Wait for the search view's ref before watching it

Alpine registers x-ref as it walks the children, so $refs.view is not
there yet when the component's init() runs.

Plan step 13, finding IN-01.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Qwx5USif3wFFmxtHg5U1g9

resources/js/search.js

@@ -43,8 +43,11 @@ document.addEventListener('alpine:init', () => {
             this.compact = query.matches
             query.addEventListener('change', (event) => (this.compact = event.matches))
 
-            this.observer = new MutationObserver(() => this.countLater())
+            // Alpine registers x-ref as it walks the children, which is after this runs.
-            this.observer.observe(this.$refs.view, { childList: true, subtree: true, characterData: true })
+            this.$nextTick(() => {
+                this.observer = new MutationObserver(() => this.countLater())
+                this.observer.observe(this.$refs.view, { childList: true, subtree: true, characterData: true })
+            })
 
             this.$watch('open', () => this.countLater())
         },
@@ -60,7 +63,7 @@ document.addEventListener('alpine:init', () => {
         },
 
         count() {
-            if (! this.open) {
+            if (! this.open || ! this.$refs.view) {
                 this.announcement = ''
 
                 return