Remove some unneeded duplication and fix up reconnection management

frontend/src/test/pathUtils.test.ts

@@ -4,13 +4,12 @@ import {
   findContactsByPrefix,
   calculateDistance,
   sortContactsByDistance,
-  getHopCount,
   resolvePath,
   formatDistance,
   formatHopCounts,
 } from '../utils/pathUtils';
 import type { Contact, RadioConfig } from '../types';
-import { CONTACT_TYPE_REPEATER, CONTACT_TYPE_CLIENT } from '../types';
+import { CONTACT_TYPE_REPEATER } from '../types';
 
 // Helper to create mock contacts
 function createContact(overrides: Partial<Contact> = {}): Contact {
@@ -90,7 +89,7 @@ describe('findContactsByPrefix', () => {
     createContact({
       public_key: '1ACCCC' + 'C'.repeat(52),
       name: 'Client1',
-      type: CONTACT_TYPE_CLIENT,
+      type: 1, // client
     }),
   ];
 
@@ -195,20 +194,6 @@ describe('sortContactsByDistance', () => {
   });
 });
 
-describe('getHopCount', () => {
-  it('returns 0 for null/empty', () => {
-    expect(getHopCount(null)).toBe(0);
-    expect(getHopCount(undefined)).toBe(0);
-    expect(getHopCount('')).toBe(0);
-  });
-
-  it('counts hops correctly', () => {
-    expect(getHopCount('1A')).toBe(1);
-    expect(getHopCount('1A2B')).toBe(2);
-    expect(getHopCount('1A2B3C')).toBe(3);
-  });
-});
-
 describe('resolvePath', () => {
   const repeater1 = createContact({
     public_key: '1A' + 'A'.repeat(62),

frontend/src/test/repeaterMode.test.ts

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 
 import { describe, it, expect } from 'vitest';
 import { parseSenderFromText } from '../utils/messageParser';
-import { CONTACT_TYPE_REPEATER, CONTACT_TYPE_CLIENT } from '../types';
+import { CONTACT_TYPE_REPEATER } from '../types';
 
 describe('Repeater message sender parsing', () => {
   /**
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ describe('Repeater message sender parsing', () => {
 
   it('non-repeater messages still get sender parsed', () => {
     const channelMessage = 'Alice: Hello everyone!';
-    const contactType: number = CONTACT_TYPE_CLIENT;
+    const contactType: number = 1; // client
 
     const isRepeater = contactType === CONTACT_TYPE_REPEATER;
     const { sender, content } = isRepeater

frontend/src/types.ts

@@ -164,7 +164,6 @@ export interface MigratePreferencesResponse {
 }
 
 /** Contact type constants */
-export const CONTACT_TYPE_CLIENT = 1;
 export const CONTACT_TYPE_REPEATER = 2;
 
 export interface NeighborInfo {

frontend/src/utils/pathUtils.ts

@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ export function sortContactsByDistance(
 /**
  * Get simple hop count from path string
  */
-export function getHopCount(path: string | null | undefined): number {
+function getHopCount(path: string | null | undefined): number {
   if (!path || path.length === 0) {
     return 0;
   }