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Fixes #1375.

Each scroll write is reported a second time when the element comes to rest, by scrollend or by the debounced fallback, and the virtualizer reads that report as an external scroll, as if the user had scrolled away. This PR recognizes the report as the virtualizer's own write, and makes explicit the two command endings that relied on the misreading.

Recognizing the report

Our own write is a position the last scroll event reported as readBack, clampedReadBack or clampedEcho. _ownWriteAt keeps that position until a report anywhere else, or cleanup. A report at rest within 1.5px of it is a new kind, restEcho. Clamped writes count as our own, so the issue's clamped case is covered too.

What the misreading decided

Read as external, the report ended a command whenever the element was neither where the command last wrote nor at its fresh target. That happened in three situations, and each now gets its own answer:

  1. The target moved since the command wrote it. Reconcile is about to write the new target, but with useScrollendEvent the report came first and ended the command. This is the bug: a restEcho now leaves the command to reconcile.
  2. A correction moved the element off a target that did not move (a custom shouldAdjustScrollPositionOnItemSizeChange, or a prepend during scrollToEnd). Reconcile only writes a target that moved, so nothing would bring the element back. A restEcho still ends the command.
  3. A prepend's anchor moved the element after a scrollToIndex had landed. The anchor keeps the reader on the rows the command aimed at, and the index now names another row, so the command is done. The anchor now ends it itself.

Situations 1 and 2 are one condition in externalRetiresCommand: a restEcho ends a command where external would, and only if the target has not moved since the command wrote it. The target is computed for the same events as before, and at most once.

Situation 3 is _followAnchor, called at the three anchor sites; offset targets still follow the anchor, and end targets are kept. It needs a definition of "landed", _landedBeforeAnchor: the command has written (it is not queued, a phase the old path also ignored), and reconcile has seen it at its target or the viewport is where it last wrote. The smooth-scroll check in _willUpdate asks the same question, so it uses the same definition. For smooth scrolls that is its old test, since no correction is written while one is in flight.

Situation 3 changes one thing in the default mode. There the anchor's report came after reconcile, so reconcile first moved the view to the row the index names in the new list. The anchor now decides in both modes.

Both modes should now end every command the same way, so every command-retire e2e scenario also runs with ?scrollend=1 (as direct-dom-updates runs its modes), plus the issue's correction case. The spec diff is mostly indentation (git diff -w).

Tests

Grouped by the situations above, with the result on main (54a3f7d):

Situation Test On main
1 a correction reported again at rest does not cancel a scrollToIndex whose target moved further 900, expected 1000
1 a clamped write reported again at rest does not cancel scrollToIndex 4200, expected 3900
1 e2e useScrollendEvent=true: the correction case 2875, expected 2975 (Chromium and WebKit)
1 e2e useScrollendEvent=true: index-shrink 4000, expected 3900 (Chromium)
2 a correction that moves the element off an unmoved target ends the scrollToIndex passes; without the condition the command runs until the 5s safety valve
3 scrollToIndex: a prepend after a correction keeps the reader on its rows 1050, expected 1700
3 scrollToEnd: a prepend after the read-back keeps the command following the end passes (end targets are kept)
3 iOS 27: a prepend as the fling passes the waiting target does not end the command passes (a queued command has not written)

scroll-classifier.test.ts covers the new kind and both outcomes of the condition directly. Each rule above fails at least one test when it is removed or loosened. Clearing _ownWriteAt on other reports and on cleanup changes no outcome I could find; it keeps the field meaning what it says.

The scroll-trace snapshot does not change. It records positions only, so I also dumped every trace with each step's in-flight command. Positions match in all 1800 seeds. The same commands are still in flight after settling, and one more resize then moves no seed. In 10 seeds, a command whose target had moved stays in flight a few steps longer, at the same positions. A differential fuzz (3000 runs of commands, resizes, prepends and viewport changes, both modes, no user input) found no command left for the safety valve.

pnpm run test:pr targets via nx affected (69 projects) pass. I ran test:e2e separately with local browsers: react-virtual 95 passed in Chromium and WebKit, and command-retire with --repeat-each=10 passed 120/120. CI installs only Chromium.

Alternatives considered

  • For recognizing the report: drop a scrollend at an unchanged position in the shared observeOffset. The callback cannot say "stopped, nothing new", and the debounced fallback and custom observeElementOffset adapters would not be covered.
  • For situation 2: never let restEcho end the command. It then runs until the safety valve (4 snapshot seeds), and a later resize moves the reader. Landing it on its target instead moves 154 seeds; that is a separate question from this fix.
  • For situations 1 and 2 together: let lastTargetOffset of index and end targets follow corrections, so situation 2 never arises. 213 seeds move, and a correction clamped by a sizer that has not grown stalls reconcile (anchorEnd/web/24 ends 165px above the end).

Merge Danger

Door: two-way.

Blast Radius: situation 1 with useScrollendEvent, which is the fix, and situation 3 in the default mode, described above. The latter showed up in 32 of the 3000 fuzz runs, all with prepends, and in no snapshot seed.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Fixed scrollToIndex and scrollToEnd stopping short after row-size corrections or browser clamping, including when scroll-end events are enabled.
    • After rows are prepended following an index scroll, the view stays on the displayed rows rather than shifting to newly indexed rows.
    • End-anchored views continue following the end after rows are prepended or the viewport is resized.

…eported again at rest

Each scroll write is reported a second time when the element comes to
rest, by `scrollend` or by the debounced fallback, and the virtualizer
read that report as an external scroll. With `useScrollendEvent` it
arrives before reconcile and ended commands whose target had just moved.

The report is now `restEcho`: at rest, within 1.5px of where the last
scroll event reported our own write (`_ownWriteAt`). The two command
endings that relied on the misreading are made explicit:

- A `restEcho` ends a command only where `external` would and the target
  has not moved since the command wrote it; a moved target is left to
  reconcile, which writes only a target that moved.
- A prepend's anchor ends an index command that has landed
  (`_followAnchor`, `_landedBeforeAnchor`), in both modes. A queued
  command has not written, so it has not landed.

The `command-retire` e2e scenarios run with and without
`useScrollendEvent`.
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The virtualizer distinguishes at-rest reports of its own scroll writes from external scrolls. It also updates command handling when prepended rows change anchor positions. Tests cover scrollend settings, resize corrections, and prepends.

Changes: Scroll command behavior

Layer / File(s) Summary
Classify rest echoes and reconcile commands
packages/virtual-core/src/scroll-classifier.ts, packages/virtual-core/src/index.ts, packages/virtual-core/tests/scroll-classifier.test.ts, packages/virtual-core/tests/scroll-commands.test.ts, packages/react-virtual/e2e/app/command-retire/*
The virtualizer tracks the offset of its own writes and classifies matching reports at rest as restEcho. Command retirement checks the recomputed target. Tests cover resize corrections and command retirement with scrollend enabled and disabled.
Follow prepend anchors during commands
packages/virtual-core/src/index.ts, packages/virtual-core/tests/ios-fling-wait.test.ts, packages/virtual-core/tests/scroll-commands.test.ts, .changeset/scrollend-own-write.md
Prepend handling shifts offset targets and cancels qualifying landed index commands, while end-target commands continue following the end. Tests cover queued and landed commands during prepends. The changeset documents the behavior changes.

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Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Suggested reviewers: piecyk

Merge Risk: Low · up to 0878a

The changes address premature scroll-command retirement, but narrow timing cases can still redirect the viewport after compensation, prepends, or nearby external movement. Merge with owner awareness of these remaining low-impact scrolling issues.

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[#1375] Both reported cases have code paths at head 0878ae4.

Case 1 (correction plus target movement, useScrollendEvent: true): classifyScrollEvent in scroll-classifier.ts returns restEcho when !isScrolling, ownWriteAt is set, and the offset is within 1.5px of it. index.ts sets _ownWriteAt on readBack, clampedReadBack and clampedEcho, and passes it into the classifier. In externalRetiresCommand, the clause (kind !== 'restEcho' || freshTarget() === command.lastTargetOffset) keeps the command when the target has moved. Reconcile then writes the moved target.

Case 2 (clamped write reported again at rest): the clamped read-back or echo sets _ownWriteAt. The later at-rest report of that position is restEcho, and clampedReadBack was already excluded from retirement. The command continues while the target has moved.

The index-shrink case and the correction case are covered by new tests in scroll-commands.test.ts, scroll-classifier.test.ts and command-retire.spec.ts. The author reports before and after values, for example 900 to 1000, 4200 to 3900, 2875 to 2975 (Chromium and WebKit) and 4000 to 3900. This assessment did not re-run those tests. The PASS rests on the code paths above and the author's reported results.

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  1. Classifier and retirement logic (scroll-classifier.ts, _ownWriteAt in index.ts): implements the restEcho fix for #1375.
  2. Prepend anchor handling (_followAnchor, _landedBeforeAnchor in index.ts): the PR states that the restEcho rule would otherwise change how a prepend after a landed scrollToIndex ends. The anchor now ends a landed index command in both modes. This changes default-mode (useScrollendEvent: false) behavior for prepends, which the issue does not describe. The change still belongs to the same command lifecycle and is explained in the PR, so it is not unrelated work. Reviewers should confirm the default-mode effect. The smooth-scroll check now uses _landedBeforeAnchor. The PR says this matches the old test for smooth scrolls, which this assessment did not verify in code.
  3. Tests and e2e harness (command-retire.spec.ts, command-retire page, ios-fling-wait.test.ts, scroll-commands.test.ts): support the fix and its cases. The iOS test checks that a queued command is not ended by the new anchor rule.
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Verify native scrollend delivery in the enabled suite.

If support detection selects the fallback, the enabled cases can pass without testing native event ordering. Instrument the virtualizer’s listener and assert that it receives scrollend at the relevant point in each enabled scenario.

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Update the enabled scenarios in the command-retire test suite to instrument the
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- Around line 2785-2788: Update _landedBeforeAnchor to track a landed index
command across compensation, so an offset adjustment before the first stable
frame does not leave the command active after a subsequent prepend. Preserve the
existing phase and stable-frame checks, and ensure the landing comparison uses
state that reflects compensated scroll offsets.

Review comments at @packages/virtual-core/src/scroll-classifier.ts:
- Around line 201-202: Update the restEcho condition in the command-retirement
check to compare freshTarget() exactly with command.lastTargetOffset, matching
reconcileScroll, so a one-pixel target change does not retire the command before
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private _landedBeforeAnchor = (state: ScrollState, delta: number) =>
state.phase !== 'queued' &&
(state.stableFrames > 0 ||
approxEqual(this.getScrollOffset() - delta, state.lastTargetOffset))

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Retire landed index commands after compensation.

If a row grows before the first stable frame, compensation moves the offset without updating lastTargetOffset. A subsequent prepend can leave the landed command active. Before a rest report retires it, another resize can move the viewport to the new index instead of the anchored row. Track the landing across compensation.

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Update _landedBeforeAnchor to track a landed index command across compensation,
so an offset adjustment before the first stable frame does not leave the command
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Both the correction and the prepend need to land before the read-back frame's reconcile within this window. If this occurs, the command is handed over to reconcile, same as the behavior when main does not have scrollend enabled.
Fixing this would require adding a new state, which I believe is out of scope for this PR, so I will leave it for now.

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@Darkatse Understood. The case depends on a narrow timing window, and you’ve chosen to leave it outside this PR.

Would you like me to open a follow-up issue?

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A `restEcho` ends the command only while reconcile will not move it, and
reconcile writes any target that differs from the last one (`!==`). With
`approxEqual`, a target that moved by under a pixel ended the command,
though reconcile was about to land it.

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// command there (with `scrollend`, a correction's echo arrives before
// reconcile has run on the measurements behind it); while it has not,
// nothing will bring the element back, and the command ends here.
(kind !== 'restEcho' || freshTarget() === command.lastTargetOffset) &&

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Web query:

CSSOM View specification run scroll steps pending scroll event targets scrollend requestAnimationFrame order scroll event handler changes scrollTop

Result:

Sources consulted:
- CSSOM View Module Level 1 — https://drafts.csswg.org/cssom-view/
- [cssom-view] Clarify number and order of `scroll` and `scrollend` events when a `scroll` event listener performs another scroll · Issue #13772 · w3c/csswg-drafts · GitHub — GitHub issue 13772 in w3c/csswg-drafts (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)
- HTML Standard — https://html.spec.whatwg.org/print.pdf
- …and 14 more

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Distinguish external movement from a rest echo.

If a correction reports 500 while an index target moves from 1000 to 1001, a later scroll listener can move the element to 501 before scrollend. The command remains active, so reconciliation can overwrite that movement with 1001. Distinguish a changed element position from a write echo.

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Review comment at @packages/virtual-core/src/scroll-classifier.ts at line 201:
Update the `restEcho` classification in the scroll-classifier condition using
`freshTarget()` and `command.lastTargetOffset` to distinguish an unchanged write
echo from a changed element position. Treat movement from a correction value
such as 500 to 501 as external movement, so reconciliation does not overwrite it
with the active index target.

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With useScrollendEvent, scrollToIndex and scrollToEnd stop short when the target moves while they settle

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