fix: prevent blank Electron window during startup

[manux81]

Fixes two Electron lifecycle issues observed in development on macOS:

• prevents concurrent createMainWindow() calls
• removes the duplicate activate handler
• retries loading the renderer while webpack-dev-server is still starting
• keeps the splash screen visible until the renderer has actually loaded
• avoids showing a blank BrowserWindow during development startup

Tested by:

• starting the editor from a cold npm run dev
• closing the main window on macOS
• reopening it from the Dock and verifying that only one window is created

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Improved application startup reliability by preventing duplicate or overlapping main-window launches.
  • Added automatic retries when loading the main window or resolving its content fails.
  • Ensured failed startup attempts clean up properly, allowing the app to be launched again.
  • Improved splash-screen handling when loading repeatedly fails.
  • Prevented additional activation requests from interrupting an in-progress window launch.
  • Stopped further retries when the loading window is closed.

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Walkthrough

The main process now prevents concurrent window creation, retries renderer loading, cleans up failed windows, and permits later activation recovery. IPC module contracts now type stores as Store<TStoreType>. Tests cover failure, retry, destruction, and activation paths.

Changes

Main window lifecycle

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Guard window creation src/main/main.ts	createMainWindow blocks repeated or concurrent creation, awaits renderer loading, cleans up failed windows, closes the splash, and resets creation state. The MainProcessBridge construction no longer uses a double assertion.
Retry and display window src/main/main.ts, src/main/__tests__/window-lifecycle.test.ts	Renderer URL resolution and loading failures use the retry path. Tests cover retry exhaustion, cleanup, activation suppression, and stopping retries after window destruction.
Type IPC store dependencies src/backend/editor/contracts/types/modules/ipc/main.ts	The store property uses Store<TStoreType> in both exported IPC module types.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant app
  participant createMainWindow
  participant mainWindow
  participant splash
  app->>createMainWindow: emit activate
  createMainWindow->>createMainWindow: reject concurrent creation
  createMainWindow->>mainWindow: resolve URL and retry loadURL
  mainWindow-->>createMainWindow: load succeeds or exhausts retries
  createMainWindow->>mainWindow: destroy failed window
  createMainWindow->>splash: close splash after failure
  createMainWindow->>createMainWindow: reset creation state

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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 186b9

Main-window startup now avoids duplicate or blank windows while renderer loading is retried and failed windows are cleaned up. The covered lifecycle paths indicate no remaining merge-blocking risk.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 1 functions across 3 files.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the primary change: preventing a blank Electron window during startup.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description clearly summarizes the lifecycle fixes and documents development testing. It does not include the template's References or DOD checklist sections, but the core change and validation in…
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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Inline comments:
In `@src/main/main.ts`:
- Line 219: Update the retry-exhaustion error path near the main window loading
logic to destroy the failed mainWindow, clear its reference, and close the
splash window after logging the failure. Ensure the activation guard can
recreate a valid window and cannot reuse the unloaded hidden instance.
- Line 222: Update the loadMainWindow invocation to handle its promise rejection
explicitly, and ensure resolveHtmlPath('index.html') executes within the retry
try block so failures follow the existing retry handling instead of bypassing
it.
- Line 335: Remove the “as unknown as MainIpcModuleConstructor” double assertion
from the object passed to MainProcessBridge, allowing TypeScript to perform
normal structural validation against MainIpcModuleConstructor.

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