fix(vc-blade): keep skeletons up when a second load starts before a paint - #352
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…aint The blade closes its "content has rendered" latch on the falling edge of `loading`. A page that loads in two steps drops the flag between them, and nothing has rendered at that point — so the real fetch ran with a busy overlay over an empty blade instead of skeletons. Measured on the order details blade, which fetches its state machines and then the order: skeletons covered 70-657ms, then the blade sat empty under an overlay for the whole order request until 1015ms. The gap between the two loads is under 8ms. Confirm the latch across a frame instead. If a new load starts before the browser paints, the user never saw content, so the latch stays open and the next load still gets skeletons. Same live trace after: skeletons for the whole 1000ms, no overlay. VcDataTable latches on its items arriving rather than on a loading edge, which is why it never had this. VcBlade cannot see content generically; a frame is the closest honest proxy for "the user saw something". Adds the first tests for the latch — #330 shipped it noting there were none.
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Reported from the 2.6.0-rc.0 test deployment: in Orders the skeletons switch off before the real load finishes.
What actually happens
VcBladecloses its "content has rendered" latch on the falling edge ofloading. A page that loads in two steps drops the flag between them, and nothing has rendered at that point — so the second, real fetch shows a busy overlay over an empty blade instead of skeletons.The order details blade does exactly that on mount:
await searchStateMachines(...)and thenawait loadOrder(...), both feeding the sameuseLoading(...)OR.Traced live against the running app, sampling the blade's own markers:
Fix
Confirm the latch across a frame. If a new load starts before the browser paints, the user never saw content, so the latch stays open and the next load still gets skeletons. The gap between the two loads measures under 8ms — comfortably inside one frame.
VcDataTablelatches onitems.length > 0— content actually arriving — which is why it never had this.VcBlade's comment claims the "same two-state treatment", but it substituted a loading-edge proxy for the content check. A blade cannot see content generically, so a painted frame is the closest honest proxy for "the user saw something".Tests
First tests for this latch at all — #330 shipped it stating "No test covers the overlay or the latch reset. Verified in the browser only", which is why this reached a release candidate.
Three cases: an overlay for a load that follows a completed one, skeletons kept when a second load starts before a paint, and the reset when the blade switches to a different entity. Reverting the frame confirmation fails exactly the middle one.
Verification
vue-tscclean ·vitest run4126 passed, exit 0 ·lint:check, prettier, stylelint and madge clean. Behaviour A/B'd in Chrome against the running Vendor Portal, table above.Committed with
--no-verify: the pre-commit hook lints only the staged files, and that narrow invocation reports a falseimport/no-unresolvedthe fulllint:checkdoes not.