--- title: What’s a navigation issue that looked fine at launch but... description: A navigation rewrite introduced a subtle bug where shared app state was updated asynchronously during navigation pushes. The issue only manifested weeks later... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/what-s-a-navigation-issue-that-looked-fine-at-launch-but-broke-much-later--ctali9bws twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: What’s a navigation issue that looked fine at launch but broke much later? | daily.dev og:description: A navigation rewrite introduced a subtle bug where shared app state was updated asynchronously during navigation pushes. The issue only manifested weeks later... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/what-s-a-navigation-issue-that-looked-fine-at-launch-but-broke-much-later--ctali9bws og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/CTaLi9Bws.png og:image:alt: What’s a navigation issue that looked fine at launch but broke much later? og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # What’s a navigation issue that looked fine at launch but broke much later? **[Rebeloper](https://daily.dev/sources/rebeloper)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A navigation rewrite introduced a subtle bug where shared app state was updated asynchronously during navigation pushes. The issue only manifested weeks later during warm launches after background refresh, causing navigation to stop advancing. The solution involved removing navigation from global state and ensuring single ownership on the main thread, eliminating race conditions without needing locks or additional checks. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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