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Evan 46b9fe88bb fix: survive host modal close during listed-lobby auto-start (#4514)
Follow-up to the listed-lobby auto-start feature (`2a82b01e3`, on main).

## Bug

When a listed lobby auto-started (and in some paths on manual start),
the game began server-side but a player got ejected back to the menu
before it loaded.

Root cause: `BaseModal.close()` navigates via `showPage()`, which
**force-closes whichever page-modal is currently visible**. During the
game-start transition that is the *other* lobby modal — closing the join
modal first cascade-closed the host's modal with `leaveLobbyOnClose`
still armed (host disconnected → host-left teardown killed the game);
reversing the order just moved the victim to the joiner. No close order
fixes both sides.

## Fix

- **Disarm both lobby modals before closing either** in the prestart
transition (`disarmLeaveOnClose()` on `HostLobbyModal` and
`JoinLobbyModal`), so no cascade order can disconnect anyone mid
game-start.
- Both modals re-arm `leaveLobbyOnClose` in `onOpen` instead of
`onClose`'s state reset, so once disarmed no later cascade close can
re-arm it until the modal is reopened.
- `HostLobbyModal.closeWithoutLeaving()` (pattern `JoinLobbyModal`
already used), called explicitly instead of the generic modal-close
loop.
- **Server hardening:** `handleClientDisconnect` bails on `hasStarted()`
(which includes prestart) instead of raw `_hasStarted`, so host socket
churn during the lobby → game transition can never tear down a starting
game regardless of client behavior. Regression test included.

## Verification

Headless end-to-end (two browser contexts, host + joiner, `leave-lobby`
stack-trace tripwire armed on both pages):

- **Manual start:** host and joiner both receive prestart/start and
enter the game; zero `leave-lobby` dispatches.
- **Auto-start:** same, with nobody interacting after listing.

Also confirmed manually in a real browser. The auto-start deadline was
temporarily 30s during testing and is restored to 5 minutes in the final
commit. Full suite green (1843 + 161), tsc/eslint/prettier clean.

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Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-06 10:55:16 -07:00
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