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Problem

After signing in, the app could sit on the full-page loader until a reload. Every wait on the boot path (session, user.me, the org query, the / membership query) could fail without anything noticing, so the loader never resolved.

What changes

Failures now reach the screen (web)

  • liveQueryStream reports stalls. Live queries only emitted on "ready" or "changed". A sync that failed, or never loaded, left its screen waiting forever.
    • A new onStalled option fires when the query hasn't loaded after 10s, or its source has failed for 3s.
    • Data that arrives later still emits, and it re-emits when a failed source recovers.
  • The org gate has explicit states. loadedOrgSlug becomes orgLoad: Found / NotFound / Stalled.
    • An unknown slug, or one you're not a member of, shows "Workspace not found" with a link home. Before, it rendered an empty shell.
    • Switching orgs drops the previous org's role instead of showing it until the new one arrives.
  • Stalled loaders offer a reload. The loader stays up and says "This is taking longer than usual", with a Reload button. This applies to the session check, user.me, the org query and /. Retries keep running underneath, so the screen recovers on its own when data arrives.
  • An unreachable API no longer signs you out. The session check used to treat "API didn't answer" as signed out and send the user to sign-in. Now auth stays loading and the check retries every 10s.
  • A refused token re-checks the session. When /auth/token returns 401, the app re-reads the session (throttled to once per 30s). An ended session goes to sign-in instead of about 21 shapes looping on 401.
  • / doesn't wait unnecessarily. It goes straight to the page sign-in started from, rather than first waiting for the membership shapes.

One retry layer for sync

  • Electric's client already retries 5xx, 429 and network errors forever, so the fetch-level Effect retry is removed. It was stacking up to 9× on 5xx.
  • electricOnError retries a 401 with a fresh token and stops on any other 4xx. Before, there was no onError at all: the first error stopped a shape for good.
  • The token exchange retries a 5xx or network error 3 times. A token the proxy rejects is dropped from the cache.

Server

  • Clock skew. A session issued "in the future" was rejected beyond 1s of difference between the Postgres clock and the API process. That fails the first requests after sign-in and then fixes itself: the "reload fixes it" pattern. It now tolerates 30s. Access-token exp on the proxy gets the same 30s.
  • Proxy key fetch. After a failed key fetch, the proxy refused every shape for 30s, which is longer than any client retry. That window is now 2s, and it allows 1024 concurrent waiters instead of 64.
  • /auth/token answers 503 with Retry-After when the session store is unavailable, instead of a bare 500.

Also

  • Restores public/sw.js, which retires the legacy React app's service worker. It was deleted along with apps/web. Without it, browsers that still have the old worker installed can't update it away.

Tests

  • live-query.test.ts: stall timing, the error grace period, recovery re-emit, and cleanup.
  • loading.test.ts, routing.story.test.ts, root/story.test.ts: not found, stalled org / session / user with reload, the role reset on org switch, the session retry, refused token to sign-in, and / going straight to returnTo.
  • access-token.test.ts (web):
    • retries a 5xx or network error, then gives up
    • a 401 reports a refused session once
    • a rejected token is invalidated
  • electric-fetch.test.ts: which errors retry and which stop.
  • packages/auth access-token.test.ts: a token just past exp verifies within the tolerance; one well past it doesn't.
  • hazel-auth.test.ts (real Postgres): /auth/token without a session is 401.

Local results: monorepo typecheck, test:once (1854 passed), web-foldkit tests (1495 passed) and build all pass, as does the backend auth integration suite.

Not in this PR

These come next, as separate PRs:

  • merge getSession + user.me into one call
  • one shared "my organizations" query
  • dead-code removal
  • privacy scoping for the users and attachments shapes

Optional prod config: setting AUTH_ACCESS_TOKEN_JWKS inline on the Electric proxy removes the remote key fetch entirely.

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  • New Features

    • Loading screens now offer a reload option when sign-in, account, workspace, or membership data takes too long to load.
    • Workspaces that cannot be found now show a clear message and a link back to the home page.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Sign-in and data-loading checks recover more reliably from temporary connection issues and retry when appropriate.
    • Missing or invalid sessions now receive a clear sign-in error, while service outages are reported separately so they can be retried.
    • Authentication is more resilient to small differences in system clocks.

After sign-in the app could sit on the full-page loader until a reload.
Every wait on the boot path had a failure that nothing reported:

- Live queries only emitted on ready or change. A sync that failed, or
  never loaded, left the waiting screen waiting forever. liveQueryStream
  now takes `onStalled`: it fires when the query has not loaded after
  10s, or its source failed for 3s, and rows that arrive later still
  emit. The org gate and `/` use it to keep the loader and offer a
  reload.
- The org gate's `loadedOrgSlug` becomes `orgLoad` (Found / NotFound /
  Stalled). An unknown slug or a non-member shows "Workspace not found"
  instead of an empty shell, and switching orgs drops the previous
  org's role.
- A session check the API could not answer counted as signed out and
  sent signed-in users to sign-in. It now keeps auth loading and
  retries. A failed `user.me` retries too, and both offer a reload.
- A refused token exchange now re-reads the session, so an ended
  session goes to sign-in instead of every shape looping on 401s.
- `/` goes straight back to the page sign-in started from instead of
  first waiting for the membership shapes.

Sync retries now live in one place. Electric already backs off on 5xx,
429 and network errors forever, so the fetch-level Effect retry is
gone. `electricOnError` retries a 401 with a fresh token and stops on
other 4xx. The token exchange retries a 5xx or network error 3 times,
and a token the proxy refuses is dropped from the cache.

Server:
- A session issued "in the future" was rejected beyond 1s of clock
  difference between Postgres and the API, failing the first requests
  after sign-in. It now tolerates 30s, as does `exp` on the proxy.
- The proxy's JWKS cooldown after a failed fetch drops from 30s to 2s,
  and it allows 1024 waiters instead of 64.
- `/auth/token` answers 503 with Retry-After when the session store is
  unavailable, instead of a bare 500.

Also restores public/sw.js, which retires the legacy app's service
worker. It was deleted with apps/web.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The changes add retries and explicit unavailable, rejected, and stalled states across authentication and data loading. The web app tracks loading outcomes and offers reload actions. The service worker now cleans up Workbox caches and navigates clients during activation.

Changes: Authentication and data-loading recovery

Layer / File(s) Summary
Session exchange and token verification
apps/backend/src/services/hazel-auth.ts, apps/backend/src/services/hazel-auth.test.ts, packages/auth/src/yielded/*
/auth/token returns 503 with Retry-After: 1 when the session store is unavailable and 401 for invalid or absent sessions. JWT verification and authentication clocks use a 30-second tolerance. Remote JWKS loading sets a 2-second cooldown and a maximum of 1,024 waiters.
Browser token exchange and Electric fetch handling
apps/web-foldkit/src/core/lib/access-token.ts, apps/web-foldkit/src/core/lib/access-token.test.ts, apps/web-foldkit/src/core/lib/electric-fetch.ts, apps/web-foldkit/src/core/lib/electric-fetch.test.ts, apps/web-foldkit/src/core/db/collections.ts
Token exchanges retry network errors and 5xx responses up to three attempts, and dispatch a rejection event on 401. Electric fetch distinguishes unavailable token service from no session, invalidates rejected tokens, and configures shared error handling on collections.
Live-query stall reporting
apps/web-foldkit/src/data/live-query.ts, apps/web-foldkit/src/data/live-query.test.ts, apps/web-foldkit/src/app/subscription.ts
Live queries can report loading stalls after 10 seconds or errors after a 3-second grace period. Organization queries map stall reports to app messages.
Session, user, and organization state
apps/web-foldkit/src/app/auth.ts, apps/web-foldkit/src/app/command.ts, apps/web-foldkit/src/app/message.ts, apps/web-foldkit/src/app/model.ts, apps/web-foldkit/src/app/subscription.ts, apps/web-foldkit/src/main.ts, apps/web-foldkit/src/app/routing.story.test.ts, apps/web-foldkit/src/app/session.scene.test.ts
The app tracks stalled session and user requests and organization load status. It retries session and user checks, rechecks rejected sessions, and distinguishes unauthorized user-fetch failures.
Stalled loading and reload views
apps/web-foldkit/src/app/view.ts, apps/web-foldkit/src/app/loading.test.ts, apps/web-foldkit/src/page/root/*, apps/web-foldkit/src/shell/layouts.ts
Stalled loading states can display a reload action. Organization routes render a not-found state when applicable. Root redirects can proceed without waiting for membership when the return page exists and the user is onboarded.

Service-worker cutover

Layer / File(s) Summary
Service-worker activation and cleanup
apps/web-foldkit/public/sw.js
The worker skips waiting, removes workbox- caches on activation, claims clients, unregisters, and navigates window clients to their current URLs.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant OrganizationCollection
  participant liveQueryStream
  participant subscription
  participant appModel
  participant loadingView
  OrganizationCollection->>liveQueryStream: report loading status
  liveQueryStream->>subscription: emit stalled message after timeout
  subscription->>appModel: dispatch StalledOrganization
  appModel->>loadingView: render stalled loader with reload action
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The reviewed recovery path continues retrying while token exchange is unavailable. No identified issue blocks merging after normal checks.

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apps/web-foldkit/public/sw.js: 1

13-16: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Navigation of every window client can discard unsaved user state.

After activation, the worker calls client.navigate(client.url) on every window client, including uncontrolled ones. This forces a reload of each open tab. A tab with an unsaved message draft or an open form loses that state. The reload happens once per registration, and the worker unregisters itself, so the impact is limited to the first load after cutover.

The reload is also redundant for the stated goal. unregister() plus the cache deletion already stops the legacy worker from serving precached HTML on the next navigation. Consider limiting the forced navigation to clients that the legacy worker controlled. Alternatively, accept the one-time reload as intentional for the cutover.

A failed client.navigate rejects the Promise.all. The rejection is caught by waitUntil, so activation fails in the logs only. Use Promise.allSettled so that one failed navigation does not abort the others.

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Update the navigation aggregation in the service worker activation flow to use
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Review comments at @apps/web-foldkit/src/core/lib/electric-fetch.ts:
- Line 35: Update electricFetchClient and the error handling used by
electricOnError to distinguish an unavailable token exchange from a refused
session: return a retryable 5xx response when getAccessToken returns null after
exchange failures, and reserve 401 for an actual session refusal. Ensure
exchange outages do not enter the rejected-token retry path.

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- Around line 13-16: Update the navigation aggregation in the service worker
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Comment thread apps/web-foldkit/src/core/lib/electric-fetch.ts
When the API did not answer `/auth/token`, the shape fetch reported a
401. Electric then treated it as a rejected token, which counts against
`onError`'s cap of 50 consecutive retries. A long outage could stop a
shape for good, so it stayed stopped after the API came back.

`readAccessToken` now tells an unavailable exchange apart from a
refused session. The shape fetch answers 503 for an unavailable
exchange, so Electric's fetch backoff retries it without a cap. A 401
now only means there is no session.

The legacy service worker now navigates its windows with
`Promise.allSettled`, so one failed navigation does not stop the
others.

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Thanks @coderabbitai. Re the sw.js nitpick: I switched to Promise.allSettled in 8785304. The one-time reload of every window is intentional. A tab still controlled by the legacy worker may be running the old React bundle, and the reload moves it onto the new app. It only happens once, because the worker unregisters itself.

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🟢 Confidence 9/10 · safe to merge
Session- and org-gate changes touch auth-adjacent state, but each risky path has a story test I traced through the update and view code.
quality 100/100 · no findings · tests covered · risk medium

The boot path now surfaces failures instead of hanging: live queries report a stall, the org gate has explicit Found/NotFound/Stalled states, stalled loaders offer a reload, and an unreachable API no longer signs the user out. Contained, and pinned by tests that exercise each of those paths.

  • readSession fails when the API cannot answer instead of silently returning SignedOut
  • liveQueryStream takes onStalled, and appLoader shows a note plus a Reload button
  • orgLoad (Found/NotFound/Stalled) replaces loadedOrgSlug, and an unknown workspace shows a not-found page
  • electricOnError retries a 401 with a fresh token and stops the shape on other errors
What was checked
  • readBrowserSession still returns SignedOut for a missing session (auth.ts:24-28), so dropping orElseSucceed cannot strand a signed-out browser on the loader
  • StalledOrganization ignores a stall once the slug is Found/NotFound (main.ts:502-509), matching the root story test
  • isCurrentUserStalled is read by the view (view.ts:164), so the stalled user.me loader does offer reload

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@Makisuo Thanks for the fix and clarification. I verified Promise.allSettled in apps/web-foldkit/public/sw.js.

The one-time reload is justified to move legacy-controlled tabs onto the new app. The worker unregisters before navigating the windows. I withdraw the concern about reloading every window.


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