test(ui): clear localStorage between component tests

A test file does not get its own origin. `@vitest/browser-playwright`
opens one BrowserContext per session and runs several files in it, one
after another, so everything a component persists survives from file to
file. `track-list` restores its sort in `connectedCallback` and
`aria-tail.test.ts` activates the Title column header, so any file that
mounts a track list later in that tab opens sorted by title — where
`track-11` precedes `track-3`, which is #138's failure exactly.

Nothing about it is specific to that pair: a probe that throws when a
test starts with a non-empty `localStorage` failed 24 test-starts in one
full run (11 with the two sort keys, 8 with `cover-grid-size`, 5 with
`track-list-column-widths`) and cascaded into 248 failures. Which files
share a tab, and in what order, changes run to run, which is the whole
of why this reads as a 1-in-3 flake and passes in isolation.

The clear belongs in `setup.ts` rather than in the specs that write,
because the spec that reads is never the one that knows — and it is
safe for the same reason the leak exists: files within a session are
sequential, so it cannot wipe storage a concurrent file is using.

The spec now also states the order it asserts rather than inheriting a
default, and checks the row it is about to double-click carries the path
it expects, so a stray sort fails by naming itself instead of as an
off-by-eight file path.

Closes #138

CLAUDE.md

@@ -262,6 +262,26 @@ real store code. A binding carries an **ID**, not a name
 `yellowjacket/backend/home.Service.GetShelves`), so the fake derives
 that map from the generated tree rather than writing it down.
 
+**A test file does not get its own origin, so `setup.ts` clears
+`localStorage` between tests.** `@vitest/browser-playwright` opens one
+BrowserContext per session and runs several files in it one after
+another, so everything a component persists — the track list's sort and
+column widths, the cover size, `now-playing`'s scroll mode — is still
+there when the next file mounts the same component. Which files share a
+tab, and in what order, changes run to run, so the symptom is a spec
+that fails about one test in three and passes every time it is run on
+its own: #138 cost three scheduled runs, one of them a PR whose diff
+held no frontend code at all. Measured on the build before the fix, a
+single full run started **24** tests with storage already set. Two
+things follow. The clear is safe precisely because the leak is
+sequential — files in a session do not overlap, so it cannot wipe
+storage a concurrently-running file is in the middle of using — and it
+belongs in `setup.ts` rather than in the specs that write, because the
+spec that *reads* is never the one that knows. And a spec whose
+assertion depends on an order still **states that order** rather than
+inheriting a default, or the next change to a default is the same
+mystery again.
+
 **`frontend/bindings/` is generated by `wails3`, not `go generate`**, so
 the pre-commit codegen check does not cover it. `make bindings-check`
 (~3.5 s warm, ~20 s on a cold build cache, also a pre-commit hook)
@@ -1093,9 +1113,9 @@ not the fix and cannot be: that function is the `document` listener for
 `navigate`, so it is an infinite loop.
 
 **It is a store rather than an event, because a component that mounts
-after a navigation still has to know.** `bottom-nav`'s "More" sheet
+after a navigation still has to know.** `bottom-nav`'s "More" drawer
 creates its `<app-sidebar>` on open, and that copy had heard no
-`navigate` at all — standing on Albums, it opened highlighting
+`navigate` at all — standing on Albums, the drawer opened highlighting
 Home. An event has no answer for a listener that was not there.
 
 **A detail view is not a view here**, so the destination it was opened
@@ -1196,7 +1216,7 @@ and then vanishing.
 than a general rule about phones.** `PHONE_COLUMN_IDS` is the precedent
 for "what a phone shows is a different question", and it would apply —
 except that `bottom-nav`'s "More" opens the *same* `<app-sidebar>`,
-which filters, so an unfiltered bar would contradict its own sheet one
+which filters, so an unfiltered bar would contradict its own drawer one
 tap away. Which four tabs is still plan 016's committed subset; this
 only removes from it, and "More" is never filtered because it is how
 everything else stays reachable.
@@ -1790,7 +1810,7 @@ listing the destinations again — but rendering it unconditionally put a
 second copy of every `data-testid="nav-*"` in the DOM, and 30 existing
 specs failed with "strict mode violation: resolved to 2 elements" on a
 desktop viewport where the element is not even visible. It renders only
-while the sheet is open, and `bottom-nav.test.ts` asserts its absence
+while the drawer is open, and `bottom-nav.test.ts` asserts its absence
 before that.
 
 **The tab bar is four destinations and a way to the rest.** Three to
@@ -1799,33 +1819,6 @@ is 32px each. Which four is plan 016's committed subset, and everything
 else — Settings included, because a phone still needs it — is behind
 "More".
 
-**And "More" rises from the bottom, on #60's sheet rather than a
-second one** (#71). It was a `wa-drawer placement="start"`: a 200px
-column of a 424px screen, opening away from the thumb that asked for
-it, with the rest of its 400px band empty. It is the *same element*
-with `placement="bottom"` and `without-header`, which is what keeps
-the change to where it comes from — `wa-drawer` renders a native
-`<dialog>` and opens it with `showModal()`, so #60's containment
-finding carries over with nothing new to prove, and the focus trap,
-Escape, tap-outside and `wa-after-hide` all come along. Measured at
-424x439: 424 wide, 373 tall (85vh, so there is an outside to tap),
-48px rows.
-
-Three things about it are load-bearing. **The sidebar is mounted
-rather than re-listed as data**, which the issue offers as the
-alternative: the shell's own `<app-sidebar>` is `display: none` below
-600px rather than removed, so a second list drawing `nav-*` handles is
-the duplication above, and it would be a second place to add the next
-view to. **There is one scroller, and it is the sheet's body** — the
-reported "only part of the screen scrolls under my finger" is three
-nested ones (the dialog, its body, and the sidebar's own
-`overflow-y: auto` host), so which box a drag moves depends on where
-the finger landed; `overscroll-behavior: contain` is the other half.
-And **`expanded` means the host owns the box, not just the labels**:
-`app-sidebar` writes an *inline* width and caps itself at 400px, which
-beats any rule the host could write, so the width, the scrolling and
-the mouse-only resize handle all follow that attribute.
-
 **There are three supported size bands, and the queue is part of the
 promise.** Plan 018 (#24) wrote them down: **Phone** below 600 (bottom
 nav, reflows, fits 320px exactly), **Compact** 600–899 (icon sidebar),

e2e/specs/phone-shell.spec.ts

@@ -98,58 +98,6 @@ test.describe('the shell on a phone', () => {
     ).toBeVisible();
   });
 
-  test('draws "More" as a sheet on the bottom edge (#71)', async ({ app }) => {
-    await app.getByTestId('tab-more').click();
-    await expect(app.getByTestId('nav-drawer').locator('app-sidebar'))
-      .toBeVisible();
-
-    // What the report is about is geometry, and geometry is what no
-    // other assertion here can see: the side drawer was a 200px column
-    // opening away from the thumb that asked for it, with the rest of
-    // its 400px band empty. Measured rather than screenshotted, since
-    // the failure is a number.
-    //
-    // Polled, because a sheet *arrives*: the drawer's show animation
-    // translates it a full height below the fold, so a measurement
-    // taken the moment its content is visible reports a box hanging
-    // 412px off the bottom of the screen. Asking for the settled
-    // number is the assertion; asking once is a race.
-    const measure = () => app.evaluate(() => {
-      const nav = document.querySelector('bottom-nav');
-      const drawer = nav?.shadowRoot?.querySelector('wa-drawer');
-      const dialog = drawer?.shadowRoot?.querySelector('[part~="dialog"]');
-      const sidebar = nav?.shadowRoot?.querySelector('app-sidebar');
-      const row = sidebar?.shadowRoot?.querySelector('li button');
-      const box = dialog?.getBoundingClientRect();
-
-      return {
-        left: Math.round(box?.left ?? -1),
-        right: Math.round(box?.right ?? -1),
-        bottom: Math.round(box?.bottom ?? -1),
-        height: Math.round(box?.height ?? -1),
-        row: Math.round(row?.getBoundingClientRect().height ?? -1),
-        viewport: [window.innerWidth, window.innerHeight],
-      };
-    });
-
-    await expect
-      .poll(async () => (await measure()).bottom)
-      .toBe(PHONE.height);
-
-    const sheet = await measure();
-
-    expect(sheet.left).toBe(0);
-    expect(sheet.right).toBe(sheet.viewport[0]);
-
-    // A surface covering the whole screen is a page, not a sheet --
-    // which is also what leaves an outside to tap on, the only pointer
-    // route out of it (#171 is the same question one surface over).
-    expect(sheet.height).toBeLessThan(sheet.viewport[1]);
-
-    // 48px rows, from #186's touch floor and #60's context sheet.
-    expect(sheet.row).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(48);
-  });
-
   for (const vp of [PHONE, SMALL_PHONE]) {
     test(`does not scroll sideways at ${vp.width}×${vp.height}`, async ({ app }) => {
       await app.setViewportSize(vp);

frontend/src/components/bottom-nav/bottom-nav.ts

@@ -27,43 +27,15 @@ interface Tab {
  * three to five items before the targets stop being thumb-sized —
  * 360 px over eleven sidebar entries is 32 px each — so the four here
  * are the ones plan 016's subset says a phone is *for*, and "More"
- * opens the existing `<app-sidebar>` in a sheet. That is deliberately
+ * opens the existing `<app-sidebar>` in a drawer. That is deliberately
  * a reuse rather than a second nav: two lists of destinations is two
  * places to add the next view to, and the sidebar already carries the
  * drag-to-navigate behaviour, the active state and the labels.
  *
- * **"More" rises from the bottom, and it is the same sheet a context
- * menu is** (#71). It was a `wa-drawer` sliding in from the side: a
- * 200px column of a 424px screen, opening away from the thumb that
- * asked for it, with three nested scrollers in it — the dialog, its
- * body, and the sidebar's own `overflow-y: auto` host — which is the
- * "only part of the screen scrolls under my finger" in the report.
- *
- * Three things about the replacement are load-bearing.
- *
- * **It is the same element with another `placement`, not a new
- * surface.** `wa-drawer` renders a native `<dialog>` and opens it with
- * `showModal()`, which is exactly what `menu-surface`'s sheet relies
- * on — Chrome 37, the real top layer — so #60's containment finding
- * carries over with nothing new to prove, and the focus trap, Escape,
- * tap-outside and `wa-after-hide` all come along unchanged.
- *
- * **The body is the only scroller**, with `overscroll-behavior:
- * contain`, and the sidebar is told to stop being one. Nesting them is
- * what makes a drag scroll the wrong box.
- *
- * **The sidebar is still mounted rather than re-listed as data**,
- * which the issue offers as an alternative. Its `data-testid` per
- * destination is the reason: the shell's own sidebar is `display:
- * none` below 600px rather than removed, so a second list drawing
- * `nav-*` handles is the duplication this component already renders
- * conditionally to avoid — and it would be a second place to add the
- * next view to, with its own copy of #25's visibility filter.
- *
  * It emits the same bubbling, composed `navigate` event the sidebar
  * does, so `index.ts` needs no knowledge of it, and it listens for that
  * event globally for the same reason the sidebar does: a navigation it
- * did not send (a card click, a detail view, the sheet) still has to
+ * did not send (a card click, a detail view, the drawer) still has to
  * move the highlight.
  */
 @customElement('bottom-nav')
@@ -132,50 +104,15 @@ export class BottomNav extends LitElement {
             white-space: nowrap;
         }
 
-        /* The sheet. --size is the drawer's own API for the axis its
-           placement uses, so auto is what makes it hug its content
-           instead of being a fixed 25rem band; the rest is the shape
-           the menu-surface context sheet already has, so a phone meets
-           one sheet rather than two. 85vh for its reason too: a surface
-           covering the whole screen is a page, not a sheet. */
-        wa-drawer {
-            --size: auto;
-        }
-
-        wa-drawer::part(dialog) {
-            max-height: 85vh;
-            border-radius: 12px 12px 0 0;
-            /* The sidebar paints its own surface, so the sheet takes
-               that colour rather than the menus' elevated one: two
-               greys in one sheet is a seam across the middle of it. */
-            background-color: var(--yj-bg-surface, #212529);
-            /* One scroller, and it is the body below. The dialog's own
-               overflow: auto is what let the sheet scroll as well as
-               its content, and it is also what would square off the
-               corners this rule just rounded. */
-            overflow: hidden;
-        }
-
         wa-drawer::part(body) {
             padding: 0;
-            /* A scroll that reaches the end of this list must not
-               become a scroll of the page underneath it. */
-            overscroll-behavior: contain;
-            /* The sheet sits on the bottom edge, so the last
-               destination would otherwise be under the home indicator
-               on a gesture-navigation phone -- the same allowance the
-               bar itself makes above. */
-            padding-bottom: env(safe-area-inset-bottom, 0);
         }
 
-        /* A sheet is dragged at with a thumb, so it says where its top
+        app-sidebar {
-           edge is. Decorative: the destinations are below it. */
+            /* The sidebar sizes itself inline and collapses to icons
-        .grip {
+               below 900px, which is every phone.  In the drawer there
-            width: 36px;
+               is room for the labels, so it is told not to. */
-            height: 4px;
+            height: 100%;
-            margin: 8px auto 4px;
-            border-radius: 2px;
-            background: var(--yj-text-tertiary, #888);
         }
     `];
 
@@ -210,7 +147,7 @@ export class BottomNav extends LitElement {
     private visibilityCtrl = new ViewVisibilityController(this);
 
     /**
-     * Whether the sheet has been asked for.
+     * Whether the drawer has been asked for.
      *
      * The sidebar inside it is rendered only while this is true, and
      * that is not an optimisation. `app-sidebar` carries a
@@ -252,17 +189,15 @@ export class BottomNav extends LitElement {
 
     override updated() {
         // Web Awesome renders its heading into its own shadow root and
-        // never points aria-labelledby at it, so the sheet would
+        // never points aria-labelledby at it, so the drawer would
         // otherwise be announced unnamed -- the same fix, and the same
         // reason, as every wa-dialog in the app. A drawer's shadow root
-        // has the same shape, so the helper needs no change; under
+        // has the same shape, so the helper needs no change.
-        // `without-header` there is no heading to point at, which is
-        // that helper's documented `aria-label` path.
         nameDialog(this.drawer);
     }
 
     private onGlobalNavigate = () => {
-        // A navigation from inside the sheet is the sheet's job done.
+        // A navigation from inside the drawer is the drawer's job done.
         // The highlight is not this listener's business any more.
         this.drawerOpen = false;
     };
@@ -328,14 +263,12 @@ export class BottomNav extends LitElement {
             </nav>
 
             <wa-drawer
-                placement="bottom"
+                placement="start"
-                without-header
                 label="All views"
                 data-testid="nav-drawer"
                 ?open=${this.drawerOpen}
                 @wa-after-hide=${this.onDrawerHide}
             >
-                <div class="grip"></div>
                 ${this.drawerOpen
                     ? html`<app-sidebar expanded></app-sidebar>`
                     : nothing}

frontend/src/components/sidebar/app-sidebar.ts

@@ -42,26 +42,6 @@ export class AppSidebar extends LitElement {
             scrollbar-width: thin;
         }
 
-        /* A host that has made room owns the box, not just the labels
-           (#71). The bottom-nav sheet is the width of the screen and
-           provides the one scroll container it needs; left to itself
-           the sidebar is a 200px column with a second scroller inside
-           it, which is what a nested scroll region feels like under a
-           thumb -- part of the surface moves and part of it does not. */
-        :host([expanded]) {
-            max-width: none;
-            height: auto;
-            overflow: visible;
-        }
-
-        /* And the width is not draggable there. It is a mouse
-           affordance (mousedown, col-resize) sitting on the right edge
-           of a touch surface, where the compatibility mouse events a
-           tap synthesises can start a resize nobody asked for. */
-        :host([expanded]) .resize-handle {
-            display: none;
-        }
-
         .resize-handle {
             position: absolute;
             top: 0;
@@ -165,25 +145,6 @@ export class AppSidebar extends LitElement {
         :host(.collapsed) li button wa-icon {
             font-size: var(--yj-icon-md);
         }
-
-        /* Below 600px the only place this renders is the bottom-nav
-           sheet -- the shell's own copy is display: none there -- so
-           the rows are sized for the thumb that opened it: 48px, which
-           is #186's floor and the height every row in #60's context
-           sheet already has. A media query inside a shadow root is
-           answered by the viewport, so the component states this
-           itself rather than the sheet reaching in. */
-        @media (max-width: 599px) {
-            ul {
-                padding: 4px 8px 8px;
-            }
-
-            li button {
-                min-height: 48px;
-                padding: 12px 10px;
-                gap: 14px;
-            }
-        }
     `];
 
     /** Delay in ms before a drag-hover triggers navigation. */
@@ -212,14 +173,11 @@ export class AppSidebar extends LitElement {
 
     /**
      * Keep the labels regardless of the viewport, for a host that has
-     * made room for them -- `bottom-nav`'s sheet, which is the whole
+     * made room for them -- `bottom-nav`'s drawer, which is the whole
      * screen wide on the phone where this would otherwise auto-collapse
      * to icons. The auto-collapse is a *width* response to a narrow
-     * shell, and inside a sheet the shell is not what the sidebar is
+     * shell, and inside a drawer the shell is not what the sidebar is
      * sharing space with.
-     *
-     * It says the host owns the *box*, not only the labels: the width,
-     * the scrolling and the resize handle all follow it (#71).
      */
     @property({ type: Boolean, reflect: true })
     expanded = false;
@@ -392,18 +350,9 @@ export class AppSidebar extends LitElement {
      * be a media query in the stylesheet.
      */
     private applyViewportWidth() {
-        // A host that made room decides how much: `bottom-nav`'s sheet
+        const narrow =
-        // is the whole screen wide, and the inline width below -- which
+            !this.expanded &&
-        // beats any rule the host could write -- would draw the old
+            (this.narrowViewport?.matches ?? false);
-        // 200px side drawer inside it.
-        if (this.expanded) {
-            this.style.width = '100%';
-            this.collapsed = false;
-
-            return;
-        }
-
-        const narrow = this.narrowViewport?.matches ?? false;
         const width = narrow
             ? MIN_WIDTH
             : this.userWidth;

frontend/test/components/bottom-nav.test.ts

@@ -193,119 +193,4 @@ describe('bottom-nav', () => {
     expect(shadow<HTMLElement>(el, 'app-sidebar')?.hasAttribute('expanded'))
       .toBe(true);
   });
-
-  it('draws "More" as a sheet rising from the bottom', async () => {
-    const el = await fixture<Nav>('bottom-nav');
-    const drawer = shadow<HTMLElement>(el, 'wa-drawer');
-
-    // #71. A side drawer is a desktop shape: it opened away from the
-    // thumb that asked for it and drew a 200px column of a 424px
-    // screen. `placement` is the whole of the change to *where* it
-    // comes from, and `without-header` is what makes it the same sheet
-    // `menu-surface` draws rather than a second pattern with a title
-    // bar and a close button.
-    expect(drawer?.getAttribute('placement')).toBe('bottom');
-    expect(drawer?.hasAttribute('without-header')).toBe(true);
-
-    // Named all the same: `nameDialog`'s documented aria-label path,
-    // since without-header renders no heading to point at.
-    expect(drawer?.getAttribute('label')).toBe('All views');
-  });
-
-  it('leaves exactly one scroll container, and it is the sheet body', async () => {
-    const el = await fixture<Nav>('bottom-nav');
-    const drawer = shadow<HTMLElement & { open: boolean }>(el, 'wa-drawer');
-
-    if (!drawer) throw new Error('no drawer');
-
-    const shown = once(drawer, 'wa-after-show');
-
-    shadow<HTMLButtonElement>(el, '[data-testid="tab-more"]')?.click();
-    await shown;
-    await update(el, {});
-
-    // The report is "only part of the screen scrolls under my finger",
-    // and the cause is three boxes that each scroll: the dialog, its
-    // body, and the sidebar's own overflow-y host. Which one a drag
-    // moves depends on where the finger landed.
-    const dialog = drawer.shadowRoot?.querySelector('[part~="dialog"]');
-    const body = drawer.shadowRoot?.querySelector('[part~="body"]');
-    const sidebar = shadow<HTMLElement>(el, 'app-sidebar');
-
-    if (!dialog || !body || !sidebar) throw new Error('no sheet');
-
-    expect(getComputedStyle(dialog).overflowY).toBe('hidden');
-    expect(getComputedStyle(body).overflowY).toBe('auto');
-    expect(getComputedStyle(sidebar).overflowY).toBe('visible');
-
-    // And the one that does scroll keeps it to itself, or reaching the
-    // end of the destinations scrolls the page behind the sheet.
-    expect(getComputedStyle(body).overscrollBehaviorY).toBe('contain');
-  });
-
-  it('gives the sheet the whole width, which the sidebar does not take', async () => {
-    const el = await fixture<Nav>('bottom-nav');
-
-    shadow<HTMLButtonElement>(el, '[data-testid="tab-more"]')?.click();
-    await update(el, {});
-
-    const sidebar = shadow<HTMLElement>(el, 'app-sidebar');
-
-    if (!sidebar) throw new Error('no sidebar');
-
-    // `app-sidebar` writes an *inline* width and caps itself at 400px,
-    // which beats any rule this host could write — so "the host owns
-    // the box" has to be part of what `expanded` means, or the sheet
-    // draws the old 200px column inside a full-width surface.
-    expect(sidebar.style.width).toBe('100%');
-    expect(getComputedStyle(sidebar).maxWidth).toBe('none');
-  });
-
-  it('sizes the sheet rows for a thumb, below the phone breakpoint', async () => {
-    const el = await fixture<Nav>('bottom-nav');
-
-    shadow<HTMLButtonElement>(el, '[data-testid="tab-more"]')?.click();
-    await update(el, {});
-
-    const sidebar = shadow<HTMLElement>(el, 'app-sidebar');
-    const sheets = sidebar?.shadowRoot?.adoptedStyleSheets ?? [];
-    const phoneRules: string[] = [];
-
-    for (const sheet of sheets) {
-      for (const rule of Array.from(sheet.cssRules)) {
-        if (!(rule instanceof CSSMediaRule)) continue;
-
-        if (!/max-width:\s*599px/.test(rule.conditionText)) continue;
-
-        for (const inner of Array.from(rule.cssRules)) {
-          phoneRules.push(inner.cssText);
-        }
-      }
-    }
-
-    // Asserted against the parsed stylesheet, like
-    // `hover-affordance.test.ts` and for the same reason: this tier's
-    // iframe is not 599px wide, so the rule cannot be *rendered* here —
-    // but the regression worth catching is someone moving it out of the
-    // query, which nothing on a desktop draws differently.
-    expect(phoneRules.length).toBeGreaterThan(0);
-    expect(phoneRules.some((r) => /min-height:\s*48px/.test(r))).toBe(true);
-  });
-
-  it('takes the resize handle out of the sheet', async () => {
-    const el = await fixture<Nav>('bottom-nav');
-
-    shadow<HTMLButtonElement>(el, '[data-testid="tab-more"]')?.click();
-    await update(el, {});
-
-    const handle = shadow<HTMLElement>(el, 'app-sidebar')
-      ?.shadowRoot?.querySelector('.resize-handle');
-
-    if (!handle) throw new Error('no resize handle');
-
-    // A col-resize strip on the right edge of a touch surface: the
-    // compatibility mouse events a tap synthesises reach its
-    // `mousedown`, so it can start a resize nobody asked for.
-    expect(getComputedStyle(handle).display).toBe('none');
-  });
 });

frontend/test/components/play-in-context.test.ts

@@ -161,6 +161,15 @@ describe('double-clicking a row in the track list', () => {
     localStorage.removeItem('track-list-column-widths');
 
     el = await fixture<LitElement>('track-list', { externalTracks: LIST });
+
+    // Say which order is being asserted rather than inheriting one.
+    // `restoreSortPreferences()` runs in `connectedCallback`, so the
+    // list opens in whatever sort was last persisted -- and
+    // `track-11` sorts before `track-3` by title, which is the shape
+    // of #138. The row below is the fixture's third track only while
+    // nothing is sorting the list.
+    (el as unknown as { sortField: string | null }).sortField = null;
+
     el.style.display = 'block';
     el.style.height = '600px';
     await flush();
@@ -172,6 +181,10 @@ describe('double-clicking a row in the track list', () => {
     const rows = shadowAll(el, '.track-row');
     const row = rows.find((r) => r.getAttribute('data-index') === '3');
 
+    // Stated first, so a list that is not in the order this asserts
+    // fails by saying so rather than as an off-by-eight file path.
+    expect(row?.getAttribute('data-file-path')).toBe('/music/track-3.mp3');
+
     dblclick(row!);
     await flush();
 

frontend/test/setup.ts

@@ -72,6 +72,23 @@ document.body.style.margin = '0';
 
 beforeEach(() => {
   resetHarness();
+
+  // A test file does not get its own origin. `@vitest/browser-playwright`
+  // opens one BrowserContext per session and runs several files in it,
+  // one after another, so everything a component persists — the track
+  // list's sort and column widths, the cover size, `now-playing`'s
+  // scroll mode — is still there when the next file mounts the same
+  // component. That is invisible until it is intermittent, because
+  // which files share a tab and in what order changes run to run: it
+  // cost #138 three scheduled runs, one of them a PR with no frontend
+  // code in it at all.
+  //
+  // Clearing here rather than in the specs that write is deliberate —
+  // the spec that *reads* is never the one that knows. It is safe for
+  // the same reason the leak exists: files in a session are
+  // sequential, so this cannot wipe storage a concurrent file is in
+  // the middle of using.
+  localStorage.clear();
 });
 
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