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Uniform stock management for healthcare linen rooms: the coordinator app, the phone counter and the staff app, for your own server. Built from 2d04e45 on 2026-09-15. Licensed under the Functional Source License (FSL-1.1-ALv2).

lib/staffclient.tsx

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+"use client";
+import { createContext, useCallback, useContext, useEffect, useMemo, useRef, useState, useTransition } from "react";
+import { useRouter } from "next/navigation";
+import { noteRev, useLiveRefresh } from "@/lib/live";
+import { TRACKED_STAFF_OPS, failureKind, track } from "@/lib/analytics";
+
+/* The staff app's client context.
+ *
+ * Deliberately not SnapshotProvider. That one hands the whole facility to the browser, which is
+ * right for a coordinator at the counter and wrong here: a wearer's device should never hold the
+ * register, so each staff screen is server-rendered from its own narrow query and this context
+ * carries only who you are and how to post a change.
+ */
+
+export type StaffMe = {
+  staffId: string;
+  name: string;
+  first: string;
+  num: string;
+  ward: string;
+  facility: string;
+  /* The facility's IANA zone, carried here so a screen can format a timestamp without a round trip.
+   *
+   * Every one of these screens is server-rendered and then hydrated, so a date formatted in whatever
+   * zone the process happens to sit in is wrong twice: wrong on the server, different again in the
+   * browser, and React logs a hydration mismatch in between. Pinning both to the facility's own zone
+   * is what makes "signed 08:14" the same string in both places — and the right one. */
+  tz: string;
+  /** They manage at least one person, so the approvals queue is theirs to see. */
+  isManager: boolean;
+  /** They are on the ward desk, so they sign for the bags that arrive on the round. */
+  wardDesk: boolean;
+  /** Nobody is recorded as their approver yet, so they cannot raise a request. */
+  hasManager: boolean;
+};
+
+type Ctx = {
+  me: StaffMe;
+  busy: boolean;
+  refresh: () => void;
+  mutate: <T = unknown>(op: string, payload?: unknown) => Promise<{ ok: true; result: T } | { ok: false; error: string }>;
+};
+
+const StaffContext = createContext<Ctx | null>(null);
+
+export function StaffProvider({ me, children }: { me: StaffMe; children: React.ReactNode }) {
+  const router = useRouter();
+  const [pending, startTransition] = useTransition();
+  const [inflight, setInflight] = useState(0);
+  const refresh = useCallback(() => startTransition(() => router.refresh()), [router]);
+
+  const mutate = useCallback(async <T,>(op: string, payload?: unknown) => {
+    setInflight((n) => n + 1);
+    try {
+      const r = await fetch("/api/staff/mutate", {
+        method: "POST", headers: { "content-type": "application/json" },
+        body: JSON.stringify({ op, payload }),
+      });
+      const j = await r.json().catch(() => ({}));
+      if (!r.ok) {
+        // A dead session on a ward phone is common — the app sits open in a pocket for days.
+        if (r.status === 401) window.location.assign("/my/signin");
+        const err = (j && j.error) || "That didn't work.";
+        // Refusals are worth counting: a facility whose staff keep being told they have no
+        // manager recorded is telling us something. The op name and a coarse category only.
+        if (TRACKED_STAFF_OPS[op]) track("action_refused", { action: TRACKED_STAFF_OPS[op], reason: failureKind(String(err)) });
+        return { ok: false as const, error: err };
+      }
+      // Ours, so the watch above recognises the new revision instead of firing again.
+      noteRev(j.rev);
+      startTransition(() => router.refresh());
+      if (TRACKED_STAFF_OPS[op]) track(TRACKED_STAFF_OPS[op]);
+      return { ok: true as const, result: j.result as T };
+    } catch {
+      if (TRACKED_STAFF_OPS[op]) track("action_refused", { action: TRACKED_STAFF_OPS[op], reason: "network" });
+      /* "Nothing was saved" was a guess, and on ward wifi it was often the wrong one: the POST can
+       * reach the server and commit before the reply gets back, and none of the staff ops are
+       * idempotent — a retried request is raised twice and emails the manager twice. So the message
+       * says what is actually known, and points at the screen that settles it. */
+      return { ok: false as const, error: "No signal — we can’t say whether that went through. Check your orders before trying again." };
+    } finally {
+      setInflight((n) => n - 1);
+    }
+  }, [router]);
+
+  /* Kept current, without re-reading the world to find out whether anything happened.
+   *
+   * Every screen here is server-rendered and none of them poll, so an app left open in a pocket
+   * used to show whatever was true when it was last looked at — somebody watching "Being picked"
+   * would never see it become "Ready to collect", and a garment the linen room added at the desk
+   * did not exist here until the app was reopened.
+   *
+   * The watch asks one question — the facility's revision number — and only reloads when it has
+   * moved. It stops entirely while the app is in the background, so a phone in a pocket on ward
+   * wifi costs nothing, and asks immediately on coming back to the front, so opening the app is
+   * up to date at once rather than a poll behind. It replaces an unconditional refresh on every
+   * glance at the screen, which paid for the whole record to find out that nothing had changed.
+   *
+   * It lives in the provider rather than in each screen, so a screen added later gets it without
+   * anyone remembering. */
+  useLiveRefresh(refresh);
+
+  const value = useMemo<Ctx>(() => ({ me, busy: pending || inflight > 0, refresh, mutate }), [me, pending, inflight, refresh, mutate]);
+  return <StaffContext.Provider value={value}>{children}</StaffContext.Provider>;
+}
+
+export function useStaff() {
+  const c = useContext(StaffContext);
+  if (!c) throw new Error("useStaff outside provider");
+  return c;
+}