Two items published from the Review queue did not appear in Inventory. Publishing was never at fault: the items were published, the rows were right, and the API returned them. The Inventory tab was showing a list it had fetched earlier and never refreshed.
antd keeps a tab pane mounted once it has been rendered, and Inventory is the default tab, so its pane mounts at page load whether or not anyone looks at it. Its only fetch runs from an effect depending on the filters, so it fires on mount and when a filter changes and at no other time. Open the admin, switch to the Review queue, publish, switch back, and nothing has re-run — the table still holds the list built before the submissions existed. A browser reload shows them, which is what makes this read as publishing being broken rather than as a stale table.
The tab is controlled now and tells Inventory whether it is the one on screen, and Inventory refetches when that becomes true. Guarded on visibility rather than fetching unconditionally, because the pane lives for the life of the page and would otherwise keep refetching while hidden.
destroyInactiveTabPane on the Tabs would also have fixed it, by remounting, and was rejected: it discards every tab's state on every switch — filters, scroll position, a half-filled form — and refetches all of them repeatedly, which is a much larger behavioural change than this bug is worth.
The existing publish test passes against the broken behaviour, and that is the reason this went unnoticed. It asserts against GET /api/admin/items, and the API was always correct. The new test asserts through the UI and never reloads the page: Inventory is opened before publishing, so its list is fetched while the item still carries its submission-timestamp name, and the assertion afterwards looks for the name given at publish — which a stale list cannot contain. A reload anywhere in it would make it pass against the bug it exists to catch.
AdminPage's comment claimed only the active panel is mounted. It is only the active panel that is visible; the rest stay in the DOM. That mistaken belief is the shape of this bug, so the comment now says which it is and why it matters.
Not fixed here: Categories, Tags, Upload links and Customers are mounted-once children of the same Tabs and are all changeable from elsewhere, so they very likely share this. Recorded on the issue rather than assumed to be fine.
Verified: tsc clean for src and tests, lint 0 errors, production build green. The new test needs CI to run — the e2e suite wants a browser and a database this machine cannot provide.
Closes#327
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
