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Stop the modal overlay from polling every frame while idle - #3599
While a modal step is open, the overlay ran a requestAnimationFrame loop that re-measured the target and its extra highlights on every frame, even on a still page. #3583 stopped that loop from rewriting the path, so it no longer forces layout, but the loop itself kept running at 60 frames a second for the whole time a step was open.
Change
Event-driven tracking._styleForStep now follows each highlight through autoUpdate, the event-driven tracker that step tooltips already use. It reacts to scrolls in any document between the target and the overlay, resizes, layout shifts with no event (through the IntersectionObserver trick), and transforms or transitions on the target and its ancestors.
Scroll containers. The highlights' scroll parents are tracked through autoUpdate too, so a container that moves or resizes and crops a highlight without moving it still redraws the opening.
Steps with no target. With nothing to highlight, the overlay itself is tracked, so a viewport resize still redraws its path.
Glides. The rAF loop now runs only while a glide between steps is in flight, and stops once it lands.
Moves after a resize.observeMove now rebuilds its watched box whenever the element resizes. Before, an element that shrank could then move within its old box with no event and go unnoticed. That affected the overlay's scroll parents and step tooltips alike.
Border and inline changes. ResizeObservers now watch the border box, which is what tracking compares. An inline target, which has no box for a ResizeObserver, is watched for mutations instead, so new text that shrinks it gets reported.
Type.autoUpdate accepts any Element as the floating element, so the overlay's <svg> can be passed in.
Results
Chrome 131, 4× CPU throttle, 10 interleaved samples (medians):
16.0.0
This PR
Frames requested in 5 s idle with a step open
300
0
Main-thread time in 5 s idle
88 ms
2.5 ms
CPU during 60 scroll frames
113 ms
103 ms
Time to start / next step
38 / 16.6 ms
39 / 16.9 ms
Nodes and event listeners leaked per start/complete
0 / 0
0 / 0
Start, next and scroll times are unchanged within noise. Bundle cost is about 85 B gzipped.
Testing
Unit tests: 586 pass.
New tests cover no frames while still, frames only until a glide lands, following a scrolled target and a scrolled extra highlight, following a scroll parent that moves while its target stays put, redrawing a stepless overlay on resize, and no following once hidden or after the next step starts. The first six fail against the old code.
Two existing tests changed. The setupForStep test asserted that the loop called rAF. The iframe tests' fake windows needed addEventListener, which the tooltip's tracker already relies on for real frames.
Tracker test:test/position/tracker.mjs gains shrink, shiftAfterShrink, borderShrink, inlineTextShrink and inlineShiftAfterShrink. In Chromium, each of the last four got 0 updates before its fix and 1 after. Firefox and WebKit weren't run locally.
Cypress:overlay-tracking.cy.js runs the full overlay against a scroll parent moving past a target that stays put, a target losing its border, and an inline target whose text shrinks. It also checks that a still page requests no frames. All four pass here; on main's build the frames check fails. I also ran overflow-clipping, root-overflow, modal and iframes locally in Chrome, and all 17 tests pass.
Lifecycle verifier:test/verify explored 18,999 event orders and found nothing.
Real-browser check: I ran a Playwright check in Chrome against both 16.0.0 and this branch. Both keep the opening on the target through:
a window scroll;
a scroll inside a container;
a layout shift with no event;
a scroll parent shrinking to crop the target;
the middle and end of a transform transition;
a glide to the next step;
a window resize.
The only difference is the number of idle frames.
Not run locally: the rest of the Cypress suite, and Firefox and WebKit.
The overlay ran a requestAnimationFrame loop for as long as a modal step was
open, re-measuring its highlights 60 times a second on a still page. It now
follows them through autoUpdate, the event-driven tracker steps already use,
plus a ResizeObserver on their scroll parents, and only asks for frames while
a glide between steps is running.
In Chrome at 4x CPU throttle, an open tour on a still page goes from 300 frames
and 88 ms of main-thread time per 5 s to 0 frames and 2.5 ms. Start, next, and
scroll timings are unchanged. Costs about 85 bytes gz.
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The modal now tracks valid highlights and their scroll parents, or the overlay when no valid highlights exist. It updates openings during glides and stops tracking during step cleanup. Position tracking detects border-box size changes and inline-element mutations.
Changes: Modal highlight tracking
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Summary
Position tracking updates shepherd.js/src/utils/position.ts, shepherd.js/test/position/tracker.mjs
observeMove observes border-box size changes and inline-element mutations when supported. autoUpdate observes references, floating elements, and frame elements using the border box. Tracker tests cover size and position changes.
Highlight tracking and lifecycle shepherd.js/src/components/shepherd-modal.ts, shepherd.js/test/unit/components/shepherd-modal.spec.js, shepherd.js/test/cypress/examples/overlay-tracking.html, shepherd.js/test/cypress/integration/overlay-tracking.cy.js, shepherd.js/test/cypress/utils/overlay-openings.js
The modal registers automatic updates for valid highlights and their cached scroll parents, or for the overlay when no valid highlights exist. Animation-frame updates run during glides. Step cleanup stops tracking. Unit and Cypress tests cover scrolling, resizing, idle periods, visibility, step changes, and modal rendering.
shipshapecode/shepherd#3583: Adds the autoUpdate engine and observer behavior that this change uses and extends.
shipshapecode/shepherd#3589: Continues the positioning work and updates the tracker test used by this change.
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Merge Risk: Low · up to 0e2c5
The change replaces per-frame polling with event-driven tracking. Border-box and inline-target tracking are now handled. The only open concern is possible intermittent flakiness in the new browser tests because of fixed waits, which does not affect runtime behavior.
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- Line 353: Update the positioning logic around the ResizeObserver in
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- Line 349: Keep the overlay updated on viewport resize when highlights is
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- A scroll parent can move or resize while its highlight stays put, cropping it
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- A step with nothing to highlight had no tracker, so a viewport resize left the
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observeMove watches an IntersectionObserver box sized to the element when it
was made. After the element shrank, it could move within that stale box with
no event and go unnoticed, so the overlay kept a scroll parent's old crop and
a step kept following a shrunk target's old spot until something else woke
the tracker. A ResizeObserver now rebuilds the box on every resize.
tracker.mjs gains shrink and shiftAfterShrink; shiftAfterShrink got 0 updates
in Chromium before this change and 1 after.
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- Line 835: Update the ResizeObserver registrations in observeMove and
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- Line 835: Add a tracking path for inline geometry changes near the
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- ResizeObservers watched the content box, while check compares border boxes, so
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- An inline reference has no box for a ResizeObserver, so new text could shrink
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Runs the whole modal overlay in a real browser against changes that fire no
scroll or resize event: a scroll parent moving past a target that stays put, a
target losing its border, and an inline target whose text shrinks. A fourth
test asserts that a tour on a still page requests no animation frames.
Against main's build the tracking tests pass, since its loop measured every
frame, and the frames test fails. Against this branch all four pass.
overlayOpenings now also reads each opening's width.
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Retry geometry assertions instead of relying on fixed delays.
If observer delivery takes more than 150 ms, the assertions in .then() run before the overlay updates and the test fails. The border and inline tests have the same risk. Use retryable .should() assertions after each change.
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Problem
While a modal step is open, the overlay ran a
requestAnimationFrameloop that re-measured the target and its extra highlights on every frame, even on a still page. #3583 stopped that loop from rewriting the path, so it no longer forces layout, but the loop itself kept running at 60 frames a second for the whole time a step was open.Change
_styleForStepnow follows each highlight throughautoUpdate, the event-driven tracker that step tooltips already use. It reacts to scrolls in any document between the target and the overlay, resizes, layout shifts with no event (through the IntersectionObserver trick), and transforms or transitions on the target and its ancestors.autoUpdatetoo, so a container that moves or resizes and crops a highlight without moving it still redraws the opening.observeMovenow rebuilds its watched box whenever the element resizes. Before, an element that shrank could then move within its old box with no event and go unnoticed. That affected the overlay's scroll parents and step tooltips alike.autoUpdateaccepts anyElementas the floating element, so the overlay's<svg>can be passed in.Results
Chrome 131, 4× CPU throttle, 10 interleaved samples (medians):
Start, next and scroll times are unchanged within noise. Bundle cost is about 85 B gzipped.
Testing
setupForSteptest asserted that the loop called rAF. The iframe tests' fake windows neededaddEventListener, which the tooltip's tracker already relies on for real frames.test/position/tracker.mjsgainsshrink,shiftAfterShrink,borderShrink,inlineTextShrinkandinlineShiftAfterShrink. In Chromium, each of the last four got 0 updates before its fix and 1 after. Firefox and WebKit weren't run locally.overlay-tracking.cy.jsruns the full overlay against a scroll parent moving past a target that stays put, a target losing its border, and an inline target whose text shrinks. It also checks that a still page requests no frames. All four pass here; on main's build the frames check fails. I also ranoverflow-clipping,root-overflow,modalandiframeslocally in Chrome, and all 17 tests pass.test/verifyexplored 18,999 event orders and found nothing.The only difference is the number of idle frames.
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