Project picker doesn't work until second attempt

On most internet connections, the project picker doesn't work on your first attempt. I assume this is because the project list hasn't yet been loaded. The user opens OpenFn, clicks the picker, types their project, and nothing appears. If they then wait a few seconds and type again, then can get results.

First prize would be to somehow load that list of projects faster.

Second prize would be to stop the user from typing until it's loaded so we don't return a false negative.

Version number v2.13.3

I have reproduced this locally on main:

• Yes
• No - on localhost it doesn't/shouldn't happen—I presume because there's no internet/large DB involved?

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Go to app.openfn.org
2. Click on the project picker
3. Type the first few letters of your project
4. See that no results are returned
5. Type a few more letters
6. See that results are returned

Start at the project picker on app.openfn.org and reproduce the first-search failure while observing when the project list loads. The issue is done when the first query returns matching projects reliably, or typing is prevented until the list is ready.