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Navigating to a route whose page data carries requiresFullDocumentNavigation (an App Router "use client" page under a server layout — the standard layout pattern) previously went through the SPA failure path on every internal click:

  1. a history entry was pushed,
  2. the SPA render was attempted and threw,
  3. [Veryfront] SPA navigation failed: Server layout requires full document navigation was logged via console.error,
  4. and only then did the router fall back to a full document navigation.

The navigation always completed, but every app built on the server-root-layout + client-pages pattern saw a console error on every internal click (observed live on a production app), plus a duplicated history entry and a wasted background page-data refresh.

Fix (714822f0a)

  • navigateSPA checks requiresFullDocumentNavigation right after page data arrives — before any history mutation — and hands the route to the browser's document loader with a debug-level log. No console.error, no pushState (the document loader owns the history entry, matching the rendering/client router which uses location.assign for the same case).
  • The cached branch of fetchPageDataForNavigation no longer kicks off a background refresh for flagged payloads: that payload is never rendered client-side, so refreshing it while leaving the document is wasted work. Staleness is bounded by the document lifetime — a flagged route always document-navigates, which resets the page-data cache.
  • The throw in renderPageFromData stays as a defensive invariant for history state restored from older runtimes (popstate path).
  • hydration-runtime.generated.ts regenerated from the runtime source.

Developed red-green: all three new tests in the server-layout routes block were written first and observed failing for the right reason (console error logged, push history entry recorded, 2 fetches instead of 1) before the fix landed.

Navigation contract tests (861690ec5)

A new navigation contract unit-test block pins cross-cutting invariants that had no direct coverage, with scenarios informed by the navigation e2e suites of other app-router frameworks: a soft navigation stays inside the document, mutates history exactly once, and logs no console errors; replace-mode records a replace instead of a push; a prefetched route completes navigation from cache even when the stale-while-revalidate refresh hangs; a redirect resolves from a single page-data request and leaves history to the document loader; popstate restores from history state with zero network. Failure detection was verified by mutation (cache-hit and popstate branches temporarily broken, tests observed failing).

Browser e2e regression (d73cba32c)

tests/e2e/regressions/2026-08-14-server-layout-spa-fallback.test.ts serves the real generated hydration runtime on a stub document in real Chromium, clicks a link whose page data is flagged, and asserts: the document sentinel dies (real document navigation), no SPA navigation failed console error, and a single back returns to the origin (no duplicate history entry). Verified red against the pre-fix runtime — it fails with the exact production console error. Registered in test:e2e:rsc-browser.

Review

Independent critic review of the branch: all five verification points (early-return vs finally, pushState-skip history semantics, stale-flag risk, test quality, remaining noisy paths) passed with no findings — verdict: approve.

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  • Bug fix (non-breaking change that fixes an issue)
  • Test update

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  • I have made corresponding changes to the documentation (if applicable)
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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved navigation for routes requiring full document loads, preventing SPA errors and preserving correct page replacement behavior.
    • Preserved browser history during redirects, back/forward navigation, and document-based fallbacks.
    • Prevented unnecessary refreshes and duplicate network requests when cached data requires full navigation.
    • Ensured navigation progress state is cleared correctly.
  • Tests

    • Added automated coverage for server-layout fallbacks, redirects, history behavior, and navigation lifecycle scenarios.

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The router now uses document navigation for server-layout routes marked requiresFullDocumentNavigation. Tests cover cache, history, redirects, popstate, SPA behavior, and an end-to-end browser regression.

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Server-layout navigation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Router fallback behavior
src/html/hydration-script-builder/runtime/env.ts, src/html/hydration-script-builder/runtime/router.ts
Adds optional RuntimeLocation.replace. Skips background refresh for flagged cached payloads. Delegates flagged SPA routes to document navigation before history or client rendering.
Router navigation contracts
src/html/hydration-script-builder/runtime/router.test.ts
Covers document fallback, history updates, replacement navigation, cached navigation, redirects, and popstate restoration.
Browser regression coverage
tests/e2e/regressions/2026-08-14-server-layout-spa-fallback.test.ts, deno.json
Adds a browser regression for document replacement, diagnostics, and single-entry history behavior. Registers the test in test:e2e:rsc-browser.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 05374

Flagged server-layout routes now use direct document navigation before mutating history, avoiding console errors, duplicate entries, and wasted refreshes; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks and review.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Browser
  participant Router
  participant PageDataServer
  participant DocumentLoader
  Browser->>Router: click internal flagged route
  Router->>PageDataServer: load page data
  PageDataServer-->>Router: requiresFullDocumentNavigation
  Router->>DocumentLoader: navigateDocument
  DocumentLoader-->>Browser: replace document
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Comment thread src/html/hydration-script-builder/runtime/router.ts Outdated
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…tion, not an SPA failure

Navigating to a route whose page data carries requiresFullDocumentNavigation
(an App Router client page under a server layout) previously pushed a history
entry, attempted the SPA render, threw, logged a console.error, and only then
fell back to the document loader. Every app using the standard server-root-
layout + client-pages pattern saw '[Veryfront] SPA navigation failed: Server
layout requires full document navigation' on every internal click.

navigateSPA now checks the flag right after page data arrives and hands the
route to the document loader directly: no console.error for the designed
path, and no pushState beforehand (the document loader owns the history
entry). The cached branch also stops kicking off a background page-data
refresh for flagged routes, since that payload is never rendered client-side.

The throw in renderPageFromData stays as a defensive invariant for history
state restored from older runtimes (popstate path).
Add a navigation-contract block covering cross-cutting invariants of the
SPA runtime that had no direct coverage: a soft navigation stays inside
the document, mutates history exactly once, and logs no console errors;
replace-mode records a replace instead of a push; a prefetched route
completes navigation from cache even when the stale-while-revalidate
refresh never answers; a redirect resolves from a single page-data
request and leaves the history entry to the document loader; and
popstate restores from history state without a network request.

Scenario selection is informed by the navigation e2e suites of other
app-router frameworks; failure detection for each assertion was
verified by mutation (cache-hit branch and popstate state branch
temporarily broken, tests observed failing).
Serve the real generated hydration runtime on a stub document whose link
target answers page data flagged with requiresFullDocumentNavigation,
then click the link in real Chromium. Asserts the document sentinel dies
(full document navigation happened), no 'SPA navigation failed' console
error is logged, and a single back returns to the origin page (no
duplicate history entry from the old pushState-then-navigate flow).

Verified red against the pre-fix runtime: the test fails with the exact
production console error this regression guards against. Registered in
the test:e2e:rsc-browser task.

An earlier attempt drove a full dedicated production server, but that
harness serves /_veryfront/rsc/client.js — an island bootstrap without
the SPA router — so clicks were native and the test was vacuous; the
stub-document harness pins the actual hydration-runtime click path.
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📦 Client bundle boundary

Entrypoint Modules Source size Server leaks
src/index.client.ts 454 3062 KiB ⚠️ 39 known

A server module in a client graph aborts hydration in the browser. New leaks fail CI; known leaks are tracked in scripts/lint/client-bundle-baseline.json to burn down.

…ent fallback

Review follow-up on the server-layout fallback (PR #3703):

- A replace-mode navigation (useRouter().replace(), store navigate with
  history 'replace') to a flagged route previously fell back via an href
  assignment, which adds a history entry and leaves the replaced page
  reachable through Back. navigateDocument now takes a replace option and
  uses location.replace for it.
- The fallback now restores the navigation progress state before handing
  over to the document loader: if the unload is cancelled by a
  beforeunload guard on the current page, the document stays alive and
  must not remain aria-busy behind a stuck progress bar.

Both defects were pinned red-first in the server-layout routes block.

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tests/e2e/regressions/2026-08-14-server-layout-spa-fallback.test.ts (2)

40-40: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Use the internal import alias.

../../../src/html/hydration-script-builder/prod-scripts.ts crosses from the test module into src. Import this module through its #veryfront/* alias.

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In `@tests/e2e/regressions/2026-08-14-server-layout-spa-fallback.test.ts` at line
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1-1: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Colocate this regression with the runtime source.

Move this test beside the hydration runtime source that it verifies. Update test:e2e:rsc-browser to use the new path.

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In `@tests/e2e/regressions/2026-08-14-server-layout-spa-fallback.test.ts` at line
1, Move the regression test from the centralized tests location to the directory
containing the hydration runtime source it verifies, preserving its behavior.
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Inline comments:
In `@src/html/hydration-script-builder/runtime/router.ts`:
- Around line 573-576: Preserve history mode in the
requiresFullDocumentNavigation branch by passing historyMode from the router
flow into navigateDocument, and make navigateDocument use
window.location.replace for "replace" mode while retaining href assignment for
push navigation. Add a contract test covering a flagged payload with replace
navigation, using the existing navigation entry points and symbols.

In `@tests/e2e/regressions/2026-08-14-server-layout-spa-fallback.test.ts`:
- Around line 165-167: Restructure the cleanup in the test around launchChromium
so server.shutdown always executes: move Chromium startup inside the try block,
close the browser in a nested finally, and place server.shutdown in the outer
finally. Preserve cleanup even when launchChromium or closeChromium throws.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@tests/e2e/regressions/2026-08-14-server-layout-spa-fallback.test.ts`:
- Line 40: Update the import of generateProdHydrationModule in the test to use
the project’s `#veryfront/`* internal alias instead of the relative src path,
preserving the imported module and symbol.
- Line 1: Move the regression test from the centralized tests location to the
directory containing the hydration runtime source it verifies, preserving its
behavior. Update the test:e2e:rsc-browser script to reference the test’s new
colocated path.
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Comment thread src/html/hydration-script-builder/runtime/router.ts
Comment thread tests/e2e/regressions/2026-08-14-server-layout-spa-fallback.test.ts Outdated
Launch Chromium inside the try block and nest browser cleanup so
server.shutdown() runs even when launchChromium or closeChromium throws
(review follow-up on PR #3703).

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In `@src/html/hydration-script-builder/runtime/router.ts`:
- Around line 134-141: Update the popstate document-fallback path so
navigateDocument receives replace: true for both "replace" and "none" navigation
modes, preserving no-history semantics when query strings or hashes are present.
Add a regression test covering a no-state popstate with a query or hash and
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Comment thread src/html/hydration-script-builder/runtime/router.ts
…back

A no-state popstate calls navigateSPA with history mode 'none'; the
server-layout fallback previously used location.replace only for
'replace' mode, so history traversal onto a flagged route could push a
duplicate entry via href assignment (the handler also drops query/hash
from the target, defeating the browser's same-URL replace optimisation).
Only an explicit push may grow the history stack now.

Pinned red-first: no-state popstate onto a flagged route with a query
string must go through location.replace.
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