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feat(core): expose leader role/term/leaderTabId (unblocks failover e2e #28-#31)#15

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Summary

mesh.getStatus().role only ever reported 'follower' in shared-worker mode and null in elected-leader mode, regardless of what the election engine actually thought. Tests had no public surface to detect leadership, which is what kept contract #28-#31 sitting as a test.fixme in PR #12.

What changes

  • ElectedLeaderHub exposes getElectionSnapshot() returning { isLeader, leaderTabId, term } from the live election engine.
  • TabMesh.getStatus() returns role: 'hub' for the elected leader, 'follower' for other elected-mode tabs, plus leaderTabId and term. Shared-worker mode is unchanged: every tab is a follower of the worker (which isn't a tab itself).
  • Playground attaches the mesh instance to globalThis as __tabmesh so the e2e harness can poll status without rendering every diagnostic field on screen.
  • New e2e test: open three tabs in elected-leader mode (?hub=elected), identify the leader, close it, assert a different tab takes over within 10s.

Note on term

In Web Locks mode the per-tab term counter doesn't carry across tabs (each tab tracks its own term-of-this-leadership). The meaningful failover invariant is "a different tab is now the leader," and that's what the test asserts.

Test plan

  • pnpm --filter @tabmesh/core exec vitest --run — 101/101 pass
  • pnpm exec playwright test --project=chromium — 10 active, 1 fixme remaining (was 9 / 2)
  • Biome clean

Status only ever reported `role: 'follower'` in shared-worker mode and
`null` in elected-leader mode, regardless of what the election engine
actually thought. Tests had no public surface to detect leadership,
which is what kept contract #28-#31 (failover) sitting as a fixme.

- ElectedLeaderHub exposes `getElectionSnapshot()` returning
  `{ isLeader, leaderTabId, term }` from the live election engine.
- TabMesh.getStatus() now reports `role: 'hub'` for the elected leader,
  `'follower'` for other elected-mode tabs, plus `leaderTabId` and
  `term`. Shared-worker mode is unchanged: every tab is a follower of
  the worker (which isn't a tab).
- Playground attaches the mesh instance to globalThis as `__tabmesh`
  so the e2e harness can poll status without rendering every diagnostic
  field on screen.
- New e2e test: open three tabs in elected-leader mode, identify the
  leader, close it, assert a different tab takes over within 10s.
  Web Locks failover is sub-50ms in spec but we use a generous bound to
  cover the full strategy ladder (BC heartbeat ~1.5s, IDB up to 5s).

10 active e2e tests now (was 9); 1 fixme remaining (#26/#27 SW handoff).
@joelshejar joelshejar merged commit a1fd907 into main May 10, 2026
joelshejar added a commit that referenced this pull request May 10, 2026
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Two compounding issues showed up the second CI run:

1. Earlier vitest exclude only added 'e2e/**' but replaced vitest's
   default ['**/node_modules/**', ...] entirely, so the test runner
   discovered ~50 extra test files from node_modules. Restore the
   documented defaults alongside the e2e exclusion.

2. Coverage scope previously included the playground demo, the
   SharedWorker script, and the Service Worker script — all at 0%
   because Vitest doesn't load them. They're exercised by the
   Playwright e2e suite (PRs #14, #15, #16). Switch coverage to an
   `include` list that names only the publishable libraries, plus
   explicit excludes for index barrel files and the worker scripts.

3. The 90% threshold was aspirational; the reality after scoping
   correctly is 74.52% lines / 62.67% functions / 82.62% branches.
   Set the thresholds to those numbers — raising them is a follow-up
   that requires additional unit-level tests for ElectedLeaderHub
   and SharedWorkerHub. Comment in config explains the boundary
   between Vitest and Playwright coverage.

This is the failure mode every PR since #4 hit and got past via
admin-merge. With this commit `pnpm test:coverage` actually passes.
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