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Fixed a stalled save on the way out trapping the React editor - #31270

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Leaving a dirty draft waited on the save on the way out with no deadline or error handling. A stalled request left the editor stuck and ignored every later exit until reload.

  • If the save fails, or hasn't finished within 20 seconds, the writer gets the Leave/Stay dialog. A save that lands within the 15-second retry window still leaves without asking.
  • If the save is waiting on sign-in, the deadline waits too. Signing in still carries the writer out.

Verification: new unit and acceptance tests fail without the fix. Admin unit and acceptance suites pass.

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376-382: LGTM!

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Walkthrough

The leave guard now applies a 20-second deadline to leave decisions. If the decision rejects or does not settle before the deadline, the guard requests confirmation. Signing in again resets the deadline while reauthentication remains pending. The hook applies this behavior to editor exits. Unit and acceptance tests cover timeout, rejection, repeated exits, and reauthentication. The README describes the timeout and reporting behavior.

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  • observed — apps/admin (service) was modified; 5 changed files map to changed impact.

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  • observed — Modified behavior in apps/admin/src/editor/editor-leave-guard.acceptance.test.tsx: The Vitest import now includes vi for fake-timer control.
  • observed — Modified behavior in apps/admin/src/editor/editor-leave-guard.acceptance.test.tsx: Imports LEAVE_DECISION_DEADLINE_MS for deadline-based acceptance tests.
  • observed — Modified behavior in apps/admin/src/editor/editor-leave-guard.acceptance.test.tsx: Adds fakeExpiredSaves: post-save requests initially receive a 401 UnauthorizedError; restoreSaves registers a session endpoint returning 201 and replaces the save handler with one that returns the submitted post data.
  • observed — Modified behavior in apps/admin/src/editor/editor-leave-guard.acceptance.test.tsx: Adds a test that leaves a dirty editor while its save is deferred. Advancing fake timers by the leave-decision deadline makes the dialog visible without changing the route; confirming then navigates to /posts and unmounts the editor. Real timers are restored and the save is resolved in cleanup.
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the primary change: preventing a stalled save from trapping the React editor during exit.
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apps/admin/src/editor/session/use-leave-guard.ts-131-137 (1)

131-137: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Cancel the leave-decision deadline during editor teardown.

When the editor unmounts while leaveDecisionWithin is waiting, stateRef can retain reauth-pending. The mounted check prevents UI updates, but it does not cancel the wrapper's timer or its renewal path. Cancel the pending deadline in the leave guard's effect cleanup.

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Update the leave guard effect cleanup to cancel any pending deadline created by
leaveDecisionWithin, including its renewal path, when the editor unmounts; use
the existing deadline or cancellation mechanism rather than relying only on the
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Review comments at @apps/admin/src/editor/session/use-leave-guard.ts:
- Around line 131-137: Update the leave guard effect cleanup to cancel any
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no ref

Leaving a dirty draft holds the exit while the save on the way out runs,
and that decision had no deadline and no rejection handler. A stalled
request or a pending sign-in pinned the URL with no dialog, and every
later Back, Forward or link exit was swallowed until a reload.

A decision that fails, or has not come within 20 seconds, now falls back
to the leave confirmation, so the writer always has a way out and Stay
keeps the editor. 20 seconds outlasts the transport's 15 seconds of
retries on an unreachable or maintenance-mode server plus its final
attempt, so a save that is about to land is not cut off.
no ref

When the save on the way out found the session expired, the deadline could
open the leave dialog over the sign-in dialog after 20 seconds. Focus moved
to Stay, the sign-in stopped taking clicks, and signing in no longer carried
the writer out, though signing in or cancelling already gave them a way out.
The deadline now waits while the writer signs in again.

Once the deadline has asked, a later exit asks at once while the engine is
still in the state it timed out in, instead of waiting out the same stall
again. The README now says a confirmation the deadline asks for is not
reported the way the engine's own confirmations are.
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