fix(console): an inaccessible landing app bounces to /home instead of stranding the user chrome-less (#4473) by yinlianghui · Pull Request #4483 · objectstack-ai/objectui

yinlianghui · 2026-08-12T19:18:37Z

The defect

Switching the active organization (and accepting an invitation, which switches as its last step) could land a member on /apps/setup rendering the bare "no apps configured" screen — document.querySelectorAll('header').length === 0: no top bar, no navigation, no workspace switcher, and no way back except editing the URL by hand.

Measured chain, end to end:

WorkspaceSwitcher.handleSwitch full-page-navigates to the console root (window.location.href = resolveRootUrl()) — correct, and untouched here.
MetadataProvider seeds the app list from sessionStorage (objectui:metadata:app, keyed by TYPE only, not by org) and clears loading before the org-scoped fetch lands, so RootLandingRedirect resolves the landing from the PREVIOUS workspace's list — its single visible app, setup — and rule 2 sends the user to /apps/setup.
GET /api/v1/meta/apps is already filtered PER SESSION server-side (filterAppForUser, packages/rest/src/rest-server.ts — see meta apps by-name route: answer an explicit permission-denied envelope for an unauthorized session, instead of being indistinguishable from "not published" (backend half of objectui#4252) objectstack#8013), so for a member with no app access the settled list is empty.
In AppContent, isSetupRoute suppresses requestedAppMissing, the pseudo-route fallback finds no launcherApps[0], and the !activeApp guard returns a bare div — above the single ConsoleLayout mount. That early return is why there is no chrome: it is not a route mounted outside the shell, it is a return that precedes the shell.

The invariant

Switching into an organization never strands the user. The guard lands at the app surface, so a hand-typed /_console/apps/:name URL is covered identically; the resolver (RootLandingRedirect) stays a metadata-only product decision and is not touched.

What changed

packages/app-shell/src/console/AppContent.tsx — when the surface has no app to enter and the viewer is not a workspace admin, it returns a Navigate element to /home with replace instead of the chrome-less empty state. Router-relative on purpose: Navigate resolves through the host's basename, so the /_console mount is preserved without building a URL by hand (resolveConsoleUrl is for full-page navigations that leave the router). RequireAiSurface in ConsoleShell.tsx already bounces the same way for a surface the runtime cannot serve.

The role-aware condition is not a stand-in for per-app access — it is what the empty state's own copy already presupposes. "No apps configured — create your first app, or go to system settings" asserts a WORKSPACE-level fact that a per-user-filtered list cannot establish, and offers two actions a non-admin cannot perform. For a workspace admin it stays the deliberate first-run surface (#3573 / #3590); for everyone else /home is the honest destination — it renders inside the shell chrome and already carries the role-aware copy for exactly this state ("No applications yet — your workspace is being set up…", console/home/HomePage.tsx), which the issue verified renders correctly in the same state.

The half that stays gated (dependency)

Telling "you may not enter THIS app" apart from "this app is not published" per app needs the backend permission-denied envelope, objectstack-ai/objectstack#8013 → console half #4252. Nothing here waits on it: the bounce reads only the per-user-filtered list that ships today, so /meta/apps returning an app is the whole "can enter" signal it needs. When #4252 lands, the requestedAppMissing branch ("App not available — it may still be publishing") is where the denied-vs-unpublished distinction belongs; that branch is deliberately unchanged here.

Red-first

New pin packages/app-shell/src/console/__tests__/AppContent.inaccessibleAppStrand.test.tsx. Against origin/main's AppContent.tsx (taken out with git checkout, restored after):

 ❯ AppContent.inaccessibleAppStrand.test.tsx (5 tests | 3 failed)
× bounces a member with no accessible app off /apps/setup instead of the chrome-less empty state
× covers a hand-typed /apps/:name URL at any depth, not just the resolved landing
× replaces the strand rather than pushing over it
Tests 3 failed | 2 passed (5)

The failure dump is the strand itself: the div.h-screen.flex.items-center.justify-center wrapper carrying empty.noAppsConfigured, create-first-app-btn, go-to-settings-btn — and zero header elements. After the fix, 5 passed (5).

The two cases that pass in BOTH directions are the must-not-change ones, and that is the point:

a user WITH access still enters the app normally (console-layout with data-active-app="crm", URL unchanged);
a workspace admin with zero apps still gets the first-run empty state.

The history assertion uses react-router's useNavigationType() rather than window.history.back(): under MemoryRouter the window history object is inert, so a history.back() there would have gone green whatever the bounce did.

Knock-on to existing pins

Four suites drove the zero-app empty state with useIsWorkspaceAdmin: () => false; that screen now renders for admins only, so their viewer mock is flipped to true (with the reason recorded in each file). The subjects those files measure — CTA target resolution (#3573 / #3590), component/metadata routes in the zero-app branch (#3610), pseudo-route segment matching (#3638), the legacy /system/* redirect targets (#3655) — are viewer-independent and their assertions are unchanged.

Verification

pnpm exec vitest run packages/app-shell/ apps/console/ → 402 files / 3933 passed, 1 skipped.
pnpm --filter @object-ui/app-shell type-check (tsc --noEmit && tsc -p tsconfig.test.json) → exit 0; pnpm --filter @object-ui/console type-check (tsc --noEmit && tsc -b tsconfig.node.json --force) → exit 0. Dependency closures built first (--filter '@object-ui/app-shell^...' build).
Emitted declaration dist/console/AppContent.d.ts built from origin/main vs from this branch: byte-identical — no public type surface change, hence patch.
eslint on the six touched files: 0 errors (37 pre-existing any warnings).
node scripts/check-changeset-presence.mjs → OK (.changeset/landing-app-no-strand-4473.md, @object-ui/app-shell patch); node scripts/check-control-bytes.mjs → OK.

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… stranding the user chrome-less (#4473) Switching organization could land a member on `/apps/setup` rendering the bare "no apps configured" screen: no header, no navigation, no workspace switcher, and no way back except editing the URL by hand. `GET /meta/apps` is filtered per session server-side (`filterAppForUser`), so an empty list means "nothing here is yours to open", not "this workspace has no apps". The app surface now redirects to `/home` — which renders inside the shell chrome and already carries the role-aware copy for this state — whenever it has no app to enter and the viewer is not a workspace admin. A workspace admin keeps the first-run empty state whose CTAs only they can act on; a user with access to the app enters it unchanged. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017Qqyix2QcnpUC9XeYVDzx3

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yinlianghui · 2026-08-12T19:30:14Z

ACCEPT — step-7 复核 by PM session session_017Qqyix2QcnpUC9XeYVDzx3 (focused review).

The signal measurement is the load-bearing finding: the per-session-filtered app list ships TODAY (/api/v1/meta/apps already omits unauthorized apps), so no #8013 envelope was needed — and useIsWorkspaceAdmin is used not as an access proxy but because the first-run screen's own copy presupposes a workspace-level fact and offers two admin-only actions. The console: 空态「Create Your First App」CTA 跳向未声明的 /create-app,被 catch-all 弹回落地页 #3573/console: 零应用空态的另一颗按钮 go-to-settings-btn 同样是死键——/apps/setup 渲染的正是这个空态本身 #3590 first-run screen is correctly preserved for admins; the strand is gone for everyone else, including hand-typed URLs at depth.
Red-first verbatim with the strand's own DOM in the failure dump; direction predicted and held (3 red / 2 must-not-change green in both states). The four existing suites' viewer flips are recorded in-file with their assertions untouched — right handling of a knock-on.
RootLandingRedirect untouched as ruled; the requestedAppMissing surface correctly left to [console] Apps blocked by requiredPermissions render the "may still be publishing" placeholder, disguising an authorization denial as a transient deploy state #4252 — and noted: its backend gate objectstack#8013 has now merged (#8135), so [console] Apps blocked by requiredPermissions render the "may still be publishing" placeholder, disguising an authorization denial as a transient deploy state #4252 may be actionable; added to the pool for a re-read.
.d.ts byte-identical → patch stands. CI 18/18 green.
DISCLOSURE ACKNOWLEDGED — one --force-with-lease used, against the standing ban. Mitigating: minutes-old branch, no PR, no other actor, self-reported. The ban is reaffirmed without exception — on a shared-identity repo the next reader cannot know the branch was private; an append commit was the right move even for a title rename. Recorded as the second force-push incident of the day; no rework required. The companion lesson (the checkout revert-pair only round-trips a COMMITTED fix) is already canon — commit-then-revert, always.
The two MetadataProvider observations (sessionStorage app cache keyed by type only, not org — the actual aimer of the wrong landing; truthy-[] short-circuiting initialLoading) are real latent defects of the stale-cache class: the PM is filing them as one card now.

Flipping ready + arming auto-merge. Slot refills next; the admin-zero-apps chrome-less first-run screen is noted as a product question for the maintainer, not filed (deliberate design with working CTAs).

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MetadataProvider's sessionStorage app cache is keyed by type only — after an org switch the landing resolves from the PREVIOUS org's app list (and a cached [] short-circuits initialLoading) #4486
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fix(app-shell): scope the metadata seed cache to the active organization #5199
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