Fixes a render bug where a federated user (e.g. axel@nova) appeared with
the federation globe icon and a broken avatar when viewed on his own home
instance. Root cause: `populateFromReady` is first-wins by federatedId and
discards the entire skipped DM payload — including its `members` array —
so when a sibling instance's ready arrived first, the home instance's view
of every shared user was dropped on the floor.
Adds a render-only `userViews` cache that mirrors the `dmAlternatives`
philosophy: information from skipped ready payloads is preserved for
rendering. Every wire surface that delivers a User upserts into the cache
regardless of dedup outcome; render sites read through a Zustand selector
hook to surface the home view when one is loaded. The DM channel ingestion
race is left untouched — the existing no-flapping invariant on origin
reconnect is intentional and load-bearing for failover.
Layered changes:
- `identity.ts`: `normalizeOriginToHost`, `canonicalUserKey`,
`isDeliveryFromHome`, `isFederationGlobeApplicable` — single helpers
for origin/host normalization and the home/stub tier decision.
- `spaceStore.ts`: `userViews` Map, `UserViewEntry` type, `upsertUserView`
action with the home-wins preference rule, prune by `deliveredBy` in
`removeInstanceSpaces` (mirrors `dmAlternatives` cleanup), `reset`
clears.
- `userViewLookup.ts`: `useCanonicalUserView` (Zustand selector hook for
React) + `getCanonicalUserView` (sync getter for non-React paths).
Render reactivity is structural via the selector, not coincidence on
legacy update paths.
- `populateFromReady` upsert pass runs BEFORE the federatedId dedup so
members of skipped DMs still reach the cache.
- WS handlers (dm_message_*, message_*, user_updated, member_joined,
friend_request_*, dm_channel_created, dm_member_added) and REST
hydrators (socialStore, discoverStore, mutuals) feed the cache with
their delivering origin.
- Render-site routing through `useCanonicalUserView` at every audited
user-rendering site (sidebar, header, search, message bubble, reply
chips, profile popout/modal, group settings, voice tiles, mention
chips, member lists, friends, invites). Self-rendering sites compose
alongside via existing `isSelf`/`resolveDisplayIdentity`.
- Globe predicate hoisted to `isFederationGlobeApplicable` and applied
at three sites, gating on `domain !== window.location.host` so we
never show the globe for users whose home IS our own.
Tests: 31 new unit tests across `identity`, `userViews` store, and
`userViewLookup`. Full suite 276/276.
Docs: `client-federation.md` §3 gains a "User View Cache" section
parallel to "DM Origin Failover"; `dm-system.md` notes the new store
action and WS handler upserts.
Bug 3 (federation profile-sync gap — orbit's stale profile data on
nova-Axel after a clear/color-change on nova never propagated)
remains open. The user-view cache routes around it for the common case
(home instance is connected), but the underlying S2S relay gap is its
own diagnosis and follows in a separate branch.
Without a sync-ready gate, a transient GET failure during autoConnectAll
left the local registry Map empty/incomplete while `set()` still computed
`registryUpdatedAt = Date.now()`. The trailing `syncRegistry()` would then
PUT the empty payload with a fresh timestamp; the server's LWW guard
accepted it and legitimate registry rows were wiped — including
remote-instance entries the user never explicitly removed.
Add `_registrySyncReady` flag, set true only after a successful initial
GET. `syncRegistry()` short-circuits while false, so the degraded mode
(GET failed) is display-only: the Map is still populated locally from
\`replicatedInstances\` synthesis (status \`auth_expired\`) so the
Connections UI shows the user's known remotes, but mutations don't push.
On the next session where GET succeeds, localStorage cached tokens
reseed the registry and \`syncRegistry()\` pushes the merged authoritative
state — no data lost, sync deferred until we have a complete picture.
\`reset()\` clears the flag alongside the registry. Spec updated with the
sync-ready gate and degraded-mode behavior. Unit tests cover the gate
on initial fail, mutations during degraded mode, recovery on next
successful GET, and the synthesis fallback for empty replicatedInstances.
instanceStore registers three resolver functions at module load —
setApiForOriginResolver, setUserIdForOriginResolver,
setOriginFromHostnameResolver — whose backing `let` bindings used to
live in spaceStore. When the module graph was entered from
instanceStore (e.g. JoinSpaceModal importing useInstanceStore) the
order became spaceStore → chatStore → useWebSocket → socialStore →
instanceStore (top-level setter call) while spaceStore was still
paused on its line-8 chatStore import, so the backing `let` had not
been reached yet and the setter crashed with
`Cannot access '_getApiForOrigin' before initialization`. This left
InviteModal.test.tsx and JoinSpace.test.tsx unable to even load their
suites once AudioManager was mocked away.
Move the three `let` bindings, their setters, their pure getters, plus
the WS-populated user-ID cache (`_myUserIdByOrigin`, setMyUserIdForOrigin,
getCachedUserIdForOrigin, clearMyUserIdCache) into
`packages/web/src/utils/crossStoreResolvers.ts`. The utility imports
nothing from `./stores/*`, so no back-edge exists. spaceStore re-exports
the public surface for backward compatibility with the many existing
import sites; instanceStore imports the setters directly from the
utility (the in-cycle re-export path does not resolve at module-init
time under vite-ssr, so a direct import is required for the top-level
setter calls).
spaceStore's remaining wrappers (resolveUserOrigin, getLayoutHomeOrigin,
getMyUserIdForOrigin) stay where they are — they combine the utility's
pure lookups with authStore state — but now delegate to the utility.
Also adds the AudioManager mock to InviteModal.test.tsx and
JoinSpace.test.tsx so their suites actually load (same pattern already
used in 5 other test files). Net test-suite result: 127/131 pass (up
from 121/121 — +6 newly unlockable). The 4 remaining JoinSpace
failures are pre-existing stale UI-text assertions (the placeholder was
expanded and the submit button was made disable-when-empty) made
visible by the suite now loading; they're orthogonal to this change
and handed back for a separate triage.
Closes backlog #27.
New subsection under client-federation.md's origin-aware routing section
covering dmAlternatives, failoverDmOriginsFromDisconnected, rekey flow,
trigger points, the intentional cache-flush trade-off, voice-out-of-scope,
no-re-home policy, and the WS routing contract. dm-system.md gets a
one-line cross-reference from the Client routing bullet.
The client-side federation model (instanceStore, federated accounts,
multi-instance connections, origin-aware routing) was completely
undocumented. An agent reading only federation.md would understand S2S
relay but have no knowledge of how the client connects to multiple
instances, creates federated accounts with real credentials, or routes
API/WS calls to the correct instance.
New spec covers: instanceStore architecture, federated account creation
(username@instance format), Connections UI, auto-connect lifecycle,
channelOriginMap routing, WebSocket multiplexing, cross-instance
identity resolution, and the relationship between client-side and S2S
federation.
CLAUDE.md subsystem table updated. Both federation docs cross-reference
each other.
Jannis Braun