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Keep a keyed SVG element and its live point state when it returns before its exit animation finishes. Cancellation now receives the next scene, so it removes genuinely absent exits but preserves returning elements for reconciliation.

This prevents opacity, radius and position from restarting at the new entrance state, including a rolling exit followed by a normal keyed update. Nested groups, partial returns, changed element kinds, resize and teardown remain covered.

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  • 77 motion tests, including 9 new cases. Against the unchanged main implementation, 8 of the new cases fail and the absent-node control passes.
  • 2,258 DOM tests, adapter, SSR, types, docs, build and packed-package checks.
  • Chromium, Firefox and WebKit lifecycle, rolling, pointer and spring checks. A packed consumer also passes 27 lifecycle scenarios and real-pointer checks across those browsers.
  • All 146 production bundle consumers measured, 145 unchanged. Motion SVG is 69.502 minified, 23.277 gzip and 20.592 Brotli decimal kB, increases of 0.106, 0.047 and 0.058 respectively.
  • Paired 100-point and 1,000-point update timing ranges overlap. These are focused checks, not a claim about every workload.

Tanner approved this fix's gzip ceiling change from 23.240 to 23.277 decimal kB and its comparison source revision/input-fingerprint refresh. Recorded comparison measurements, tolerances and all other budgets are unchanged. The preview manifest was regenerated with no SVG asset changes.

Includes a patch changeset. No public API, focus threshold or tooltip motion changes.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes
    • Returning points and nested SVG elements now retain their position and appearance when an exit transition is interrupted by a new update. They resume motion without leaving stale elements behind.
  • Documentation
    • Updated the recorded TanStack Charts revision in comparison materials.

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Motion cancellation now receives the incoming scene and point identities. Exit cleanup preserves matching SVG elements and presentation points when they return in the next update. Regression tests cover keyed re-entry, nested nodes, rolling paths, and cleanup. Comparison and benchmark metadata are also updated.

Changes: Motion exit re-entry

Layer / File(s) Summary
Pass the incoming scene into cancellation
packages/charts-core/src/motion.ts
Rendering passes the next scene to cancellation. Cancellation derives its point identities and passes both to unfinished tracks.
Preserve returning keyed state
packages/charts-core/src/motion.ts, packages/charts-core/src/motion.test.ts
Exit cleanup preserves elements and points whose keys appear in the incoming scene. Tests cover returning nodes, resumed motion, rolling paths, and cleanup.
Refresh release and benchmark metadata
.changeset/*, benchmarks/*, docs/comparison.md, packages/charts-core/docs/comparison.md, scripts/measure-bundles.mjs
The changeset, comparison revisions, benchmark hashes, and Motion SVG renderer gzip budget are updated.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Renderer
  participant cancelAnimation
  participant runTracks
  participant ExitCleanup
  Renderer->>cancelAnimation: Pass incoming scene
  cancelAnimation->>runTracks: Pass scene and point identities
  runTracks->>ExitCleanup: Cancel unfinished tracks with scene context
  ExitCleanup->>ExitCleanup: Preserve matching keyed elements and points
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Moving an animated element between groups can briefly display it twice. The effect is transient, so the change is mergeable with a targeted fix or owner acceptance.

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Review comments at @packages/charts-core/src/motion.ts:
- Around line 2650-2652: Update cleanup so its sceneNodeContext key check
retains a returning keyed child only when it belongs to the same parent group as
the exiting child; allow cleanup when the key returns under a different
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Comment on lines +2650 to +2652
const cleanup = (nextScene?: ChartScene) => {
if (nextScene && sceneNodeContext(nextScene, timingContext?.key ?? ''))
return

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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Make exit retention parent-aware.

When a keyed child returns under a different surviving group, this scene-wide key check retains the old child. Parent-local reconciliation then creates the returning child in the new group, so both nodes can paint during the new animation. The old node is removed when that animation settles, so the issue is transient rather than permanent. Retain the old node only when the returning key belongs to the same parent group.

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Review comment at @packages/charts-core/src/motion.ts around lines 2650 - 2652:
Update cleanup so its sceneNodeContext key check retains a returning keyed child
only when it belongs to the same parent group as the exiting child; allow
cleanup when the key returns under a different surviving group.

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Confirmed, thanks. A regression test against this head gets two nodes immediately after the key returns under a different surviving parent. The local correction records the parent key in the existing scene-node context and retains an exit only for that same parent. All 78 motion tests pass. Chromium, Firefox and WebKit also pass leaf/group reparenting plus same-parent continuity controls, 12 cases total; the current head fails the six reparenting cases. The correction adds 0.024 decimal kB gzip to Motion SVG, with the other 145 measured consumers unchanged. That exceeds the exact ceiling approved for this PR, so the correction remains local pending the narrow cost decision and full validation. I will not merge the current head with this finding unresolved.

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@tannerlinsley Thanks for the detailed validation. The reported reparenting failures and same-parent controls support the parent-aware correction.

The additional 0.024 decimal kB gzip needs a separate budget decision; the existing approval does not cover it. This finding should remain open until the correction reaches the PR head and validation is complete.

Thanks for clarifying the parent-local reconciliation behavior.


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File: packages/charts-core/src/motion.ts:2650-2652
Timestamp: 2026-10-16T05:46:37.469Z
Learning: In TanStack/charts, packages/charts-core/src/motion.ts reconciles keyed SVG children within each parent. Exit retention in addExitMotionTrack must check parent ownership as well as the returning key. A scene-wide key match can retain the old child while reconciliation creates another child under a different surviving parent, producing transient duplicate nodes.

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The extended regression also caught a second part of this: removing the duplicate DOM node alone left the presentation point at x=40 while the returned node painted at x=160. The complete local correction now clears presentation state when its old node has left the renderer root, including nested groups.

All 78 motion tests pass, and the actual packed package passes the direct and nested re-entry checks in Chromium, Firefox and WebKit. The full repository run reports only the bundle ceiling and benchmark fingerprint gates failing. The final Motion SVG gzip measurement is 23.322 decimal kB, replacing the earlier 23.301 estimate; the other 145 bundle consumers are unchanged.

This remains local while the exact ceiling decision is pending. The current PR head is unchanged and should not be merged yet.

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@tannerlinsley Thanks for clarifying the presentation-state requirement. Parent-aware DOM cleanup alone is not sufficient: presentation state must also clear when the old node leaves the renderer root, including through nested-group removal.

Your reported motion tests and packed-package browser checks support the complete local correction. The final reported measurement is 23.322 decimal kB gzip, not 23.301.

The finding should remain open while the correction is local. The exact ceiling decision and benchmark fingerprint gate remain pending. The unchanged PR head is not ready to merge.


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Repo: TanStack/charts PR: 233
File: packages/charts-core/src/motion.ts:2650-2652
Timestamp: 2026-10-16T06:02:30.517Z
Learning: In TanStack/charts, packages/charts-core/src/motion.ts must coordinate keyed exit DOM cleanup with presentation-point cleanup. During re-entry under a different parent, removing the old DOM node without clearing its retained presentation state can leave presentation coordinates inconsistent with the returned node's painted coordinates. Clear the old presentation state when its old node has left the renderer root, including when removal occurs through a nested group.

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File: packages/charts-core/src/motion.ts:2650-2652
Timestamp: 2026-10-16T05:46:40.467Z
Learning: In TanStack/charts, packages/charts-core/src/motion.ts reconciles keyed SVG children within each parent. Exit retention in addExitMotionTrack must check parent ownership as well as the returning key. A scene-wide key match can retain the old child while reconciliation creates another child under a different surviving parent, producing transient duplicate nodes.

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