dashboard: SharedWorker for SSE multiplexing (closes #448)

mara on #448: "firefox disconnects bc of too many tabs. needs bg
service worker". picked SharedWorker over full Service Worker:
smaller change, addresses the actual problem (shared connection
across tabs), no offline-cache scope creep.

architecture

per-tab `new EventSource('/dashboard/stream')` replaced with a
SharedWorker-backed facade. one SharedWorker instance per origin
holds ONE upstream EventSource and fans every server-sent event
out to every connected tab via MessagePort. N hyperhive tabs now
share ONE backend connection, immune to Firefox's per-tab SSE
throttling under many-open-tabs pressure.

wire protocol (port.postMessage):

  tab → worker
    { kind: 'subscribe',   url: '/dashboard/stream' }
    { kind: 'unsubscribe', url: '/dashboard/stream' }

  worker → tab
    { kind: 'open',    url }
    { kind: 'message', url, data: '<raw SSE data>' }
    { kind: 'error',   url }

subscription tracking is per (port, url). a late subscriber that
joins after the upstream is already OPEN gets a synthetic 'open'
event so its onStreamOpen handler still runs (triggers the
snapshot re-sync that recovers events lost during the join gap).
unsubscribing the last port for a URL closes the upstream
EventSource so we don't leak idle streams.

files

- frontend/packages/dashboard/src/stream-worker.js: new — the
  worker. multi-URL multiplexing via Map<url, {es, ports}>.
- frontend/packages/dashboard/src/common.js: new exported helper
  openStream(url) — returns an EventSource-shaped facade backed
  by the SharedWorker. graceful fallback to direct EventSource
  when SharedWorker is unavailable.
- frontend/packages/dashboard/src/app.js: replaces the inline
  new EventSource('/dashboard/stream') with openStream.
- frontend/packages/dashboard/src/flow.js: passes
  streamFactory: openStream to termCreate so the broker
  terminal's SSE goes through the worker too.
- frontend/packages/shared/src/terminal.js: accepts an optional
  streamFactory(url) option. default unchanged — non-dashboard
  consumers (per-agent UI) keep using direct EventSource.
- frontend/packages/dashboard/build.mjs: new esbuild entry for
  stream-worker.js → dist/static/stream-worker.js (separate
  bundle because SharedWorker scripts run in a different global
  scope and can't be inlined into app.js).

scope kept tight

- per-agent UI's /events/stream stays on direct EventSource. the
  agent UI's tab count per agent is typically 1; SharedWorker
  helps when you have N tabs hitting the SAME stream and the
  per-agent stream URLs differ. if mara wants the agent UI to
  share its workers too it's a separate small PR.
- no offline-cache, no push notifications — those need full
  Service Worker; explicit non-goal here per the design Q.

validation

- npm run build --workspace=@hive/dashboard clean.
- stream-worker.js bundle: 1.8 kb.
- app.js: 154 kb → 158 kb. flow.js: 29.9 kb → 32 kb.
- browser smoke test isn't possible from inside iris's container;
  the EventSource-shaped facade preserves the exact onmessage /
  onopen / onerror surface the existing IIFE consumers use.
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iris 2026-05-26 01:15:43 +02:00 committed by Mara
commit 4504f9ede3
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@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ import {
$, el,
Panel, NOTIF,
appendLinkified,
openStream,
} from './common.js';
(() => {
@ -185,6 +186,10 @@ import {
pillAnchor: flowMain,
historyUrl: '/dashboard/history',
streamUrl: '/dashboard/stream',
// #448: route through the SharedWorker so this page's SSE shares
// a single backend connection with /index.html (and any other
// open hyperhive tab).
streamFactory: openStream,
renderers: {
sent: (ev, api) => renderMsg(ev, api, '→'),
delivered: (ev, api) => renderMsg(ev, api, '✓'),