🐛 mysteriously sporadic "user not found" bug

[chase-moskal]

sometimes, when we load up or refresh the app demo, the page is broken, and there's a javascript console error, something like "user id 'abc123...' is not found", or something like that

we've been unable to reproduce the bug...

[zenkyuv]

Steps to reproduce bug:

1. Click login(admin)
2. Post a comment
3. Wipe database
4. Post a comment
5. Refresh page

[zenkyuv]

Ways to fix it: When wipe database is clicekd we should decide if we want to just wipe comments or if we also want to logout the user

• If we want to wipe comments and also logout the user (seems like now it tried to do that but not in the right way) - we need to also logout the user (someone made function that works to logout the user), not just clear the localstorage, im not sure how this is working but the user id was still on the frontend and you could post a comment and that comment was looking for a user on the localstorage ? therefore it was throwing that error
• To make the user stay after wiping just clear the comments only.

[chase-moskal]

@zenkyuv

hmm, we'll need to wipe the whole app state whenever wipe database is pressed

• rename wipe database to wipe everything
• wipe the entire app state when it's pressed (in addition to localStorage.clear()
• here's where app state is defined https://github.com/haumea-group/namaka/blob/master/s/frontend/models/app-snap.ts#L8-L17
• here's where the app snap is passed to prepareComponents https://github.com/haumea-group/namaka/blob/master/s/frontend/components/prepare-components.ts#L26
• you may be able to set snap.state = freshAppState()
• but you'd have to implement freshAppState to generate a new empty app state
• if you implement freshAppState, we should also use it to generate the starting state here in makeAppSnap: https://github.com/haumea-group/namaka/blob/master/s/frontend/models/app-snap.ts#L23-L30