{
"title": "Handoff: search results hydration cleanup across the branch",
"summary": [
"This branch cleaned up the search results experience in a few deliberate steps instead of one opaque rewrite.",
"The important story for handoff is the order of the work: request normalization first, loading-state cleanup second, and stale-result protection last."
],
"sections": [
{
"title": "Timeline of the change",
"text": [
"The branch started by stabilizing the request shape, then moved to UI state cleanup, and finished by locking down stale result handling.",
"That order matters because each step removed ambiguity for the next one rather than stacking multiple behavioral changes at once."
],
"diagram": {
"type": "timeline",
"events": [
{
"label": "Step 1",
"detail": "Normalize search params before the request leaves the route loader."
},
{
"label": "Step 2",
"detail": "Collapse duplicate loading indicators into a single visible state."
},
{
"label": "Step 3",
"detail": "Ignore stale responses when a newer query has already started."
},
{
"label": "Step 4",
"detail": "Add a regression test for fast repeated searches."
}
]
}
},
{
"title": "Steady-state flow after the cleanup",
"text": [
"The route loader now owns request shaping, and the results view only reacts to the latest accepted response.",
"That gives the next engineer a cleaner mental model: one normalized request in, one current result set out."
],
"diagram": {
"type": "flow",
"nodes": [
"Route Loader",
"Query Normalizer",
"Search API",
"Current Result Store",
"Results View"
],
"edges": [
{
"from": "Route Loader",
"to": "Query Normalizer",
"label": "prepare query"
},
{
"from": "Query Normalizer",
"to": "Search API",
"label": "normalized request"
},
{
"from": "Search API",
"to": "Current Result Store",
"label": "latest response"
},
{
"from": "Current Result Store",
"to": "Results View",
"label": "render current state"
}
]
}
}
],
"verification": {
"text": [
"Manual searches with rapid input changes stayed stable, and the added regression test now covers stale-result rendering."
]
}
}