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fix: preserve route order for pending and error boundaries - #541

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An empty exact route and a catch-all sibling can match with equal specificity. The router treated that tie as ambiguous, so navigating from /projects to / omitted the root pending and error UI even though the boundary components were registered.

Approach

  • Preserve sibling declaration order in buffered SSR, including hidden placeholders. Streaming already preserves this order.
  • Remove the client's tie-rejection branch and use the server's existing first-declared-wins rule.
  • Keep regression coverage in the existing router fixture and spec, using held real responses instead of fixed response delays. Cover root pending UI and the root error boundary after a catch-all SSR entry.
  • Document declaration-order precedence and add coverage and a benchmark for outlet rendering.

The SSR ordering change is necessary: removing the client guard alone would choose the wrong boundary after a catch-all SSR entry, because buffered rendering previously moved the active route first. The server and router changes should ship together. No new matching rules, metadata, caches, or per-navigation allocations are introduced.

Validation

  • cargo xtask check passed, including workspace tests, WASM, examples, benchmark validation, and docs.
  • Router unit tests passed.
  • Router browser suite: 34 passed; 4 existing skips unchanged.
  • Handler library: 459 passed.
  • The previously failing root pending reproduction now passes.

Performance

Release-mode outlet-rendering microbenchmarks, with a longer 100-sample confirmation run:

Route Before median After median
Root 732.67 ns 682.69 ns
Projects 872.28 ns 812.35 ns
Catch-all 809.24 ns 796.13 ns

Each benchmark response remains 402 bytes. The minified boundary module shrinks from 2,475 to 2,431 bytes, and gzip size from 1,130 to 1,101 bytes.

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## Release

Bumps WebUI to `0.0.29`.

Previous release tag: `v0.0.28`

## Changes since `v0.0.28`

Features:

- Ship version-matched AI authoring guidance with `@microsoft/webui`,
using a lightweight skill that reads the installed package's reference
(feat: bundle versioned AI guidance with WebUI #522 by @mohamedmansour).
- Add plugin-aware component discovery, with filename-based HTML
components and manifest-driven FAST components (feat: add plugin-aware
component discovery #524 by @mohamedmansour).
- Add WebUI Press `--show=all|content` for shell-free documentation
views that preserve SSR, hydration, authored examples, and accessible
theme behavior (feat: add WebUI Press content mode #525 by
@mohamedmansour).
- Automatically support Trusted Types for compiled templates and
generated CSS import maps without promoting arbitrary state HTML to
trusted content (feat: use Trusted Types automatically in the framework
#536 by @mohamedmansour).
- Keep explicit streaming imports lightweight so applications can load
streaming support early and application code later (feat: keep explicit
streaming imports lightweight #539 by @mohamedmansour).
- Render tree-shaped state with file-scoped named `<for id="...">`
bodies, including forward references and recursive reuse without extra
client runtime code. Use unbraced `each="item in items"`; the legacy
`template` spelling and FAST component references produce actionable
diagnostics (feat: add file-scoped recursive for loops #547 by
@mohamedmansour).

Fixes:

- Preserve table-rooted hydration ownership and correctly compile
whitespace-bearing, nested directives, preventing duplicate controls
after reactive updates. Rebuild templates to receive the compiler fix
(fix: preserve table-rooted hydration paths #512 by @mohamedmansour;
fix: align client directive parsing with the HTML scanner #531 by
@mohamedmansour).
- Emit reachable stylesheets and templates in deterministic traversal
order. External plugin implementations must adapt the affected
`HandlerPlugin` and bootstrap component collection interfaces from hash
sets to slices (fix: render reachable-component ordering
deterministically #519 by @janechu).
- Resolve bare CEM module specifiers through their owning packages,
respecting export maps, package boundaries, and cache invalidation when
nearer dependencies appear (fix: resolve bare CEM module specifiers #528
by @janechu).
- Prevent spurious dev-server rebuilds from read-only filesystem
activity and recursive traversal of linked workspace dependencies
(Improve benchmark telemetry and dev-server watching #521 by
@mohamedmansour).
- Update rustls to address TLS 1.3 handshake encryption-level validation
advisory RUSTSEC-2026-0285 (fix: update rustls to address
RUSTSEC-2026-0285 #533 by @mohamedmansour).
- Forward bare boolean and ARIA component inputs into SSR state while
preserving empty literal attributes and existing conditional boolean
bindings (fix: forward HTML component inputs during SSR #540 by
@mohamedmansour).
- Preserve sibling route declaration order across SSR and client routing
so equally specific routes select the correct pending and error
boundaries (fix: preserve route order for pending and error boundaries
#541 by @mohamedmansour).
- Handle skipped or superseded router view transitions without unhandled
animation rejections, while preserving route-commit errors and
responsive subsequent navigation (fix: handle router view transition
rejections #543 by @mohamedmansour).
- Wait for active dev-server rebuilds and their bundler subprocesses
before graceful shutdown, preventing output writes after the server
exits (fix: wait for dev-server rebuilds during shutdown #546 by
@mohamedmansour).
- Preserve global theme defaults when custom properties are overridden
only by scoped selectors or conditional rules, so unmatched component
instances retain their intended colors (fix: preserve theme defaults
under scoped CSS overrides #548 by @mohamedmansour).

Docs:

- Add a data-driven Benchmark Explorer, centralize performance guidance,
distinguish independent SSR/browser metrics, and publish resource
telemetry with accessible methodology details (docs: centralize
performance guidance and benchmark data #486 by @mohamedmansour; Improve
benchmark telemetry and dev-server watching #521 by @mohamedmansour).
- Update AI reference installation and migration guidance while
retaining `/ai`, and clarify plugin-specific discovery and FAST
converted-template requirements (feat: bundle versioned AI guidance with
WebUI #522 by @mohamedmansour; feat: add plugin-aware component
discovery #524 by @mohamedmansour).
- Document owned Rust partial rendering, streaming state ownership, and
watcher hashing benchmarks, including measurement scope and tradeoffs
(perf: reduce partial response allocations #510 by @mohamedmansour;
perf: move streaming command processing off async workers #529 by
@mohamedmansour; perf: bound watcher hashing memory with reusable
scratch #530 by @mohamedmansour).
- Document automatic Trusted Types support, CSP enforcement, and
first-declared precedence for equally specific routes and their
pending/error boundaries (feat: use Trusted Types automatically in the
framework #536 by @mohamedmansour; fix: preserve route order for pending
and error boundaries #541 by @mohamedmansour).
- Explain named recursive loops and their compatibility limits, scoped
CSS token defaults, and router view-transition error handling (feat: add
file-scoped recursive for loops #547 by @mohamedmansour; fix: preserve
theme defaults under scoped CSS overrides #548 by @mohamedmansour; fix:
handle router view transition rejections #543 by @mohamedmansour).

Maintenance:

- Reduce partial-response and per-render allocations through owned state
projection, borrowed graph traversal, scalar formatting, and borrowed
nested route trees. Rust callers use ownership-taking
`Protocol::render_partial(Value, ...)`; JSON boundaries retain
`render_partial_json` (perf: reduce partial response allocations #510 by
@mohamedmansour; perf: cut per-render handler allocations #511 by
@mohamedmansour; perf: avoid cloning nested route trees #513 by
@mohamedmansour).
- Move streaming command deserialization, validation, and default
preparation onto the existing blocking renderer, transferring owned
records and state rather than cloning retained projections (perf: move
streaming command processing off async workers #529 by @mohamedmansour).
- Bound watcher hashing content storage to one reusable 8 KiB buffer
instead of repeated file-sized allocations while preserving invalidation
behavior (perf: bound watcher hashing memory with reusable scratch #530
by @mohamedmansour).
- Parallelize release WASM builds and artifact staging, and consolidate
dependency scanning before release jobs (chore: parallelize release
pipeline work #509 by @mohamedmansour).
- Refresh compatible Rust and JavaScript dependencies and migrate
repository tooling and CI to pnpm 12.3.4 while preserving existing audit
constraints (chore: update dependencies to latest compatible versions
#534 by @mohamedmansour).

## Validation

- `cargo xtask check`
- `pnpm --dir crates/webui-press test` (16 passed).
- `pnpm --dir packages/webui-framework exec playwright test
recursive-repeat --workers=2 --reporter=line` (6 passed).
- `pnpm --dir packages/webui-router exec playwright test --grep "view
transition rejection ownership" --workers=2 --reporter=line` (4 passed).

Co-authored-by: Copilot App <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
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