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Fixes #239

The core moves the tooltip element and calls bodyChange in the same task. TooltipBody answered with a plain setTarget(), which React renders in a later task when the call comes from a pointermove listener. So the browser painted the moved tooltip with the previous point's body for a frame.

TooltipBody now wraps the update in flushSync, so the body commits before the paint. The exception is a repaint from the host's layout effects (adapter.update, mount, destroy). There flushSync can't flush and logs a lifecycle warning. RendererChartImplementation marks those calls, and TooltipBody falls back to a plain setState inside them, which React commits before the paint anyway. The same holds for a callback from the body's own effects, such as dismiss() from a useLayoutEffect or useEffect. Two marker components around the portal's content mark that commit, so the body's effects get the plain setState too.

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A new test in tooltip.test.tsx moves the focus with a key press outside act and expects the new body straight away. It then rerenders the host and asserts that nothing reaches console.error. The first assertion fails on main. Without the commit guard, the second fails with the flushSync warning. Two more tests call dismiss() from the body's layout effect and from its passive effect, and expect the body gone with no console.error.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Fixed custom tooltip bodies displaying the previous data point after pointer movement.
    • Tooltip content now updates before the browser repaints.
    • Improved tooltip consistency during chart resizing and other chart updates.
    • Tooltip dismissal now works reliably across different update scenarios without producing console warnings.
    • Improved tooltip behavior during rapid interactions and mixed chart update cycles.

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RendererChart now tracks host commits. TooltipBody uses commit-aware state timing, including flushSync for interaction updates. Tests cover immediate updates, resize behavior, dismissal, and console errors.

Changes: Tooltip Body Synchronization

Layer / File(s) Summary
Track adapter host commits
packages/react-charts/src/RendererChart.tsx
RendererChart tracks adapter update, mount, and destroy operations. It exposes isInHostCommit during those operations.
Coordinate tooltip body updates
packages/react-charts/src/tooltip.tsx, packages/react-charts/src/tooltip.test.tsx, packages/react-charts/src/Chart.test.tsx, .changeset/react-tooltip-body-sync.md
TooltipBody tracks custom body commits, uses flushSync outside commit contexts, and uses regular state updates during host or body commits. Tests cover interaction updates, resizing, dismissal, and console errors. The changeset documents the patch release.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Pointer
  participant RendererChart
  participant TooltipBody
  participant ReactDOM
  Pointer->>RendererChart: move pointer to another point
  RendererChart->>TooltipBody: request tooltip target update
  TooltipBody->>RendererChart: check isInHostCommit
  TooltipBody->>ReactDOM: flushSync target update
  ReactDOM-->>TooltipBody: commit custom tooltip body
  RendererChart-->>Pointer: position tooltip with updated body
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  • TanStack/charts#187: The pull request changes tooltip state-update timing but does not remove the reported chart re-render.
  • TanStack/charts#239: The pull request addresses the previous tooltip body appearing for one frame after pointer movement.

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The tooltip synchronization change covers the verified interaction and lifecycle paths without an established merge-blocking regression.

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Issue [#239] requires the custom tooltip body to commit before paint after interaction movement and to avoid warnings during host lifecycle repaints. TooltipBody uses flushSync for interaction updates. RendererChartImplementation marks adapter.update, mount, and destroy with isInHostCommit, so those updates use plain state updates. Body commit markers cover dismissal from layout and passive effects. The added tests cover immediate body updates and warning-free lifecycle cases.

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124-189: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Exercise a pointer move to the other point.

The test currently covers only keyboard navigation. A pointer assertion that moves to scene.points[1] would compare the existing body value 2 with 2, so a stale body could pass. Use the grouped-focus fixture and move from the second point to scene.points[0], then assert 1.

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-import { defineChart, dot } from '@tanstack/charts'
+import { createChartScene, defineChart, dot } from '@tanstack/charts'
...
       scales: {
         x: { scale: scaleLinear().domain([0, 1]) },
         y: { scale: scaleLinear().domain([0, 3]) },
       },
+      focus: 'group-x',
       tooltip: { use: tooltip },
...
       const svg = container.querySelector('svg')
       if (!svg) throw new Error('Missing SVG')
+      vi.spyOn(svg, 'getBoundingClientRect').mockReturnValue({
+        x: 0,
+        y: 0,
+        top: 0,
+        left: 0,
+        right: 480,
+        bottom: 260,
+        width: 480,
+        height: 260,
+        toJSON: () => ({}),
+      })
+      const scene = createChartScene(definition, { width: 480, height: 260 })
...
       expect(container.querySelector('[data-body]')?.textContent).toBe('2')
+      Object.assign(globalThis, { IS_REACT_ACT_ENVIRONMENT: false })
+      try {
+        svg.dispatchEvent(
+          new MouseEvent('pointermove', {
+            bubbles: true,
+            clientX: scene.points[0]!.x,
+            clientY: scene.points[0]!.y,
+          }),
+        )
+      } finally {
+        Object.assign(globalThis, { IS_REACT_ACT_ENVIRONMENT: true })
+      }
+      expect(container.querySelector('[data-body]')?.textContent).toBe('1')
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189:
Extend the tooltip test to cover pointer movement by importing and using
createChartScene, enabling the grouped-focus configuration, and mocking the SVG
bounds needed for coordinate-based interaction. After focus selects the second
point and renders body value 2, dispatch a pointermove at scene.points[0] while
React act scheduling is disabled, then assert the body updates synchronously to
1.

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Review comments at @packages/react-charts/src/tooltip.tsx:
- Around line 169-170: Update the tooltip target update logic around
isInHostCommit and setTarget so reentrant callbacks from the tooltip body’s own
commit, including dismiss() from useLayoutEffect, use a regular state update
instead of flushSync. Retain synchronous flushing only for safe
adapter-operation updates, ensuring null body targets are handled without
invoking flushSync during React commit.

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Review comments at @packages/react-charts/src/tooltip.test.tsx:
- Around line 124-189: Extend the tooltip test to cover pointer movement by
importing and using createChartScene, enabling the grouped-focus configuration,
and mocking the SVG bounds needed for coordinate-based interaction. After focus
selects the second point and renders body value 2, dispatch a pointermove at
scene.points[0] while React act scheduling is disabled, then assert the body
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179-179: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Keep the warning spy active through unmount.

The unmount path can destroy the active tooltip and invoke its body callback. Restore console.error only after unmount and its assertion. Use an inner finally so a failed assertion still restores the spy and removes the container.

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-      expect(errors).not.toHaveBeenCalled()
     } finally {
-      errors.mockRestore()
-      await act(async () => root.unmount())
+      try {
+        await act(async () => root.unmount())
+        expect(errors).not.toHaveBeenCalled()
+      } finally {
+        errors.mockRestore()
+        container.remove()
+      }
-      container.remove()
     }
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165-174: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add synchronous pointer-movement coverage.

The new test dispatches only ArrowRight. The existing pointer test asserts only after await act(async () => ...), so it does not protect the immediate pointer-update boundary.

Add synchronous pointermove assertions while retaining the existing act-wrapped assertions.

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     const scene = createChartScene(definition, { width: 480, height: 260 })
+    Object.assign(globalThis, { IS_REACT_ACT_ENVIRONMENT: false })
+    try {
+      for (const point of scene.points) {
+        svg.dispatchEvent(
+          new MouseEvent('pointermove', {
+            bubbles: true,
+            clientX: point.x,
+            clientY: point.y,
+          }),
+        )
+        expect(target.querySelector('[data-testid="primary"]')?.textContent).toBe(
+          point.groupLabel,
+        )
+      }
+    } finally {
+      Object.assign(globalThis, { IS_REACT_ACT_ENVIRONMENT: true })
+    }
     for (const point of scene.points) {
       await act(async () =>
         svg.dispatchEvent(
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Thanks @piotrkulpinski, the pointer regression coverage is useful. There is still a body-effect case the sibling markers miss. A smaller local correction removes those markers and leaves dismissed bodies on a normal state update, while keeping visible pointer updates synchronous.

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Independently reproduced at e3caf5f25700ab4ec121a074d5ba7365d27b6df6, using React 19.2.3 and jsdom in a credential-isolated checkout. Mount a custom body, update only its own local state, then call dismiss() in its layout or passive effect. Both new regressions emit React's lifecycle flushSync warning, while the PR's existing 30 Chart/tooltip tests pass. The marker siblings do not render during that child-only update.

A local candidate handles nextTarget === null without flushSync and removes BodyCommitStart/BodyCommitEnd. Core tooltip hiding happens before the null notification, so a dismissed body does not need a synchronous visible commit. The candidate passes the existing 30 tests and four new layout/passive setup/cleanup cases. Chromium, Firefox and WebKit also retain the current body immediately after pointer dispatch inside an animation-frame callback. Removing synchronous updates makes that verifier observe the previous body in all three engines. This is a pre-paint DOM check, not a screenshot comparison or a published fix.

Further independent checks on this same local candidate now pass: 2,260 DOM tests, 23 framework tests, TypeScript and native consumer types, the full packed-package gate (bare React Native, Expo, seven adapters, and the unified artifact), and the conformance app build. React 18.0.0 also passes all four body-local effect setup/cleanup cases in Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit. The final packed artifact passes the immediate pointer/body check in all three engines with no workspace source imports. These are local checks, not GitHub CI or a published release.

The candidate still fails three existing exact bundle records and three gzip ceilings because the host-commit guard affects default React entries, including consumers without a custom tooltip. No budgets have been changed. Required GitHub workflows still need approval, and the local correction has not been pushed or merged.

…in the tooltip entry

A dismissal now uses a plain state update, so a body that dismisses from its own effect no longer triggers the lifecycle warning. The host-commit guard moves from RendererChart into the tooltip entry, so default React entries keep their size.
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Thanks @tannerlinsley, good catch on the child-only update. I've pushed your correction in 5e36c11:

  1. A dismissal (null target) now uses a plain setTarget, and the body markers are gone. A move to a visible point still flushes synchronously.
  2. The host-commit guard moved out of RendererChart.tsx into the tooltip entry, as two layout-effect markers around the chart. RendererChart.tsx now matches main, so default React entries are back to their main size.

I added your four cases (layout and passive, setup and cleanup), with a body that dismisses after updating only its own state. All four fail on the previous head and pass now. The host-commit test still fails without the moved guard.

Locally, typecheck passes and all 2,258 tests pass. bundle:check fails here with exactly the same lines as a clean main checkout, and the React adapter row is identical to main (29.31 kB gzip).

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Thanks @piotrkulpinski, moving the markers into the tooltip entry removes the default React size blocker on 5e36c11. All 146 bundle checks now pass without changing limits.

AI review notes: React 18 server rendering still produces two useLayoutEffect warnings from HostCommitStart/End. A local correction uses the existing isomorphic-effect pattern: React.useEffect when document is undefined, React.useLayoutEffect otherwise. A new server-render regression fails on this head and passes with that correction, and an actual React 18 renderToString check produces no warnings after it.

With that local correction, 2,263 DOM/server tests, type checking, all 146 bundle checks, and the Native, Expo, seven-adapter and unified-package checks pass. Packed tooltip pointer updates and body-local dismissal also pass in Chromium, Firefox and WebKit. This is local verification, not a shipped fix. Preview regeneration is still pending, and the required GitHub workflows still need approval.

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React 18 warns about useLayoutEffect during server rendering. The markers now use useEffect when document is undefined, as RendererChart does.
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Thanks @tannerlinsley! Pushed the isomorphic effect for the markers in 2c38c19. React 18 renderToString now logs no warnings, and typecheck and all 2,258 tests pass.

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