navigate() wrote location.hash and left router.route to the asynchronous
hashchange event. bootstrap flips app.ready in the same tick right after
navigate('/login') on an unauthenticated cold start, so for one frame the app
rendered with app.ready=true and the stale route ('lobby', from the empty hash)
— briefly mounting the lobby shell (tab bar + a doomed games.list) under the new
login screen before hashchange settled it.
Update router.route synchronously inside navigate(); the later hashchange
re-parses to the same value. This removes the boot lobby-flash (and its spurious
games.list 401) and, as the root cause, the offline e2e flake: enterLobby could
latch that transient lobby tab-bar instead of clicking through login, then the
Settings-tab click at line 44 fought the tab detaching into the login slide
(~7% of runs, both engines).
Also:
- offline.spec enterLobby: wait for the guest button and click it, instead of a
point-in-time count() that a pre-login splash frame sampled as 0 (skipping the
click and hanging / latching the transient).
- New e2e router.spec pins the synchronous-route property (RED on the old code,
which returned the previous route; GREEN now) via a mock-only __router seam.
Verify: check 0 / unit 490 / build / bundle 114.3/115 / full e2e 200 / the
offline+router stress at 40x on both engines 160/160 (was 6/80 failing).
Ilia Denisov