fix: prevent loading spinner delay after deleting last wallet

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Description

Fixes a loading spinner that would appear for several seconds after deleting the last wallet on mobile.

Root Cause

In #11180 (0cd2b30), the wallet list query was changed to throw an error when no wallets exist, instead of the previous approach of calling setError() directly. This triggers React Query's default retry behavior (3 retries with exponential backoff), causing a multi-second spinner delay before the "no wallets" state is shown.

Fix

Added retry: false to the query options to prevent unnecessary retries when no wallets exist.

Issue (if applicable)

None, affects current release.

Risk

Low

What protocols, transaction types, wallets or contract interactions might be affected by this PR?

N/A

Testing

When deleting the last wallet from the native app, the empty wallet page should show immediately without showing a useless loading spinner.

Engineering

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Operations

• 🏁 My feature is behind a flag and doesn't require operations testing (yet)

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Screenshots (if applicable)

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Modified error handling for wallet list loading to display errors immediately instead of attempting automatic retries, providing faster feedback when connection issues occur.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

A single configuration change was made to disable automatic retries in the React Query hook for the wallet list fetch operation, causing errors to surface immediately without subsequent retry attempts.

Changes

Cohort / File(s)	Change Summary
React Query error handling src/pages/ConnectWallet/components/WalletList.tsx	Added retry: false to useQuery configuration to disable automatic retries on fetch failure, allowing errors to be surfaced immediately without retry attempts

Estimated code review effort

🎯 1 (Trivial) | ⏱️ ~5 minutes

Possibly related PRs

• fix: restore query cache settings for mobile wallet list #11406: Modifies the same WalletList.tsx file's React Query configuration, restoring staleTime and gcTime cache settings alongside this retry behavior change.

Suggested reviewers

• premiumjibles

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🐰 A single tweak, so clean and true,
No more retries, just one try through!
Errors surface swift and bright,
Making wallets connect just right! ✨

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Title check	✅ Passed	The title accurately describes the main fix: preventing a loading spinner delay when deleting the last wallet, which matches the primary change of disabling retries in the wallet list query.
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🧠 Learnings (8)

📓 Common learnings

Learnt from: NeOMakinG
Repo: shapeshift/web PR: 10231
File: src/components/AssetSearch/components/AssetList.tsx:2-2
Timestamp: 2025-08-08T15:00:49.887Z
Learning: Project shapeshift/web: NeOMakinG prefers avoiding minor a11y/UI nitpicks (e.g., adding aria-hidden to decorative icons in empty states like src/components/AssetSearch/components/AssetList.tsx) within feature PRs; defer such suggestions to a follow-up instead of blocking the PR.

Learnt from: NeOMakinG
Repo: shapeshift/web PR: 10323
File: src/components/ButtonWalletPredicate/ButtonWalletPredicate.tsx:7-7
Timestamp: 2025-08-27T09:47:06.275Z
Learning: In shapeshift/web project, NeOMakinG consistently prefers to defer UI/UX improvements and refactoring work (like the Drawer.Close hack fix in ButtonWalletPredicate.tsx) to follow-up PRs rather than expanding the scope of feature PRs, even when the improvements would enhance robustness.

Learnt from: gomesalexandre
Repo: shapeshift/web PR: 10461
File: src/plugins/walletConnectToDapps/components/modals/EIP712MessageDisplay.tsx:21-24
Timestamp: 2025-09-12T13:16:27.004Z
Learning: gomesalexandre declined to add error boundaries to WalletConnect modals in PR #10461, stating "no error boundaries in this pr ser", consistent with his preference to keep PR scope focused and defer tangential improvements to separate efforts.

Learnt from: gomesalexandre
Repo: shapeshift/web PR: 10418
File: src/plugins/walletConnectToDapps/components/header/WalletConnectToDappsHeaderButton.tsx:0-0
Timestamp: 2025-09-08T22:00:48.005Z
Learning: gomesalexandre dismissed an aria-label accessibility suggestion with "meh" in PR #10418 for WalletConnectToDappsHeaderButton.tsx, consistent with the team's pattern of deferring minor a11y improvements to follow-up PRs rather than expanding feature PR scope.

Learnt from: gomesalexandre
Repo: shapeshift/web PR: 11170
File: patches/@shapeshiftoss+bitcoinjs-lib+7.0.0-shapeshift.0.patch:9-19
Timestamp: 2025-11-25T21:43:10.838Z
Learning: In shapeshift/web, gomesalexandre will not expand PR scope to fix latent bugs in unused API surface (like bitcoinjs-lib patch validation methods) when comprehensive testing proves the actual used code paths work correctly, preferring to avoid costly hdwallet/web verdaccio publish cycles and full regression testing for conceptual issues with zero runtime impact.

Learnt from: gomesalexandre
Repo: shapeshift/web PR: 10596
File: src/components/Layout/Header/NavBar/WalletConnectedMenu.tsx:77-99
Timestamp: 2025-10-01T07:42:40.195Z
Learning: In WalletConnectedMenu.tsx's handleReconnectWallet handler, gomesalexandre prefers throwing an error for unsupported wallet types in the default case rather than gracefully handling with a fallback. His reasoning: "if we have a problem here, we have bigger problems" - only supported wallets (KeepKey, Ledger, MetaMask, Coinbase, Phantom) should reach the reconnect flow when disconnected/locked, so encountering an unsupported type indicates a larger architectural issue that should be surfaced explicitly rather than masked with graceful degradation.

📚 Learning: 2025-10-01T07:42:40.195Z

Learnt from: gomesalexandre
Repo: shapeshift/web PR: 10596
File: src/components/Layout/Header/NavBar/WalletConnectedMenu.tsx:77-99
Timestamp: 2025-10-01T07:42:40.195Z
Learning: In WalletConnectedMenu.tsx's handleReconnectWallet handler, gomesalexandre prefers throwing an error for unsupported wallet types in the default case rather than gracefully handling with a fallback. His reasoning: "if we have a problem here, we have bigger problems" - only supported wallets (KeepKey, Ledger, MetaMask, Coinbase, Phantom) should reach the reconnect flow when disconnected/locked, so encountering an unsupported type indicates a larger architectural issue that should be surfaced explicitly rather than masked with graceful degradation.

Applied to files:

• src/pages/ConnectWallet/components/WalletList.tsx

📚 Learning: 2025-11-19T16:59:50.569Z

Learnt from: gomesalexandre
Repo: shapeshift/web PR: 11012
File: src/context/WalletProvider/Vultisig/components/Connect.tsx:24-59
Timestamp: 2025-11-19T16:59:50.569Z
Learning: In src/context/WalletProvider/*/components/Connect.tsx files across the ShapeShift web codebase, the established pattern for handling null/undefined adapter from getAdapter() is to simply check `if (adapter) { ... }` without an else clause. All wallet Connect components (Coinbase, Keplr, Phantom, Ledger, MetaMask, WalletConnectV2, KeepKey, Vultisig) follow this pattern—they reset loading state after the if block but do not show error messages when adapter is null. This is an intentional design decision and should be maintained for consistency.

Applied to files:

• src/pages/ConnectWallet/components/WalletList.tsx

📚 Learning: 2025-09-12T12:00:33.924Z

Learnt from: gomesalexandre
Repo: shapeshift/web PR: 10461
File: src/plugins/walletConnectToDapps/components/modals/SendTransactionConfirmation.tsx:42-50
Timestamp: 2025-09-12T12:00:33.924Z
Learning: gomesalexandre prefers maintaining consistency with existing code patterns across WalletConnect modal components, including side-effects-during-render for error handling (showErrorToast + handleReject calls before return null), rather than introducing isolated refactors that would create inconsistency in the codebase.

Applied to files:

• src/pages/ConnectWallet/components/WalletList.tsx

📚 Learning: 2025-09-04T12:16:47.748Z

Learnt from: gomesalexandre
Repo: shapeshift/web PR: 10430
File: src/components/Layout/Header/NavBar/PopoverWallet.tsx:72-94
Timestamp: 2025-09-04T12:16:47.748Z
Learning: gomesalexandre declined to add error boundaries to the PopoverWallet component in src/components/Layout/Header/NavBar/PopoverWallet.tsx, stating he didn't touch this component and preferring not to expand the scope of the PR with error boundary additions.

Applied to files:

• src/pages/ConnectWallet/components/WalletList.tsx

📚 Learning: 2025-09-12T13:16:27.004Z

Learnt from: gomesalexandre
Repo: shapeshift/web PR: 10461
File: src/plugins/walletConnectToDapps/components/modals/EIP712MessageDisplay.tsx:21-24
Timestamp: 2025-09-12T13:16:27.004Z
Learning: gomesalexandre declined to add error boundaries to WalletConnect modals in PR #10461, stating "no error boundaries in this pr ser", consistent with his preference to keep PR scope focused and defer tangential improvements to separate efforts.

Applied to files:

• src/pages/ConnectWallet/components/WalletList.tsx

📚 Learning: 2025-09-12T12:00:33.924Z

Learnt from: gomesalexandre
Repo: shapeshift/web PR: 10461
File: src/plugins/walletConnectToDapps/components/modals/SendTransactionConfirmation.tsx:42-50
Timestamp: 2025-09-12T12:00:33.924Z
Learning: gomesalexandre prefers maintaining consistency with existing code patterns in WalletConnect modals, including side-effects-during-render for error handling (showErrorToast + handleReject), rather than introducing isolated refactors that would make the codebase inconsistent.

Applied to files:

• src/pages/ConnectWallet/components/WalletList.tsx

📚 Learning: 2025-08-22T13:02:58.824Z

Learnt from: NeOMakinG
Repo: shapeshift/web PR: 10323
File: src/pages/RFOX/hooks/useRfoxRewardDistributionActionSubscriber.tsx:33-41
Timestamp: 2025-08-22T13:02:58.824Z
Learning: In src/pages/RFOX/hooks/useRfoxRewardDistributionActionSubscriber.tsx, NeOMakinG declined optimizing useMemo dependencies to depend on lifetimeRewardDistributionsQuery.data instead of the entire query object, indicating indifference toward this type of performance optimization.

Applied to files:

• src/pages/ConnectWallet/components/WalletList.tsx

🔇 Additional comments (1)

src/pages/ConnectWallet/components/WalletList.tsx (1)

47-64: Disabling React Query retries here correctly removes the post‑delete spinner delay

Adding retry: false ensures the listWallets query goes to the error state immediately on the initial failure (including the “no wallet” case), so isLoading drops and the spinner stops instead of staying up through React Query’s default backoff retries. This keeps the change tightly scoped to this query and aligns with the PR objective.

Please double‑check on device/emulator that:

• Deleting the last wallet transitions directly to the empty/error state with no extra multi‑second spinner.
• Other failure modes (e.g., network error) still present a reasonable error experience without relying on auto‑retries.

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