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What happened?

With React posts & pages lists disabled, returning from the Ember editor briefly rendered the posts/pages loading state without the Admin sidebar.

Two state sources overlap during this transition:

  • Ember clears ui.isFullScreen when the list transition starts.
  • React still matches /editor/* until the Ember model resolves, so the editor route handle continued hiding the sidebar.

That stale React route match overrode the early Ember signal and produced the full-page shift.

What changed?

  • The Ember posts/pages route restores normal chrome in beforeModel, before the list loading state renders.
  • The Ember editor claims full-screen chrome in beforeModel, before its own loading state renders.
  • The React editor route yields sidebar control only when both the editor and posts/pages list are Ember-owned.
  • If either side is React-owned, or ownership is still loading, the React route remains authoritative. This preserves the existing second-editor-visit fix for the React list path.

Added three focused logic regression cases covering the two early Ember state changes and the cross-router ownership handoff.

How to test

  1. Disable React posts & pages lists and React editor.
  2. Open a post, then navigate back to Posts.
  3. Confirm the sidebar is visible from the first Posts loading frame and the page does not shift.
  4. Open a post again and confirm the sidebar disappears before the editor loading frame.
  5. Repeat with a page and the Pages list.
  6. Enable React posts & pages lists, keep React editor disabled, and confirm the sidebar remains hidden on repeated editor visits.

Tests

This PR adds three focused logic tests:

  • React sidebar visibility: 4/4 passed (1 new)
  • Ember posts route: 4/4 passed (1 new)
  • Ember lexical editor routes: 5/5 passed (1 new parent-route case)

Existing Ember posts/pages flag acceptance tests (14/14) and editor flag acceptance tests (7/7) also pass. Focused ESLint and dependency-cruiser checks passed.

The full Admin typecheck is currently blocked by an unrelated pre-existing error in tier-checkout-collection.tsx concerning the key property on shipping fields.

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PostsRoute.beforeModel now clears full-screen mode before feature checks and transition handling. Lexical editor routes enable full-screen mode for Ember-owned editing and abort React-owned transitions. Sidebar visibility now uses route ownership metadata to coordinate React and Ember control. Tests cover route state and sidebar ownership behavior.

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 8e880

The sidebar transition fix covers the Ember-owned path, but React-owned and loading ownership states lack regression tests. A future change could expose the sidebar during those transitions without test detection.

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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: fixing the sidebar flash during navigation from the Ember editor to content lists.
Description check ✅ Passed The description directly explains the sidebar flash, the ownership changes, the implementation, testing steps, and known typecheck limitation. It is fully related to the changeset.
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33-41: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Cover non-boolean editorReact values.

Line 34 covers only false. The route now intentionally treats every value except literal true as Ember-owned. Add cases for undefined and a truthy non-boolean value such as 'true'. This prevents a regression to a truthiness check that sends invalid Labs values to React.

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The editor's full-screen state survived into the list loading paint. Restore normal chrome when the list transition starts so posts and pages keep the sidebar stable while their models load.
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