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  • The photo viewer now loads when a photo opens, instead of being part of the layout every page loads
  • The layout chunk drops from 593 to 507 KB (188.6 → 162.3 kB gzip)
  • Pages without commit cards, like settings, load 86 KB less before they render; pages showing commits load about the same, since they need the commit card code anyway
  • Opening a photo looks and works the same
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  • Improvements
    • The photo viewer now loads when a photo first appears and remains on the page after the photo is closed. This provides a consistent viewing experience when opening and closing photos. The viewer is not displayed before a photo has appeared.

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Could you provide before-after recordings to see how it affects (if at all) images loading times (when you explicitly refresh on an opened image), as well as drafts and composer?

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done

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@nunomaduro This PR touches secret scanning. Could you take a look?

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The secret scanner and its warnings have been removed in #999. The scanner-related portion of this PR no longer applies.

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@hbenabdallah hbenabdallah changed the title perf: load the secret scanner and the photo viewer only when they are needed perf: load the photo viewer only when a photo opens Oct 22, 2026
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@xHeaven @brendt @nunomaduro could you review this when you have a moment?

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AppLayout now loads CommitImageViewer lazily. It tracks whether a photo has appeared and renders the viewer inside Suspense after that occurs, while the page is not deleted.

Changes: Commit image viewer

Layer / File(s) Summary
Lazy viewer loading and rendering
resources/js/layouts/app-layout.tsx
AppLayout reads an optional photo prop, tracks whether a photo has appeared, and lazily loads CommitImageViewer. It renders the viewer inside Suspense after a photo has appeared and while the page is not deleted.

Priority: Low

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Refactor

Possibly related PRs

  • dev-null-sh/dev-null.sh#1205: It applies the same lazy-loading pattern to CommitImageViewer in app-layout.tsx and another photo entry point.

Suggested reviewers: xheaven

Merge Risk: Moderate · previous review 9efe4

Opening a photo from an older tab after deployment could unmount the page if the viewer chunk is unavailable. Add a recovery path before merging.

Security architecture risk: Low · up to 9efe4

The change does not show an expanded authorization or data-access boundary. The main risk is failure containment: if the deferred viewer fails to load, opening a photo can disrupt the application rather than only the viewer.

Retained concerns

  • Low · reliability · inferred: A rejected deferred viewer import can escape the photo-viewer subtree and disrupt the active application. Suspense handles pending loading, not rejected imports, and the inspected application tree provides no application-defined error boundary. Unlike the previous eager dependency, this failure can occur when opening a photo after a successful page load. Exposure is bounded to the affected browser session; no attacker-controlled import target was identified.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The identified failure path affects the application UI in a browser session that activates the viewer. The inspected change does not establish cross-tenant, server-side, or data-store impact.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • inferred — The changed entrypoint alters when existing viewer code runs, rather than granting new authority. Its fixed import and unchanged photo consumer provide no supported path from photo-controlled data to arbitrary module loading or a new privileged sink.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — Repeated opens reuse the activated viewer, while absent-photo callbacks remain guarded. These controls counter a stale-photo transition concern but do not recover a rejected lazy import.
Pre-merge checks: Passed 4 · Failed 1

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