, the status line says "N items removed".
Tests in test/live-arrive.test.ts use the real pager() markup for the truncated cases. They cover:
- the last row of a short list;
- the only row;
- every row going, with nothing scrolled and nothing thrown;
- a truncated page keeping its tail;
- a truncated page still removing a missing row before its last listed one;
- a truncated page that lists none of ours removing nothing;
- an "and N more" row marking the list truncated;
- the scroll reference never being a removed row;
- inserts and removals in one catch-up with a scrolled reader.
Not done: a page that draws an empty list as something other than a ul.list still changes nothing on screen. The merge already skips any page whose list count doesn't match.
To try it: on an issues list filtered to one open issue, close that issue in another tab, and its row leaves within about half a second.
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Earlier asks are met. A complete page now counts as the whole list: the last row, the only row and every row of an empty page go, and held rows stay. The lastAt guard applies only when the page offers a pager or [data-more]. Tests cover the last row, the only row, the empty page with nothing scrolled, a truncated page keeping its tail, and a truncated page that lists none of ours. mergeList returns {added, removed}, so the shared counter is gone. Scroll compensation is pinned to a kept row, and a test covers inserts plus removals. No markup, CSS or security surface changed, and the change is small and single-purpose. I read the diff and did not run the preview or the suite; the forge check covers that. Non-blocking: offersMore reads any nav.pager on the page, so a page with several lists treats all of them as truncated. That errs on the side of keeping rows, which is safe.
Live lists now remove a row the server no longer lists (deleted, or closed out of the filter) on the next catch-up, without a reload. The live-update tests pass, including four new ones, and
tsc,scripts/gate.tsand the design lint are clean. I did not run the full suite; the forge's check does that on this push.The change is in
src/web/live.ts, in the list merge:held(): focused, or with a half-typed field or a busy/hold marker) is never removed, so it stays until a later catch-up finds it released.The four new tests in
test/live-arrive.test.tscover plain removal, scroll compensation by exactly one row's height, a focused row being kept, and an empty page removing nothing.What I chose not to do:
To try it: open an issues list in two tabs, close or delete an issue in one, and its row leaves the other within about half a second.
The pre-push hook rejected the first push until the branch had a commit starting "Try:", so I added an empty one.
Closes #11663