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Menu Save stopped reloading the page in #4, but Pull, New program and Update robot setup still did. Every reload drops the hub's Bluetooth connection, so a kid who Pulls mid-session has to reconnect the robot.

What changed

All editor writes now go through Pybricks' own Redux store (write-files-live, from #4). The raw write + reload is kept only as a fallback when the app can't be driven.

write-files-live now mirrors more of Pybricks' own Explorer (pybricks-code src/explorer/sagas.ts):

  • Deletes (deleteUnlisted, Pull's full sync with the same semantics as apply-files): close the file's tab (editor.action.closeFile), then fileStorage.action.deleteFile. That's the Explorer's order, because deleting an open file fails as "in use". Closing also drops the tab from Pybricks' remembered tabs, so the live path needs none of Forget open tabs of files a Pull deletes #6's sessionStorage pruning. That pruning now runs only on the fallback. The close's own save can't race the delete: both are Dexie read-write transactions on the same stores, which IndexedDB runs in creation order.
  • Open block programs are closed, written through fileStorage, then reopened, with the originally active tab ending up active again. They are never replaced under a live Blockly workspace. Nothing shows the block editor reloads its workspace when the model changes underneath it, and a stale workspace writing the old program back would be data loss. Close + reopen leaves the tab exactly where a page reload would.
  • Open text files still get editor.action.replaceFile, which updates the model in place and keeps undo history.
  • It returns the apply-files summary ({added, changed, deleted, unchanged}), so the Pull label is unchanged. Its read-back also checks that deleted files are gone. Closed block tabs are reopened even if the write isn't confirmed.

After a live write, whatever the reload used to refresh is refreshed in place:

  • Pull shows the rescue notice immediately.
  • menuPanel.refresh() re-reads files, manifest and splice report, and keeps unsaved slot edits.
  • fileListWatcher.refresh() re-reads the manifest and removes 🔒 badges from files that are no longer protected.
  • New program and Update robot setup refresh the panel, and the splice report shows without a reload.

Tests

  • Unit (test/inject.test.mjs): the planner covers the text/block/delete paths, open-tab ordering, and deleted tabs never being reopened. Live-write tests cover the full sync, the close → write → reopen order for block programs (reopened even when unconfirmed), and a tab that won't close (nothing is written). 224/224 pass.
  • E2E (all three drivers pass and now assert no reload):
    • drive.mjs, merge Pull: gone.py's tab is closed by Pybricks, and keep.py's open tab shows the pulled text. There's no "not found" toast, and the tab history is correct.
    • drive.mjs, new step 7a: forces the fallback (null findAppStore) and checks that it reloads with no stale tab.
    • drive-splice.mjs: opens the block program Update rewrites as the active tab, and checks it comes back open and active.
    • drive-menu.mjs: its Pull no longer reloads.
  • Negative controls: sending open text tabs through fileStorage.writeFile fails the "shows the pulled text" check. Disabling the fallback prune fails step 7a on the toast.

Not verified here

The block-editor side of close → reopen. Without a Pybricks licence the block editor never goes live, so the E2E proves the tab mechanics but not what a live Blockly workspace does. It would also pass if block tabs were replaced in place. A licensed run (PYBRICKS_LICENSE=… node test/e2e/drive-splice.mjs) is the real check.

Two related observations from the run:

  • Without a licence, the reopened block tab brings back Pybricks' "Enable block coding" dialog. A reload restoring that tab did the same.
  • Opening a block file made the editor regenerate its Python body from the blocks, even without a licence. blocks-format.md says an unlicensed editor doesn't. Because of this, the splice E2E's snapshot check now compares setupSignature rather than bytes.

Docs: CLAUDE.md (dexie-observable section, bridge-ops table, storage keys, phase-4 flow), README known limitations, and the e2e README.

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  • New Features

    • Pull now updates files in place without reloading when supported, preserving active tabs and connections.
    • Added automatic fallback to direct file updates and page reload when live updates are unavailable.
    • New, changed, and deleted files—including open tabs and block programs—are synchronized more reliably.
    • Program creation and robot setup updates now refresh the interface in place when possible.
    • Rescue notices and file lists update immediately after successful Pull operations.
    • Notifications now identify tabs or focus that could not be restored.
  • Tests

    • Expanded coverage for live updates, fallback behavior, tab handling, deletions, and setup changes.

A page reload drops the hub's Bluetooth connection. Every editor write
now goes through Pybricks' own Redux store (write-files-live), with the
raw write + reload kept only as the fallback.

write-files-live gains deleteUnlisted (Pull's full sync, same semantics
as apply-files) and mirrors Pybricks' Explorer: deletions close the
file's tab first, then fileStorage.deleteFile; an open block program is
closed, written, and reopened (never replaced under a live Blockly
workspace); open text files are still replaced in place. It returns the
apply-files summary and verifies deletions in its read-back.

Pull renders the rescue notice immediately and refreshes the menu panel
(keeping unsaved slot edits) and the file-list badges in place. New
program and Update robot setup refresh the panel and show the splice
report without reloading.

E2E: all three drivers assert no reload; drive.mjs checks the open tabs
(deleted tab closed, changed text tab shows the pulled text) and forces
the fallback (step 7a); drive-splice.mjs opens the block program Update
rewrites and checks it comes back as the active tab. Negative controls
verified for the in-place text replace and the fallback tab prune.

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Pull, new-program creation, and robot-setup updates now prefer verified live writes through the Pybricks app. Failed or unconfirmed live writes use raw writes and reload. Tests cover tab handling, deletion, verification, fallback behavior, and no-reload flows.

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Layer / File(s) Summary
Verified live-write engine
src/inject.js, test/inject.test.mjs, CLAUDE.md
Live writes now plan updates and deletions, close and restore affected tabs, verify IndexedDB contents and hashes, return summaries, and report tab or focus restoration failures without rejecting verified writes.
Pull integration and state refresh
src/content.js, src/file-list.js, README.md
Pull first uses live synchronization with deletion support. Successful writes refresh the UI without reload and render rescue notices immediately. Failed writes use raw apply and reload.
Menu writes and in-place refresh
src/menu-panel.js, src/file-list.js
New-program creation and robot-setup propagation use live writes with reload fallback. Successful writes refresh the panel and file-derived state in place. Refresh failures after successful writes are non-fatal.
End-to-end validation
test/e2e/drive.mjs, test/e2e/drive-menu.mjs, test/e2e/drive-splice.mjs, test/e2e/README.md
Tests now validate no-reload operations, live tab updates, deletion cleanup, fallback reloads, active-tab restoration, and setup propagation.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Bug fix

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A locally created file can be incorrectly badged as protected and lose Add-to-menu actions. This is a bounded functional issue that should be corrected before merge.

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🟡 Minor · Update the Pull usage row. · README.md:54

README.md:54
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Update the Pull usage row.

Line 54 still says every changed Pull reloads. Normal Pull now stays loaded. Only the raw fallback reloads.

Update this row so users have accurate Bluetooth-disconnection expectations.

Proposed fix
-| Click **Pull** | The extension fetches the fork and applies its files into the editor. Button shows `↓ +N ~N -N` (added / changed / deleted), or `nothing to pull` when the fork has no commits on the configured branch yet (nothing is applied in that case). When anything changed, the page reloads so the editor picks up the new files. |
+| Click **Pull** | The extension fetches the fork and applies its files into the editor. Button shows `↓ +N ~N -N` (added / changed / deleted), or `nothing to pull` when the fork has no commits on the configured branch yet. Normal Pull updates the editor without reloading. The raw fallback reloads the page. |
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In `@src/file-list.js`:
- Around line 17-19: Update loadManifest to fetch the live list-files listing
alongside lastPullManifest, build a set from listing.contents file paths, and
filter manifest.protected to paths present in that set before assigning
protectedPaths. Preserve the existing teamSetup assignment and ensure decorate()
and showMenu() consume only the intersected protected set.

In `@src/inject.js`:
- Around line 362-369: Update reopenTabs to capture and validate each waitUntil
result after activating tabs, throwing when any affected tab fails to reopen.
Track whether activeUuid was among the reopened tabs; when it was not but
remains open, reactivate it and waitUntil activeFileUuid confirms focus
restoration, throwing on failure so writeFilesLive can use its fallback.

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- Line 54: Update the Pull usage row to state that normal Pull updates the
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- reopenTabs puts focus back on the originally active tab even when it
  was an unaffected file, and reports block tabs that would not reopen
  as tabsNotReopened (logged by callers) instead of failing a verified
  write into a reload that could not restore them either.
- drive-splice.mjs dismisses only the expected "Enable block coding"
  dialog (via its x button) and fails on any other dialog.
- README: the Pull row no longer says every Pull reloads.

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@coderabbitai Re the outside-diff finding on README.md:54 (the Pull usage row): valid, fixed in 146562b. The row now says the editor updates in place without reloading the page, so the hub stays connected, and that only if the extension can't drive the editor does it fall back to a reload. The fetch, change-count and no-commits details are unchanged.

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🟡 Minor · Handle panel refresh failure after a live setup update. · menu-panel.js:524-526

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Handle panel refresh failure after a live setup update.

If refresh() rejects after writeOrFallback() confirms the update, updateSetup() exits before its success status and button re-enable. The editor files are already changed, but the Update robot setup control remains disabled and the panel does not show a completion state.

Catch the refresh error. Log the technical error, show the saved splice report, set a plain retry message, and re-enable the control.

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In `@src/menu-panel.js` around lines 524 - 526, Update updateSetup() around the
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In `@src/inject.js`:
- Line 383: Update writeFilesLive around the final editor.action.activateFile
and waitUntil call to inspect the wait result; when activeUuid is not restored,
return { live: false } so callers perform the reload fallback. Preserve the
existing tolerated tabsNotReopened handling for failed BLOCK-tab reopening, and
add a regression test covering final activation failure.

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- Around line 524-526: Update updateSetup() around the refresh() call so a
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@brendonthiede Confirmed. The updated Pull usage row describes the live update path and the reload fallback correctly. The change preserves the existing fetch, change-count, and no-commits details.

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- reopenTabs reports focus it could not put back as activeNotRestored
  (logged by callers) rather than failing a verified write into a
  reload; the tabs/focus to restore are captured by value up front.
- Update robot setup and New program no longer fail when only the
  panel refresh after a successful live write fails: Update shows the
  report it has and re-enables its button; New program no longer says
  "Couldn't create it" for a file it created.

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@coderabbitai Re the outside-diff finding on src/menu-panel.js:524-526 (panel refresh failing after a live setup update): valid, fixed in 2ff6760. If refresh() rejects after the programs are written, updateSetup() now logs the error and shows the splice report it already has. It still sets Updated N program(s) ✓ and re-enables the button. "New program" had a worse version of the same gap: its catch would have shown "Couldn't create it" for a file it had created. Its refresh failure is now logged, and the status still says Created … ✓. All three E2E drivers and 227/227 unit tests pass.

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@brendonthiede Confirmed. The successful writes now remain successful when the later panel refresh() fails. updateSetup() retains the splice report, success status, and enabled button. New program also retains its successful creation status.

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