Thomas Camlong 9f1a15b9bf docs(findings): the App Router churn claim was wrong; idle churn is Beszel
Corrects the largest wrong claim in this work. Earlier rounds reported that ~80% of
idle React commits entered at Next's internal HeadManagerContext and that "the App
Router root re-renders about once a second", and named it the highest-value next step.

Both are false. Measuring the same idle churn against boards of different sizes:

  board      items   idle commits/min
  hey            0                0.0
  footbol        3                0.0
  default       28               76.0

A 3-item board commits zero times per minute. If the router re-rendered on a timer,
every board would churn regardless of its contents.

The original attribution was a tooling artefact. measure-rerenders.mts decides a fiber
re-rendered from fiber.actualDuration, which only a React *profiling* build populates.
On a production build every fiber fails that test and both attribution tables come back
empty - and an empty table reads as "nothing re-rendered" rather than "this build cannot
tell you". The harness now says which case it is, and waits for the board container to be
attached rather than visible so a zero-item board can be measured at all - that control
is what disproved the claim.

Adds measure-widget-churn.mts, which attributes churn on a production build via DOM
mutations keyed to the nearest [data-type="item"] ancestor. On the 28-item board, idle
for 45s:

  470  beszelSystemStats      64%
   77  beszelSystemTable      11%
   52  beszelSystemGrid        7%
   22  dockerContainers        3%
   93  (outside any widget)   13%

Three Beszel widgets are 82% of all idle churn, one of them 64% on its own at 10.4
mutations per second.

Also logs what Next.js itself costs, since it was assumed to be the problem: its loaded
source is a flat 3.47 MiB (364 framework files + 32 vendored) and does not grow at all
between boot and a fully loaded multi-tab session, while Homarr's own chunks grow from
3.73 to 15.44 MiB. Next is 16.1 MiB on disk; the largest things it vendors are its
next-server runtime (1.60), @edge-runtime (0.85), edge-runtime (0.51) and compression
(0.30). The framework is not where this application's memory goes.
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  • 🖌️ Highly customizable with an extensive drag and drop grid system
  • ✨ Integrates seamlessly with your favorite self-hosted applications
  • 📌 Easy and fast app management - no YAML involved
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