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Wires in the change proposed in mixcloud/router#1 as two pnpm patches, and enables it with experimental_concurrentRenderFrames in src/router.tsx. A plain `pnpm install` now reproduces the working demo — the patches are checked in and referenced from pnpm-workspace.yaml, so nothing depends on a local checkout of the router. Measured with scripts/verify-transitions.mjs: before after React state + startTransition 1 1 router.navigate in startTransition 0 1 <Link> navigation 0 1 It is a real shared-element morph, not just a transition firing; the pseudo-elements animating mid-navigation are ::view-transition-group/old/new(article-image-2). The patches replace dist/ and src/ with a build of that branch, which is TanStack Router main at 0caf6b9. That is ahead of the published 1.170.32, so they also carry unreleased upstream commits (currently #8169). Source maps are deliberately left untouched to keep the patches reviewable, so devtools mappings into the patched packages are stale. Both are noted in the README. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AGGccw4N4WrJCpLZq7hRCw
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Rebuilds the pnpm patches from mixcloud/router@accfed8, which reworks the React binding so fine-grained selectors survive the frame path: selector hooks now read a stable owner context and subscribe, rather than reading a changing Context value that invalidated every consumer. Only the react-router patch changes; router-core was not touched by the rework. Re-verified from a clean, frozen install: typecheck and build pass, and pnpm verify still measures 1 view transition for each of the three interactions, with a real ::view-transition-group(article-image-2) morph. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AGGccw4N4WrJCpLZq7hRCw
Picks up the cross-framework fix: the router PR no longer changes the shared StartTransitionFn signature, and router-core's load-client.ts is untouched, so the React adapter reads the assembled frame itself after the publication callback runs. The router-core patch shrinks from 339 to 215 lines as a result. Also includes the selector-preserving binding, the hooks-order fix behind useFrameRootBoundary, and the new frame invariant tests. Re-verified from a clean, frozen install: typecheck and build pass, and pnpm verify still measures 1 view transition for each of the three interactions, with a real ::view-transition-group(article-image-2) morph. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AGGccw4N4WrJCpLZq7hRCw
Picks up the scoped frame reads, which make selector-level render counts and tearing-freedom hold at the same time. Readers outside the route tree now stay on the committed frame while a navigation is in flight; readers inside it present the staged one. Re-verified from a clean, frozen install: typecheck and build pass, and pnpm verify still measures 1 view transition for each of the three interactions. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AGGccw4N4WrJCpLZq7hRCw
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useRouterStateSelector wrote its selection to a ref during render and used that same ref as the comparison basis for store notifications. A render can be discarded — suspended, interrupted, or superseded — so the ref could hold a value that never reached the screen. If a later frame then selected that same value, the notification compared equal and skipped the re-render, leaving a consumer that does not otherwise re-render (a memoized one, for instance) stuck showing the older committed value. Keeps the in-progress selection separate from the committed one, records the committed value in a layout effect, and compares notifications against that. The committed value is boxed so a committed `undefined` is distinguishable from having committed nothing yet. This is the same class of bug the option exists to remove: a render-phase write being treated as if it were presented state. Reported by Codex review on mixcloud/router-transitions-poc#2. I could not build a failing regression test for it. Two attempts — a consumer outside the route tree, and a memoized consumer inside it — passed against the unfixed code, because act() flushing in jsdom commits the staged render rather than discarding it. The fix is applied on the strength of the mechanism rather than a reproduction, and the existing suites cover it for regressions. Verified: router-core 1617, react-router 1044, solid-router 887, vue-router 138+3, all with 0 lint errors and no type errors; the POC still measures one view transition per navigation. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AGGccw4N4WrJCpLZq7hRCw
Picks up mixcloud/router@fec2f7c, which stops useRouterStateSelector comparing store notifications against a selection written during a render that may never have committed. Reported by Codex review on this PR. Re-verified from a clean, frozen install: typecheck and build pass, and pnpm verify still measures 1 view transition for each of the three interactions. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AGGccw4N4WrJCpLZq7hRCw
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…ss live Two findings from Codex review on mixcloud/router-transitions-poc#2. The selector and comparator were still written to a ref during render, so the previous committed-selection fix was incomplete. A discarded render left behind a selector that never presented anything, and a later notification could evaluate the new frame with that selector while comparing against a value produced by the committed one. Where those compared equal, the re-render was skipped and the consumer went stale. The committed value, selector and comparator are now recorded together in the layout effect and used together by notifications, because comparing a value from one selector against a value from another is meaningless. Navigation progress was not reaching consumers outside the route tree. That scope deliberately stays on the committed route, and it was therefore dropping status entirely, so a global loading indicator never saw a navigation start. Confirmed as a regression against the store path: the new test passes with the option off and failed with it on. The committed scope's status and isLoading now track the head while its location and matches stay committed — progress is not route content, so this cannot surface a route the user cannot see, and the reader-outside-the-route-tree guard still passes. This narrows invariant 2 of the RFC, which said a render cannot combine location, status and matches from different publications. Status is deliberately live; location and matches are not. Verified: router-core 1617, react-router 1045, solid-router 887, vue-router 138+3, 0 lint errors, no type errors; view-transitions e2e 3/3; the POC still measures one view transition per navigation. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AGGccw4N4WrJCpLZq7hRCw
Picks up mixcloud/router@004a21c, addressing both Codex findings on this PR: the selector and comparator are now committed alongside the value, and navigation progress reaches consumers outside the route tree again. Re-verified from a clean, frozen install: typecheck and build pass, and pnpm verify still measures 1 view transition for each of the three interactions. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AGGccw4N4WrJCpLZq7hRCw
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The transition counter answers "does a transition run". This answers the question underneath it: where the route render sits relative to the paint the user is waiting for, and what that costs in interaction latency. `scripts/benchmark-inp.mjs` drives both builds — identical source, only VITE_CONCURRENT_FRAMES differs — with alternating blocks, a fresh context per block, and two independent witnesses that each arm ran the build it claims. The demo's routes render in under a millisecond, far too little to show a scheduling difference, so `?rows=N` gives the destination route a controllable amount of real reconciliation work. Control tracks render cost almost linearly, 24ms to 360ms. Patched is flat at 24ms, p50 through max, at every weight. Patches regenerated from the router branch, which now carries the fix for an Outlet selector that threw on a frame dropping its own route. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Fresh evidence after the earlier staged-frame isolation fix is that a newly mounted consumer still initializes directly from the shared scope.staged. If the visible route receives an urgent update that mounts a router-hook consumer while a staged navigation is suspended, that urgent render adopts the uncommitted frame even though it never received the transition-lane offer; it can display the destination location or make an old-route useMatch throw. The initial frame ID needs to come from React-versioned presentation state rather than the mutable staged slot.
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When navigation A has staged an idle frame and its React render is suspended, navigation B can enter its loader-pending state before A resumes; syncProgress then overlays B's pending status onto both scopes. If A subsequently commits while B is still loading, these assignments replace that overlay with A's original idle snapshot. Since B already emitted its pending store update and may emit nothing else until completion, loading selectors become false for the remainder of B's wait. Fresh evidence beyond the earlier progress fixes is this commit path overwriting the synchronized status; merge the current head's progress into the committed frame.
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The documented bare node scripts/benchmark-inp.mjs run uses these defaults and therefore records only 4 blocks × 5 measured clicks = 20 navigations per arm and row count, while the README's published table says it used 8 × 6 = 48. As written, following the reproduction commands silently runs a materially smaller experiment than the reported one; align these defaults or include the required BLOCKS=8 CLICKS=6 settings in the command.
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24-24: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winPreserve
rowswhen returning to the index.
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EVENT_TIMING_FLOOR_MSis reported in the result metadata, but the observer at Line 51 uses a separate literal16. If one value changes, the recorded metadata no longer describes the measurement. Reuse the constant.♻️ Proposed change
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126-137: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low valueClose the context if the arm check fails.
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In `@README.md`:
- Around line 96-99: Update the README benchmark instructions around the two
vite preview processes and benchmark-inp.mjs to wait until both servers are
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In `@scripts/benchmark-inp.mjs`:
- Around line 142-146: Update the benchmark setup around getRouter() to assign
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- Line 24: Update the Link in ArticleDetail that navigates to “/” to pass
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In `@scripts/benchmark-inp.mjs`:
- Line 33: Update the observers setup to derive its threshold from
EVENT_TIMING_FLOOR_MS instead of the separate literal 16; pass the constant into
the page context via the existing initialization mechanism and accept it as an
observers parameter, keeping the reported metadata and measurement threshold
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Wait for both preview servers before starting the benchmark.
The README starts both servers in the background, but scripts/benchmark-inp.mjs calls page.goto() without a readiness or retry check. A server that is still starting can therefore make the benchmark fail. An occupied --strictPort can also leave the benchmark using an existing server. Add readiness, process-status, and cleanup handling.
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around getRouter() to assign the created router instance to
window.__TSR_ROUTER__ before the page.evaluate call reads
experimental_concurrentRenderFrames. Preserve the existing mode lookup and
ensure both benchmark arms receive the live router configuration.
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The "after" half of the POC.
mainis the same app demonstrating that React's<ViewTransition>never fires across a TanStack Router navigation; this branch applies the fix from mixcloud/router#1 and turns it on.Result
Measured with
pnpm verify(realdocument.startViewTransitioncalls):mainstartTransition(control)router.navigate()insidestartTransition<Link>navigationThe control row is unchanged, which is the point — the only thing that moved is navigation.
It's a genuine shared-element morph, not just a transition firing. Mid-navigation the browser is animating:
How it's wired
Two checked-in pnpm patches, referenced from
pnpm-workspace.yaml:@tanstack__react-router@1.170.32.patch@tanstack/react-router@tanstack__router-core@1.171.27.patch@tanstack/router-coreA plain
pnpm installreproduces the whole thing — no local checkout of the router needed, nothing linked. The option is enabled insrc/router.tsx; set it tofalseand the app reverts tomain's behaviour without reinstalling, since the patch is inert unless opted in.Patch provenance
Built from
mixcloud/router@0731d3c, the head of mixcloud/router#1. That branch has been taken to production grade, and these patches carry all of it:stage()ever offers — a notification either offers a specific publication, which only happens from inside the Router'sstartTransition, or offers nothing and means re-read what you are already presenting. So no notification sent on an urgent lane can move a consumer off the route it is showing.statusandisLoadingtrack the head in both scopes, so a spinner sees the navigation whether it sits above the route tree or inside the route being left.locationandmatchesnever do, so this cannot surface a route the user cannot see.pendingmatching still asks about the head —matchRoute({ pending: true })is a question about the navigation in flight, not about the render, so it resolves from the head. Ordinary matching follows the presented frame.StartTransitionFnsignature, which broke Solid and Vue callers (router.startTransitionis public API onRouterCore). That is reverted; the React adapter reads the frame itself.router-core'sload-client.tsis untouched, which is why the router-core patch is 215 lines rather than 339.Boolean(router.ssr) && !useHydrated()called a hook behind a non-static short-circuit.Review findings folded in
Six, over five rounds of automated review on this PR. Both reviewers are clean on
bc6df13.matchRoute({ pending: true })resolved against the presented frameTwo are applied on the mechanism rather than a failing test, and one is a guard. I would rather say which than let them all look proven:
act()never opens — it flushes passive effects at its boundaries, so a publication cannot land between a consumer's render and its effects, and a staged render is committed rather than discarded.syncProgressrather than assumed: while a frame is staged the head stays pinned atpending, so the progress overlay never changes and the notification never fires. Real in the protocol, blocked today by a coincidence between two unrelated mechanisms. Worth fixing structurally for exactly that reason.routerprop renders an empty tree with the option off too, so there is no upstream behaviour it restores.Two things to know about the patches, both documented in the README rather than buried:
mainat0caf6b9, ahead of the published1.170.32by unreleased upstream commits — so they also include #8169, a route-scoped hooks fix. Avoiding that would mean back-porting onto thev1.170.32tag, which didn't seem worth it for a demo.Checks
Re-verified after each regeneration:
pnpm install— patches applypnpm typecheck— cleanpnpm build— succeedspnpm verify— the table aboveUpstream at
0731d3c:router-core1618,react-router1049,solid-router887,vue-router138+3, 0 lint errors, types clean across TS 5.6–7.0,test:buildandbuildgreen;view-transitionse2e 3/3 andbasice2e 24/24.Also updated the on-page note and README, which previously described the failure and would have been wrong on this branch.
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Benchmarked: interaction latency vs route render cost
The transition counter answers "does a transition run".
scripts/benchmark-inp.mjsanswers the question underneath it — where the route render sits relative to the paint
the user is waiting for, and what that costs in interaction latency, the quantity INP is
a high percentile of.
Both arms are builds of identical source; only
VITE_CONCURRENT_FRAMESdiffers. Blocksalternate control/patched and alternate which arm goes first; each block gets a fresh
browser context and discards warmup clicks; CPU throttled 6x on the full Chromium build.
Two independent witnesses confirm each block ran the build it claims — the mode is read off
the live router (
__TSR_ROUTER__.options), and the run counts realdocument.startViewTransitioncalls.The demo's own routes render in well under a millisecond — far too little to show a
scheduling difference — so
?rows=N(src/SyntheticRows.tsx) gives the destination routea controllable amount of real React reconciliation work. Sweeping it is the point: it shows
how interaction latency responds to render cost, which is a claim about mechanism rather
than a single number.
48 navigations per cell:
?rows=Control tracks render cost almost linearly. Patched is flat — 24ms at every weight, p50
through max, including the 6000-row route that costs control 456ms.
The patch does not make rendering faster. The route still renders and the frame that
renders it is still long (279ms at 6000 rows). What changes is where that work sits
relative to the paint. Under
useSyncExternalStorethe render is inside the click's ownanimation frame, so nothing can be presented until it finishes; on the frame path the click
handler returns in ~2.8ms and the render happens in a later frame, attributed to the React
scheduler rather than the click listener.
That comes with a condition worth being explicit about: the interaction ends at the next
paint, so something must actually paint. Here the view transition guarantees one. An app
with neither a view transition nor pending UI has nothing to present and the interaction
stretches to the commit — which is exactly what happened in
mixcloud/Mixcloud#25470 until a
navigation progress bar was added.
Patch parity
Regenerated from
mixcloud/router@concurrent-router-render-frames, which now carries a fixfor an
Outletselector that threw when a frame dropped its own route — that left realnavigations permanently
pending. The patches here are byte-identical to the ones inmixcloud/Mixcloud#25470, so both repos exercise the same router build.