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EDM-5267: Mitigate errors when UI service restarts - #770

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Ocassionally, the UI could show a "failed to load chunk" error instead of the selected page.
This seemed to happen when the UI service is restarted, as the loaded UI does not have the correct bundled assets.

Fixes:

  • Whenever the route changes, re-import the component for the current page.
  • If the "failed to load chunk" happens for any reason, we show a "Reload page" button which should fix the problem.
  • The ErrorBoundary uses location.key so that when navigating to another tab after the UI has fully restarted (or back to the same tab), the page is shown instead of the stale error.

Affected areas

  • apps/standalone/: Route components use lazyWithReload instead of React.lazy.
  • libs/ui-components/: Adds guarded reload handling for failed lazy imports and a “Reload page” action to ErrorBoundary.
  • No changes are reported in libs/types/, libs/i18n/, libs/cypress/, apps/ocp-plugin/, proxy/, packaging/, or .github/workflows/.

Impact

  • The standalone app automatically reloads once after a failed lazy import. The guard prevents repeated reloads within 10 seconds. If the import still fails, the error boundary displays the reload action.
  • The error-boundary change is in a shared UI component, so consumers of that component also receive the reload action. The route-level recovery is configured in the standalone app; no OCP plugin route changes are reported.
  • This change affects UI behavior. It does not change the Go auth proxy, container builds, E2E tests, or CI configuration.
  • Test results are not available in the supplied evidence.

Risk classification

risk:ask — The labeling instructions assign this label when a change does not meet the risk:show criteria, including shared infrastructure that affects multiple features or platforms. This change updates a shared error boundary and adds shared UI recovery logic. It is close to risk:show because the route integration is scoped and preserves existing APIs, but the shared-component impact means it does not clearly meet the requirement that the blast radius be contained to one feature or helper.

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  • libs/ui-components/src/utils/lazyWithReload.tsx

Walkthrough

Standalone routes now use lazyWithReload to handle import failures with a guarded page reload. The error alert also provides a “Reload page” action that reloads the browser.

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Route Error Recovery

Layer / File(s) Summary
Guarded lazy route loading
libs/ui-components/src/utils/lazyWithReload.tsx, apps/standalone/src/app/routes.tsx
Route components use lazyWithReload. After an importer failure, it reloads the page when the session-storage guard permits; otherwise, it rethrows the error. The guard denies another reload when a stored timestamp is less than 10 seconds old or storage access fails.
Error alert reload action
libs/ui-components/src/components/common/ErrorBoundary.tsx
The error alert includes a “Reload page” action that calls window.location.reload().

Priority: Normal

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Route
  participant lazyWithReload
  participant shouldReloadOnce
  participant Browser
  Route->>lazyWithReload: Load route component
  lazyWithReload->>shouldReloadOnce: Check reload timestamp
  shouldReloadOnce-->>lazyWithReload: Permit or deny reload
  lazyWithReload->>Browser: Reload page when permitted
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Suggested labels: risk:ask, ui-components, standalone, i18n

Suggested reviewers: asmasarw

Merge Risk: Moderate · previous review 80cf5

An unrelated page error can cause an unnecessary reload, while a slow, persistent chunk failure can repeatedly reload the page instead of showing the error. Bound automatic recovery before merging.

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Generated-Files-Not-Hand-Edited Warning The pull request directly changes the generated file libs/i18n/locales/en/translation.json by adding Reload page. The reviewed diff does not change any OpenAPI model files. The translation entry m… Revert the manual change to libs/i18n/locales/en/translation.json, run npm run i18n from the i18n package after the source change, and commit the generated result.
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Title check Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: mitigating UI errors caused by service restarts and stale bundled assets.
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Resolution

Revert the manual change to libs/i18n/locales/en/translation.json, run npm run i18n from the i18n package after the source change, and commit the generated result.

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🔴 resettableLazy.tsx re-creates the lazy component whenever location.key changes:

In react-router v6, location.key is regenerated on every history transition (push and replace), not only when moving between pages.

Consequences confirmed:

  1. Detail pages remount on every tab switch. DeviceDetailsPage (and Fleet/Repository/ImageBuild/AuthProvider details) render internal under :id/*. Switching tabs changes location.key → the whole page remounts (refetch + lost tab state + spinner).
  2. List pages remount when a URL-synced filter is applied. DevicesPage commits filters via setSearchParams (push) → new location.key → remount: search input loses focus mid-typing, pagination resets, full refetch. This also undercuts the pagination work in #664.

(Navigations run in a React transition, so the spinner may not always visibly flash — but the remount, state loss, and refetch still happen.)

Suggested fixes (any one)

  • Simplest: drop the per-navigation re-import and rely on the ErrorBoundary "Reload page" button for recovery — a full reload already pulls fresh assets.

  • Retry-on-error: wrap the dynamic import() to catch a chunk-load failure and re-import (optionally cache-busting), so a fresh lazy is created only when a load actually fails:

const load = () => importer().catch(() => importer());
const Component = React.useMemo(() => React.lazy(load), []);
  • If reset-on-nav is truly desired, key it on the matched route/module (something stable per page), not location.key.

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asmasarw force-pushed the EDM-5267-mitigate-ui-restart-errors branch from 8583a2c to b516764 Compare October 29, 2026 12:38
Replace lazyResetter (recreated React.lazy on every location.key change,
remounting pages on tab switches and filter changes) with lazyWithReload,
which creates the lazy once and, on a chunk-load failure, triggers a single
guarded full page reload. A full reload is the only reliable recovery for
stale chunks after a UI redeploy since the hashed bundle URL no longer exists.
Also drop the key={location.key} remount from the TitledRoute ErrorBoundary,
which had the same per-navigation remount problem.
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asmasarw force-pushed the EDM-5267-mitigate-ui-restart-errors branch from b516764 to 80cf530 Compare October 29, 2026 12:40
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Review comments at @libs/ui-components/src/utils/lazyWithReload.tsx:
- Around line 45-46: Update the catch handler in the lazy import flow to call
shouldReloadOnce() only when the rejection is an Error named ChunkLoadError. Let
all other errors proceed immediately to the existing throw error path without
reloading.
- Around line 1-28: Update shouldReloadOnce in lazyWithReload to use a
persistent per-tab attempt marker in sessionStorage instead of a timestamp
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…d per tab

- Only reload when the import rejects with a chunk-load failure (ChunkLoadError
  or a "Loading chunk ... failed" message); other rejections rethrow so a genuine
  module-eval bug is surfaced instead of hidden behind a reload.
- Replace the 10s timestamp window in shouldReloadOnce with a write-once per-tab
  sessionStorage marker, capping auto-recovery at a single reload per tab. This is
  loop-safe even when several lazy components (e.g. the masthead badge plus the
  route) fail on the same screen; a clear-on-success would reintroduce a loop there.
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