Move createSiteFromRemote from feature flag to beta flag

[sejas]

Related issues

• Fixes STU-984

Proposed Changes

• Enables creating a site from a remote site flow using a beta flag

Testing Instructions

• Run npm start
• Click on Electron > Beta features > Enable create site from remote
• Click on Add site
• Select Add site from remote site
• Continue the flow
• Confirm the new site is created and start pulling as expected
• Click on Electron > Beta features > Disable create site from remote
• Click on Add site
• Observe that the new option doesn't appear anymore.

beta-flag-create-site-from-remote.mp4

Pre-merge Checklist

• Have you checked for TypeScript, React or other console errors?

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📊 Performance Test Results

Comparing 83d497e vs trunk

site-editor

Metric	trunk	83d497e	Diff	Change
load	11955.00 ms	13883.00 ms	+1928.00 ms	🔴 16.1%

site-startup

Metric	trunk	83d497e	Diff	Change
siteCreation	26304.00 ms	25398.00 ms	-906.00 ms	🟢 -3.4%
siteStartup	10019.00 ms	10052.00 ms	+33.00 ms	🔴 0.3%

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Results are median values from multiple test runs.

Legend: 🟢 Improvement (faster) | 🔴 Regression (slower) | ⚪ No change

[katinthehatsite]

I am wondering if the label could be "Site creation from existing remote site" to be consistent with another label that uses nouns and not verbs:

Not a big deal though, feel free to proceed without adjusting this if you think this is not necessary.

[wojtekn]

Makes sense!

[katinthehatsite]

The changes look good and work as expected 👍 I left one minor comment but feel free to proceed without implementing it.

[ivan-ottinger]

The changes look good and work as expected. The beta feature selection works correctly:

CleanShot.2025-11-20.at.10.23.24.mp4

The remote site gets pulled right-away (I just did not record it).

I only noticed one small issue of extra line.

[fredrikekelund]

I suggest following a different pattern to implement this (same concern as I raised in #2083 (comment)). The RTK Query createApi API (docs) is perfect for on-demand queries to the Electron "back-end" with IPC.

See src/stores/installed-apps-api.ts for a good example of how this can be implemented, or #2095, where I'm working on refactoring the connectedSites Redux store to use this approach instead.

Basically, whenever we need to dispatch a "load data" action at app start (like we do here), that's an opportunity to consider using RTK Query instead.