@nifrajs/web 5.5.0 → 5.6.0

package/dist/router.js

@@ -7,14 +7,21 @@
 import { decodeRouteParams } from "@nifrajs/core/pattern";
 import { Router as CoreRouter } from "@nifrajs/core/router";
 import { parseNdjsonData } from "./deferred.js";
+import { epochOf, IDENTITY_CHANNEL, onIdentityChange } from "./identity.js";
 import { parsePageData } from "./internal/revive-dates.js";
 import { appUrl, requestPattern } from "./internal/route-path.js";
+import { shareData } from "./internal/share-data.js";
 import { isClientOnlySearchChange } from "./search.js";
 /**
  * Request header that asks a nifra route's GET to return just the loader data as JSON (instead of
  * the full HTML document). Set by client-side navigation; read by `createWebApp`'s GET handler.
  */
 export const DATA_HEADER = "x-nifra-data";
+/**
+ * Sent beside {@link DATA_HEADER} by a prefetch. A partially prerendered route answers it with its
+ * shell data and starts no hole: nothing could cancel that work if the link is never followed.
+ */
+export const PREFETCH_HEADER = "x-nifra-prefetch";
 /**
  * Global the server injects (`createWebApp({ prerenderedPaths })`) listing the SSG-prerendered paths.
  * The client's default data fetch reads it: a soft-nav INTO a prerendered route fetches its static
@@ -71,6 +78,18 @@ export const RETAIN_HEADER = "x-nifra-retain";
  * the full-chain case.
  */
 export const NAV_FROM_HEADER = "x-nifra-from";
+/**
+ * Sent on a data request that reloads the route instance on screen: the holes, comma separated, whose
+ * hosts the partially prerendered page holds. Each one's state then carries its fill (server HTML,
+ * plus props when it hydrates) instead of its data, so the client updates the host in place.
+ */
+export const HOLE_FILL_HEADER = "x-nifra-hole-fill";
+/**
+ * Holes of a partially prerendered page the client keeps, comma separated: they are not loaded, and
+ * each state says so. Only the live load endpoint sets it, for holes whose keys did not change. A name
+ * the route does not declare is refused with a 400.
+ */
+export const KEEP_HOLES_HEADER = "x-nifra-keep-holes";
 /** Recognise the envelope without mistaking a plain loader object that happens to have a `data` key. */
 export function isRouteDataEnvelope(value) {
     return (typeof value === "object" &&
@@ -112,9 +131,16 @@ export function createMatcher(patterns) {
 /** Read a nifra data response: a deferred loader/action streams NDJSON (parse line 1 + settle
  * `<Await>` markers as resolution lines arrive); a non-deferred one returns a single JSON. Shared by
  * navigation fetches and action submits - both transports are identical. */
-const readResponseData = (res, signal) => (res.headers.get("content-type") ?? "").includes("application/x-ndjson") && res.body !== null
+const readResponseData = (res, signal, read) => (res.headers.get("content-type") ?? "").includes("application/x-ndjson") && res.body !== null
     ? parseNdjsonData(res.body, signal)
-    : res.text().then(parsePageData);
+    : res.text().then((text) => {
+        if (read === undefined)
+            return parsePageData(text);
+        if (text === read.previous)
+            return read;
+        read.text = text;
+        return parsePageData(text);
+    });
 // Index scan, not `/\/+$/` - the unanchored-start trailing-run replace backtracks quadratically and
 // the pathname is caller-controlled.
 const trimTrailingSlashes = (path) => {
@@ -169,7 +195,24 @@ const targetUrl = (to) => {
     }
 };
 const redirected = (to, cause) => Object.assign(new Error(`[nifra/web] redirected to ${to}`, { cause }), { redirectTo: to });
-const defaultFetchData = async (path, _match, signal, navigation) => {
+/**
+ * A route data response as `fetchData` resolves it: a loader's in-app redirect rejects with its
+ * target, a terminal status becomes an envelope carrying it, and any other failure rejects.
+ */
+export const routeDataOf = async (res, path, signal, read) => {
+    const redirectTo = res.headers.get(REDIRECT_HEADER);
+    if (redirectTo !== null)
+        throw redirected(redirectTo);
+    const status = Number(res.headers.get(STATUS_HEADER));
+    if (Number.isInteger(status) && status >= 400 && status <= 599) {
+        return { v: 1, data: null, status };
+    }
+    if (!res.ok)
+        throw new Error(`[nifra/web] navigation data fetch failed (${res.status}): ${path}`);
+    return readResponseData(res, signal, read);
+};
+/** The router's own transport, which a `fetchData` override may layer over. */
+export const fetchRouteData = async (path, _match, signal, navigation, purpose, hosts, read) => {
     // SSG fast path: if this path was prerendered, its loader data is a static file - fetch that (no
     // worker). Falls through to the dynamic header-GET on any miss (file absent, e.g. a deferred route,
     // or a stale set), so it's always safe. Non-SSG apps have no global → the dynamic path, unchanged.
@@ -184,25 +227,19 @@ const defaultFetchData = async (path, _match, signal, navigation) => {
         if (prerenderedSetOf(prerendered).has(pathname)) {
             const staticRes = await fetch(appUrl(dataUrlFor(pathname)), { signal: signal ?? null });
             if (staticRes.ok)
-                return readResponseData(staticRes, signal);
+                return readResponseData(staticRes, signal, read);
         }
     }
     const headers = new Headers({ [DATA_HEADER]: "1" });
+    if (purpose === "prefetch")
+        headers.set(PREFETCH_HEADER, "1");
+    if (hosts !== undefined && hosts.length > 0)
+        headers.set(HOLE_FILL_HEADER, hosts.join(","));
     if (navigation !== undefined && navigation.retain.length > 0) {
         headers.set(RETAIN_HEADER, navigation.retain.join(","));
         headers.set(NAV_FROM_HEADER, navigation.from);
     }
-    const res = await fetch(appUrl(path), { headers, signal: signal ?? null });
-    const redirectTo = res.headers.get(REDIRECT_HEADER);
-    if (redirectTo !== null)
-        throw redirected(redirectTo);
-    const status = Number(res.headers.get(STATUS_HEADER));
-    if (Number.isInteger(status) && status >= 400 && status <= 599) {
-        return { v: 1, data: null, status };
-    }
-    if (!res.ok)
-        throw new Error(`[nifra/web] navigation data fetch failed (${res.status}): ${path}`);
-    return readResponseData(res, signal);
+    return routeDataOf(await fetch(appUrl(path), { headers, signal: signal ?? null }), path, signal, read);
 };
 /**
  * Create the agnostic router store. `navigate` is guarded by a monotonic generation so that when
@@ -224,9 +261,9 @@ const rawSearchOf = (path) => {
 const isClientActionResult = (value) => typeof value === "object" && value !== null && !Array.isArray(value);
 export function createClientRouter(options) {
     const match = createMatcher(options.patterns);
-    const fetchData = options.fetchData ?? defaultFetchData;
+    const fetchData = options.fetchData ?? fetchRouteData;
     // Start a handed-over list's fetch now, so the first navigation rarely waits for it.
-    if (fetchData === defaultFetchData)
+    if (fetchData === fetchRouteData)
         prerenderedOf();
     // routeId → the route's client-only search keys. Read by reference (the generated entry keeps writing
     // to it as routes load), so a same-route nav always sees the current route's keys.
@@ -273,18 +310,68 @@ export function createClientRouter(options) {
         data: value.data,
         layoutData: value.layoutData,
         serverComponents: value.serverComponents,
+        live: value.live,
         ...(value.boundaries === undefined ? {} : { boundaries: value.boundaries }),
     });
+    // The path the page on screen was loaded from. While a boundary holds an intercepted target, `path`
+    // is that target's URL, so anything that reloads or caches the page must read this instead.
+    const pagePathOf = (current) => current.intercepted?.pagePath ?? current.path;
+    // `boundaries` with `name` holding a target's outcome. The URL names one target, so every other
+    // intercept boundary goes back to unresolved. A target that answered with a status, or failed, is
+    // an error state: its data never reaches the boundary.
+    const holdTarget = (boundaries, descriptor, outcome) => {
+        const next = {};
+        for (const [name, boundary] of Object.entries(boundaries ?? {})) {
+            next[name] =
+                typeof boundary.mode === "string" || name === descriptor.name
+                    ? boundary
+                    : {
+                        name: boundary.name,
+                        mode: boundary.mode,
+                        status: "unresolved",
+                        ...(boundary.errorId === undefined ? {} : { errorId: boundary.errorId }),
+                    };
+        }
+        const base = {
+            name: descriptor.name,
+            mode: descriptor.mode,
+            ...(descriptor.errorId === undefined ? {} : { errorId: descriptor.errorId }),
+        };
+        next[descriptor.name] =
+            outcome === undefined || outcome.terminalRouteId !== undefined
+                ? { ...base, status: "error", error: { name: "Error", message: "Boundary failed" } }
+                : { ...base, status: "ready", data: outcome.data, live: outcome.live };
+        return next;
+    };
+    // `boundaries` with `name`'s action result set (or cleared, for `undefined`). Only a boundary showing
+    // its target's data carries one.
+    const withActionData = (boundaries, name, actionData) => {
+        const held = boundaries?.[name];
+        if (held === undefined || held.status !== "ready")
+            return boundaries;
+        const { actionData: _previous, ...rest } = held;
+        return { ...boundaries, [name]: actionData === undefined ? rest : { ...rest, actionData } };
+    };
     const loadRouteData = async (path, match, signal, 
     // Offer the server the layout data on screen: it re-runs whichever of those loaders it must.
-    keepLayouts) => {
+    keepLayouts, purpose, hosts, 
+    // What this path shows, when this is a reload of it: the same response text again is that, unparsed.
+    shown) => {
         const retainFrom = keepLayouts
-            ? state.layoutData && { path: state.path, layoutData: state.layoutData }
+            ? state.layoutData && { path: pagePathOf(state), layoutData: state.layoutData }
             : undefined;
         const retain = retainFrom?.layoutData.map((_, index) => index) ?? [];
-        const payload = await fetchData(path, match, signal, retainFrom === undefined ? undefined : { from: retainFrom.path, retain });
+        const hooks = routeHooks[match.routeId];
+        // A client loader's output is not what the text says, and an opted-out route takes fresh data.
+        const read = {
+            previous: hooks?.clientLoader === undefined && hooks?.shareData !== false ? shown?.text : undefined,
+        };
+        const payload = await fetchData(path, match, signal, retainFrom === undefined ? undefined : { from: retainFrom.path, retain }, purpose, hosts, read);
+        if (shown !== undefined && payload === read)
+            return shown;
+        const text = read.text;
         if (!isRouteDataEnvelope(payload))
-            return { data: payload };
+            return { data: payload, text };
         if (payload.status !== undefined) {
             const terminalRouteId = options.statusRoutes?.[payload.status] ?? options.statusRoutes?.[404];
             if (terminalRouteId === undefined) {
@@ -301,7 +388,27 @@ export function createClientRouter(options) {
             data: payload.data,
             layoutData,
             serverComponents: payload.serverComponents,
+            live: payload.live,
             ...(payload.boundaries !== undefined ? { boundaries: payload.boundaries } : {}),
+            text,
+        };
+    };
+    // A reload with every part equal to what its path shows replaced by that part, so what the reload
+    // did not change keeps its identity on screen (`shareData`), unless the route exports
+    // `shareData = false`.
+    const shareShown = (routeId, shown, loaded) => {
+        if (loaded.terminalRouteId !== undefined || routeHooks[routeId]?.shareData === false)
+            return loaded;
+        // Parsed JSON is a tree; a client loader/custom transport can return cyclic or aliased data.
+        const plainJson = loaded.text !== undefined && routeHooks[routeId]?.clientLoader === undefined;
+        return {
+            ...loaded,
+            data: shareData(shown.data, loaded.data, plainJson),
+            layoutData: shareData(shown.layoutData, loaded.layoutData, plainJson),
+            serverComponents: shareData(shown.serverComponents, loaded.serverComponents, plainJson),
+            ...(loaded.boundaries === undefined
+                ? {}
+                : { boundaries: shareData(shown.boundaries, loaded.boundaries, plainJson) }),
         };
     };
     /**
@@ -349,7 +456,10 @@ export function createClientRouter(options) {
             params: target.params,
             signal,
             body,
-            serverLoader: async () => state.data,
+            // An action posted to the target an intercept boundary holds belongs to that target.
+            serverLoader: async () => state.intercepted !== undefined && pathnameOf(action) === pathnameOf(state.path)
+                ? state.boundaries?.[state.intercepted.boundary]?.data
+                : state.data,
         });
         if (result === undefined)
             return { body };
@@ -377,19 +487,15 @@ export function createClientRouter(options) {
         const loaded = await applyClientLoader(state.path, route, ac.signal, () => Promise.resolve(initial), initial);
         if (mine !== generation)
             return;
-        if (loaded.terminalRouteId !== undefined) {
-            await loadModule?.(loaded.terminalRouteId, state.path);
-            state = { ...state, routeId: loaded.terminalRouteId, params: {}, data: null };
-        }
-        else {
-            state = {
-                ...state,
-                ...dataFields(loaded),
-            };
-        }
+        // No terminal status can arrive here: the server already rendered this route (a status page
+        // included) and its data is the only server result the client loader sees.
+        state = { ...state, ...dataFields(loaded) };
         emit();
     };
     let state = options.initial;
+    // The page as last published from a load, with the response text it was read from. Every publish of
+    // page data replaces it, and a reload reuses it only for the same text, which says the same.
+    let shownPage;
     const listeners = new Set();
     let generation = 0;
     // Snapshot listeners to defend against accidental un/subscribe during notification. The adapters
@@ -406,12 +512,33 @@ export function createClientRouter(options) {
     // fresh: a link warmed as it scrolled into view can be clicked minutes later.
     const MAX_PREFETCH = 10;
     const PREFETCH_MAX_AGE_MS = 30_000;
+    // path -> [data, when it arrived, the identity epoch it was loaded under]
     const prefetched = new Map();
-    const inflight = new Set();
+    // path -> the token of the prefetch loading it; a prefetch stores what it read only while its
+    // token is still there, so dropping the token discards a load that started before the drop.
+    const inflight = new Map();
+    // Read without the DOM types: this module also builds in tsconfigs that leave the DOM lib out.
+    const readEpoch = () => {
+        const cookie = Reflect.get(Reflect.get(globalThis, "document") ?? {}, "cookie");
+        return typeof cookie === "string" ? epochOf(cookie) : "";
+    };
     const freshPrefetch = (path) => {
         const held = prefetched.get(path);
-        return held !== undefined && Date.now() - held[1] < PREFETCH_MAX_AGE_MS ? held[0] : undefined;
+        return held !== undefined &&
+            Date.now() - held[1] < PREFETCH_MAX_AGE_MS &&
+            held[2] === readEpoch()
+            ? held[0]
+            : undefined;
+    };
+    // Warmed data was loaded before a mutation or for the previous visitor, so either one drops all of
+    // it, along with what a prefetch still in flight read.
+    const dropPrefetched = () => {
+        inflight.clear();
+        prefetched.clear();
     };
+    onIdentityChange(dropPrefetched);
+    if (typeof BroadcastChannel !== "undefined")
+        new BroadcastChannel(IDENTITY_CHANNEL).addEventListener("message", dropPrefetched);
     // Keyed data cache (path → latest loader data + freshness). Written on every published data
     // (navigate/submit), read by `invalidate` (+ targeted revalidation and fetchers in later F16
     // increments). Bounded - evict the oldest-inserted past the cap (route data is small; this just
@@ -442,6 +569,8 @@ export function createClientRouter(options) {
     // `X-Nifra-Revalidate` handling in `submit`.
     const markStale = (paths) => {
         for (const p of paths) {
+            prefetched.delete(p);
+            inflight.delete(p);
             const entry = cache.get(p);
             if (entry !== undefined) {
                 cache.set(p, {
@@ -477,6 +606,14 @@ export function createClientRouter(options) {
         const target = match(path);
         return target === null ? undefined : [path, target];
     };
+    // Load the status route a terminal answer for `at` renders. One inside layouts needs those layouts'
+    // loaders, which only a document request runs, so the caller loads `at` as a document instead.
+    const loadTerminal = async (routeId, at) => {
+        await loadModule?.(routeId, at);
+        if (options.layoutStatusRoutes?.[routeId] === true) {
+            throw new Error(`[nifra/web] ${routeId} renders inside layouts; loading ${at} as a document`);
+        }
+    };
     // Load `path` for the navigation or submit `mine`, following the redirects its loaders answer with
     // while they stay in the app (20 at most, as a browser allows).
     const loadFollowing = async (mine, path, target, signal, keepLayouts, usePrefetch) => {
@@ -494,12 +631,8 @@ export function createClientRouter(options) {
                 prefetched.delete(at);
             try {
                 const loaded = await applyClientLoader(at, route, signal, () => loadRouteData(at, route, signal, keepLayouts), prefetchedData);
-                if (loaded.terminalRouteId !== undefined) {
-                    await loadModule?.(loaded.terminalRouteId, at);
-                    if (options.layoutStatusRoutes?.[loaded.terminalRouteId] === true) {
-                        throw new Error(`[nifra/web] ${loaded.terminalRouteId} renders inside layouts; loading ${at} as a document`);
-                    }
-                }
+                if (loaded.terminalRouteId !== undefined)
+                    await loadTerminal(loaded.terminalRouteId, at);
                 return [at, route, loaded];
             }
             catch (error) {
@@ -510,9 +643,91 @@ export function createClientRouter(options) {
             }
         }
     };
-    // Refetch the active route + republish, single-flight via the shared `generation`. Shared by `invalidate`
-    // and targeted revalidation. Rejects if the fetch fails (clearing its own `pending` first).
-    const refetchActive = async () => {
+    // Reload what is on screen: the page under its own path when `page`, and, while an intercept boundary
+    // holds a target, that target under its URL when `target`. The part not reloaded is kept as shown.
+    // Returns the fields to publish, both parts together. `route` is set when the page's reload names
+    // another route - the status route it answered with, or, on a status page, its URL's own route
+    // answering again - which then replaces the page and any boundary over it, so data is only ever
+    // rendered by the route it was loaded for. A target that fails becomes its
+    // boundary's error state rather than failing the page, as a dynamic boundary's load does. Nothing is
+    // cached once `mine` is superseded: a newer action's reload owns the cache.
+    const reloadActive = async (signal, page, target, mine) => {
+        const pagePath = pagePathOf(state);
+        const intercepted = state.intercepted;
+        const targetPath = state.path;
+        // The route the page's URL matches: the one on screen, except on a status page.
+        const pageRoute = match(pagePath) ?? { routeId: state.routeId, params: state.params };
+        const rematched = pageRoute.routeId !== state.routeId;
+        const targetRoute = intercepted !== undefined && target ? match(targetPath) : null;
+        // The page's own route shares with what the page shows; a status page answered by its URL's route
+        // has nothing of that route on screen.
+        const shown = rematched ? undefined : (shownPage ?? state);
+        const shownTarget = { data: intercepted && state.boundaries?.[intercepted.boundary]?.data };
+        // A hole on screen that is a host stays one: it reloads as a fill.
+        const hosts = rematched
+            ? []
+            : Object.values(state.boundaries ?? {})
+                .filter((held) => held.ppr === true)
+                .map((held) => held.name);
+        const [reloaded, targetOutcome] = await Promise.all([
+            page
+                ? (async () => {
+                    if (rematched)
+                        await loadModule?.(pageRoute.routeId, pagePath);
+                    const loaded = await applyClientLoader(pagePath, pageRoute, signal, () => loadRouteData(pagePath, pageRoute, signal, false, undefined, hosts.length === 0 ? undefined : hosts, shown));
+                    return shown === undefined ? loaded : shareShown(pageRoute.routeId, shown, loaded);
+                })()
+                : undefined,
+            targetRoute === null
+                ? undefined
+                : (async () => {
+                    try {
+                        await loadModule?.(targetRoute.routeId, targetPath);
+                        const outcome = shareShown(targetRoute.routeId, shownTarget, await applyClientLoader(targetPath, targetRoute, signal, () => loadRouteData(targetPath, targetRoute, signal)));
+                        if (mine === generation)
+                            cachePut(targetPath, outcome);
+                        return outcome;
+                    }
+                    catch {
+                        return undefined;
+                    }
+                })(),
+        ]);
+        if (reloaded?.terminalRouteId !== undefined)
+            await loadTerminal(reloaded.terminalRouteId, pagePath);
+        if (reloaded !== undefined && mine === generation) {
+            cachePut(pagePath, reloaded);
+            shownPage = reloaded;
+        }
+        const fields = dataFields(reloaded ?? state);
+        if (reloaded?.terminalRouteId !== undefined)
+            return { fields, route: { routeId: reloaded.terminalRouteId, params: {} } };
+        if (reloaded !== undefined && rematched)
+            return { fields, route: pageRoute };
+        if (intercepted === undefined)
+            return { fields };
+        const held = state.boundaries?.[intercepted.boundary];
+        if (held === undefined)
+            return { fields };
+        if (targetRoute === null)
+            return {
+                fields: {
+                    ...fields,
+                    boundaries: { ...(fields.boundaries ?? {}), [intercepted.boundary]: held },
+                },
+            };
+        // A reload keeps the result of the last action posted to the target, as the page keeps its own.
+        const boundaries = withActionData(holdTarget(fields.boundaries, held, targetOutcome), intercepted.boundary, held.actionData);
+        return { fields: { ...fields, ...(boundaries === undefined ? {} : { boundaries }) } };
+    };
+    // Refetch what is on screen + republish, single-flight via the shared `generation`. Shared by
+    // `invalidate` and targeted revalidation: `inScope` says which paths to refresh, and a page or held
+    // target outside it is kept. Rejects if the page's fetch fails (clearing its own `pending` first).
+    const refetchActive = async (inScope) => {
+        const page = inScope === undefined || inScope(pagePathOf(state));
+        const target = state.intercepted !== undefined && (inScope === undefined || inScope(state.path));
+        if (!page && !target)
+            return;
         const mine = ++generation;
         navAbort?.abort();
         const ac = new AbortController();
@@ -520,16 +735,22 @@ export function createClientRouter(options) {
         state = { ...state, pending: true };
         emit();
         try {
-            const active = { routeId: state.routeId, params: state.params };
-            const loaded = await applyClientLoader(state.path, active, ac.signal, () => loadRouteData(state.path, active, ac.signal));
+            const { fields, route } = await reloadActive(ac.signal, page, target, mine);
             if (mine !== generation)
                 return; // superseded - drop the stale result
-            cachePut(state.path, loaded);
-            state = {
-                ...state,
-                ...dataFields(loaded),
-                pending: false,
-            };
+            // A terminal answer for the page (the session expired, the record is gone) replaces it, and any
+            // boundary over it, with its status route, as a navigation to this URL would.
+            state =
+                route === undefined
+                    ? { ...state, ...fields, pending: false }
+                    : {
+                        routeId: route.routeId,
+                        params: route.params,
+                        path: state.path,
+                        ...fields,
+                        actionData: undefined,
+                        pending: false,
+                    };
             emit();
         }
         catch (err) {
@@ -558,8 +779,8 @@ export function createClientRouter(options) {
     // swallowed - a failed targeted refresh must not fail the mutation that triggered it.
     const refreshMounted = async (paths, skipActive) => {
         const jobs = [];
-        if (!skipActive && paths.includes(state.path))
-            jobs.push(refetchActive().catch(() => { }));
+        if (!skipActive)
+            jobs.push(refetchActive((path) => paths.includes(path)).catch(() => { }));
         for (const entry of fetchers.values())
             jobs.push(entry.refreshIfShowing(paths));
         await Promise.all(jobs);
@@ -569,6 +790,8 @@ export function createClientRouter(options) {
         let fGeneration = 0;
         let fAbort;
         let loadedPath;
+        // `data` as loaded, with the response text it was read from.
+        let shown;
         const fListeners = new Set();
         const fEmit = () => {
             if (fListeners.size > 0)
@@ -587,12 +810,16 @@ export function createClientRouter(options) {
             fState = { ...fState, pending: true };
             fEmit();
             try {
-                const [, loaded] = await Promise.all([
+                // Loading the path again is a reload of what this fetcher shows.
+                const before = path === loadedPath ? shown : undefined;
+                const [, fresh] = await Promise.all([
                     loadModule?.(matched.routeId),
-                    loadRouteData(path, matched, ac.signal),
+                    loadRouteData(path, matched, ac.signal, false, undefined, undefined, before),
                 ]);
                 if (mine !== fGeneration)
                     return; // a newer load/submit on THIS fetcher superseded us
+                const loaded = before === undefined ? fresh : shareShown(matched.routeId, before, fresh);
+                shown = loaded;
                 // Record the loaded path only on SUCCESS - a thrown or superseded load must not
                 // leave `loadedPath` pointing at a path this fetcher never actually showed, or a later
                 // `X-Nifra-Revalidate` for it would spuriously refetch onto unexpected data.
@@ -640,6 +867,7 @@ export function createClientRouter(options) {
                         body,
                         headers: { [DATA_HEADER]: "1" },
                     });
+                    dropPrefetched();
                     if (!res.ok)
                         throw new Error(`[nifra/web] fetcher action failed (${res.status}): ${action}`);
                     const actionData = res.status === 204 ? undefined : await readResponseData(res, ac.signal);
@@ -687,12 +915,23 @@ export function createClientRouter(options) {
             const matched = match(path);
             if (matched === null)
                 return;
+            // The target an open boundary already shows (a `#fragment` entry inside it, a link to itself):
+            // reloading it would rebuild the boundary and drop its action result. One in its error state
+            // loads again, so a link can retry it.
+            if (state.intercepted !== undefined &&
+                state.boundaries?.[state.intercepted.boundary]?.status === "ready" &&
+                !state.pending &&
+                path === state.path) {
+                emit();
+                return;
+            }
             // Client-only search fast path: same route + same pathname, and every changed search key is
             // declared client-only. Publish the new URL (so `useSearch`/`useLocation` update) WITHOUT a data
             // fetch - the loader's inputs did not change. Any loader-affecting key change falls through to the
             // normal match → fetch → publish below, so data is never stale. Abort an in-flight fetch first: a
             // rapid `?tab` after a real nav must not let the older fetch overwrite this synchronous update.
-            if (matched.routeId === state.routeId &&
+            if (state.intercepted === undefined &&
+                matched.routeId === state.routeId &&
                 pathnameOf(path) === pathnameOf(state.path) &&
                 isClientOnlySearchChange(rawSearchOf(state.path), rawSearchOf(path), searchClientKeys[state.routeId] ?? [])) {
                 ++generation; // supersede any in-flight navigation so its late result is dropped
@@ -713,7 +952,10 @@ export function createClientRouter(options) {
                 if (mine !== generation)
                     return; // a newer navigation superseded this one - drop the stale result
                 cachePut(to, loaded); // keep the keyed cache coherent with what we publish
-                const interception = loaded.terminalRouteId === undefined
+                // The page's own URL is never intercepted: navigating there (Back out of a boundary, a link
+                // to itself) shows the page, even when a boundary's pattern matches it.
+                const pagePath = pagePathOf(state);
+                const interception = loaded.terminalRouteId === undefined && pathnameOf(to) !== pathnameOf(pagePath)
                     ? interceptionFor(state.routeId, to, target)
                     : undefined;
                 if (interception !== undefined) {
@@ -724,17 +966,8 @@ export function createClientRouter(options) {
                     state = {
                         ...state,
                         path: to,
-                        boundaries: {
-                            ...(state.boundaries ?? {}),
-                            [interception.name]: {
-                                name: interception.name,
-                                mode: interception.mode,
-                                status: "ready",
-                                data: loaded.data,
-                                ...(interception.errorId === undefined ? {} : { errorId: interception.errorId }),
-                            },
-                        },
-                        actionData: undefined,
+                        boundaries: holdTarget(state.boundaries, interception, loaded),
+                        intercepted: { boundary: interception.name, pagePath },
                         pending: false,
                         pendingPath: undefined,
                     };
@@ -749,6 +982,7 @@ export function createClientRouter(options) {
                     actionData: undefined, // a fresh navigation has no action result
                     pending: false,
                 };
+                shownPage = loaded;
                 emit();
             }
             catch (err) {
@@ -764,6 +998,18 @@ export function createClientRouter(options) {
         submit: async (action, body, opts) => {
             const mine = ++generation;
             const previousActionData = state.actionData;
+            // An action posted to the target an intercept boundary holds answers that boundary, not the page.
+            const actionBoundary = state.intercepted !== undefined && pathnameOf(action) === pathnameOf(state.path)
+                ? state.intercepted.boundary
+                : undefined;
+            const previousBoundaryActionData = actionBoundary === undefined ? undefined : state.boundaries?.[actionBoundary]?.actionData;
+            // The state with `value` as the action's result, on whichever owns the action.
+            const answered = (current, value) => {
+                if (actionBoundary === undefined)
+                    return { actionData: value };
+                const boundaries = withActionData(current.boundaries, actionBoundary, value);
+                return boundaries === undefined ? {} : { boundaries };
+            };
             // A superseding navigation/submit aborts this submit's FOLLOW-UP reads (revalidation / redirect
             // fetch + their NDJSON drains) - not the mutation POST itself, which should complete.
             // Wire into `navAbort` like `navigate`/`refetchActive`, so a later nav cancels the in-flight read.
@@ -784,7 +1030,7 @@ export function createClientRouter(options) {
             try {
                 const prepared = await prepareClientAction(action, body, ac.signal);
                 if (Object.hasOwn(prepared, "optimisticData")) {
-                    state = { ...state, actionData: prepared.optimisticData };
+                    state = { ...state, ...answered(state, prepared.optimisticData) };
                     emit();
                 }
                 const res = await fetch(appUrl(action), {
@@ -794,6 +1040,7 @@ export function createClientRouter(options) {
                 });
                 // Whatever the status, the server took the POST: the action may have run before it failed.
                 posted = true;
+                dropPrefetched();
                 if (!res.ok)
                     throw new Error(`[nifra/web] action failed (${res.status}): ${action}`);
                 const redirectTo = res.headers.get(REDIRECT_HEADER);
@@ -818,6 +1065,7 @@ export function createClientRouter(options) {
                         actionData: undefined,
                         pending: false,
                     };
+                    shownPage = loaded;
                     emit();
                     return;
                 }
@@ -828,31 +1076,43 @@ export function createClientRouter(options) {
                 // Routes the action declared changed (via the `revalidate()` helper → `X-Nifra-Revalidate`),
                 // validated against the manifest.
                 const changed = parseRevalidate(res.headers.get(REVALIDATE_HEADER));
-                // Revalidate the active route's loader so the mutation is reflected - unless the caller opted
-                // out (`revalidate: false`). A server-declared revalidate of the active path overrides the
-                // opt-out (the server says it changed, so stale data would be wrong). Default is to revalidate.
-                const skipActive = opts?.revalidate === false && !changed.includes(state.path);
-                const active = { routeId: state.routeId, params: state.params };
-                const loaded = skipActive
-                    ? {
-                        ...dataFields(state),
-                    }
-                    : await applyClientLoader(state.path, active, ac.signal, () => loadRouteData(state.path, active, ac.signal));
+                // Revalidate what is on screen so the mutation is reflected - the page, and a target an
+                // intercept boundary holds - unless the caller opted out (`revalidate: false`). A
+                // server-declared revalidate of a path on screen overrides the opt-out (the server says it
+                // changed, so stale data would be wrong). Default is to revalidate.
+                const pagePath = pagePathOf(state);
+                const reloadPage = opts?.revalidate !== false || changed.includes(pagePath);
+                const reloadTarget = state.intercepted !== undefined &&
+                    (opts?.revalidate !== false || changed.includes(state.path));
+                const { fields, route } = await reloadActive(ac.signal, reloadPage, reloadTarget, mine);
                 if (mine !== generation)
                     return;
-                cachePut(state.path, loaded); // the revalidated (or kept) data is now the cache's truth
                 // Mark the OTHER changed routes stale so the next access refetches.
-                markStale(changed.filter((p) => p !== state.path));
+                markStale(changed.filter((p) => p !== pagePath && (!reloadTarget || p !== state.path)));
                 // Reconcile: publish the revalidated data + actionData; omit `submission` (the optimistic
-                // window is over - the real data now drives the view).
-                state = {
-                    routeId: state.routeId,
-                    params: state.params,
-                    path: state.path,
-                    ...dataFields(loaded),
-                    actionData,
-                    pending: false,
-                };
+                // window is over - the real data now drives the view). A reload that names another route (a
+                // terminal answer for the page) renders it in the page's place, closing any boundary, and the
+                // action's result goes with the page.
+                state =
+                    route === undefined
+                        ? {
+                            routeId: state.routeId,
+                            params: state.params,
+                            path: state.path,
+                            ...fields,
+                            actionData: previousActionData,
+                            ...answered(fields, actionData),
+                            pending: false,
+                            ...(state.intercepted === undefined ? {} : { intercepted: state.intercepted }),
+                        }
+                        : {
+                            routeId: route.routeId,
+                            params: route.params,
+                            path: state.path,
+                            ...fields,
+                            actionData: undefined,
+                            pending: false,
+                        };
                 emit();
                 // Refresh any mounted fetcher showing one of the changed routes (the active route was just
                 // revalidated inline above, so skip it here). Best-effort - never rejects the submit.
@@ -868,7 +1128,11 @@ export function createClientRouter(options) {
                         path: state.path,
                         ...dataFields(state),
                         actionData: previousActionData,
+                        ...(actionBoundary === undefined
+                            ? {}
+                            : answered(dataFields(state), previousBoundaryActionData)),
                         pending: false,
+                        ...(state.intercepted === undefined ? {} : { intercepted: state.intercepted }),
                     };
                     emit();
                 }
@@ -876,21 +1140,24 @@ export function createClientRouter(options) {
                     throw err;
                 if (mine !== generation)
                     return; // a newer navigation or submit owns the page
-                throw redirectOf(err) === undefined ? redirected(landing ?? state.path, err) : err;
+                // Otherwise show the route that owns the action, as a native post to it would.
+                const owner = actionBoundary === undefined ? pagePathOf(state) : state.path;
+                throw redirectOf(err) === undefined ? redirected(landing ?? owner, err) : err;
             }
         },
         hydrate,
         invalidate: async (paths) => {
             // Mark targeted cache entries stale (all entries when no `paths`) - unmounted ones refetch
-            // lazily on next access.
+            // lazily on next access. A warmed prefetch of a target is dropped: it would show the old data.
             const targets = paths ?? [...cache.keys()];
             markStale(targets);
+            if (paths === undefined)
+                dropPrefetched();
             // Refresh mounted readers now: the active route (when in scope - an explicit list including it,
             // or an invalidate-all) + any fetcher showing a targeted path. The active refetch rejects on
             // failure (the caller asked to refresh); fetcher refreshes are best-effort (swallowed).
             const jobs = [];
-            if (paths === undefined || paths.includes(state.path))
-                jobs.push(refetchActive());
+            jobs.push(refetchActive(paths === undefined ? undefined : (path) => paths.includes(path)));
             for (const entry of fetchers.values())
                 jobs.push(entry.refreshIfShowing(targets));
             await Promise.all(jobs);
@@ -901,13 +1168,15 @@ export function createClientRouter(options) {
             const matched = match(path);
             if (matched === null)
                 return;
-            inflight.add(path);
+            const token = {};
+            inflight.set(path, token);
+            const epoch = readEpoch();
             try {
                 // Unwrapped here, so a prefetched entry is the same shape `navigate` builds state from -
                 // otherwise a prefetch hit would publish an envelope where a miss publishes loader data.
                 const [, loaded] = await Promise.all([
                     loadModule?.(matched.routeId, path),
-                    loadRouteData(path, matched),
+                    loadRouteData(path, matched, undefined, false, "prefetch"),
                 ]);
                 prefetched.delete(path); // a stale entry re-enters as the newest
                 if (prefetched.size >= MAX_PREFETCH) {
@@ -915,14 +1184,20 @@ export function createClientRouter(options) {
                     if (oldest !== undefined)
                         prefetched.delete(oldest);
                 }
-                if (loaded.serverComponents === undefined)
-                    prefetched.set(path, [loaded, Date.now()]);
+                // A prefetched hole is an empty host nothing fills; the navigation fetches it, cancellably.
+                const holes = Object.values(loaded.boundaries ?? {}).some((state) => state.ppr === true);
+                if (loaded.serverComponents === undefined &&
+                    !holes &&
+                    inflight.get(path) === token &&
+                    epoch === readEpoch())
+                    prefetched.set(path, [loaded, Date.now(), epoch]);
             }
             catch {
                 // Best-effort: a failed prefetch just means the eventual navigate fetches normally.
             }
             finally {
-                inflight.delete(path);
+                if (inflight.get(path) === token)
+                    inflight.delete(path);
             }
         },
         fetcher: (key) => {