feat: Replace SSE with WebSocket for UI notifications (#36965)

* Closes #36942
* Fixes #19265 

Replaces the SSE-based push channel (`/user/events`) with a WebSocket
endpoint (`/-/ws`).

### What changes

- **New `/-/ws` endpoint** (authenticated). One WebSocket per origin,
shared across tabs via a single `SharedWorker`.
- **Pubsub broker** (`services/pubsub`) for fan-out by topic, behind a
`Broker` interface. `MemoryBroker` is the default (single process); a
Redis backend is available for multi-process setups, configured via
`[websocket].PUBSUB_TYPE` / `PUBSUB_CONN_STR`. The internal Gitea queue
was not usable here because it has FIFO/single-consumer semantics.
- **Push-only event production.** Events are emitted by write-triggered
notifiers — `NotificationCountChange`, `PublishStopwatchesForUser`, and
the logout publisher — wired into the existing `notify.Notifier`
interface. No server-side pollers.
- **Typed pub/sub on the client.** `web_src/js/modules/worker.ts` is a
singleton transport; features subscribe per event type via
`onUserEvent('notification-count', cb)` instead of branching on
`event.data.type`.
- **Wire contract** (`UserEventType` union) is shared between the worker
and consumers via `web_src/js/types.ts`, kept in sync with
`services/websocket/events.go`.
- **Client-side periodic polling fallback** kicks in only when the
WebSocket cannot be established (e.g. proxy blocks WS, browser lacks
module-SharedWorker support).

### What's removed

- `modules/eventsource` (SSE manager, run loop, messenger).
- `/user/events` route and `tests/integration/eventsource_test.go`.
- All server-side polling for stopwatches and notification counts.

### Stopwatch multi-tab fix

The navbar stopwatch icon was previously rendered conditionally on `{{if
$activeStopwatch}}`, so tabs loaded before the timer started had no DOM
element to update. The icon and popup are now always rendered (toggled
with `tw-hidden`), and the start/stop/cancel handlers POST silently so
all open tabs reflect the change in real time.

### Deployment note

WebSocket needs the upgrade headers to pass through a reverse proxy,
e.g. for nginx:

```nginx
proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
proxy_set_header Connection "upgrade";
```

Without them the WebSocket cannot be established, and after 3
consecutive failed opens the shared worker signals `push-unavailable`:
the notification count and stopwatch fall back to periodic polling on
the existing `[ui.notification]` timeouts. Real-time push is lost, the
features keep working. The reverse-proxy docs need the same note (see
the `docs-update-needed` label).

---------

Co-authored-by: silverwind <me@silverwind.io>
Co-authored-by: wxiaoguang <wxiaoguang@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Epid <rexmrj@gmail.com>

routers/web/websocket/websocket.go

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+// Copyright 2026 The Gitea Authors. All rights reserved.
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
+
+package websocket
+
+import (
+	gocontext "context"
+	"net/http"
+	"time"
+
+	"gitea.dev/modules/graceful"
+	"gitea.dev/modules/json"
+	"gitea.dev/modules/log"
+	"gitea.dev/services/context"
+	"gitea.dev/services/pubsub"
+	websocket_service "gitea.dev/services/websocket"
+
+	gitea_ws "github.com/coder/websocket"
+)
+
+const (
+	pingInterval = 30 * time.Second
+	pingTimeout  = 10 * time.Second
+	writeTimeout = 10 * time.Second
+
+	// First code in the IANA library/framework reserved range (3000–3999).
+	// Sentinel for an unauthenticated session so the SharedWorker can tell
+	// "your cookie is gone" apart from a transient network failure and stop
+	// reconnecting in a tight loop.
+	closeCodeUnauthenticated gitea_ws.StatusCode = 3000
+)
+
+// filterLogout forwards a session-free logout only to the targeted connection
+// (its own session, or every session when SessionID is empty) and drops it for
+// the rest. Non-logout messages pass through untouched.
+func filterLogout(eventType string, eventDataBytes []byte, connSessionID string) []byte {
+	if eventType != websocket_service.EventLogout {
+		return eventDataBytes
+	}
+	var lm websocket_service.UserEventMessage[websocket_service.LogoutEventData]
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(eventDataBytes, &lm); err != nil {
+		return eventDataBytes
+	}
+	if lm.EventData.SessionID == "" || lm.EventData.SessionID == connSessionID {
+		return []byte(`{"eventType":"logout"}`)
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
+func Serve(ctx *context.Context) {
+	// Answer plain GETs (health checks, crawlers) here; letting Accept reject them
+	// would log an error per request. Same reply it would have sent.
+	if ctx.Req.Header.Get("Upgrade") == "" {
+		ctx.Resp.Header().Set("Connection", "Upgrade")
+		ctx.Resp.Header().Set("Upgrade", "websocket")
+		ctx.Resp.WriteHeader(http.StatusUpgradeRequired)
+		return
+	}
+
+	conn, err := gitea_ws.Accept(ctx.Resp, ctx.Req, nil)
+	if err != nil {
+		log.Error("websocket: accept failed: %v", err)
+		return
+	}
+	defer conn.CloseNow() //nolint:errcheck // best-effort close
+
+	if !ctx.IsSigned {
+		_ = conn.Close(closeCodeUnauthenticated, "unauthenticated")
+		return
+	}
+
+	sessionID := ctx.Session.ID()
+	ch, cancel := pubsub.DefaultBroker.Subscribe(pubsub.UserTopic(ctx.Doer.ID))
+	defer cancel()
+
+	// Ping requires a concurrent reader to observe the pong frame; CloseRead
+	// spawns one and cancels its context when the peer goes away.
+	wsCtx := conn.CloseRead(ctx.Req.Context())
+	shutdownCtx := graceful.GetManager().ShutdownContext()
+	pingTicker := time.NewTicker(pingInterval)
+	defer pingTicker.Stop()
+
+	for {
+		select {
+		case <-wsCtx.Done():
+			return
+		case <-shutdownCtx.Done():
+			return
+		case <-pingTicker.C:
+			pingCtx, cancelPing := gocontext.WithTimeout(wsCtx, pingTimeout)
+			err := conn.Ping(pingCtx)
+			cancelPing()
+			if err != nil {
+				log.Trace("websocket: ping failed: %v", err)
+				return
+			}
+		case brokerPayload, ok := <-ch:
+			if !ok {
+				return
+			}
+			eventType, eventDataBytes := websocket_service.ExtractUserEventMessage(brokerPayload)
+			eventDataBytes = filterLogout(eventType, eventDataBytes, sessionID)
+			if eventDataBytes == nil {
+				continue
+			}
+			// Bound the write so a stalled/slow peer can't block this goroutine
+			// indefinitely and starve the ping ticker.
+			writeCtx, cancelWrite := gocontext.WithTimeout(wsCtx, writeTimeout)
+			err := conn.Write(writeCtx, gitea_ws.MessageText, eventDataBytes)
+			cancelWrite()
+			if err != nil {
+				log.Trace("websocket: write failed: %v", err)
+				return
+			}
+		}
+	}
+}

routers/web/websocket/websocket_test.go

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+// Copyright 2026 The Gitea Authors. All rights reserved.
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
+
+package websocket
+
+import (
+	"testing"
+
+	"gitea.dev/services/websocket"
+
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+)
+
+func TestFilterLogout(t *testing.T) {
+	cases := []struct {
+		name       string
+		brokerMsg  []byte
+		connSessID string
+		want       []byte // expected payload forwarded to the client
+	}{
+		{
+			name:       "originating session gets a session-free logout",
+			brokerMsg:  websocket.MakeUserEventMessage("logout", websocket.LogoutEventData{SessionID: "sess-A"}),
+			connSessID: "sess-A",
+			want:       []byte(`{"eventType":"logout"}`),
+		},
+		{
+			name:       "other session is dropped",
+			brokerMsg:  websocket.MakeUserEventMessage("logout", websocket.LogoutEventData{SessionID: "sess-A"}),
+			connSessID: "sess-B",
+			want:       nil,
+		},
+		{
+			name:       "empty sessionID reaches every session",
+			brokerMsg:  websocket.MakeUserEventMessage("logout", nil),
+			connSessID: "sess-A",
+			want:       []byte(`{"eventType":"logout"}`),
+		},
+		{
+			name:       "non-logout message passes through unchanged",
+			brokerMsg:  websocket.MakeUserEventMessage("other", map[string]any{"k": "v"}),
+			connSessID: "sess-A",
+			want:       []byte(`{"eventType":"other","eventData":{"k":"v"}}`),
+		},
+		{
+			name:       "malformed JSON with logout marker passes through unchanged",
+			brokerMsg:  []byte("any type\nany data"),
+			connSessID: "sess-A",
+			want:       []byte("any data"),
+		},
+	}
+
+	for _, tc := range cases {
+		t.Run(tc.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			eventType, eventData := websocket.ExtractUserEventMessage(tc.brokerMsg)
+			out := filterLogout(eventType, eventData, tc.connSessID)
+			assert.Equal(t, tc.want, out)
+		})
+	}
+}