Internal briefing · Fixtract staging

PR 239 is live on fixera-rho

The merged homepage streaming work is on https://fixera-rho.vercel.app/. The real hero, ISR cache, server-fetched popular chips/cards, search, project links, and footer legal links all work. Service-page carousels are deployed but often show nothing because the CMS title does not match the popular-projects service filter. The later AuthLoadingScreen deletion is out of scope and is not on this deploy.

18 Aug 2026 Live checks against fixera-rho and fixera-server-silk. PR pankaj3399/fixera#239 merged as 73ab30fb on 16 Aug 2026.

Scope

What was tested

Included: streaming layout, ISR homepage, server-fetched popular services/projects, removed app/(home)/loading.tsx, service-page carousel wiring, footer legal links. That is merge commit 73ab30fb, through d27f7ef (stop covering / with AuthLoadingScreen).

Excluded: deleting AuthLoadingScreen entirely (6dd7f91, 18 Aug). That commit is after the merge and is not expected on rho.

Findings

Live checks

Homepage live Service carousel empty Loader deletion not on rho
Check Result Evidence
Homepage HTTP OK 200. x-nextjs-prerender: 1, x-vercel-cache: STALE, age ~230s. ISR is on.
First paint is the real hero OK 337ms to DOMContentLoaded. H1 “Find Trusted Property” present in the HTML/RSC payload and visible immediately. Search box visible.
No homepage loading.tsx OK Initial document is the real landing, not a route-level fake layout.
Popular data from the server OK Project id 6980bfb7… is in the HTML. Browser did not call /api/search/popular. Only client auth call: fixera-server-silk…/api/auth/me.
Popular chips + cards OK Five chips match silk: Painter & Wallpaperer, Plumbing, Pest Control, Architect, Façade Work. Ten project cards. Chip click fills the search input.
Search OK Enter on “plumbing” goes to /search?type=projects&q=plumbing.
Project cards open OK /projects/6980bfb7a3cee24b59e857f6 returns 200 and shows title, €100, reviews, Continue.
Footer legal OK Privacy, terms, cookie policy links present.
Category bar streams OK Sub-nav categories visible after load. Initial HTML still contains animate-pulse for the category fallback, which is the intended stream, not the 3-card auth overlay.
Service landing carousel Partial Code is on rho (“Popular Plumber projects” in HTML). After load the section disappears because the API filter does not match the CMS title. service=Plumber → 0 rows; service=Plumbing → 4. Interior Design → 0 either way.
AuthLoadingScreen deleted Not on rho Out of scope. After load, homepage is not stuck on the 3-card overlay (merged d27f7ef). The component still exists in this deploy.

Takeaway

Takeaway

Yes: PR 239’s homepage work is live on rho and behaves as designed. Hard-refresh / and you get the real landing from cache, with popular chips and project cards already in the server payload.

The remaining functional gap is the service-page carousel: it queries popular-projects with the CMS/page title (Plumber, Interior Design) while the search index uses names like Plumbing. Homepage cards are unfiltered, so they show. Service pages often render the heading then collapse to nothing.

If the 3-card grey overlay still flashes on rho, that is AuthLoadingScreen still in the merged tree, not a missing PR 239 deploy. Removing that overlay is a separate commit that is not on this URL yet.