FEATURE: Paginate categories when there are many (#29569)

This commit removes the new optimized category style introduced in
previous commits (d37a0d40, 9a80d718 and 430c42ac), in favour of the
existent `categories_only`.

app/assets/javascripts/discourse/app/components/categories-only-optimized.hbs

@@ -1,112 +0,0 @@
-<PluginOutlet
-  @name="categories-only-wrapper"
-  @outletArgs={{hash categories=this.categories}}
->
-  {{#if this.categories}}
-    {{#if this.filteredCategories}}
-      {{#if this.site.mobileView}}
-        <div
-          class="category-list optimized {{if this.showTopics 'with-topics'}}"
-        >
-          {{#each this.filteredCategories as |c|}}
-            <ParentCategoryRowOptimized
-              @category={{c}}
-              @showTopics={{this.showTopics}}
-            />
-          {{/each}}
-        </div>
-      {{else}}
-        <table
-          class="category-list optimized {{if this.showTopics 'with-topics'}}"
-        >
-          <thead>
-            <tr>
-              <th class="category"><span
-                  role="heading"
-                  aria-level="2"
-                  id="categories-only-category"
-                >{{i18n "categories.category"}}</span></th>
-              <th class="topics">{{i18n "categories.topics"}}</th>
-              {{#if this.showTopics}}
-                <th class="latest">{{i18n "categories.latest"}}</th>
-              {{/if}}
-            </tr>
-          </thead>
-          <tbody aria-labelledby="categories-only-category">
-            {{#each this.categories as |category|}}
-              <ParentCategoryRowOptimized
-                @category={{category}}
-                @showTopics={{this.showTopics}}
-              />
-            {{/each}}
-          </tbody>
-        </table>
-      {{/if}}
-    {{/if}}
-
-    {{#if this.mutedCategories}}
-      <div class="muted-categories">
-        <a
-          href
-          class="muted-categories-link"
-          {{on "click" this.toggleShowMuted}}
-        >
-          <h3 class="muted-categories-heading">{{i18n "categories.muted"}}</h3>
-          {{#if this.mutedToggleIcon}}
-            {{d-icon this.mutedToggleIcon}}
-          {{/if}}
-        </a>
-        {{#if this.site.mobileView}}
-          <div
-            class="category-list optimized
-              {{if this.showTopics 'with-topics'}}
-              {{unless this.showMutedCategories 'hidden'}}"
-          >
-            {{#each this.mutedCategories as |c|}}
-              <ParentCategoryRowOptimized
-                @category={{c}}
-                @showTopics={{this.showTopics}}
-                @listType="muted"
-              />
-            {{/each}}
-          </div>
-        {{else}}
-          <table
-            class="category-list optimized
-              {{if this.showTopics 'with-topics'}}
-              {{unless this.showMutedCategories 'hidden'}}"
-          >
-            <thead>
-              <tr>
-                <th class="category"><span
-                    role="heading"
-                    aria-level="2"
-                    id="categories-only-category-muted"
-                  >{{i18n "categories.category"}}</span></th>
-                <th class="topics">{{i18n "categories.topics"}}</th>
-                {{#if this.showTopics}}
-                  <th class="latest">{{i18n "categories.latest"}}</th>
-                {{/if}}
-              </tr>
-            </thead>
-            <tbody aria-labelledby="categories-only-category-muted">
-              {{#each this.categories as |category|}}
-                <ParentCategoryRowOptimized
-                  @category={{category}}
-                  @showTopics={{this.showTopics}}
-                  @listType="muted"
-                />
-              {{/each}}
-            </tbody>
-          </table>
-        {{/if}}
-      </div>
-    {{/if}}
-  {{/if}}
-</PluginOutlet>
-
-<PluginOutlet
-  @name="below-categories-only"
-  @connectorTagName="div"
-  @outletArgs={{hash categories=this.categories showTopics=this.showTopics}}
-/>

app/assets/javascripts/discourse/app/components/categories-only-optimized.js

@@ -1,56 +0,0 @@
-import Component from "@ember/component";
-import { action } from "@ember/object";
-import { tagName } from "@ember-decorators/component";
-import discourseComputed from "discourse-common/utils/decorators";
-
-@tagName("")
-export default class CategoriesOnlyOptimized extends Component {
-  showMuted = false;
-
-  @discourseComputed("showMutedCategories", "filteredCategories.length")
-  mutedToggleIcon(showMutedCategories, filteredCategoriesLength) {
-    if (filteredCategoriesLength === 0) {
-      return;
-    }
-
-    if (showMutedCategories) {
-      return "minus";
-    }
-
-    return "plus";
-  }
-
-  @discourseComputed("showMuted", "filteredCategories.length")
-  showMutedCategories(showMuted, filteredCategoriesLength) {
-    return showMuted || filteredCategoriesLength === 0;
-  }
-
-  @discourseComputed("categories", "categories.length")
-  filteredCategories(categories, categoriesLength) {
-    if (!categories || categoriesLength === 0) {
-      return [];
-    }
-
-    return categories.filter((cat) => !cat.isHidden);
-  }
-
-  @discourseComputed("categories", "categories.length")
-  mutedCategories(categories, categoriesLength) {
-    if (!categories || categoriesLength === 0) {
-      return [];
-    }
-
-    // hide in single category pages
-    if (categories.firstObject.parent_category_id) {
-      return [];
-    }
-
-    return categories.filterBy("hasMuted");
-  }
-
-  @action
-  toggleShowMuted(event) {
-    event?.preventDefault();
-    this.toggleProperty("showMuted");
-  }
-}

app/assets/javascripts/discourse/app/components/discovery/categories-display.gjs

@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ import CategoriesAndTopTopics from "discourse/components/categories-and-top-topi
 import CategoriesBoxes from "discourse/components/categories-boxes";
 import CategoriesBoxesWithTopics from "discourse/components/categories-boxes-with-topics";
 import CategoriesOnly from "discourse/components/categories-only";
-import CategoriesOnlyOptimized from "discourse/components/categories-only-optimized";
 import CategoriesWithFeaturedTopics from "discourse/components/categories-with-featured-topics";
 import ConditionalLoadingSpinner from "discourse/components/conditional-loading-spinner";
 import LoadMore from "discourse/components/load-more";
@@ -17,7 +16,6 @@ import { MAX_UNOPTIMIZED_CATEGORIES } from "discourse/lib/constants";
 const mobileCompatibleViews = [
   "categories_with_featured_topics",
   "subcategories_with_featured_topics",
-  "categories_only_optimized",
 ];
 
 const subcategoryComponents = {
@@ -34,7 +32,6 @@ const globalComponents = {
   categories_boxes_with_topics: CategoriesBoxesWithTopics,
   categories_boxes: CategoriesBoxes,
   categories_only: CategoriesOnly,
-  categories_only_optimized: CategoriesOnlyOptimized,
   categories_with_featured_topics: CategoriesWithFeaturedTopics,
   subcategories_with_featured_topics: SubcategoriesWithFeaturedTopics,
 };
@@ -64,7 +61,7 @@ export default class CategoriesDisplay extends Component {
       style = mobileCompatibleViews[0];
     }
     if (this.site.categories.length > MAX_UNOPTIMIZED_CATEGORIES) {
-      style = "categories_only_optimized";
+      style = "categories_only";
     }
     return style;
   }
@@ -95,7 +92,7 @@ export default class CategoriesDisplay extends Component {
     return (
       this.args.loadMore &&
       (this.site.lazy_load_categories ||
-        this.style === "categories_only_optimized")
+        this.site.categories.length > MAX_UNOPTIMIZED_CATEGORIES)
     );
   }
 

app/assets/javascripts/discourse/app/components/parent-category-row-optimized.hbs

@@ -1,97 +0,0 @@
-{{#unless this.isHidden}}
-  <PluginOutlet
-    @name="category-list-above-each-category"
-    @outletArgs={{hash category=this.category}}
-  />
-  {{#if this.site.mobileView}}
-    <div
-      data-category-id={{this.category.id}}
-      data-notification-level={{this.category.notificationLevelString}}
-      style={{border-color this.category.color}}
-      class="category-list-item category {{if this.isMuted 'muted'}}"
-    >
-      <table class="topic-list">
-        <tbody>
-          <tr>
-            <th class="main-link">
-              <CategoryTitleLink @category={{this.category}} />
-            </th>
-          </tr>
-          {{#if this.category.description_excerpt}}
-            <tr class="category-description">
-              <td colspan="3">
-                {{html-safe this.category.description_excerpt}}
-              </td>
-            </tr>
-          {{/if}}
-          {{#if (gt this.category.subcategories.length 0)}}
-            <tr class="category-subcategories">
-              <td colspan="3">
-                <LinkTo
-                  @route="discovery.subcategories"
-                  @model={{this.slugPath}}
-                >
-                  {{i18n
-                    "category_row.subcategory_count"
-                    count=this.category.subcategories.length
-                  }}
-                </LinkTo>
-              </td>
-            </tr>
-          {{/if}}
-        </tbody>
-      </table>
-    </div>
-  {{else}}
-    <tr
-      data-category-id={{this.category.id}}
-      data-notification-level={{this.category.notificationLevelString}}
-      class="{{if
-          this.category.description_excerpt
-          'has-description'
-          'no-description'
-        }}
-        {{if this.category.uploaded_logo.url 'has-logo' 'no-logo'}}"
-    >
-      <td
-        class="category {{if this.isMuted 'muted'}}"
-        style={{category-color-variable this.category.color}}
-      >
-        <CategoryTitleLink @category={{this.category}} />
-        <PluginOutlet
-          @name="below-category-title-link"
-          @connectorTagName="div"
-          @outletArgs={{hash category=this.category}}
-        />
-        {{#if this.category.description_excerpt}}
-          <div class="category-description">
-            {{dir-span this.category.description_excerpt htmlSafe="true"}}
-          </div>
-        {{/if}}
-        {{#if (gt this.category.subcategories.length 0)}}
-          <div class="category-subcategories">
-            <LinkTo @route="discovery.subcategories" @model={{this.slugPath}}>
-              {{i18n
-                "category_row.subcategory_count"
-                count=this.category.subcategories.length
-              }}
-            </LinkTo>
-          </div>
-        {{/if}}
-      </td>
-
-      <td class="topics">
-        <div title={{this.category.statTitle}}>{{html-safe
-            this.category.stat
-          }}</div>
-        <CategoryUnread
-          @category={{this.category}}
-          @tagName="div"
-          @unreadTopicsCount={{this.unreadTopicsCount}}
-          @newTopicsCount={{this.newTopicsCount}}
-          class="unread-new"
-        />
-      </td>
-    </tr>
-  {{/if}}
-{{/unless}}

app/assets/javascripts/discourse/app/components/parent-category-row-optimized.js

@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-import CategoryListItem from "discourse/components/category-list-item";
-
-export default class ParentCategoryRowOptimized extends CategoryListItem {}

app/assets/javascripts/discourse/app/routes/discovery-categories.js

@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ export default class DiscoveryCategoriesRoute extends DiscourseRoute {
     let style =
       this.site.desktopView && this.siteSettings.desktop_category_page_style;
     if (this.site.categories.length > MAX_UNOPTIMIZED_CATEGORIES) {
-      style = "categories_only_optimized";
+      style = "categories_only";
     }
 
     if (

app/assets/stylesheets/common/base/category-list.scss

@@ -314,14 +314,6 @@
     overflow: hidden;
     color: var(--primary-high);
   }
-  .category-subcategories {
-    font-size: var(--font-down-1);
-    margin-top: 0.5em;
-
-    a {
-      color: var(--primary-high);
-    }
-  }
   .category-logo.aspect-image {
     margin-top: 0.5em;
   }

app/assets/stylesheets/mobile/topic-list.scss

@@ -144,16 +144,6 @@
       border-left: 6px solid;
     }
   }
-
-  &.optimized {
-    tr {
-      border: none;
-    }
-
-    th {
-      padding: 10px 0 10px;
-    }
-  }
 }
 
 .category-list-item.category {
@@ -265,14 +255,6 @@ tr.category-topic-link {
     padding-bottom: 15px;
   }
 
-  .category-subcategories td {
-    padding-top: 0;
-  }
-
-  .category-description + .category-subcategories td {
-    padding-top: 0;
-  }
-
   .subcategories-list {
     border-bottom: none;
     td {

app/models/category_list.rb

@@ -135,21 +135,21 @@ class CategoryList
   end
 
   def find_categories
+    # Enforce paginaion for users who can see a large number of categories to
+    # smooth out the performance of the category list page.
+    paginate =
+      Category.secured(@guardian).count > MAX_UNOPTIMIZED_CATEGORIES ||
+        @guardian.can_lazy_load_categories?
+
     query = Category.includes(CategoryList.included_associations).secured(@guardian)
     query = self.class.order_categories(query)
 
-    if @options[:parent_category_id].present? || @guardian.can_lazy_load_categories?
+    if @options[:parent_category_id].present? || paginate
       query = query.where(parent_category_id: @options[:parent_category_id])
     end
 
-    style =
-      if Category.secured(@guardian).count > MAX_UNOPTIMIZED_CATEGORIES
-        "categories_only_optimized"
-      else
-        SiteSetting.desktop_category_page_style
-      end
     page = [1, @options[:page].to_i].max
-    if style == "categories_only_optimized" || @guardian.can_lazy_load_categories?
+    if paginate
       query = query.limit(CATEGORIES_PER_PAGE).offset((page - 1) * CATEGORIES_PER_PAGE)
     elsif page > 1
       # Pagination is supported only when lazy load is enabled. If it is not,
@@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ class CategoryList
 
     @categories = query.to_a
 
-    if @guardian.can_lazy_load_categories? && @options[:parent_category_id].blank?
+    if paginate && @options[:parent_category_id].blank?
       categories_with_rownum =
         Category
           .secured(@guardian)
@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ class CategoryList
 
     include_subcategories = @options[:include_subcategories] == true
 
-    if @guardian.can_lazy_load_categories?
+    if paginate
       subcategory_ids = {}
       Category
         .secured(@guardian)

app/models/category_page_style.rb

@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ class CategoryPageStyle < EnumSiteSetting
   def self.values
     @values ||= [
       { name: "category_page_style.categories_only", value: "categories_only" },
-      { name: "category_page_style.categories_only_optimized", value: "categories_only_optimized" },
       {
         name: "category_page_style.categories_with_featured_topics",
         value: "categories_with_featured_topics",

config/locales/client.en.yml

@@ -2518,7 +2518,6 @@ en:
 
     category_page_style:
       categories_only: "Categories Only"
-      categories_only_optimized: "Categories Only (Optimized)"
       categories_with_featured_topics: "Categories with Featured Topics"
       categories_and_latest_topics: "Categories and Latest Topics"
       categories_and_latest_topics_created_date: "Categories and Latest Topics (sort by topic created date)"

config/locales/client.ug.yml

@@ -2335,7 +2335,6 @@ ug:
       facebook_messenger: "Facebook Messenger"
     category_page_style:
       categories_only: "سەھىپىلا"
-      categories_only_optimized: "سەھىپەلەرلا (ئەلالاشتۇرۇلغان)"
       categories_with_featured_topics: "جەۋھەر تېمىلىق سەھىپە"
       categories_and_latest_topics: "سەھىپە ۋە ئاخىرقى تېما"
       categories_and_latest_topics_created_date: "سەھىپە ۋە ئاخىرقى تېما (قۇرۇلغان چېسلا بويىچە تەرتىپلەيدۇ)"

spec/requests/categories_controller_spec.rb

@@ -404,7 +404,7 @@ RSpec.describe CategoriesController do
       let!(:category2) { Fabricate(:category, user: admin) }
       let!(:category3) { Fabricate(:category, user: admin) }
 
-      it "paginates results wihen lazy_load_categories is enabled" do
+      it "paginates results when lazy_load_categories is enabled" do
         SiteSetting.lazy_load_categories_groups = "#{Group::AUTO_GROUPS[:everyone]}"
 
         stub_const(CategoryList, "CATEGORIES_PER_PAGE", 2) { get "/categories.json?page=1" }
@@ -416,16 +416,16 @@ RSpec.describe CategoriesController do
         expect(response.parsed_body["category_list"]["categories"].count).to eq(2)
       end
 
-      it "paginates results wihen desktop_category_page_style is categories_only_optimized" do
-        SiteSetting.desktop_category_page_style = "categories_only_optimized"
+      it "paginates results when there are many categories" do
+        stub_const(CategoryList, "MAX_UNOPTIMIZED_CATEGORIES", 2) do
+          stub_const(CategoryList, "CATEGORIES_PER_PAGE", 2) { get "/categories.json?page=1" }
+          expect(response.status).to eq(200)
+          expect(response.parsed_body["category_list"]["categories"].count).to eq(2)
 
-        stub_const(CategoryList, "CATEGORIES_PER_PAGE", 2) { get "/categories.json?page=1" }
-        expect(response.status).to eq(200)
-        expect(response.parsed_body["category_list"]["categories"].count).to eq(2)
-
-        stub_const(CategoryList, "CATEGORIES_PER_PAGE", 2) { get "/categories.json?page=2" }
-        expect(response.status).to eq(200)
-        expect(response.parsed_body["category_list"]["categories"].count).to eq(2)
+          stub_const(CategoryList, "CATEGORIES_PER_PAGE", 2) { get "/categories.json?page=2" }
+          expect(response.status).to eq(200)
+          expect(response.parsed_body["category_list"]["categories"].count).to eq(2)
+        end
       end
 
       it "does not paginate results by default" do