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What are you trying to accomplish?

Previously we were encountering an error when we were trying to access the filterInputTextFieldElement before it was initialized. This change ensures that we are bailing out if the element does not exist. Also updates the playground instance to allow for show_filter param to test changes.

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List the issues that this change affects.

• Unblocks https://github.com/github/github/pull/338989
• Follow up to https://github.com/github/primer/issues/3707

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