Since the UI moved to single-file components, every unit-test process
compiled the views it imports from scratch, and the loader ran off-thread
(module.register), adding a round trip to every module a test imports,
including the ones that are not components. Core's unit tests took about
twice as long, and a host running Core's suite on smaller runners passed
its CI time limit.
register-vue now installs synchronous hooks on the loading thread
(module.registerHooks). Compiled components are kept in the system temp
directory, keyed by the file's path and text, the Vue version and the
loader's own code, so each one compiles once across test processes; the
compiler itself loads only on a cache miss. Cached modules run as code, so
the directory is used only when it is a real directory owned by the current
user and writable by no one else; on Windows it lives in the user's local
app data instead of a temp directory that may be shared. The cache never
sits inside the package tree, and GEV_VUE_CACHE=0 compiles every time.
On four cores the full suite went from 441 s to 240 s from a cold cache.
SceneShotList and SceneOptions render the project from a gev-scenes
store instead of scenePresentation building rows with createElement.
SceneControls stays the owner: it publishes the director's state and
attaches the row actions, and a late destroy cannot detach a newer
owner. Rows keep their identity across selection; a rename keeps its
typed text across republishing and ends with its row. The select still
changes its choice only when its options are rendered.
Vue keeps whitespace in every component, so Prettier formats single-file
components with strict whitespace sensitivity, and the test loader parses
templates with the same options as the browser build. The i18n check
reads view text without its interpolations, whose t() calls are scanned
with the sources.
The scene chrome, cockpit, Display controls, command dock, layer panels,
Context rail, welcome card and Provider Settings move verbatim into
src/ui/views and mount into their hosts before the page is translated and
wired. Each view renders the same elements, attributes and text as its
template; Vue keeps whitespace between elements as one space, and no view
markup sits under a white-space: pre rule.
Template asset URLs stay literal, view files are left out of Prettier so
the markup is not reflowed, and the Node component loader moves to build/
and is exported as build/register-vue for host test runners. Hosts that do
not initialize Core's locale pass localePicker: false instead of editing
the markup.
Sameh Khamis