refactor(web): the background activity setting and its dialog live in their own file#22669

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Moves the background activity row, its advanced dialog, and its constants into BackgroundActivitySettings.tsx. The row is now a BackgroundActivitySettingsRow component that owns the dialog's open state. Before, that state lived in GeneralSettingsPanel, so opening or closing the dialog re-rendered the whole General page; now only the row re-renders.

FileBeforeAfter
SettingsPanels.tsx24131952
BackgroundActivitySettings.tsx-487

Renders. Measured with ~/.cache/cvlayers/rc-init.js (counts only the fibers React rendered) on a dev server seeded by vp run migrate-dev-db, driven by agent-browser. Main is 6a6c84f990; after is the stack top, 1da6ebacee. Each cell is the median of 3 runs, shown as React commits / component renders. The Connections layers above this one don't touch the General page, so these numbers are this layer's effect.

Interactionmainafter
open General9 / 9429 / 943
toggle a setting (Rich text composer)1 / 1031 / 104
background activity dialog open + close39 / 44139 / 385

Opening and closing the dialog drops 56 renders (441 to 385): only BackgroundActivitySettingsRow re-renders, not all of GeneralSettingsPanel. Opening the page and toggling a setting each cost 1 extra render, for the new row component.

Tests run: tsc-rs --noEmit for apps/web, vp lint on changed files, vp test run src/reactCompilerCoverage.test.ts -t settings/ (0 bailouts), SettingsPanels.logic.test.ts, ConnectionsSettings.logic.test.ts.

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Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This PR extracts the existing background-activity settings row and dialog into a dedicated component without changing their behavior, defaults, or render location. It introduces no schema, deployment, security, billing, or static-analysis configuration changes.

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Background-activity settings now use a dedicated component. It provides standard profiles and advanced controls for environment-scoped settings. SettingsPanels removes the inline implementation and renders the new component.

Changes: Background Activity Settings

Layer / File(s)Summary
Profiles and advanced controls
apps/web/src/components/settings/BackgroundActivitySettings.tsx
The dedicated component provides profile selection, interval controls, pause-policy overrides, reset behavior, and write-permission handling.
Scoped settings integration
apps/web/src/components/settings/BackgroundActivitySettings.tsx, apps/web/src/components/settings/SettingsPanels.tsx
The settings row resolves mixed and advanced states and restricts Advanced configuration to single-environment scopes. SettingsPanels removes the inline dialog and renders the new row.

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Change: Refactor

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apps/web/src/components/settings/BackgroundActivitySettings.tsxlines 382–385Outdated · e1859aeOpen thread
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382+ const resolvedBackgroundActivity = resolveServerBackgroundActivitySettings(settings);
383+ const activeBackgroundActivityProfile = resolvedBackgroundActivity.profile;
384+ const backgroundActivityProfileOption = resolveBackgroundActivityProfileOption(settings);
385+ const mixedBackgroundActivity = useScopedSettingsMixed(["backgroundActivity"]);
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🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Move useScopedSettingsMixed above the plain calls on settings.

settings goes into plain function calls on both sides of the useScopedSettingsMixed hook call:

  • Before the hook: resolveServerBackgroundActivitySettings(settings) on Line 382 and resolveBackgroundActivityProfileOption(settings) on Line 384.
  • After the hook: Equal.equals(settings.backgroundActivity, …) on Line 392.

In this pattern, the React Compiler gives no cache scope to the values derived from settings. Your coverage test does not catch this, because it is not a bailout. This row is new, so fix the order now. Call every hook first, then derive the values.

As per coding guidelines: "The compiler withholds a cache scope when a value reaches plain function calls on both sides of a hook call… Fix the order instead: plain uses of a value go before the hook, or the helper is inlined." As per path instructions: "Hold changed code to the rules in docs/internals/web-ui.md."

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1--- "a/apps/web/src/components/settings/BackgroundActivitySettings.tsx"
2+++ "b/apps/web/src/components/settings/BackgroundActivitySettings.tsx"
3@@ -378,11 +378,11 @@
4 const { scope, environment } = useSettingsScope();
5 const environmentId = environment?.environmentId ?? null;
6 const isEnvironmentScope = scope.environmentIds.length === 1 && environmentId !== null;
7 const [backgroundActivityDialogOpen, setBackgroundActivityDialogOpen] = useState(false);
8+ const mixedBackgroundActivity = useScopedSettingsMixed(["backgroundActivity"]);
9 const resolvedBackgroundActivity = resolveServerBackgroundActivitySettings(settings);
10 const activeBackgroundActivityProfile = resolvedBackgroundActivity.profile;
11 const backgroundActivityProfileOption = resolveBackgroundActivityProfileOption(settings);
12- const mixedBackgroundActivity = useScopedSettingsMixed(["backgroundActivity"]);
13 const backgroundActivityDescription =
14 backgroundActivityProfileOption === "advanced"
15 ? `${ADVANCED_BACKGROUND_ACTIVITY_DESCRIPTION} Shared policy: ${
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1 const mixedBackgroundActivity = useScopedSettingsMixed(["backgroundActivity"]);
2 const resolvedBackgroundActivity = resolveServerBackgroundActivitySettings(settings);
3 const activeBackgroundActivityProfile = resolvedBackgroundActivity.profile;
4 const backgroundActivityProfileOption = resolveBackgroundActivityProfileOption(settings);
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9Move the useScopedSettingsMixed hook call before the
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