- Create a promise that will serve as a lock to be blocked on by things that need to wait for the first sync before accessing state.
- Use this promise to block `view_room` calls until a sync has occured instead of just dropping them silently if the sync hasn't happened yet.
- Store the current room ID in a localStorage item `mx_last_room_id` when `view_room` fires. This persists the last viewed room ID so that it can be restored on refresh, browser quit. This replaces the previous logic which set the room following a sync based on the most recent unread room.
Also get rid of the "up" arrow so as not to indiciate direction. This is important because in future the RM will not be based on what has been paginated into the client (but instead RM will be handled server-side) and thus we cannot assert any kind of direction on it relative to the events in the viewport.
MatrixChat was trying to display an error if the session failed to
restore, but it was never actually being shown because it was just
set as a member variable and therefore never actually caused
a re-render for the error to be displayed. Almost all errors are
caught by _restoreFromLocalStorage which displays the fancy dialog
if your session can't be restored, so I'm not convinced this ever
even tried to do anything anyway. Remove it.
Specifically:
```
JS 2.1.1 (Linux 0.0.0) joining a room over federation should not get stuck at a spinner FAILED
Did not find exactly one match (found: 0) for componentType:function (props, context, updater) {
```
actually meant that the room directory wasn't displayed - probably because the dispatch `view_room_directory` ended up on another tick of the event loop, meaning that the directory wasn't displayedi. The fix attempted in ths commit is to use `this._setPage` instead to view the directory. This uses `setState` to set the screen to the directory, so I'm not entirely convinced this will solve the problem (as `setState` may also end up doing things on another tick.
and
```
JS 2.1.1 (Linux 0.0.0) loading: MatrixClient rehydrated from stored credentials: shows a room view if we followed a room link FAILED
MatrixChat still not ready after 5 tries
awaitRoomView@/home/travis/build/vector-im/riot-web/test/all-tests.js:201363:90
```
was happening probably because in the handler for the `sync` event in `MatrixChat` (around line 840), there was one case in which the `ready` state may not be true (causing all 5 attempts to fail), and this case relied on `starting_room_alias_payload`. This `starting_room_alias_payload` is now redundant because of `initialScreenAfterLogin`, which was added recently.
Only zero the local notification count when we actually send a
read receipt, otherwise we cause a re-render of the RoomList every
time the user moves the cursor in the window, basically.
Use an action and force an update when zeroing the number of notifications in a room. This is better than waiting for a `render` to happen at some point. This will hopefully fix https://github.com/vector-im/riot-web/issues/3257
Always show the entered text as an option if it's a valid address,
otherwise there's no way to invite an address that is valid and
also returns other mxids in the search results.
Fixes https://github.com/vector-im/riot-web/issues/3496
To prevent the login screen from flashing when refreshing the app, use some state to indicate that a login is in progress, and OR that with the existing `loading` boolean to show the `<Spinner>` instead of the default `<Login>`.
This might be too invasive, and a default spinner may be better.
The bound functions are only set when the Notifier is started, so
if stop() was called without start() having been called, the
listener function would be null which would throw an exception.
