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Problem

If the main entry chunk's CSS or JS fails to load once, for example a single dropped request through the T3 Connect relay, the web app goes straight to "T3 Code failed to start" and never retries. The vite:preloadError listener that reloads once through the existing chunk reload guard was registered in main.tsx. That is the module whose load just failed, so the listener didn't exist yet, and bootstrap.ts passed the error to showBootError.

Reproduced on main 48a2923: production vp build served by the real server, Firefox and Chromium (Playwright), aborting the first /assets/main-*.css or /assets/main-*.js request. The page shows the boot error after one document load.

Change

• The vite:preloadError listener moves unchanged from main.tsx into handleChunkLoadErrors() in lib/chunkReloadGuard.ts. bootstrap.ts registers it before import("./main").
• Main-chunk and route-chunk failures now go through one listener, so each failure gets one reload decision.
• Its flags live in a shared chunkLoadState. main.tsx reads them as before: it doesn't render or clear the guard while a reload is pending.
• bootstrap.ts doesn't show the boot error while a reload is pending.
• A failure that repeats after the one reload still shows the boot error. The sessionStorage guard is unchanged, so this can't loop.

Scope and approval

Fixes #26437

Verification

• apps/web/src/bootstrap.test.ts (new):
  • "reloads once instead of showing the boot error when the main chunk fails to load" fails on main with expected "location.reload" to be called 1 times, but got 0 times, and passes here.
  • "shows the boot error when the main chunk fails again after the reload" guards against a reload loop.
  • I checked by mutation that making showBootError unconditional fails the first test.
• apps/web/src/bundledDev.test.ts: the bundled-dev fixture now copies lib/chunkReloadGuard.ts and stubs addEventListener, because bootstrap.ts imports the guard and registers the listener before main loads.
• vp test run src/bootstrap.test.ts src/lib/chunkReloadGuard.test.ts src/bundledDev.test.ts: 6/6 pass. vp run check:changed: all pass.

Runtime transcript. bootstrap.ts, main.tsx and lib/chunkReloadGuard.ts are identical between 6c7c95c and head 246665a. Production builds of main 48a2923 (Before) and this branch (After), each served by its own server with fresh state. Each variant runs in a fresh browser context with one asset request aborted. Results were the same in Chromium and Firefox 150. Loads are document loads.

Variant	Before (48a2923)	After (6c7c95c)
control	1 load, app renders	1 load, app renders
main CSS fails once	1 load, "T3 Code failed to start"	2 loads, app renders, guard cleared
main JS fails once	1 load, "T3 Code failed to start"	2 loads, app renders, guard cleared
main CSS fails every time	1 load, "T3 Code failed to start"	2 loads, "T3 Code failed to start", guard set (no loop)
/pair route chunk fails once	2 loads, app renders	2 loads, app renders (unchanged)
/pair route chunk fails every time	3 loads, "Something went wrong."	3 loads, "Something went wrong." (unchanged)

• Main runs during the reload: when only the CSS failed, preventDefault() lets main run while the reload is pending, and it doesn't render. In both browsers the reloaded document still starts at /pair#token=… or /pair?token=…, so one-time credentials in the URL survive the reload.
• Not checked: Safari, the Electron desktop shell, and a real relay. The mechanism is the bundler's preload helper, which is the same on all of them.

The relay's cache-control on /assets/* and logging of cloudflared request errors, also raised in the issue, are not part of this change.

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Verdict: Approved at 246665a

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — Main-chunk load failures now use the existing one-time reload recovery before showing a boot error. The session-storage guard preserves the error fallback on repeated failure and prevents reload loops.

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Walkthrough

The bootstrap registers chunk-load error handling before loading the main module. Shared state coordinates reload scheduling and boot-error display. Tests cover the first reload attempt and the case where a reload was already attempted.

Changes: Main chunk-load recovery

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Early preload handling apps/web/src/lib/chunkReloadGuard.ts, apps/web/src/bootstrap.ts, apps/web/src/bootstrap.test.ts	The bootstrap registers the preload-error handler before importing main and exports the startup promise. Tests check that a first failure triggers one reload without showing the boot error, while a stored reload marker leads to the boot error without another reload.
Shared startup state apps/web/src/main.tsx, apps/web/src/bundledDev.test.ts	The main module uses shared failure and reload-scheduled flags instead of local flags and a local preload-error listener. Startup skips boot-error handling when a reload is scheduled and clears the reload guard when no chunk-load failure occurred. The bundled-dev fixture copies the guard module and defines a no-op addEventListener.

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Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Bootstrap
  participant ChunkLoadGuard
  participant Main
  Bootstrap->>ChunkLoadGuard: Register preload-error listener
  Bootstrap->>Main: Load main module
  ChunkLoadGuard->>Bootstrap: Mark reload scheduled and prevent default on first error
  Bootstrap->>Bootstrap: Skip boot-error display when reload is scheduled

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Possibly related PRs

• pingdotgg/t3code#21626: Changes the chunk reload guard and main-module handling that this PR moves into bootstrap startup.
• pingdotgg/t3code#25929: Verifies that the built web client mounts instead of showing the boot-error screen, which is affected by this PR’s startup error handling.

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Title check		The title names the main change: a failed main chunk load now reloads once instead of showing the boot error. The changeset matches this. It moves the vite:preloadError listener into chunkReloadGuard.…
Linked Issues check		Issue [#26437] requires one automatic reload when the main CSS or JavaScript preload fails before main loads. bootstrap.ts now calls handleChunkLoadErrors() before import("./main"). `chunkLoad…
Out of Scope Changes check		The changes are limited to preload-error handling, shared chunk-reload state, bootstrap and main startup behavior, test coverage, and bundled-dev test setup. These changes support issue [#26437]. No u…
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The title names the main change: a failed main chunk load now reloads once instead of showing the boot error. The changeset matches this. It moves the vite:preloadError listener into chunkReloadGuard.ts, registers it before importing main, and suppresses the boot error while a reload is pending. The title follows conventional commit form and is specific enough for a reviewer scanning history.

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Issue [#26437] requires one automatic reload when the main CSS or JavaScript preload fails before main loads. bootstrap.ts now calls handleChunkLoadErrors() before import("./main"). chunkLoadState.reloadScheduled prevents the boot error during the pending reload. The new bootstrap tests cover the first failure and the repeated failure after the session-storage guard is set. Relay caching and cloudflared logging are separate concerns, not requirements for this fix.

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1-68: Trivial · Stability & Availability · Quick win

Exercise the real main.tsx startup after a prevented preload error.

Vite does not throw the preload error after event.preventDefault(), so the real import("./main") can reach main.tsx. The mock throws immediately after dispatching the event, which bypasses main.tsx and its startup promise. Add a focused test that asserts no render and no guard clearing while reload is pending.

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Review comment at @apps/web/src/bootstrap.test.ts around lines 1 - 68:
Add a focused bootstrap test that exercises the real main.tsx startup after a
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The automated pipeline stopped on this pull request and will not merge it:

in the real app the problem is still there, and the rework changed nothing:

No code change and nothing pushed: the proof's own head results match the fix's intent, so the claim that the problem still happens does not hold. The reported bug is that a single failed main CSS/JS load goes straight to the boot error with no reload. Base, CSS fails once: boot error after 1 document, which reproduces the bug. Head, same case: 2 documents, then the app renders, which is the one automatic reload the fix adds. Head, CSS fails every time: 2 documents, then the boot error. That is the intended no-loop guard (the sessionStorage guard allows one reload, then the error is shown), not a regression. JS fails once rendered on both base and head after 1 document with 2 requests, so the abort never failed import('./main') and this case never showed the bug on either commit. My guess is that the first aborted request was the preload, with the import fetching the asset again; I did not verify that. The runner most likely exited 1 because this JS case had no base/head difference, or because it treated the expected boot error in the fails-every-time case as a failure. Aborting the request that import('./main') actually uses (for example every main-*.js request in the first document) would exercise the JS path. I did not rerun the proof myself. The focused tests pass.

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