refactor: render empty room background when RoomView has no route identity by diegolmello · Pull Request #7670 · RocketChat/Rocket.Chat.ReactNative

diegolmello · 2026-09-10T21:00:25Z

Proposed changes

On tablet (Master-Detail) the detail pane mounts RoomView before any Room is selected: on cold start, and again after leaving or hiding a Room resets the stack. develop shows the empty-room astronaut background there. The hooks branch showed "Oops, Room not found" with a Back button that has nothing to pop.

RoomView now renders the same astronaut background as develop when the route carries no Room id or type, with the empty header-left spacer useHeader already installs and no composer. RoomRouteInvalid is deleted. parseRoomRoute drops its valid/invalid status union and returns the screen input with an optional Room id; store, observer and header hook already accepted an undefined id. RoomGate folds into RoomView, since the only reason for a separate component was the non-optional id it took. The astronaut ImageBackground moves into a shared RoomBackground used by both the message list's EmptyRoom and the empty route.

The ready gate is untouched. It guarantees init() runs against the persisted Subscription so message loading takes the Subscribed path and the read marker advances.

Issue(s)

Follow-up to #7482, implemented from its head a2f635f4bb.

How to test or reproduce

pnpm format-lint
TZ=UTC pnpm test app/views/RoomView

Passing on this branch: 47 suites, 516 tests. TypeScript clean.

RoomGate.test.tsx is renamed to RoomView.test.tsx. Its two empty-route cases now assert the astronaut background renders and that no room screen, composer or Back button exists. On a tablet: cold start, and leave a Room, both land on the astronaut pane.

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The store is seeded with an empty-string id and type in the empty pane, so init() is a no-op there. Deep links and notifications always carry a Room id, so the empty route has no phone producer.

Not measured: whether the asynchronous Subscription lookup before init() is perceptible on a list tap compared to develop. That is a separate trace, not part of this PR.

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Improvements
- Updated the room view’s empty state to use the standard room background.
- Rooms with missing or incomplete route details now display the empty-room background instead of an error message, warning icon, or Back button.
- Simplified room route handling to provide a consistent view when room information is unavailable.
- Updated room view tests to reflect the new empty-state behavior.

…ut a route identity

coderabbitai · 2026-09-10T21:00:56Z

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RoomView now parses incomplete routes as screen input and renders a theme-aware empty background when the room ID or type is missing. The invalid-route screen and wrapper are removed. Tests validate the new empty-state behavior.

Changes

Room empty-state routing

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Route parsing contract `app/views/RoomView/definitions.ts`, `app/views/RoomView/services/parseRoomRoute.ts`	`IRoomScreenInput` permits missing `rid` and `t`. `parseRoomRoute` returns the input directly and defaults missing values to empty strings.
Empty-state rendering and validation `app/views/RoomView/index.tsx`, `app/views/RoomView/components/RoomBackground.tsx`, `app/views/RoomView/List/components/EmptyRoom.tsx`, `app/views/RoomView/components/RoomRouteInvalid.tsx`, `app/views/RoomView/__tests__/RoomView.test.tsx`	`RoomView` and `EmptyRoom` render the theme-aware `RoomBackground`. The invalid-route component and wrapper are removed. Tests validate the empty background and the absence of room content and navigation controls.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Suggested labels: type: bug

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 51adf

Incomplete room routes can create unnecessary room subscriptions before displaying the empty state. Fix this before merge.

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app/views/RoomView/components/RoomBackground.tsx (1)
13-13: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add an explicit return type to RoomBackground.

The TypeScript guideline requires explicit function return types.
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+import { type ReactElement } from 'react';
 import { ImageBackground, StyleSheet } from 'react-native';

-const RoomBackground = () => {
+const RoomBackground = (): ReactElement => {
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app/views/RoomView/index.tsx (1)

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No change required. observeRoom returns without subscribing when rid is undefined. createRoomStore.init returns skipped without requesting data. useE2EEStatus only reads store state. useHeader sets an empty-state header placeholder and does not configure room controls.

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40-42: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Avoid observing an incomplete room route.

When the route contains rid but no t, RoomView calls observeRoom before returning RoomBackground. observeRoom skips only when rid is missing, so this partial route can still query the database and create a subscription. Move room initialization, observation, and useHeader into a child component that renders only when both rid and t are present.
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In `@app/views/RoomView/index.tsx` around lines 40 - 42, Refactor RoomView so room
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rendered when both rid and t are present; keep the parent returning
RoomBackground for incomplete routes and ensure the child receives the validated
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- Around line 40-42: Refactor RoomView so room initialization, observeRoom, and
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present; keep the parent returning RoomBackground for incomplete routes and
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