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fix(web): streaming replies no longer re-render every visible timeline row#27420
While a reply streamed, every visible timeline row re-rendered on each update, not just the streaming one.
ConversationTimeline built its pending-approvals map before several hook calls and captured it in the shared row context after them. The React Compiler cannot memoize a value whose mutable range spans a hook call, so the row context got a new identity on every render and all 16 list containers and their rows re-rendered. The map is now built from props right before the row context, so the compiler memoizes it.
The stream render scenario now asserts that history rows do not re-render while a reply streams (210 renders on main, 0 here).
Benchmark
Measured with the PandaCode vs T3 Code streaming bench (W1: a 50 KB Markdown reply delivered as 500 whole-text updates over 32 s, production build, headless Chromium on cups, median of 3 runs). Each row adds one layer of this stack:
| T3 build | Main-thread task | Script | Worst delivery lateness |
|---|---|---|---|
| main | 21.0 s | 14.8 s | 73 ms |
| + timeline rows (this stack, 1) | 19.3 s | 13.0 s | 26 ms |
| + Markdown blocks (2) | 12.1 s | 4.4 s | 10 ms |
| + git actions panel (3) | 10.4 s | 3.4 s | 9 ms |
| + streamed text bypasses the timeline (4) | 9.5 s | 2.6 s | 9 ms |
| PandaCode, same machine | 6.6 s | 0.5 s | 2 ms |
The bench delivers an update every 64 ms. In the app the default paragraph streaming mode sends at most one every 400 ms, so real streams hit these paths less often, but each update costs what it does here.
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Verdict: Approved at 739c65d
Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This refactor lets shared timeline row context stay memoized during streamed replies while retaining pending-approval filtering and display. Its effects are limited to client rendering, with no material change to permissions, data handling or product defaults.
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The timeline now tracks visible pending approvals as an array, excludes approvals represented by work and live-work rows, and renders the remaining approvals in the footer. The streaming scenario also checks that history user rows do not render and assistant rows render once per stream delta.
Changes: Pending approval timeline
Layer / File(s) Summary Filter and render pending approvals
apps/web/src/components/chat/MessagesTimeline.tsx,apps/web/test/appScenarios.renders.tsxThe timeline derives unmatched visible approvals by comparing request IDs with work and live-work rows, then renders the remaining approvals in the footer. It builds the shared approval map after the hooks. The streaming scenario checks user and assistant row render counts. Priority: External image Low
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Possibly related issues
- pingdotgg/t3code#24120: The issue reports timeline re-renders during streamed updates; this change adds assertions about row rendering during streaming.
- pingdotgg/t3code#9661: The issue tracks feed rebuilds during text updates; this change adds assertions about timeline row rendering during streaming.
Possibly related PRs
- pingdotgg/t3code#26255: Introduced pending approval timeline rows and the shared approval map that this change updates.
- pingdotgg/t3code#24121: Adds incremental row reuse for streamed updates, related to this change’s streaming row-render assertions.
- pingdotgg/t3code#27417: Updates streamed assistant rendering in the same scenario, alongside this change’s timeline row assertions.
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The change is production-safe, but historical render comparisons cannot include baselines that fail the new regression assertions until the runner or test-project layout is adjusted.
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Check name Status Explanation Title check Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: preventing visible timeline rows from re-rendering during streamed replies. Linked Issues check Passed Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request. Out of Scope Changes check Passed Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
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| … | … | @@ -201,6 +201,9 @@ it("app-stream-assistant-turn", async () => { | |
| 203 | 203 | }); | |
| 204 | + | // Only the streaming row changes; history rows must not re-render with it. | |
| 205 | + | expect(counted.components.UserTimelineRow).toBeUndefined(); | |
| 206 | + | expect(counted.components.AssistantTimelineRow).toBe(STREAM_DELTAS); | |
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bash1 sed -n '170,225p' apps/web/test/appScenarios.renders.tsx 2 sed -n '1,260p' scripts/render-metrics.ts 3 rg -n "appScenarios|renders|report|assert|revision|checkout|copy|run" scripts/render-metrics.ts apps/web/test Repository: pingdotgg/t3code
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Make the render comparison tolerate regressed baselines.
scripts/render-metrics.ts runs the whole renders project. runOnce throws when the Vitest process exits non-zero, before it reads any scenario report. A failing assertion in app-stream-assistant-turn therefore stops the run command and produces no comparison data. The copied harness on a revision with the history-row regression can fail these assertions, so the comparison workflow cannot capture that baseline.
A separate regression test does not fix this if it stays in the renders project, because the runner executes that whole project and still exits non-zero. The test must run in a different Vitest project, or the runner must handle these failures without dropping the other scenarios. Either change needs a deliberate design decision, and no safe localized patch is established by the inspected code.
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