refactor: remove obsolete PubSub from CARE

[musammilvilayil]

Proposed Changes

Fixes #16042

• remove the obsolete PubSub context and provider from CARE
• remove the PubSubProvider wrapper from App
• remove the remaining publish() usage from public patient registration
• drop the unused subscribe/unsubscribe/publish event-bus code from core CARE

Context

The old ABDM use case that needed PubSub has moved to a plugin and now uses mutationKey detection instead, so keeping PubSub in CARE core is no longer necessary.

Testing

• verified the current in-repo PubSub references were limited to the PubSub module, the app provider wrapper, and the patient registration publish call
• removed those references as part of this cleanup
• CI checks pending on the updated branch

Tagging: @ohcnetwork/care-fe-code-reviewers

Merge Checklist

• Add specs that demonstrate the bug or test the new feature.
• Update product documentation.
• Ensure that UI text is placed in I18n files.
• Prepare a screenshot or demo video for the changelog entry and attach it to the issue.
• Request peer reviews.
• Complete QA on mobile devices.
• Complete QA on desktop devices.
• Add or update Playwright tests for related changes

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Refactor

  • Simplified application setup by removing the internal pub/sub layer.
  • Reorganized notification and update components without changing their visible settings or behavior.

• Bug Fixes

  • Patient registration continues directly to appointment creation after success.
  • Patient lists remain refreshed after registration, without triggering an unnecessary background event.

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Walkthrough

The PubSub context and public API were deleted. The application provider tree no longer includes PubSubProvider. Patient registration no longer publishes the patient:upsert event after patient creation.

Changes

PubSub removal

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Application provider wiring src/App.tsx	The PubSubProvider import and wrapper were removed. Toaster and AppUpdateNotifier are now direct children of PluginEngine.
Patient registration integration src/pages/PublicAppointments/PatientRegistration.tsx	The usePubSub hook and patient:upsert publication were removed. Patient cache invalidation and appointment creation remain.

Suggested labels: Type Changes

Suggested reviewers: amjithtitus09, jacobjeevan

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✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The PR removes the obsolete PubSub code and integration points, eliminating the re-render issue identified in [#16042] after confirming no active consumers remain.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	All changed files support removal of the obsolete PubSub implementation and its remaining integration points.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the removal of obsolete PubSub code from CARE.
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In `@src/Utils/pubsubContext.tsx`:
- Around line 10-14: Replace the PubSubContextType object type alias with an
interface, preserving its subscribe, unsubscribe, and publish method signatures
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[rithviknishad]

Could you show the difference between before and after this change?

You could use this tool to show re-renders:

https://react-scan.com/

A video recording would be fine

[musammilvilayil]

Thanks for the suggestion. I’ll capture a clear before/after comparison using React Scan and share a short recording here showing the rerender difference.

[musammilvilayil]

@rithviknishad I ran the same PubSub subscribe/unsubscribe sequence before and after the change using React Scan and a small local render probe.

• Before (37a3959): each subscription change triggers a rerender; the probe render count increases 2 → 4 → 6 → 8 → 10 (the +2 increments are from React StrictMode in development), with React Scan highlighting the rerenders.
• After (b744dc4): running the same subscribe/unsubscribe sequence keeps the probe render count at 2, with no PubSub-triggered rerender highlight.

This matches the intended change: subscriber bookkeeping no longer updates React state, while the public subscribe/unsubscribe behavior remains unchanged.

Before/after recording: React Scan proof video

[rithviknishad]

how did you trigger the subscribe unsubscribe state change to cause the re-render exactly?

[musammilvilayil]

@rithviknishad Yeah, I added a small temporary probe under PubSubProvider just for checking this.

The two buttons directly call the existing subscribe("react-scan-demo", handler) and unsubscribe("react-scan-demo", handler) from usePubSub().

On the before commit, those calls go through setSubscribers, so the provider state/context value changes and the probe rerenders. On the after commit, the same calls only update the ref, so there is no React state update from the subscription change.

The probe is only test instrumentation on the demo branches, its not part of the actual PR. I also added the before/after React Scan video link to my previous comment so you can see the exact same sequence there.

[rithviknishad]

So in reality, does the issue exist in Care as of today? which all places are we triggering this thing other than your custom test/probe button?

Don't you think if this PubSub is not used, the right thing to do is to remove this PubSup piece itself?

[musammilvilayil]

Yeah, the Subscribe / Unsubscribe buttons in the recording were something I added only as temporary test instrumentation. They’re not part of the CARE UI.

I added that small probe under PubSubProvider so I could directly trigger the existing subscribe() / unsubscribe() API and isolate the rerender behavior without mixing it with unrelated UI state changes.

So the video was meant to verify the implementation-level behavior: before, changing subscriptions updates React state and causes the context consumer to rerender; after, the same API calls update the ref without triggering that rerender.

I checked the current usages again as well. Right now I can see publish() being used in PatientRegistration, but I haven’t found an in-repo flow that actively calls subscribe() / unsubscribe() yet. If there isn’t any current consumer, then I agree removing the unused PubSub path could be cleaner than just optimizing it.

[rithviknishad]

@musammilvilayil go ahead and cleanup. we had PubSub for an old use case for ABDM. but that was moved to a plug, and it now uses mutationKey to detect instead of pub sub approach. you can go ahead and clean it up by removing pub-sub from care altogether. do update the PR title as well to align with it

[musammilvilayil]

@rithviknishad Done. I removed the PubSub provider/context from CARE, removed the remaining publish() call from patient registration, and updated the PR title/body to match the cleanup direction.

I checked the final diff as well — it’s limited to those three PubSub-related places. The new workflow runs are currently showing as action required/waiting on repo-side approval.

[github-actions]

Well. I sharpened my red pen for nothing.

This PR rips out src/Utils/pubsubContext.tsx along with its only two touch points (src/App.tsx, src/pages/PublicAppointments/PatientRegistration.tsx). I went looking for orphaned usePubSub / subscribe / publish callers left rotting in the tree — there are none. Nobody ever subscribed to patient:upsert, so that publish() call was firing into the void anyway. Deleting a hand-rolled pub/sub that duplicated what react-query already does with invalidateQueries is, begrudgingly, the right call — and the invalidateQueries(["patients"]) next to it is still there doing the actual work.

The App.tsx change is pure de-indentation after dropping the provider; provider nesting order is otherwise untouched, so no behavioral surprise.

No security issues, no perf regressions, one less state-holding context re-rendering the whole app tree. Fewer lines of code is the only reliable form of progress. Approved. Do not take this as a precedent.

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