feat(react-router): publish router state as concurrent render frames - #1
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React's <ViewTransition> never fires across a router navigation. The navigation is already inside React.startTransition, but router state reaches components through useSyncExternalStore, which React schedules at a hardcoded SyncLane from the store's own subscription callback. The transition lane is lost before the update reaches the tree. Introduces an opt-in render-frame protocol behind the new router option experimental_concurrentRenderFrames (default off, so nothing changes unless it is set): router-core - every aggregate router state carries a monotonic frameId - StartTransitionFn callbacks now return the assembled RouterState, so partial publication is a type error - matchRoute accepts a presented _state, so it does not fall back to the pending imperative location during render react-router - RouterStateProvider owns the committed frame in React state, stages a successor inside startTransition, and commits it on acknowledgement - Matches acknowledges the exact rendered frameId, so a superseded frame cannot settle a newer navigation - every reactive read (useRouterState, useLocation, useMatch, useMatches, useMatchRoute, Match, Outlet, links, not-found, head tags, scripts, useCanGoBack) selects from the frame when enabled, and keeps its existing atom subscription when disabled - after hydration the route Suspense boundaries consolidate at Matches so publication and acknowledgement are atomic; SSR and the first hydration render keep the existing per-route boundaries so the shell can stream and the client hydrates the same tree Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AGGccw4N4WrJCpLZq7hRCw
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View transition end-to-end coverage
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Router
participant Transitioner
participant RouterStateProvider
participant Matches
participant RouteConsumers
Transitioner->>Router: begin navigation
Transitioner->>RouterStateProvider: stage render frame
RouterStateProvider->>Matches: present committed or staged state
Matches->>RouteConsumers: render selected route state
Matches->>RouterStateProvider: acknowledge rendered frame
RouterStateProvider->>Router: commit acknowledged frame
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The view-transitions e2e app shipped a single placeholder test, and the viewTransition tests in the basic app only assert that the destination heading renders. Both pass whether or not a view transition occurs, so neither guards the feature. Replaces the placeholder with three tests that wrap document.startViewTransition before app code runs and sample the live animations once the browser reports the transition ready: - a viewTransition navigation starts exactly one real view transition - the transition pairs the shared element, animating the ::view-transition-group/old/new(main-content) pseudo-elements - the configured types are applied, so the document matches :active-view-transition-type(slide-left) and then (slide-right) Verified as a real guard: removing viewTransition from the link under test fails all three, and restoring it passes them again. They also pass with experimental_concurrentRenderFrames enabled, covering the render frame path added in this branch. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AGGccw4N4WrJCpLZq7hRCw
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Added WhyNeither existing test guards the feature. await page.getByRole('link', { name: 'View Transition', exact: true }).click()
await page.getByRole('link', { name: 'sunt aut facere repe' }).click()
await expect(page.getByRole('heading')).toContainText('sunt aut facere')That passes whether or not a transition occurs. I confirmed it: those two tests pass identically on stock What was addedThree tests in
Verified as a real guardRather than trusting that they pass, I checked they fail when the thing under test is broken:
The last row is the one that matters for this branch — the render-frame path doesn't disturb the native view-transition mechanism. Also re-ran the One test I droppedI drafted a fourth test covering the nested Generated by Claude Code |
… path The first implementation published the frame as a changing Context value, so every consumer re-rendered on every navigation regardless of its selector. That traded the existing fine-grained selector contract for correctness, which is not an acceptable trade even for a first pass. Splits the single changing Context into two: - a stable owner context, whose identity never changes, carrying the committed frame plus a subscriber set; - a frame context read only by route presentation, which re-renders per navigation regardless. Selector hooks now read the stable owner and subscribe. The owner notifies subscribers from inside the Router's startTransition, so their updates keep the transition lane, and each subscriber re-renders only when its own selection changes. Adds tests/concurrent-render-frames.test.tsx, which asserts a consumer whose selection is unchanged does not re-render during a navigation while one whose selection changed does. It runs against both the store path and the frame path. Verified as a real guard: against the previous Context implementation the frame case fails with 6 renders where 2 are expected, and the store case passes. With this change both pass. Selector-call counts across the existing store-updates-during-navigation cases are now lower on the frame path than on the store path (7->3, 5->3, 3->2, 3->1), never higher. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AGGccw4N4WrJCpLZq7hRCw
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Pushed What was wrongThe first pass published the frame as a changing Context value. Every consumer that read it re-rendered on every navigation, whatever its selector — selector equality could only avoid downstream work, not the consumer's own render. That was a real regression against The fixThe tension is that Context gives transition-lane delivery and no tearing but invalidates everyone, while
Selector hooks read the stable owner and subscribe. The owner notifies subscribers from inside the Router's Proof
I checked it's a real guard rather than a test that passes regardless:
Selector-call counts across the existing
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Lint fixes - `Boolean(router.ssr) && !useHydrated()` called a hook behind a short-circuit whose condition is not static, so hook order could change between renders. Extracts useFrameRootBoundary, which calls useHydrated unconditionally inside a branch that depends only on the option. The default path no longer subscribes to it at all, which an earlier attempt at this fix changed and which produced unhandled concurrent rendering errors in the hydration suite. - Adds the missing useLayoutEffect dependency in Matches. - Moves an eslint-disable onto the line of the call it covers. test:eslint now reports 0 errors for both packages, matching main exactly (26 and 99 warnings). Tests router-core, tests/render-frames.test.ts: - the initial state carries a frame identity - every assembled state gets a new, increasing identity - a frame is a complete, self-consistent snapshot - matchRoute resolves against a presented frame, not the head location react-router, tests/concurrent-render-frames.test.tsx, each run against both the store path and the frame path: - a consumer re-renders only when its own selection changes - a consumer mounted during a pending navigation reads the committed route. The store path reads the route being prepared while the previous one is still on screen; the frame path reads what is visible. The test asserts both, pinning the difference this option removes. - a superseded navigation does not commit Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AGGccw4N4WrJCpLZq7hRCw
Requiring transition callbacks to return the assembled RouterState was a breaking change for every framework, not just React. router.startTransition is public API on RouterCore, so any caller passing a side-effecting callback stopped type-checking. solid-router's public-presentation-lane-contract test is exactly such a caller, and failed with "Type 'number' is not assignable to type 'RouterState'". Widening the return to `RouterState | void` does not help: TypeScript only allows an arbitrary return type when the target return type is exactly `void`, not a union containing it. Reverts the signature and the load-client publication sites to upstream. The React adapter now reads router.stores.__store.get() itself, directly after fn() has run its batched writes, which yields the same frame. router-core's diff is now additive only: frameId on RouterState and in createRouterStores, a widened _rendered acknowledgement, and matchRoute's presented _state. Verified across all four packages -- router-core, react-router, solid-router, vue-router -- for test:eslint, test:unit, test:types, test:build and build: 0 lint errors, all suites passing, no type errors. React behaviour unchanged: the POC still measures one view transition per navigation with a real shared-element morph, and the view-transitions e2e suite passes. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AGGccw4N4WrJCpLZq7hRCw
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Checked Solid and Vue. There was impact, and it was a breaking change — fixed in What broke
fn: () => RouterState<any> // was: () => void
Worth noting how close this came to shipping: Widening to The fixRevert the signature and the fn()
// Read the aggregate state after the batched writes, so the staged
// frame is exactly what this publication assembled.
const frame = routerStateOwner?.stage(router.stores.__store.get())Same frame, no shared-API change.
Neither Verified across all four packages
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…h hold The subscription binding restored selector-level render counts but reintroduced tearing: a single global read of `pending ?? committed` ignores where a consumer sits, so a reader mounted by an unrelated urgent update during a suspended navigation saw the route being prepared rather than the one on screen. Reading the frame from context instead fixes that but invalidates every consumer, which is the trade the previous revision was made to avoid. Measured: the guard passes, and the untouched consumer goes from 3 renders to 6. The two only conflicted because one global answer was serving two different questions. The answer is positional, so each position now has its own scope: - a root scope, for readers outside the route tree, which advances only when a navigation commits; - a presentation scope, provided by Matches for the route subtree, which advances when a frame is staged. Scope identity is stable for the router's lifetime, so putting a scope in Context invalidates nobody; consumers read `scope.frame` and subscribe to that scope for updates. Position decides which frame they see and when they update. Adds the reader-outside-the-route-tree guard, ported from the app that found this. It fails against the previous revision and passes here. Verified: react-router 1044, router-core 1617, solid-router 887, vue-router 138+3, all with 0 lint errors and no type errors; both e2e suites; the POC still measures one view transition per navigation with a real shared-element morph; and selector-call counts on the frame path stay at or below the store path (7->3, 5->3, 3->2, 3->1). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AGGccw4N4WrJCpLZq7hRCw
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The conflict, and why it wasn't realThe subscription binding preserved selector counts but reintroduced tearing: it answered Reading the frame from Context instead fixes that but invalidates every consumer. I measured both ends rather than reasoning about them:
They only conflicted because one global answer was serving two different questions. The answer is positional, so each position gets its own scope:
Scope identity is stable for the router's lifetime, so putting a scope in Context invalidates nobody. Consumers read New test
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Plus: The downstream application suite that found the bug — 51 files, 274 tests — passes with the option on and off. Generated by Claude Code |
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
…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
A scope held the frame it should present in a single mutable field. During a staged navigation that field was the staged frame, so any render reading the scope saw it — including an urgent re-render of a component inside the route still on screen. A keystroke, a timer, or a local toggle in the visible route would read the route being prepared. Split the scope into two slots, committed and staged, and move the choice between them into React state on each consumer: a consumer records which publication its own render is presenting, and React versions that state per tree. A work-in-progress render can accept the staged publication without the committed tree following it there. Consumers still accept a publication only when their own selection changed, so selector-level render counts are unchanged. Navigation progress now reaches the route subtree as well. It was overlaid only onto the committed scope, so a spinner rendered by the route being left never saw the navigation it was waiting on. Location and matches are still untouched, so this cannot surface a route the user cannot see. Both are covered by new regression tests, which fail without this change.
…on is not missed A frame can be published during the commit phase — MatchesInner commits an acknowledged frame from a layout effect — which lands after a consumer has rendered but before its passive effects run. A consumer that only started listening in a passive effect never heard it, and stayed on what it had already rendered until the next publication. Subscribe in a layout effect and re-read immediately afterwards, the way useSyncExternalStore does. The re-read resolves this consumer's own frameId rather than taking whatever is newest, so a committed tree still resolves to the committed slot and staged-frame isolation is unaffected. I could not build a failing test for it: act() flushes passive effects at its boundaries, so the window never opens in this harness. Applied on the mechanism.
`matchRoute({ pending: true })` asks about the navigation in flight — is this
the link we are going to? — which is a question about the head, not about what
the calling render is showing. Resolving it against the presented frame meant a
destination-aware navigation indicator could never light up: it only ever
renders before the commit, so the frame it presents is always the route being
left.
Explicit pending queries now resolve status and location from the head, exactly
as they did before this branch. Ordinary matching still follows the presented
frame, so active-link state keeps tracking what is on screen.
A scope notification carried whatever the position was presenting, staged included. Stage sends its notification from inside the Router's startTransition, but syncProgress sends one from the store's subscription, on an urgent lane. Offering the staged frame there would let a progress change move the still-visible tree onto a route that has not committed — the same leak the previous commit closed, arriving by a different route. A notification now either offers a specific publication, which only stage() ever does, or offers nothing and means re-read what you are already presenting. Progress, commit, cancel and publish all use the second form, so no notification sent outside a transition can move a consumer off the route it is showing. This also folds the subscribe-time re-read into the same path. The window is currently unreachable: while a frame is staged the head stays pending, so the progress overlay never changes and the notification never fires. The added test therefore passes against the previous commit too, and guards the property rather than reproducing a failure. Verified by probe, not assumed.
The owner was built once per mount and closes over the router it was built for. A provider handed a different router — a test rerender, HMR, switching tenant — kept publishing through the previous router's scopes, so navigations on the replacement either read the store synchronously or staged stale frames. It is now rebuilt when the router identity changes, and the construction moves out of the component, since it belongs to the router rather than to a mount. Worth knowing: swapping the router prop of a mounted RouterProvider does not work upstream either — with the option off, the same swap renders an empty tree — so there is no end-to-end behaviour to compare against and this is defensive. The test therefore pins the part that is this change's to get right: the owner follows router identity, in both directions.
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When a navigation has staged its frame but a route component suspends, the previous tree remains visible while scope.staged points at the next route. If an urgent update in that visible tree mounts a new useRouterStateSelector consumer, this initializer selects the staged frame and exposes the next location or matches alongside the old page. Initialize from a frame identity carried by the rendering RouterStateFrame, rather than from the scope's mutable staged slot.
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When useMatchRoute presents an older frame during a suspended navigation, _state is applied only after next has already been built from latestLocation. For example, if the visible page has ?tab=a while the staged location has ?tab=b, matching a destination with omitted search inherits tab=b for next but compares it with the presented frame's tab=a, incorrectly returning false for the visible route. The presented location must also be supplied as the source when building non-pending match targets.
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In `@e2e/react-router/view-transitions/tests/app.spec.ts`:
- Around line 30-31: Update the view-transition test setup around
recordViewTransitions to expose whether document.startViewTransition is
supported, then skip the first two tests when unsupported. Do not use a
browser-side return value from page.addInitScript as the support result;
communicate the state through an explicit page-visible mechanism instead.
In `@packages/react-router/src/Match.tsx`:
- Around line 84-92: Update Match in packages/react-router/src/Match.tsx at
lines 84-92 to render null when state.matches.find cannot locate routeId, rather
than passing an undefined match to MatchView. At lines 310-331, handle
parentIndex === -1 before accessing parentMatch._notFound and render null for
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The page.addInitScript method in Playwright returns a Promise that resolves to a Disposable object [1][2]. This Disposable object can be used to remove the init script that was added [3]. While earlier documentation or general usage might imply or list the return as Promise, the current implementation returns a Promise [1][3][2]. When this method is called, it injects a script to be evaluated in the page environment whenever the page navigates or a child frame is attached [1][4].
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Skip tests when document.startViewTransition is unavailable.
When the API is unavailable, recordViewTransitions installs no wrapper, so window.__viewTransitions remains empty. The first two tests then poll for records that cannot exist and time out. Expose the support state to the test runner and skip those tests. Do not rely on a browser-side return value from page.addInitScript as the helper result.
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In `@e2e/react-router/view-transitions/tests/app.spec.ts` around lines 30 - 31,
Update the view-transition test setup around recordViewTransitions to expose
whether document.startViewTransition is supported, then skip the first two tests
when unsupported. Do not use a browser-side return value from page.addInitScript
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Both concurrent selectors assume the presented frame contains the consumer's routeId. useRouterStateSelector keeps the presented publication in per-consumer React state, so a nested consumer can render against a frame that no longer lists its route. Each lookup then produces undefined behind a non-null assertion and throws during render.
packages/react-router/src/Match.tsx#L84-L92: returnnullwhenstate.matches.findfinds no match forrouteId, instead of passingmatch!toMatchView.packages/react-router/src/Match.tsx#L310-L331: handleparentIndex === -1before readingparentMatch._notFound, and rendernullfor that case.
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In `@packages/react-router/src/Match.tsx` around lines 84 - 92, Update Match in
packages/react-router/src/Match.tsx at lines 84-92 to render null when
state.matches.find cannot locate routeId, rather than passing an undefined match
to MatchView. At lines 310-331, handle parentIndex === -1 before accessing
parentMatch._notFound and render null for that case, preserving safe rendering
for frames that omit the consumer’s route.
A frame is offered to every subscribed consumer, so an `Outlet` belonging to a route the next frame drops still runs its selector against that frame. It read its own match unconditionally, so `matches[parentIndex]` was `undefined` and the selector threw. Because a scope notifies subscribers in a plain loop, the throw stopped every later consumer being offered the frame, `Matches` never acknowledged it, and the navigation stayed `pending` for good — the URL changed while the old route stayed on screen. This only reached navigations that change the shape of the match tree, which is why same-route parameter changes looked fine. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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When this option is enabled after hydration, frameRootBoundary is true for every matched route, so this condition removes all route-level Suspense boundaries. A child route that suspends—such as while its lazy chunk or loader is pending—therefore bubbles to the boundary in Matches, whose fallback is built only from the root route. Any child- or parent-specific pendingComponent is skipped, leaving the old page visible or showing the root/default fallback instead of the configured route fallback.
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The createRouter call in e2e/react-router/view-transitions/src/main.tsx never sets experimental_concurrentRenderFrames, and the new option defaults to false. Consequently these assertions exercise the unchanged store-subscription path: the existing viewTransition link already invokes document.startViewTransition, supplies its types, and can create the named pseudo-elements, so the tests can pass even if the new frame publication protocol is completely broken. Enable the option in this fixture so the tests cover the behavior introduced by this commit.
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<ViewTransition>never fires across a TanStack Router navigation. The navigation is already insideReact.startTransition—Transitioner.tsxoverridesrouter.startTransitionto call it, androuter-core's client loader commits every set of matches through that override. The problem is where the state lands.Every reactive router read goes through
useStore→useSyncExternalStoreWithSelector→useSyncExternalStore. React schedules those updates at a hardcodedSyncLane, from the store's own subscription callback:That lane is a constant, and the callback runs after the
startTransitionscope has exited. React does this deliberately — an external store cannot produce a previous snapshot on demand, so old and new UI cannot render concurrently without tearing. The consequence is that the update carrying a new route is never on a transition lane, and<ViewTransition>only fires for transition updates.There is a second, independent consequence, covered by tests below: because consumers read the mutable head atoms, a component rendering while a navigation is in flight observes the route being prepared, not the one on screen.
This adds an opt-in render-frame protocol behind a new router option,
experimental_concurrentRenderFrames. Default off — with the option unset, the existing store subscriptions and selector behaviour are unchanged.router-core— additive onlyframeId_renderedacknowledgement widens to accept a frame identitymatchRouteaccepts a presented_state, so a render resolving links and active state uses the frame it is showing rather than the pending imperative location. An explicitmatchRoute({ pending: true })is exempt: it asks about the navigation in flight, not about the render, so it still resolves from the head — otherwise a destination-aware indicator could never light up, since it only ever renders before the commitNo shared signature changes and no behaviour changes:
load-client.tsis untouched by this PR. See Cross-framework impact below.react-router— a frame is offered, never imposedA frame answers two different questions depending on where the consumer sits, so there are two scopes rather than one global answer:
Matchesfor the route subtree, which can also present a staged successorScope identity is stable for the router's lifetime, so putting a scope in Context invalidates nobody. Each scope holds two publications in separate slots —
committedandstaged— and each consumer records in React state which of them its own render is presenting:React versions that state per tree. So the notification that offers a staged frame — sent from inside the Router's
startTransition, which is what keeps the transition lane — lands in the work-in-progress tree only. The tree the user is still looking at keeps its previousframeId, resolves tocommitted, and an urgent update there cannot drag the staged route into view.That property depends on only
stage()ever offering, so the notification says which it is. A notification either offers a specific publication, or offers nothing and means re-read whatever you are already presenting:commit,cancel,publishand the progress sync all use the second form, so nothing sent on an urgent lane can move a consumer off the route it is showing.A consumer accepts an offer only when its own selection changed; one that declines stays resolved to
committed, where its selection is identical by definition. That is what keeps selector-level render counts unchanged.Also:
router.stores.__store.get()directly after the publication callback's batched writesMatchesacknowledges the exact renderedframeId, so an interrupted or superseded render cannot settle a newer navigationuseSyncExternalStoredoes —MatchesInnercommits an acknowledged frame from a layout effect of its own, so a publication really can land between a consumer's render and its effectsstatus,isLoading) is overlaid onto every slot in both scopes, because progress is not route content — a spinner must see the navigation whether it sits above the route tree or inside the route being left.locationandmatchesare never overlaid, so this cannot surface a route the user cannot seeMatchesso publication and acknowledgement are atomic; SSR and the first hydration render keep the existing per-route boundaries, so a suspended route can't block shell streaming and the client hydrates the same treeCorrectness and selector parity both hold
These looked like a trade-off, and earlier revisions each sacrificed one. Measured, not argued:
pending ?? committedThey only conflicted because one mutable answer was serving two questions, in two trees. Splitting the slots and letting React version the choice resolves it, without a changing Context value.
Selector-call counts across the existing
store-updates-during-navigationcases are at or below the store path, never higher:Cross-framework impact
An earlier revision tightened the shared
StartTransitionFnto require its callback to return the assembledRouterState. Becauserouter.startTransitionis public API onRouterCore, that broke every framework's callers, not just React's —solid-router'spublic-presentation-lane-contracttest failed withType 'number' is not assignable to type 'RouterState'. (Widening toRouterState | voiddoes not help: TypeScript only permits an arbitrary return type when the target is exactlyvoid, not a union containing it.)That change is gone. The React adapter reads the frame itself after the callback runs, so the shared signature and
load-client.tsare untouched, andsolid-router/vue-routerare unaffected — neither references_rendered,frameId, orgetInitialRouterState.Tests added
packages/router-core/tests/render-frames.test.tsmatchRouteresolves against a presented frame, not the head locationpendingquery resolves against the head, not the frame. Holds a gated loader open and asserts during the real pending window — the first version of this test awaited the navigation, sostatushad already settled and both sides trivially returnedfalsepackages/react-router/tests/concurrent-render-frames.test.tsx— the first three run against both the store path and the frame pathstatusispendingand headlocationis the new route while the old heading is still on screen), then mounts a reader urgently. The store path reads/slow; the frame path reads/. Asserting both pins the difference this option removes.e2e/react-router/view-transitionsshipped only aplaceholder test, and theviewTransitiontests ine2e/react-router/basicassert nothing beyond the destination heading rendering — they pass whether or not a transition occurs (confirmed: identical results on stockmain). Three real tests now wrapdocument.startViewTransitionand sample live animations: a navigation starts exactly one transition; the shared element is paired (::view-transition-group/old/new(main-content)); the configuredtypesare applied. RemovingviewTransitionfrom the link under test fails all three.Does it work?
Measured against a two-route app on React canary, counting real
document.startViewTransitioncalls:startTransition(control)router.navigate()insidestartTransition<Link>navigationThe control row matters: same elements, same names, same browser, same React build — only the trigger differs. It's a genuine shared-element morph:
POC at mixcloud/router-transitions-poc —
mainis the failure, #2 applies this branch as pnpm patches.✅ Checklist
Every CI target (
test:eslint,test:unit,test:types,test:build,build) run locally againstmainat0caf6b9, across all four affected packages:router-corereact-routersolid-routervue-routerLint warning counts are unchanged from
mainin every package. Also: prettier clean, no unhandled errors,view-transitionse2e 3/3,basice2e 24/24 with the option both off and on. The downstream application suite that motivated this — 56 files, 306 tests — passes with the option on and off.One fix worth calling out:
Boolean(router.ssr) && !useHydrated()called a hook behind a short-circuit whose condition is not static, so hook order could change between renders. It is nowuseFrameRootBoundary, which callsuseHydratedunconditionally inside a branch depending only on the option — and the default path no longer subscribes to it at all. An earlier attempt simply hoisted the call, which changed default-path hydration and produced unhandled concurrent-rendering errors in the hydration suite; that is what led to the current shape.🚀 Release Impact
Notes for review
The option stays default-off deliberately. Three things I would rather state than have found.
Mount-time isolation is not complete. A consumer that mounts during a staged navigation has no prior state and no way to tell which tree is rendering it, so it seeds from
staged ?? committed. If an urgent update in the committed tree mounts a new router-state consumer mid-navigation, that first render can still read the staged frame. Consumers that are already mounted — the reported and tested case — are fully isolated. Closing the mount case appears to require the frame to arrive through a changing Context value, which costs the selector granularity in the first table; if there is a way to have both, I would take it.Three changes rest on the mechanism or on a guard, not on a failing test. Recording the committed selection and its selector config outside render, and re-reading when the subscription is installed, address windows
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. Separately, the offer/refresh split closes a path that is currently unreachable — I instrumentedsyncProgressrather than assuming, and while a frame is staged the head stays pinned atpending, so the progress overlay never changes and the notification never fires. It is real in the protocol and blocked only by a coincidence between two unrelated mechanisms, which is why it is worth making structural. Everything else listed under Tests added fails against the revision before it.Keying the owner by router identity is defensive. Swapping the
routerprop of a mountedRouterProviderrenders an empty tree with this option off as well, so there is no upstream behaviour it restores — happy to drop it if you would rather not carry it.Beyond that: the scopes' breadth under a large route tree has not been profiled in production, and whether this eventually delegates to a native React concurrent-store primitive when one exists is still open. That is why it is framed as an experiment rather than a new default.
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Outletmust tolerate a frame that drops its own routeApplying this branch to a real app surfaced a hard failure. Any navigation that changes the
shape of the match tree left the router
pendingfor good — the URL changed, theprevious route stayed on screen, and the console carried:
Navigations that only change params within one route were fine, which is why the existing
tests missed it.
A frame is offered to every subscribed consumer, and that includes an
Outletfor aroute the next frame drops. It still ran its selector against the new frame and read its
own match unconditionally, so
matches[parentIndex]wasundefined. Because a scopenotifies its subscribers in a plain loop, the throw stopped every later consumer being
offered the frame —
Matchesnever acknowledged it andcommit()never ran. A singlethrowing selector wedged the navigation permanently.
The
!onmatches[parentIndex]!was asserting something the frame protocol does notguarantee. Fixed by selecting a stable "route is gone" tuple instead; rendering no child is
correct for a subtree that is being unmounted. Covered by
a route leaving the match tree does not wedge the navigation, which fails with that exactTypeError without the fix. Full
react-routersuite green: 78 files, 1050 tests.Worth noting for reviewers, though deliberately not changed here:
notify()iteratingsubscribers without isolation is what turned one throwing selector into a permanently stuck
router rather than a single visible error. Guarding it would be defensive without a second
reproduction, but it is the reason this failed so quietly.
Measured
Interaction latency — the quantity INP is a high percentile of — for a client-side
navigation, in mixcloud/router-transitions-poc#2.
Two builds of identical source, only the option differs; blocks alternate; 6x CPU
throttle; 48 navigations per cell; the mode is read back off the live router and
cross-checked against real
document.startViewTransitioncalls.?rows=Ngives the destination route a controllable amount of real reconciliation work:Control tracks render cost almost linearly; patched is flat at every weight, p50 through
max. The option does not make rendering faster — the 6000-row frame still costs 279ms —
it takes that work out from between the input and the paint. Long Animation Frame
attribution shows the same thing directly: the click handler returns in 2.8ms against
37ms, and the render moves out of the click's own animation frame.
One condition is worth stating plainly for anyone adopting this. The interaction ends
at the next paint, so something has to paint. In the POC the view transition guarantees
one. In a real app with neither a view transition nor pending UI, deferring the route
render also defers the
<Link>active-state flip — which was the only immediate feedbackthe click had — and ~20-28% of navigations then have nothing to present until the commit,
pushing interaction latency from ~64ms to ~232ms. Adding a progress indicator driven by
isLoadingremoved the tail entirely and left the option strictly ahead: same latencydistribution, 57% less long-frame work. Details in
mixcloud/Mixcloud#25470.
That is an argument for documenting the option alongside pending UI, not against the
design — the progress signal already crosses the presentation boundary precisely so this
is possible.
Summary by CodeRabbit
experimental_concurrentRenderFramesoption for React Router, disabled by default.