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fix(virtual-core): don't replay iOS-deferred size corrections after an in-flight scrollToIndex lands - #1305

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Fixes #1304.

On iOS WebKit, applyScrollAdjustment defers a size correction into _iosDeferredAdjustment while the scroller is live. While a scrollToIndex is in flight, though, reconcileScroll retargets from fresh measurements (getOffsetForIndex), so it already absorbs the resize. Once the scroll settles, _flushIosDeferredIfReady replays the deferred delta on top of the reconciled landing. The list overshoots the index target by the summed corrections.

#1235 cleared a deferral that is pending when an absolute command starts. This change covers deltas deferred while an index scroll travels: applyScrollAdjustment does not accumulate the delta while scrollState.index != null. The deferral itself is kept, so no scrollTop write interrupts the scroll, and reconcile does the correction. Offset-only scroll states (scrollToOffset) and user scrolls behave exactly as before.

For reconcile to do that correction, it must see the resize. getOffsetForIndex reads measurementsCache, which only getMeasurements() rebuilds, so a resize that no render has read yet (no-op onChange, or a render after the rAF) left reconcile on the old target. reconcileScroll now rebuilds measurements before computing the target. The rebuild is memoized on itemSizeCacheVersion, so it costs nothing when no size has changed. This part runs on every platform, and only makes index targets current sooner.

Seen in production: chapter tabs in an iOS reader (scrollToIndex to the chapter heading) landed on the heading, then slid past it. The deferral change alone has shipped in production as a pnpm patch.

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  • New iOS deferral: a resize during an in-flight scrollToIndex is not replayed after it lands. On main it ends at scrollTop 1100 instead of 1050. With only the deferral change it ends at 1000 (stale reconcile target). It passes with both changes.
  • virtual-core suite 190/190, react-virtual unit 10/10, tsc, eslint and prettier clean.
  • pnpm run test:pr: everything passes except e2e tasks that only failed for environmental reasons on my machine (missing Playwright browser; after installing it, the react-virtual chat.spec.ts prepend test fails in the full parallel run on untouched main too, and passes 3/3 alone on this branch).

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Fixed iOS scrolling so size changes above an active scrollToIndex target no longer cause the final position to overshoot.
    • Added regression coverage for the corrected scrolling behavior.

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During iOS scrolling, size corrections are not queued for replay while an index-based scroll is active. Reconciliation refreshes measurements before calculating its target. A regression test checks that a resized item above the target does not cause the settled scroll to overshoot.

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iOS index-scroll deferral

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Index-scroll deferral and regression coverage
packages/virtual-core/src/index.ts, packages/virtual-core/tests/index.test.ts, .changeset/ios-index-scroll-deferral.md
applyScrollAdjustment skips deferring size corrections while an index-based scroll is active. reconcileScroll refreshes measurements before calculating its target. A regression test checks that the scroll remains at offset 1050 after an item above the target grows by 50px. A patch changeset records the fix.

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The change stops iOS size corrections deferred during an in-flight index scroll from being replayed after the scroll settles, and it refreshes measurements before reconciling. The previously identified stale-measurement risk is addressed. No remaining merge-blocking risk is evident.

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Linked Issues check Passed Issue #1304 requires deferred iOS size corrections during an active scrollToIndex to avoid replay after reconciliation. applyScrollAdjustment now omits accumulation while `scrollState.index != nul…
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- Around line 792-794: Update resizeItem and the reconcileScroll path so
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A resize that no render has read yet left measurementsCache stale, so
reconcileScroll could retire an index scroll at the old target now that
the iOS-deferred delta is no longer replayed.
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Thanks @phcorp for the clear issue and the fix! I verified both parts are needed, and the regression test covers them well. Merging. 🙏

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… a custom adjust predicate

With scrollPaddingStart, rows above a start-aligned target are visible, so
their growth moves the target without being owed to the viewport. A custom
shouldAdjustScrollPositionOnItemSizeChange may opt out of compensation
that the target drift would add back. Leave both to the no-compensation
behaviour of TanStack#1305.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
piecyk added a commit to piecyk/virtual that referenced this pull request Oct 11, 2026
With lanes > 1, rows in other lanes can span the fold and a resize can
move the target to another lane, so its drift no longer matches the
growth resizeItem would have compensated (e.g. drift 30 where 50 was
owed). Keep TanStack#1305's no-compensation behaviour there.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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