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Updating a published page now refreshes open browsers automatically. For example, replacing a page through the existing API or a direct database write sends an SSE notification, and each connected tab reloads the latest HTML. This is a full page reload, with best-effort scroll restoration; arbitrary form state and playback are not preserved.

Changes

  • Migration 7 adds stable page UUIDs, monotonic revisions, and transactional Postgres notifications for page and attachment writes. Renames retain identity; reused slugs get a new identity.
  • A dedicated database listener distributes changes to bounded SSE subscriptions. Streams reconcile on connection, listener recovery, heartbeat, and expiry, and finish during HTTP graceful shutdown.
  • HTML pages and attachment viewers receive an inline client at serve time. Stored uploads remain unchanged. <meta name="stele-live" content="off"> disables automatic reload, and non-HTML responses remain untouched.
  • Deletion, expiry, and rename make an old tab unavailable. Automatic reload requests verify page identity to prevent navigating into a different page that reused the slug. Attachment validators include the revision to invalidate stale cached bytes.

The commits follow database groundwork, event delivery, then browser integration. Saved content history and rollback remain outside this change; revision tracking does not retain overwritten content.

Validation

  • swift build -j 6: passed, including Swift type checking. No separate linter is configured; git diff --check passed.
  • STELE_TEST_DATABASE_URL=<isolated Postgres 17> swift test -j 6: 455 tests passed across 42 suites, including regression cases for truncated HTML tags and comments. Coverage includes migration upgrades, transaction commit/rollback notifications, two independent listeners, forced listener reconnection, expiry, capacity limits, identity reuse, and graceful shutdown.
  • Real browser checks: two sessions automatically reloaded after a direct database update; scroll restoration, opt-out, and expiry behavior passed.
  • User verified automatic reload in iPhone Safari, including a counter updated once per second for ten seconds.
  • Real server shutdown with an open SSE browser completed in 0.05 seconds.

Deployment notes

Migration 7 runs on startup. Existing open tabs need one manual refresh to acquire the client. The reverse proxy must stream text/event-stream without buffering and allow long-lived responses. Production proxy behavior and physical-device sleep/resume remain to be checked after deployment; the local review server was used for validation.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added live updates for HTML pages and attachment viewers, automatically reloading when content changes.
    • Preserves scroll position during reloads and supports disabling live updates with the stele-live meta tag.
    • Detects deleted, expired, or replaced pages and displays an unavailable page instead of navigating to unrelated content.
    • Attachment changes trigger updates only for the affected page.
  • Documentation

    • Documented live-update behavior, limitations, configuration, revision handling, and reverse-proxy requirements.
    • Added publishing guidance for automatic reloads.

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Walkthrough

Adds live page updates through stable page identities, revision tracking, PostgreSQL notifications, bounded SSE subscriptions, and injected browser clients. HTML pages and attachment viewers reload when revisions change, while opt-out and non-HTML responses remain unchanged.

Changes

Live page updates

Layer / File(s) Summary
Page identity and revision state
Sources/SteleCore/PageStore.swift, Sources/SteleCore/PageStoring.swift, Tests/SteleCoreTests/InMemoryPageStore.swift, Tests/SteleCoreTests/PageStoreDatabaseTests.swift, Tests/SteleCoreTests/MigrationListTests.swift, Tests/SteleCoreTests/ServeAttachmentTests.swift
Pages now store stable UUIDs and revisions. Database triggers update revisions and publish PostgreSQL notifications. Blob responses include revisions.
Browser live-update client
Sources/SteleCore/LivePage.swift, Tests/SteleCoreTests/LivePageTests.swift
HTML injection adds an EventSource client with opt-out handling, revision checks, reconnect behavior, scroll restoration, and safe parsing rules.
Invalidation and SSE streaming
Sources/SteleCore/LivePageEvents.swift, Sources/SteleCore/LivePageResponse.swift, Tests/SteleCoreTests/LivePageEventsTests.swift, Tests/SteleCoreTests/LivePageResponseTests.swift, Tests/SteleCoreTests/PageChangeListenerTests.swift
Bounded subscriptions receive targeted or global invalidations. PostgreSQL listeners reconnect with backoff. SSE responses emit state, heartbeat, expiry, and unavailable events.
Router and application integration
Sources/SteleCore/Server.swift, Package.swift, Tests/SteleCoreTests/TestFixture.swift
The server adds the events route, validates page identity, injects live clients into HTML responses, includes revisions in attachment ETags, and registers the listener service.
Existing response assertions
Tests/SteleCoreTests/*Tests.swift, README.md, Sources/SteleCore/PublishSkill.swift
Tests remove injected live-client markup before comparing uploaded bodies. Documentation describes live updates, limitations, and configuration.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to f7ccf

This should be fixed before merge because migration 7 may fail on older PostgreSQL deployments, malformed published HTML can render injected script content, and the test target may not build reliably.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Browser
  participant Server
  participant PostgreSQL
  participant PageChangeListener
  participant LivePageEvents
  Browser->>Server: GET /pages/:slug/events?id=pageID
  Server->>PostgreSQL: fetchLiveState(slug)
  Server-->>Browser: SSE initial state
  PostgreSQL->>PageChangeListener: page change notification
  PageChangeListener->>LivePageEvents: invalidate(pageID)
  LivePageEvents->>Server: wake subscription
  Server-->>Browser: SSE revised state
  Browser->>Server: reload page
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Package.swift (1)

37-37: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Declare ServiceLifecycle on SteleCoreTests.

Both test files import ServiceLifecycle, but SteleCoreTests declares only SteleCore and HummingbirdTesting. SwiftPM requires the test target to declare the external product it imports. Add .product(name: "ServiceLifecycle", package: "swift-service-lifecycle") to its dependencies.

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Inline comments:
In `@Sources/SteleCore/LivePage.swift`:
- Around line 99-104: Update the two truncated-markup early-return paths in the
scanner around the comment terminator lookup and Self.tagEnd(in:from:) so they
set canInject to false before returning. Preserve the existing behavior for
successfully terminated comments and tags, matching the handling already used
for unterminated raw text.

In `@Sources/SteleCore/PageStore.swift`:
- Line 1017: Update migration 7 around the pages id column addition to establish
PostgreSQL compatibility: either document and enforce PostgreSQL 13+ as the
minimum supported version, or ensure pgcrypto is provisioned before the
gen_random_uuid() default is applied. Keep the migration’s UUID default behavior
intact.

In `@Sources/SteleCore/PublishSkill.swift`:
- Around line 232-233: Update the documentation statement near the published
HTML and attachment viewer description so it no longer claims that the server
serves no JavaScript; narrow it to the highlighting behavior, stating that the
server runs no highlighter and adds no JavaScript of its own while preserving
the existing reload-client clarification.

In `@Tests/SteleCoreTests/LivePageEventsTests.swift`:
- Around line 80-84: Update the subscription test to store all three returned
subscriptions in local variables instead of discarding them, keeping those
locals alive through the capacity assertion so their reservations are not
released by stream termination.

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In `@Package.swift`:
- Line 37: Add the ServiceLifecycle product dependency to the SteleCoreTests
target in Package.swift, alongside its existing SteleCore and HummingbirdTesting
dependencies, so its test files can resolve the imported module.

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  • Package.swift
  • README.md
  • Sources/SteleCore/LivePage.swift
  • Sources/SteleCore/LivePageEvents.swift
  • Sources/SteleCore/LivePageResponse.swift
  • Sources/SteleCore/PageStore.swift
  • Sources/SteleCore/PageStoring.swift
  • Sources/SteleCore/PublishSkill.swift
  • Sources/SteleCore/Server.swift
  • Tests/SteleCoreTests/AmendPageTests.swift
  • Tests/SteleCoreTests/AttachmentViewerTests.swift
  • Tests/SteleCoreTests/DeletePageTests.swift
  • Tests/SteleCoreTests/InMemoryPageStore.swift
  • Tests/SteleCoreTests/LivePageEventsTests.swift
  • Tests/SteleCoreTests/LivePageResponseTests.swift
  • Tests/SteleCoreTests/LivePageTests.swift
  • Tests/SteleCoreTests/MigrationListTests.swift
  • Tests/SteleCoreTests/PageChangeListenerTests.swift
  • Tests/SteleCoreTests/PageExpiryTests.swift
  • Tests/SteleCoreTests/PageStoreDatabaseTests.swift
  • Tests/SteleCoreTests/ScopeEnforcementTests.swift
  • Tests/SteleCoreTests/ServeAttachmentTests.swift
  • Tests/SteleCoreTests/ServingAndStoreErrorTests.swift
  • Tests/SteleCoreTests/TestFixture.swift
  • Tests/SteleCoreTests/UpdatePageTests.swift
  • Tests/SteleCoreTests/UploadAuthTests.swift
  • Tests/SteleCoreTests/UploadContentTypeTests.swift

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Leave truncated tags and comments unchanged and cover both with regression
cases. Clarify PostgreSQL requirements and highlighting guidance, declare
the test dependency, and retain subscriptions through capacity assertions.
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ProJedi1234 dismissed coderabbitai[bot]’s stale review September 7, 2026 17:33

Superseded by 9be68ff: CodeRabbit marked all four review threads addressed and resolved. The test dependency nitpick is also fixed. Current-head CI passes, and all 455 local tests passed.

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