feat(ui): warm album art ahead of the scroll
CI / check (push) Skipped
CI / e2e (push) Skipped
CI / check (pull_request) Successful in 2m46s
CI / e2e (pull_request) Successful in 10m13s

Scrolling the albums grid pops art in: the cards already draw the
smallest adequate tier and are already lazy, so what was left is *when*
the request happens. The grids are virtualized, so the `<img>` — and
therefore the fetch — does not exist until the virtualizer renders its
card, which is about 1000px past the viewport, or two screens on the
reference device.

The issue asks for a larger overscan and that is not available:
`_overhang` is a hard-coded `protected` field on `BaseLayout` with no
configuration surface. So the request is issued ahead of the element
instead. `utils/image-prefetch.ts` warms a bounded window either side
of the rendered range, from `rangeChanged` rather than
`visibilityChanged` — the two report different ranges, and a window
measured from what is *visible* is spent on cards that already exist.

Cover and artist URLs are served under `Cache-Control: immutable`
(content-hashed filenames), so a prefetched image is a cache hit by the
time its card is drawn. The bytes are the browser's; what this holds is
the set of URLs asked for, capped and reported to `__yjCacheStats()`.

Measured on the bulk seed (4 988 albums), ten 2 400px jumps, covers in
the viewport with `naturalWidth === 0`: 254 of 258 blank one frame
after the jump and 214 two frames after, against 117 and 77 with the
prefetch.

Closes #65
This commit is contained in:
2026-08-25 13:55:43 -04:00
parent e23e6f9a54
commit 3479ae8d39
8 changed files with 618 additions and 1 deletions
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import {
import '@lit-labs/virtualizer';
import type {
LitVirtualizer,
RangeChangedEvent,
VisibilityChangedEvent,
} from '@lit-labs/virtualizer';
import { grid } from '@lit-labs/virtualizer/layouts/grid.js';
@@ -30,6 +31,7 @@ import type { ContextMenuHost, MenuTarget } from '@utils/context-menu-controller
import { FavoritesController } from '@store/controllers/favorites-controller';
import { ViewLifecycleMixin } from '@utils/view-lifecycle';
import { RovingGridController } from '@utils/roving-grid';
import { prefetchImageWindow } from '@utils/image-prefetch';
import '@awesome.me/webawesome/dist/components/icon/icon.js';
import '@awesome.me/webawesome/dist/components/popup/popup.js';
@@ -582,6 +584,26 @@ export class ArtistsView
* Scroll position persistence
* ================================================================ */
/**
* Warm the avatars just past the rendered range (#65).
*
* `rangeChanged` is the rendered range and `visibilityChanged` is
* what is on screen; the virtualizer has already drawn about
* 1000px past the latter, so that is the wrong anchor to measure a
* prefetch window from. It is deliberately outside the
* `restoringScroll` guard below: a restored scroll lands in the
* middle of the grid, which is exactly when nothing around it is
* cached.
*/
private onRangeChanged = (e: RangeChangedEvent) => {
prefetchImageWindow(
this.cachedGridEntries,
e.first,
e.last,
(entry) => this.artistAvatarURL(entry.artist),
);
};
/**
* Save the first visible item index on scroll.
*/
@@ -1145,7 +1167,16 @@ export class ArtistsView
* Helpers
* ================================================================ */
private renderArtistAvatar(artist: library.Artist) {
/**
* The image this artist's card will draw, or `''` for the initial
* placeholder.
*
* Split out of `renderArtistAvatar` so the prefetch (#65) asks for
* exactly what the card is going to ask for — a second copy of the
* tier ladder would be a second thing to keep in step, and warming
* the wrong tier is a download that buys nothing.
*/
private artistAvatarURL(artist: library.Artist): string {
const needed = (this.imageSize ?? 176) * window.devicePixelRatio;
let imageURL = '';
@@ -1172,6 +1203,12 @@ export class ArtistsView
) ?? '';
}
return imageURL;
}
private renderArtistAvatar(artist: library.Artist) {
const imageURL = this.artistAvatarURL(artist);
if (imageURL) {
return html`<img
class="avatar-image"
@@ -1531,6 +1568,7 @@ export class ArtistsView
.keyFunction=${(entry: ArtistEntry) => entry.artist.ID}
.layout=${this.gridLayout}
@visibilityChanged=${this.onVisibilityChanged}
@rangeChanged=${this.onRangeChanged}
></lit-virtualizer>
</div>
${this.renderContextMenu()}
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ import {
import '@lit-labs/virtualizer';
import type {
LitVirtualizer,
RangeChangedEvent,
VisibilityChangedEvent,
} from '@lit-labs/virtualizer';
import { grid } from '@lit-labs/virtualizer/layouts/grid.js';
@@ -30,6 +31,7 @@ import '@awesome.me/webawesome/dist/components/icon/icon.js';
import '@components/playlist-picker/playlist-picker.js';
import { loadTrackDetails } from '@utils/lazy-track-details.js';
import { tracksByFilePath, tracksForPaths } from '@utils/track-index.js';
import { prefetchImageWindow } from '@utils/image-prefetch.js';
import type { TrackDetails } from '@components/track-details/track-details.js';
import type { CoverArtUrls } from '@components/track-details/track-details.js';
import { AlbumSelectionManager } from './album-selection.js';
@@ -910,6 +912,31 @@ export class CoverGrid
);
};
/**
* Warm the covers just past the rendered range (#65).
*
* `rangeChanged` rather than `visibilityChanged`, because the two
* report different ranges and only one of them is the right
* anchor: visibility is what is on screen, and the virtualizer has
* already rendered about 1000px past that. Measured from the
* visible range this would spend most of its window on cards that
* already exist and have already asked for their own art.
*
* The entry lists are memoized, so asking for one here costs a
* reference compare.
*/
private onRangeChanged = (e: RangeChangedEvent) => {
const entries = this.splitMode
? this.getBeforeEntries()
: this.buildGridEntries();
prefetchImageWindow(entries, e.first, e.last, (entry) =>
entry.album.CoverArtPath
? this.getCoverUrl(entry.album)
: '',
);
};
/* ====================================================================
* Virtualizer items
* ==================================================================== */
@@ -2003,6 +2030,7 @@ export class CoverGrid
@keydown=${this.onGridAlbumKeydown}
@contextmenu=${this.onGridAlbumContextMenu}
@visibilityChanged=${this.onVisibilityChanged}
@rangeChanged=${this.onRangeChanged}
></lit-virtualizer>
`;
}
@@ -2037,6 +2065,7 @@ export class CoverGrid
@keydown=${this.onGridAlbumKeydown}
@contextmenu=${this.onGridAlbumContextMenu}
@visibilityChanged=${this.onVisibilityChanged}
@rangeChanged=${this.onRangeChanged}
></lit-virtualizer>
<album-dropdown
+156
View File
@@ -0,0 +1,156 @@
/**
* Warm the browser's image cache for the cards a scroll is about to
* reach.
*
* #65: album art pops in while scrolling. The rule this app already
* follows is that a row image is `loading="lazy" decoding="async"` and
* draws the smallest adequate tier, and both halves are in place —
* `cover-grid.getCoverUrl()` and `artists-view`'s avatar both pick
* `_sm`/`_md`/`_lg` from the card size and the device pixel ratio. What
* is left is *when* the fetch starts: the grids are virtualized, so the
* `<img>` does not exist at all until the virtualizer decides to render
* its card, and only then can the browser ask for anything.
*
* The issue's Direction asks for a larger overscan, and that is not
* available: `@lit-labs/virtualizer`'s `_overhang` is a hard-coded
* 1000px `protected` field on `BaseLayout` with no configuration
* surface, so raising it means monkey-patching a private. 1000px is
* about two screens on the reference device's 439px viewport, which is
* a fraction of a second at speed.
*
* So the request is issued ahead of the element instead. Cover art and
* artist images are plain URLs served by `coverart.Handler` /
* `explore`'s image handler under `Cache-Control: public,
* max-age=31536000, immutable` — the filenames are content hashes — so
* a prefetched image is a cache hit by the time the card is drawn, and
* a second pass over the same rows costs nothing at all.
*
* Three things about it are load-bearing.
*
* **This is not the `LRUMap` path the issue's Findings warn about.**
* That ceiling (`ARTIST_IMAGE_CACHE_LIMIT` and friends) bounds
* Explore's base64 data URLs, which are held in JS. A library cover is
* a URL, and what retains the bytes is the browser's own HTTP cache,
* which evicts on its own terms. What this module retains is the *set
* of URLs already asked for*, which is why that set has a cap and
* reports itself to `window.__yjCacheStats()` — the measurement the
* issue asks for.
*
* **A window is warmed on both sides of the rendered range.** The
* event carries no direction, and scrolling back up needs the same
* treatment; the rows behind are already in `requested` from the pass
* that rendered them, so the backward half issues nothing in the
* common case and is free.
*
* **An in-flight image is held.** `new Image().src = url` and drop it
* is the usual idiom and usually survives, but "usually" is an engine
* detail and the engine that matters here is a two-year-old WebView.
* The element is kept until it loads or fails, and no longer — nothing
* here holds a decoded bitmap on purpose.
*/
import { registerCacheProbe } from './cache-stats.js';
import { LRUMap } from './lru-map.js';
/**
* How many entries past each edge of the rendered range to warm.
*
* Entries rather than pixels, because that is what the event reports
* and what the caller has an array of. Twelve rows on the phone's
* two-column grid and four on a desktop's six, on top of the
* virtualizer's own 1000px — enough to cover a flick, and bounded so a
* fast scroll through 5 000 albums cannot ask for 5 000 covers.
*/
export const PREFETCH_AHEAD = 24;
/** Ceiling on the record of what has already been asked for. */
export const PREFETCH_MEMORY = 512;
/** URLs already requested; the value is a placeholder, the key is the record. */
const requested = new LRUMap<string, true>(PREFETCH_MEMORY);
/** Images still loading, held so the request cannot be collected. */
const inFlight = new Set<HTMLImageElement>();
registerCacheProbe('imagePrefetch', () => {
let chars = 0;
for (const url of requested.keys()) chars += url.length;
return { entries: requested.size, chars, limit: PREFETCH_MEMORY };
});
/** Whether this URL has already been asked for. */
export function imagePrefetched(url: string): boolean {
return requested.has(url);
}
/**
* Ask the browser for `url` unless it has already been asked for.
* Returns whether a request was issued.
*/
export function prefetchImage(url: string): boolean {
if (!url || requested.has(url)) return false;
requested.set(url, true);
const img = new Image();
inFlight.add(img);
const done = () => {
inFlight.delete(img);
};
img.addEventListener('load', done, { once: true });
img.addEventListener('error', done, { once: true });
img.decoding = 'async';
img.src = url;
return true;
}
/**
* Warm the images either side of a virtualizer's rendered range.
*
* `first`/`last` are the indices the `visibilityChanged` event
* reported; `urlOf` returns the image the card at that index will
* draw, or `''` where it draws a placeholder. Returns how many
* requests were issued, which is what a test can assert on and what
* makes "a second run does approximately nothing" checkable.
*/
export function prefetchImageWindow<T>(
items: readonly T[],
first: number,
last: number,
urlOf: (item: T) => string,
ahead: number = PREFETCH_AHEAD,
): number {
if (items.length === 0 || first < 0 || last < first) return 0;
const from = Math.max(0, first - ahead);
const to = Math.min(items.length - 1, last + ahead);
let issued = 0;
// Forward first: it is the direction a scroll is usually going, so
// it is the half that has to win the race.
for (let i = last + 1; i <= to; i++) {
const item = items[i];
if (item !== undefined && prefetchImage(urlOf(item))) issued++;
}
for (let i = from; i < first; i++) {
const item = items[i];
if (item !== undefined && prefetchImage(urlOf(item))) issued++;
}
return issued;
}
/** Forget what has been asked for. For tests; the app never needs it. */
export function resetImagePrefetch(): void {
requested.clear();
inFlight.clear();
}
@@ -0,0 +1,190 @@
/**
* The grids ask for the art below the fold before the card exists
* (#65).
*
* Reported as "scrolling through albums, the art pops in". The cards
* already draw the smallest adequate tier and are already
* `loading="lazy"`, so what was left is *when*: `<lit-virtualizer>`
* renders about 1000px past the viewport and the `<img>` — and
* therefore the request — does not exist until it does. On the
* reference device that is about two screens.
*
* These assert the mechanism, since no tier here can photograph a
* pop-in: that the rows past the rendered range are requested, that
* the request is for the same tier the card will draw, and that the
* window has an end — an unbounded prefetch of a 5 000-album library
* is the failure this trades against.
*
* What is *not* asserted here is that a rendered card was never
* prefetched. It often was, honestly: the grid lays out more than once
* on mount, so a row warmed by the first pass is drawn by the second,
* which is the whole point. The rule that a single pass skips its own
* rendered range is `image-prefetch.test.ts`'s, where one call can be
* looked at on its own.
*/
import { describe, expect, it, beforeEach } from 'vitest';
import type { LitElement } from 'lit';
import '@components/cover-grid/cover-grid';
import '@components/artists-view/artists-view';
import { emit, stub, flush, resetHarness } from '@test/support/harness';
import { Events } from '../../src/events';
import { fixture, shadowAll } from '@test/support/render';
import {
PREFETCH_AHEAD,
imagePrefetched,
resetImagePrefetch,
} from '@utils/image-prefetch';
/** Enough albums that the virtualizer's own window is nowhere near the end. */
const ALBUMS = Array.from({ length: 400 }, (_, i) => {
const n = String(i + 1).padStart(4, '0');
return {
ID: i + 1,
Name: `Album ${n}`,
ArtistName: 'Aurora Fields',
Year: 2020,
CoverArtPath: `/covers/${n}.jpg`,
CoverArtSmall: `/covers/${n}_sm.jpg`,
CoverArtMedium: `/covers/${n}_md.jpg`,
CoverArtLarge: `/covers/${n}_lg.jpg`,
};
});
const ARTISTS = Array.from({ length: 400 }, (_, i) => {
const n = String(i + 1).padStart(4, '0');
return {
ID: i + 1,
Name: `Artist ${n}`,
AlbumCount: 2,
TrackCount: 9,
ImageSmall: `/artists/${n}_sm.jpg`,
ImageMedium: `/artists/${n}_md.jpg`,
ImageLarge: `/artists/${n}_lg.jpg`,
};
});
/** Give the virtualizer a viewport; a zero-height host renders nothing. */
function sized(el: HTMLElement): void {
el.style.display = 'block';
el.style.height = '600px';
el.style.width = '900px';
}
async function settle(el: LitElement): Promise<void> {
await flush();
await el.updateComplete;
await new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, 200));
}
/** The `src` of every card the grid actually rendered. */
function renderedSources(el: LitElement, selector: string): string[] {
return shadowAll(el, selector)
.map((img) => (img as HTMLImageElement).getAttribute('src') ?? '')
.filter(Boolean);
}
/**
* The last index the virtualizer has rendered, read off the cards
* rather than counted: the rendered range is what the prefetch window
* is measured from, and a count assumes it starts at 0 and has no
* gaps.
*/
function lastRenderedIndex(el: LitElement, selector: string): number {
const indices = shadowAll(el, selector).map((card) =>
Number(card.getAttribute('data-index')),
);
return Math.max(...indices);
}
/**
* The tier the cards chose, read off a rendered card rather than
* recomputed — the point of the assertion is that the prefetch and the
* card agree, so deriving both from the same ladder here would prove
* nothing.
*/
function tierSuffix(src: string): string {
const m = /_(sm|md|lg)\.jpg$/.exec(src);
return m ? `_${m[1]}` : '';
}
beforeEach(() => {
resetHarness();
resetImagePrefetch();
localStorage.clear();
stub('library.Library.GetAlbums', ALBUMS);
stub('library.Library.GetArtists', ARTISTS);
stub('library.Library.GetTracks', []);
stub('library.Library.GetGenres', []);
emit(Events.LibraryScanComplete);
});
describe('the albums grid warms the covers below the fold', () => {
it('asks for the covers past the rendered range, in the tier the card draws', async () => {
const el = await fixture<LitElement>('cover-grid');
sized(el);
await settle(el);
const rendered = renderedSources(el, 'img.cover-image');
expect(rendered.length).toBeGreaterThan(0);
const tier = tierSuffix(rendered[0]!);
const url = (index: number) =>
`/covers/${String(index + 1).padStart(4, '0')}${tier}.jpg`;
// The grid starts at the top and never scrolls here, so the whole
// window lies past the last card drawn.
const last = lastRenderedIndex(el, '.album-card');
expect(imagePrefetched(url(last + 1))).toBe(true);
expect(imagePrefetched(url(last + PREFETCH_AHEAD))).toBe(true);
});
it('stops at the end of the window rather than warming the library', async () => {
const el = await fixture<LitElement>('cover-grid');
sized(el);
await settle(el);
const rendered = renderedSources(el, 'img.cover-image');
const tier = tierSuffix(rendered[0]!);
const url = (index: number) =>
`/covers/${String(index + 1).padStart(4, '0')}${tier}.jpg`;
// Not "exactly `last + PREFETCH_AHEAD`": the grid lays out more
// than once on mount and each pass warms a window from wherever
// the rendered range was then, so the reachable set is a few
// windows wide. The property that matters is that it is a window
// at all rather than the library.
expect(imagePrefetched(url(399))).toBe(false);
expect(window.__yjCacheStats?.()['imagePrefetch']?.entries ?? 0)
.toBeLessThan(ALBUMS.length / 2);
});
});
describe('the artists grid warms its avatars the same way', () => {
it('asks for the avatars past the rendered range', async () => {
const el = await fixture<LitElement>('artists-view');
sized(el);
await settle(el);
const rendered = renderedSources(el, 'img.avatar-image');
expect(rendered.length).toBeGreaterThan(0);
const tier = tierSuffix(rendered[0]!);
const last = lastRenderedIndex(el, '.artist-card');
const url = (index: number) =>
`/artists/${String(index + 1).padStart(4, '0')}${tier}.jpg`;
expect(imagePrefetched(url(last + 1))).toBe(true);
expect(imagePrefetched(url(399))).toBe(false);
});
});
+2
View File
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
<!-- A real, servable image for the prefetch tests: one transparent pixel. -->
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="1" height="1"></svg>

After

Width:  |  Height:  |  Size: 147 B

+113
View File
@@ -0,0 +1,113 @@
/**
* What the grids ask for ahead of the scroll (#65).
*
* The virtualizer renders about 1000px past its viewport and nothing
* else can be asked for, because the `<img>` does not exist until the
* card does — two screens on the reference device, which is a fraction
* of a second at speed. `prefetchImageWindow` issues the request
* before the element, so the assertions here are about *which* rows
* are asked for, that none is asked for twice, and that a request is
* really made rather than merely recorded.
*/
import { describe, expect, it, beforeEach } from 'vitest';
import {
PREFETCH_MEMORY,
imagePrefetched,
prefetchImage,
prefetchImageWindow,
resetImagePrefetch,
} from '@utils/image-prefetch';
/** A hundred cards, each with its own cover URL. */
const CARDS = Array.from({ length: 100 }, (_, i) => ({ url: `/covers/${i}_sm.jpg` }));
const urlOf = (card: { url: string }) => card.url;
beforeEach(() => {
resetImagePrefetch();
});
describe('warming the images a scroll is about to reach', () => {
it('asks for the rows just past the rendered range, and no further', () => {
const issued = prefetchImageWindow(CARDS, 40, 50, urlOf, 3);
// Three past each edge: 51-53 and 37-39.
expect(issued).toBe(6);
expect(imagePrefetched('/covers/51_sm.jpg')).toBe(true);
expect(imagePrefetched('/covers/53_sm.jpg')).toBe(true);
expect(imagePrefetched('/covers/54_sm.jpg')).toBe(false);
expect(imagePrefetched('/covers/39_sm.jpg')).toBe(true);
expect(imagePrefetched('/covers/37_sm.jpg')).toBe(true);
expect(imagePrefetched('/covers/36_sm.jpg')).toBe(false);
});
it('leaves the rendered rows alone — they have their own <img>', () => {
prefetchImageWindow(CARDS, 40, 50, urlOf, 3);
expect(imagePrefetched('/covers/45_sm.jpg')).toBe(false);
});
it('asks for nothing twice, so a scroll back over the same rows is free', () => {
prefetchImageWindow(CARDS, 40, 50, urlOf, 3);
expect(prefetchImageWindow(CARDS, 40, 50, urlOf, 3)).toBe(0);
});
it('clamps at both ends of the list', () => {
// At the top of a five-item list nothing precedes the range, and
// the tail runs out after two.
expect(prefetchImageWindow(CARDS.slice(0, 5), 0, 2, urlOf, 10)).toBe(2);
});
it('asks for nothing when the virtualizer reports an empty range', () => {
// `visibilityChanged` reports -1/-1 before anything is laid out.
expect(prefetchImageWindow(CARDS, -1, -1, urlOf)).toBe(0);
});
it('skips a card that draws a placeholder rather than an image', () => {
expect(prefetchImageWindow(CARDS, 40, 50, () => '', 3)).toBe(0);
});
it('really issues the request, rather than only recording it', async () => {
// A served file, so the load succeeds and the resource timing entry
// is unambiguous; the query string keeps it distinct per run.
const url = `/test/support/pixel.svg?prefetch=${Date.now()}`;
const href = new URL(url, location.href).href;
expect(prefetchImage(url)).toBe(true);
for (let i = 0; i < 100; i++) {
if (performance.getEntriesByName(href).length > 0) break;
await new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, 20));
}
expect(performance.getEntriesByName(href)).toHaveLength(1);
expect(prefetchImage(url)).toBe(false);
expect(performance.getEntriesByName(href)).toHaveLength(1);
});
it('reports what it is holding, with its cap, to the cache stats', () => {
prefetchImageWindow(CARDS, 40, 50, urlOf, 3);
const stat = window.__yjCacheStats?.()['imagePrefetch'];
expect(stat).toBeTruthy();
expect(stat!.entries).toBe(6);
expect(stat!.limit).toBe(PREFETCH_MEMORY);
// It holds URLs, not images — the bytes are the browser's cache.
expect(stat!.chars).toBe(6 * '/covers/51_sm.jpg'.length);
});
it('keeps its record bounded, so a 50 000-album scroll cannot grow it', () => {
const many = Array.from(
{ length: PREFETCH_MEMORY * 2 },
(_, i) => ({ url: `/covers/bulk-${i}_sm.jpg` }),
);
prefetchImageWindow(many, 0, 0, urlOf, many.length);
expect(window.__yjCacheStats?.()['imagePrefetch']?.entries).toBe(PREFETCH_MEMORY);
});
});