All three prod crash cascades (v0.1.19–21) ended white for the same reason:
the final trap lands inside a child's EFFECT (an embind call reached through
a react-query subscription), React unmounts the entire root, and the fatal
overlay + console panel die with the tree they were built to survive.
- WasmErrorBoundary: crash-capable children live inside it; the fatal screen
and the console panel live OUTSIDE and keep rendering. WasmTool state
(logs included) survives a descendant render/effect throw.
- The fatal screen is now an actual blue screen (:( + solid blue), and every
promotion path (window error, unhandled rejection, worker error, boundary)
auto-opens the console — the log is the only account of what was loading.
- tests/web/fatal-overlay.spec.ts pins the contract: a terminal uncaught
error after boot ⇒ visible fatal overlay + open console with the [fatal]
record. Green locally (23.9s).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019SE4o46Lnq3hF574FFq8x4
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