Lucas WintherandClaude Opus 5
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Two defects behind "the new version is ready" not going away.
1. THE WORKER NEVER INSTALLED — in any environment, ever.
install did `cache.addAll([...PRECACHE, SHELL])`. PRECACHE is derived from
the build's own outputs, which already contain index.html, and SHELL is
index.html again. addAll() rejects the ENTIRE install on a duplicate
request:
InvalidStateError: Cache.addAll(): duplicate requests (.../index.html)
So install failed on every load, the worker went redundant, and nothing
ever activated. Registration itself succeeds and the failure is inside the
install event, so nothing surfaced it — which is why offline behaviour was
listed as "never verified" rather than "broken". All 11 precached URLs
return 200; the list was the only fault. Deduping now lives in
src/swPrecache.ts, at the point of use, so no future addition to either
list can reintroduce it.
Verified in a real browser for the first time: the worker installs,
activates, claims the page, and caches 11 entries. A rebuild is then
detected, the prompt appears, clicking Reload applies it, stale caches are
dropped and the prompt does not return.
2. THE DEV WORKER IGNORED THE LIFECYCLE — my own regression, from 53707b1.
That commit made the dev server serve an inert sw.js to silence a MIME
error. Inert included the lifecycle: no skipWaiting, no clients.claim, no
message handler. A worker like that can sit in `waiting` forever and can
never be applied, so the prompt returns on every load and the Reload button
cannot possibly clear it. This is the likeliest cause of the reported
symptom, since with defect 1 a production build could never have shown that
prompt at all. The dev worker still caches nothing — that would fight HMR —
but now honours install, activate and SKIP_WAITING.
3. applyUpdate RACED ITS OWN RELOAD — real, measured, but not reproducible on
demand, so it is hardening rather than a proven fix.
It posted SKIP_WAITING and called window.location.reload() on the next
line. Measured in Chrome: at that instant the new worker was still
`installed` and the controller had NOT changed — it changed 2 ms later. The
window is wider in practice because activate deletes every stale cache
before claiming clients. When the reload wins, the reloaded page still finds
registration.waiting and shows the prompt again. It now waits for
controllerchange, with a timeout backstop so a worker that ignores
SKIP_WAITING cannot leave the button dead. The sequencing is pure and
tested (src/ui/swUpdate.ts): listener attached before the message, reload
exactly once, unsubscribed after.
Tooling: scripts/screenshot.ts gains --profile (a fresh Chrome profile has no
registered worker, so nothing stateful across loads could be reproduced at all)
and --eval-after-file (observe a flow that ends in a navigation from the other
side of it).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
Budget 2.0
A personal budgeting PWA. Envelope-style monthly budgets with rollover, split purchases, finance plans, multi-currency, and JSON/ODS export. All data lives in your browser — there is no server and no account.
Development
bun install
bun --hot src/index.ts # dev server with hot reload
bun test # run the test suite
bun run build # production build into dist/
Self-hosting with Docker
docker build -t budget2 .
docker run --rm -p 3000:3000 budget2
To serve from a subpath, build and run with BUN_PUBLIC_BASE_PATH:
docker build -t budget2 --build-arg BUN_PUBLIC_BASE_PATH=/budget/ .
docker run --rm -p 3000:3000 -e BUN_PUBLIC_BASE_PATH=/budget/ budget2
GitHub Pages
Pushing to main builds and deploys to Pages automatically, using
/<repository-name>/ as the base path. Enable Pages with "GitHub Actions" as
the source in the repository settings.
Your data
Everything is stored in this browser's IndexedDB. Export regularly from Settings → Your data: the JSON export is both your backup and how you move your budget to another device. Import replaces everything and downloads a backup of your current data first.
Known limitations
- Data is per-browser. There is no account and no sync. If you clear this browser's site data, or move to a different browser or device, your budget is gone unless you exported it first. The JSON export is not just a nice-to-have backup — it is the only way to move a budget between devices.
- The install prompt is incomplete.
manifest.webmanifestcurrently only ships an SVG icon. Chrome requires PNG icons at 192×192 and 512×512 to offer the "Install app" prompt; until those are added, the app works fine as a regular tab but won't be installable on Chrome/Chromium.
Documentation
- Design:
docs/superpowers/specs/2026-09-01-budget-app-design.md - Implementation plan:
docs/superpowers/plans/2026-09-01-budget-app.md