feat(react-router): publish router state as concurrent render frames

[matclayton]

🎯 Changes

React's <ViewTransition> never fires across a TanStack Router navigation. The navigation is already inside React.startTransition — Transitioner.tsx overrides router.startTransition to call it, and the client loader commits every set of matches through that override. The problem is where the state lands.

Every reactive router read goes through useStore → useSyncExternalStoreWithSelector → useSyncExternalStore. React schedules those updates at a hardcoded SyncLane, from the store's own subscription callback:

// react-dom, subscribeToStore → forceStoreRerender
function forceStoreRerender(fiber) {
  var root = enqueueConcurrentRenderForLane(fiber, 2); // 2 === SyncLane
  null !== root && scheduleUpdateOnFiber(root, fiber, 2);
}

That lane is a constant, and the callback runs after the startTransition scope has exited. React does this deliberately — an external store cannot produce a previous snapshot on demand, so old and new UI cannot render concurrently without tearing. The consequence is that the update carrying a new route is never on a transition lane, and <ViewTransition> only fires for transition updates.

There is a second, independent consequence: because consumers read the mutable head atoms, a component rendering while a navigation is in flight observes the route being prepared, not the one on screen.

This adds an opt-in render-frame protocol behind a new router option, experimental_concurrentRenderFrames. Default off — with the option unset, the existing store subscriptions and selector behaviour are unchanged.

Based on main at edeb199 (react-router@1.170.34, router-core@1.171.29). 25 files.

router-core — additive only

• every aggregate router state carries a monotonic frameId
• the _rendered acknowledgement widens to accept a frame identity
• matchRoute accepts a presented _state, so a render resolving links and active state uses the frame it is showing rather than the pending imperative location. Three details, each with a test:
  • it matches against the frame's own location. Its resolvedLocation still names the route being left while a successor is staged but unacknowledged, so consulting that reported the destination inactive for exactly the render presenting it.
  • the target location is built from that same publication, or a caller inheriting the current search (search: true) would inherit it from the head while the comparison used the frame.
  • an explicit matchRoute({ pending: true }) is exempt throughout: it asks about the navigation in flight, so it resolves from the head.

load-client.ts is untouched. See Cross-framework impact below.

react-router — a frame is offered, never imposed

A frame answers two different questions depending on where the consumer sits, so there are two scopes: a root scope for readers outside the route tree, which advances only when a navigation commits, and a presentation scope provided by Matches for the route subtree, which can also present a staged successor.

Scope identity is stable for the router's lifetime, so putting a scope in Context invalidates nobody. Each scope holds two publications in separate slots — committed and staged — and each consumer records in React state which of them its own render is presenting:

const staged = scope.staged
return staged && staged.frameId === frameId ? staged : scope.committed

React versions that state per tree. So the notification that offers a staged frame — sent from inside the Router's startTransition, which is what keeps the transition lane — lands in the work-in-progress tree only. The tree the user is still looking at keeps its previous frameId, resolves to committed, and an urgent update there cannot drag the staged route into view.

That property depends on only stage() ever offering, so the notification says which it is. A notification either offers a specific publication, or offers nothing and means re-read whatever you are already presenting:

scope.subscribe((offered) => {
  if (!offered) { refresh(); return }   // keeps frameId, may bump revision
  // ...only here may a consumer move onto `offered`
})

commit, cancel, publish and the progress sync all use the second form, so nothing sent on an urgent lane can move a consumer off the route it is showing.

A consumer accepts an offer only when its own selection changed; one that declines stays resolved to committed, where its selection is identical by definition. That is what keeps selector-level render counts unchanged.

Also:

• the adapter assembles each frame itself, reading router.stores.__store.get() directly after the publication callback's batched writes
• Matches acknowledges the exact rendered frameId, so an interrupted or superseded render cannot settle a newer navigation
• consumers subscribe in a layout effect and re-read immediately afterwards, the way useSyncExternalStore does — MatchesInner commits an acknowledged frame from a layout effect of its own, so a publication really can land between a consumer's render and its effects
• navigation progress (status, isLoading) is overlaid onto every slot in both scopes, and taken from the head when a frame commits, because a newer navigation may already be loading by then. location and matches are never overlaid, so this cannot surface a route the user cannot see
• a selector is user code, and deciding whether a consumer's selection changed runs it outside React's render — from the Router's startTransition, by way of notify. A throw there reaches no error boundary, and because a scope notifies in a plain loop it unwound into the navigation that sent the notification: Matches never acknowledged the frame and the navigation stayed pending for good, URL changed with the old route still on screen. A throwing selector is now read as "the selection changed", so the consumer re-renders, throws during render, and the nearest error boundary handles it exactly as it would on the store path.
• the built-in selectors must also tolerate a frame that has dropped their own route. A frame is offered to every subscribed consumer, including ones React is about to unmount. Only reachable on navigations that change the shape of the match tree, which is why same-route parameter changes looked fine.
• every reader goes through the same hooks in the same order, whatever router it names. The router a component reads is not fixed — useRouterState({ router }) takes one as an option, and a provider can be re-rendered with another — so branching live on either the scope above or the option itself meant a component handed a different router changed hook shape with it, and React failed on the hook order rather than merely reading the other router. Two halves: a reader with no owner for the router it names resolves to a detached scope over that router's store head, and every branch on the option goes through useFrameMode. The provider freezes the tree's answer from the option when it mounts, publishes it on both arms, and each reader takes that once, at its own first render — the decision belongs to the mounted tree, not to the router, so it survives both the option moving and the provider being handed a router configured the other way
• a link's href is built from the location the render presents, so the click and the preload resolve from that same location — read at click time, not captured, because a link whose href does not change never re-renders. Otherwise, with /posts?page=1 visible and /posts?page=5 pending, a link with a functional search updater displayed ?page=2 and navigated to ?page=6
• a consumer's presented identity carries its scope. frameId counts per router, so an identity carried across a scope change could collide and read as acceptance of a frame that consumer was never offered
• deciding whether an offer changed a consumer's selection borrows a structural-sharing selector's cache and puts it back. A cache write from that decision describes a render that may never commit, and left in place it broke the referential stability the option promises
• useMatchRoute subscribes to the head location as well as its frame, because an explicit matchRoute({ pending: true }) resolves against the head — a second navigation superseding a first moves only the location, staging no frame
• the queued frame carries the router that produced it, so a dispatch outliving its router cannot mask the current one's frame or be committed on a frameId collision
• the frame owner is keyed by router identity, so a provider handed a different router does not keep publishing through the previous router's scopes — and a tree that mounts on an owner whose frame is still in flight, or returns to a router whose owner holds one, adopts that frame, so it acknowledges what it is actually rendering
• frameId identifies a snapshot of route content rather than of the whole state: progress is overlaid onto a publication a component is already presenting without changing its identity, because that identity is what an acknowledgement is matched against — and it advances when route content does rather than on each read, so the non-reactive SSR store cannot hand two readers in one render different identities for the same content
• a staged frame the head has already moved away from is dropped rather than left for a suspended tree to commit later, since a replacement navigation moves the head without publishing anything of its own until its load resolves
• after hydration, route Suspense boundaries consolidate at Matches so publication and acknowledgement are atomic; SSR and the first hydration render keep the existing per-route boundaries

One rule, and where it applies

Four separate review findings turned out to be the same omission — the
presented publication reaching some consumers and not others — so it is worth
stating as a rule rather than leaving as a list of fixes:

Anything that resolves a location reads the publication its position is
presenting, not the router's head. The exceptions are explicit: a
pending: true query, which asks about the navigation in flight; status
and isLoading, which are progress rather than route content;
useCanGoBack, which describes the browser's history rather than the frame
on screen; and the server, where there is one render and no staged
successor.

I audited every place in react-router that builds or matches a location
against that rule, so a reviewer can check completeness rather than find the
next one by inspection:

site	resolves from
link.tsx — href selector	presented publication
link.tsx — handleClick, doPreload	presented publication, read at click time
link.tsx — server branch	request location (no presentation exists yet)
useNavigate	presented publication, read at call time
useMatchRoute — frame path	presented publication, plus the head for pending: true
useMatchRoute — server and default paths	unchanged
useCanGoBack	the head, deliberately: history.back() acts on the browser's history, not on the frame on screen, so the answer has to describe the history the control would actually move
Transitioner — URL canonicalisation at mount	latestLocation, deliberately: it is about the browser's URL, and runs before any frame is staged

Everything else reads state through a selector, which is frame-aware by
construction.

Correctness and selector parity both hold

These looked like a trade-off, and earlier revisions each sacrificed one. Measured, not argued:

frame read strategy	urgent-render guard	untouched consumer
changing Context value	passes	6 renders, expected 3
single global pending ?? committed	fails — reads the pending route	3 renders
scoped by position, one mutable frame per scope	fails inside the route tree	3 renders
two slots + per-consumer React state (this branch)	passes	3 renders

Selector-call counts across the existing store-updates-during-navigation cases are at or below the store path, never higher:

case	store	frames
async loader, async beforeLoad, pendingMs	7	3
redirection in preload	2	0
sync beforeLoad	5	3
nothing / not-found / preloaded variants	3	1–2

Cross-framework impact

An earlier revision tightened the shared StartTransitionFn to require its callback to return the assembled RouterState. Because router.startTransition is public API on RouterCore, that broke every framework's callers — solid-router's public-presentation-lane-contract test failed with Type 'number' is not assignable to type 'RouterState'. (Widening to RouterState | void does not help: TypeScript only permits an arbitrary return type when the target is exactly void.)

That change is gone. The React adapter reads the frame itself after the callback runs, so the shared signature and load-client.ts are untouched, and solid-router / vue-router are unaffected — neither references _rendered, frameId, or getInitialRouterState.

Tests

packages/router-core/tests/render-frames.test.ts — 9 tests: frame identity is monotonic; every assembled state gets a new one; repeated reads of unchanged route content share an identity, against the SSR store config, since the client one caches its assembly and would hide the defect; progress alone does not advance the identity; a frame is self-consistent; matchRoute resolves against a presented frame rather than the head; an explicit pending query resolves against the head; a presented match target inherits search from the presented frame; a staged frame matches its own destination before acknowledgement.

packages/react-router/tests/concurrent-render-frames.test.tsx — 30 tests, of which the first six run against both paths, so 36 cases, plus concurrent-render-frames-hydration.test.tsx for the one window that needs a real hydrateRoot. Highlights:

• a consumer re-renders only when its own selection changes
• a consumer mounted during a pending navigation reads the committed route — the test first proves the window is real, then mounts a reader urgently. The store path reads /slow; the frame path reads /. Asserting both pins the difference.
• a superseded navigation does not commit
• readers outside the route tree, and inside the visible route when re-rendered urgently, do not read ahead
• navigation progress reaches consumers outside and inside the route tree
• a route leaving the match tree does not wedge the navigation
• a provider handed a different router builds an owner for it
• a consumer whose router argument changes keeps its hook order — fails without the fix with React's "Should have a queue. You are likely calling Hooks conditionally"
• a reader mounted after the option changed follows the tree, not the option — the option is turned off underneath a mounted tree, then a reader is mounted urgently during a staged navigation; without the fix it reads /slow while / is on screen
• a provider handed a router configured the other way keeps the mounted path — the other half of the same hazard, with the provider's router changing rather than the reader's argument; without the fix it crashes on the hook order rather than reading the other router
• a reader mounted after a router swap follows the provider — the third case: mounting after that swap, it would otherwise be seeded from the replacement owner's own mode and subscribe to the head; /slow without the fix, / with it
• a fresh provider mount reads the option as it now stands — owners are cached for a router's lifetime, so seeding the tree's decision from one meant a router that once had an owner built with the option off could never be mounted on the frame path again
• what stands in for the loading route differs by path — both arms, asserting the whole pending-UI table in Known limitations below, so that behaviour change cannot happen quietly
• a provider remounted mid-navigation settles — both arms. An owner is cached per router, so a provider that unmounts mid-navigation and mounts again hands the second tree a frame still in flight; the tree renders it but acknowledged against the committed one, leaving the router pending for good. Reads pending without the fix, idle with it, matching the store path.
• canGoBack follows the browser history, not the presented frame — both arms; during a gated push from index 0 the head reads index 1 with / still on screen, so the hook reads true with the fix and false without it
• a router returned to adopts the frame still in flight — switching away from a router mid-navigation and back left it with nothing queued while its owner still held a staged frame; that router reads pending for good without the fix
• a reader mounted after the option was turned on follows the store-path tree — the store arm of the frozen decision, which had nothing to publish because only the frame path builds an owner
• a superseded frame does not commit while its tree is suspended — a destination whose component suspends, superseded by a navigation with a slow loader and no pending component; without the fix the first tree finishes suspending inside that window and commits a route the URL has already left
• a throwing selector surfaces in render rather than wedging the navigation — fails without the fix by never reaching the destination route
• a click resolves against the location the href was built from — fails without the fix with Posts 6 on screen for an href reading ?page=2
• an imperative navigation resolves against the visible route — the same for useNavigate; without the fix the destination never arrives, because the handler builds page 6 from the head instead of page 2 from the route on screen
• a discarded staged render does not disturb a structural-sharing selection — a consumer above the changing route, so it renders in the staged tree; deep-equal but not identical without the fix
• hydration does not remount the route tree (concurrent-render-frames-hydration.test.tsx, on the repo's SSR harness) — ['mount', 'unmount', 'mount'] without the fix
• a click resolves against the current location when the href never changed — a static-search link whose state updater records the history index it resolved against; without the fix it reports 0 after a navigation to index 1
• an offer does not disturb a structural-sharing selection — fails without the fix as expected { pathname: '/' } to be { pathname: '/' } // Object.is equality
• a pending matcher follows the head when a navigation is superseded — fails without the fix reading true|false where it should read false|true

The hook-order test swaps the router argument between two frame routers and a default-path one, in both directions, so it covers the option-crossing case as well as scope identity.

Seven of the fixes on this branch rest on the mechanism rather than a failing test, and I would rather name them than let them look proven. act() commits a staged render instead of leaving it suspended, and flushes passive effects at its boundaries, so these windows do not open in the unit harness: recording the committed selection and its selector config outside render; each render's layout effect closing over its own selection rather than reading a ref both trees share; re-reading when the subscription is installed; taking progress from the head at commit; the offer/refresh split — for which I instrumented syncProgress and confirmed the dangerous state occurs (staged=/next committed=/) but the notification is currently suppressed because the head stays pinned at pending for exactly the staged window. Real in the protocol, blocked today by a coincidence between two unrelated mechanisms.

The sixth is the router tag on the queued frame, and it could not be tested for a different reason worth recording: swapping the router under a mounted RouterProvider never renders the replacement's route tree at all. A two-router probe asserting only that the second router's route appears fails identically with the option on and off — both time out with an empty tree — so the scenario the tag guards is unreachable from the harness. That is an upstream limitation this option neither causes nor fixes, and it leaves the tag a defensive identity check. What is reachable, and tested, is a plain reader under a swapped provider: it follows the new router's state, which is why the frame-path decision has to survive the swap.

The seventh is resolving the queued frame in one decision rather than adopting and then pruning: two plain state writes in one render do not compose, so the prune discarded the frame adoption had just queued. The prune runs on every render, so a foreign slot is gone by the render where the router changes, and six attempts — including resolving the outgoing router's load and swapping inside a single act, and a destination that suspends so its frame cannot be acknowledged — never produced the two-slot state the collision needs. The defect is in how the writes compose, which holds by inspection whether or not the interleaving can be staged.

e2e — what it does and does not prove

e2e/react-router/view-transitions shipped only a placeholder test. It now records document.startViewTransition and samples live animations: a navigation starts exactly one transition; the shared element is paired; the configured types are applied. The fixture is switched to the frame path, and the tests skip rather than hang where the API is absent.

They are a regression guard, not coverage of this option. They assert on document.startViewTransition, which viewTransition: true calls directly, and they pass with the option on and off — verified by running the suite both ways. React's <ViewTransition>, which is what this option unblocks, is canary-only and cannot run on the React version this repo pins. The unit tests cover the protocol; the evidence for <ViewTransition> is the reproduction below.

Does it work?

Measured against a two-route app on React canary, counting real document.startViewTransition calls:

Interaction	Before	After
React state + startTransition (control)	1	1
router.navigate() inside startTransition	0	1
<Link> navigation	0	1

The control row matters: same elements, same names, same browser, same React build — only the trigger differs. It is a genuine shared-element morph, not just a transition firing:

::view-transition-group(article-image-2)
::view-transition-old(article-image-2)
::view-transition-new(article-image-2)

Reproduction at mixcloud/router-transitions-poc — main is the failure, #2 applies this branch as pnpm patches and measures the result.

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Every CI target (test:eslint, test:unit, test:types, test:build, build) run locally against main at edeb199:

package	tests	lint errors	types
router-core	3119 (+4 expected fail)	0	clean
react-router	1189 (+1 skipped)	0	clean
solid-router	48	0	clean
vue-router	953	0	clean

Lint warning counts are unchanged from main. e2e: basic 24/24, view-transitions 3/3. The downstream application suite that motivated this — 56 files, 306 tests — passes with the option on and off.

Per AGENTS.md: the new option is documented in docs/router/api/router/RouterOptionsType.md, including the two behaviour changes an adopter needs to know about before enabling it, and frameId is documented on docs/router/api/router/RouterStateType.md — it is an unconditional member of the exported RouterState, so it is public whether or not the option is on.

Two fixes worth calling out, both about hook order. Boolean(router.ssr) && !useHydrated() called a hook behind a short-circuit whose condition is not static; it is now useFrameRootBoundary, which calls useHydrated unconditionally inside a branch that reads the option through useFrameMode. And "the option is fixed when the router is created" turned out to be the wrong invariant — it is mutable under a mounted tree, because RouterContextProvider forwards prop updates through router.update. So the decision belongs to the mounted tree: the provider freezes it from the option when it mounts, publishes it on both arms — only the frame path builds an owner to carry it — and each reader takes that once, at its own first render, and keeps it. A reader mounting mid-navigation agrees with the tree that is already staging frames; a provider later handed a router configured the other way changes neither the path a mounted reader is on nor the one a reader mounting afterwards picks up. Neither the option nor the scope can change a mounted component's hook sequence.

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Known limitations

Default-off deliberately. Four things I would rather state than have found.

A reader with no previous answer is not isolated. A consumer that mounts during a staged navigation has no prior state and no way to tell which tree is rendering it, so it seeds from staged ?? committed; if an urgent update in the committed tree mounts one mid-navigation, that first render can still read the staged frame. A consumer whose select function changes while a navigation is in flight is in exactly the same position — it has no recorded answer to the question it is now asking, and the offer it declined was judged with its previous selector. Resolving a changed selector against the staged frame would fix that case and break the symmetric one, where a parent in the visible tree re-renders a child with a new selector. Both need the frame identity to arrive with the rendering tree, which appears to cost the selector granularity in the first table; whether both can hold is open. Consumers already mounted with a stable selector are fully isolated.

A client-rendered app does not present route pending UI on a navigation. Consolidating suspension at the frame root is what makes publication and acknowledgement atomic, and it costs more than I first wrote here. Measured on both paths, with root and route pendingComponent labelled distinctly and pendingMs: 0:

	first render at the pending route	navigation to it
store path	route's pendingComponent	route's pendingComponent
frame path	root route's	neither — the previous route stays on screen

The first row is the boundary consolidation: a child that suspends bubbles to the boundary at Matches, whose fallback is built from the root route, so a child- or parent-specific pendingComponent is not used. The second row is the one I had understated. By then that boundary is already mounted, and the navigation is a transition, so React keeps the current UI rather than replacing it with a fallback — which is what a transition is for, and what this option exists to produce, but it means pendingComponent, pendingMs and pendingMinMs are all inert for client navigations. Progress UI is expected to read status and isLoading, which stay live throughout.

Restoring route pending UI means presenting it inline rather than by suspending, which gives up the atomic publish-and-acknowledge the consolidated boundary exists for. Both rows are pinned by a test against the store path, and this is the part I would most like a maintainer's opinion on.

Breadth under a large route tree has not been profiled in production, and whether this should eventually delegate to a native React concurrent-store primitive is genuinely open. That is why it is an option rather than a new default.

Related: much of the lane half of this is not router-specific. A concurrent-safe binding in @tanstack/store — subscribers holding their selection in useState so a write inside startTransition keeps its lane — would benefit every consumer, and this adapter could then consume it. What cannot live there is the consistency half: which publication a position should read, acknowledgement, and the progress exemption all depend on router semantics.

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• New Features

  • Added the experimental experimental_concurrentRenderFrames option for consistent route rendering during navigation.
  • Improved state consistency across pending and superseded navigations, including links and imperative navigation.
  • Added verified view transition and shared-element animation support when available.

• Documentation

  • Documented the option’s defaults, behavior, server rendering, and configuration.

• Tests

  • Added coverage for render frames, hydration, route matching, selector errors, navigation progress, and view transitions.

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Walkthrough

The PR adds experimental concurrent render-frame support to React Router and router-core. It stages immutable navigation snapshots, presents frame-specific route state during transitions, acknowledges rendered frames, and adds unit, hydration, and end-to-end coverage.

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Concurrent render frames

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Frame identity and presented matching packages/router-core/src/router.ts, packages/router-core/src/stores.ts, packages/router-core/tests/render-frames.test.ts	Router snapshots include monotonic frameId values. matchRoute supports presented router state while pending queries use the navigation head.
Frame publication and ownership lifecycle packages/react-router/src/routerStateContext.tsx, packages/react-router/src/Transitioner.tsx, packages/react-router/src/Matches.tsx, packages/react-router/src/RouterProvider.tsx	React Router stages, publishes, acknowledges, commits, and cancels render frames through scoped ownership and provider state.
Route presentation and state selectors packages/react-router/src/Match.tsx, packages/react-router/src/Scripts.tsx, packages/react-router/src/headContentUtils.tsx, packages/react-router/src/link.tsx, packages/react-router/src/not-found.tsx, packages/react-router/src/useCanGoBack.ts, packages/react-router/src/useLocation.tsx, packages/react-router/src/useMatch.tsx, packages/react-router/src/useRouterState.tsx, packages/react-router/src/useNavigate.tsx, packages/react-router/src/router.ts, docs/router/api/router/RouterOptionsType.md	Rendering and router hooks use frozen frame-mode detection and presented-frame selectors. Selector caches preserve structural sharing across frame probes.
Concurrent rendering validation packages/react-router/tests/concurrent-render-frames.test.tsx, packages/react-router/tests/concurrent-render-frames-hydration.test.tsx	Tests cover frame selection, link resolution, urgent updates, structural-sharing stability, hydration, selector failures, and router identity changes.
View transition end-to-end coverage e2e/react-router/view-transitions/src/main.tsx, e2e/react-router/view-transitions/tests/app.spec.ts, .changeset/concurrent-router-render-frames.md	The fixture enables concurrent render frames. Playwright records view-transition activity and verifies navigation transitions, pseudo-elements, and direction types.

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Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Transitioner
  participant RouterStateProvider
  participant Matches
  participant RouteConsumers
  Transitioner->>RouterStateProvider: stage navigation frame
  RouterStateProvider->>Matches: present committed or staged state
  Matches->>RouteConsumers: render selected route state
  Matches->>RouterStateProvider: acknowledge rendered frame
  RouterStateProvider->>Transitioner: commit acknowledged frame

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Added a665f98 — e2e tests that assert a view transition actually runs.

Why

Neither existing test guards the feature. e2e/react-router/view-transitions shipped only a placeholder test, and the viewTransition tests in e2e/react-router/basic assert nothing more than the destination heading rendering:

await page.getByRole('link', { name: 'View Transition', exact: true }).click()
await page.getByRole('link', { name: 'sunt aut facere repe' }).click()
await expect(page.getByRole('heading')).toContainText('sunt aut facere')

That passes whether or not a transition occurs. I confirmed it: those two tests pass identically on stock main and on this branch.

What was added

Three tests in e2e/react-router/view-transitions, which wrap document.startViewTransition before app code runs and sample the live animations once the browser reports the transition ready:

• a viewTransition navigation starts exactly one real view transition
• the transition pairs the shared element — ::view-transition-group/old/new(main-content) are animating
• the configured types are applied — the document matches :active-view-transition-type(slide-left), then (slide-right) on the way back

Verified as a real guard

Rather than trusting that they pass, I checked they fail when the thing under test is broken:

Run	Result
As shipped	3 passed
viewTransition prop removed from the link under test	3 failed
Prop restored	3 passed
With experimental_concurrentRenderFrames: true	3 passed

The last row is the one that matters for this branch — the render-frame path doesn't disturb the native view-transition mechanism.

Also re-ran the basic e2e suite: 24/24 with the option off, 24/24 with it on.

One test I dropped

I drafted a fourth test covering the nested warp transition on /posts/$postId, but that route loads from jsonplaceholder.typicode.com, which my sandbox can't reach — the posts list renders empty and the test times out on the environment, not on the code. Rather than ship a test I couldn't actually verify, I left it out. It would be a reasonable addition for someone with network in CI.

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Pushed accfed8 — fine-grained selectors are preserved. The answer to "should the first implementation preserve selector-level" is now yes, with a test.

What was wrong

The first pass published the frame as a changing Context value. Every consumer that read it re-rendered on every navigation, whatever its selector — selector equality could only avoid downstream work, not the consumer's own render. That was a real regression against useStore, where useSyncExternalStore bails out and the component doesn't re-render at all.

The fix

The tension is that Context gives transition-lane delivery and no tearing but invalidates everyone, while useSyncExternalStore gives per-selector bail-out but is forced onto SyncLane. Splitting the responsibilities gets both:

• A stable owner context — identity never changes, so reading it invalidates nothing. Carries the committed frame and a subscriber set.
• A frame context — changing, but read only by route presentation (Match/Outlet), which re-renders per navigation anyway.

Selector hooks read the stable owner and subscribe. The owner notifies subscribers from inside the Router's startTransition, so their setState keeps the transition lane, and each subscriber re-renders only when its own selection changed.

Proof

packages/react-router/tests/concurrent-render-frames.test.tsx renders two useRouterState consumers — one selecting location.pathname (changes per navigation), one selecting matches.length > 0 (never changes) — and asserts only the first re-renders. It runs against both paths.

I checked it's a real guard rather than a test that passes regardless:

Implementation	store path	frame path
Previous (changing Context)	pass	fail — 6 renders, expected 2
This change	pass	pass

Selector-call counts across the existing store-updates-during-navigation cases are now lower on the frame path than the store path, never higher:

case	store	frames
async loader, async beforeLoad, pendingMs	7	3
redirection in preload	2	0
sync beforeLoad	5	3
nothing / not-found / preloaded variants	3	1–2

Everything still green

• router-core 1613 passed, react-router 1039 passed (including the 2 new), no type errors
• view-transitions e2e 3/3; POC still measures 1 view transition on <Link> navigation, so the transition-lane delivery this PR exists for is intact
• prettier clean

One thing I have not resolved

store-updates-during-navigation.test.tsx > async loader, async beforeLoad, pendingMs has now failed twice across many runs, both times during a loaded full-suite run. It passes 5/5 in isolation and 3/3 on consecutive full-suite runs, and it exercises the option-off path, so it isn't this change. It races a 100ms loader against defaultPendingMs: 100, which makes it inherently load-sensitive. Flagging it as pre-existing fragility rather than claiming it fixed.

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Checked Solid and Vue. There was impact, and it was a breaking change — fixed in 80b1d3d.

What broke

StartTransitionFn lives in shared router-core, and this branch had tightened it to require the callback to return the assembled RouterState:

fn: () => RouterState<any>   // was: () => void

router.startTransition is public API on RouterCore, so that broke every caller in every framework that passes a plain side-effecting callback — not only React. solid-router's public-presentation-lane-contract test is exactly such a caller:

TypeCheckError: Type 'number' is not assignable to type 'RouterState<any, ...>'
 ❯ tests/public-presentation-lane-contract.test.tsx:422:13
    router.startTransition(() => setRevision(2), expected)

Worth noting how close this came to shipping: test:types passed, all 887 solid tests passed, and the failure only surfaced as an unhandled source error in test:unit, where the task exit code disagreed with the reported results.

Widening to RouterState | void does not fix it — TypeScript only permits an arbitrary return type when the target return type is exactly void, not a union containing it.

The fix

Revert the signature and the load-client publication sites to upstream, and have the React adapter read the frame itself, immediately after fn() has run its batched writes:

fn()
// Read the aggregate state after the batched writes, so the staged
// frame is exactly what this publication assembled.
const frame = routerStateOwner?.stage(router.stores.__store.get())

Same frame, no shared-API change. packages/router-core/src/load-client.ts is now untouched by this PR, and router-core's diff is additive only:

• frameId on RouterState and in createRouterStores
• a widened _rendered acknowledgement (Array<AnyRouteMatch> | number)
• matchRoute's presented _state

Neither solid-router nor vue-router references _rendered, frameId, or getInitialRouterState, so nothing else reaches them.

Verified across all four packages

test:eslint, test:unit, test:types, test:build, build — one nx run-many, all green:

package	tests	lint errors	types
router-core	1617	0	clean
react-router	1043	0	clean
solid-router	887	0	clean
vue-router	138 + 3	0	clean

Lint warning counts are unchanged from main in every package. React behaviour is unaffected by the revert: the POC still measures one view transition per navigation with a real ::view-transition-group(article-image-2) morph, and the view-transitions e2e suite passes 3/3.

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827f059 — selector-level render counts and tearing-freedom now hold at the same time. Both are tested.

The conflict, and why it wasn't real

The subscription binding preserved selector counts but reintroduced tearing: it answered pending ?? committed — one global answer, ignoring where the consumer sits. So a reader mounted by an unrelated urgent update during a suspended navigation saw the route being prepared, not the one on screen.

Reading the frame from Context instead fixes that but invalidates every consumer. I measured both ends rather than reasoning about them:

read strategy	urgent-mount guard	untouched consumer
pending ?? committed (subscription)	fails — reads /next	3 renders
frame from Context	passes	6 renders
scoped (this commit)	passes	3 renders

They only conflicted because one global answer was serving two different questions. The answer is positional, so each position gets its own scope:

• a root scope for readers outside the route tree — advances only when a navigation commits
• a presentation scope, provided by Matches for the route subtree — advances when a frame is staged

Scope identity is stable for the router's lifetime, so putting a scope in Context invalidates nobody. Consumers read scope.frame and subscribe to that scope. Position decides which frame they see and when they update.

New test

a reader outside the route tree does not read ahead of the visible route — ported from the application regression that caught this. A route suspends, the imperative head advances to it, then a click mounts a reader outside <Matches>; it must report the visible route. It fails against the previous revision and passes here.

Verified

package	tests	lint errors	types
router-core	1617	0	clean
react-router	1044	0	clean
solid-router	887	0	clean
vue-router	138 + 3	0	clean

Plus: view-transitions e2e 3/3, basic e2e 24/24, prettier clean, the POC still measuring one view transition per navigation with a real shared-element morph, and selector-call counts on the frame path at or below the store path (7→3, 5→3, 3→2, 3→1).

The downstream application suite that found the bug — 51 files, 274 tests — passes with the option on and off.

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Initialize new readers from the render's visible frame

When a navigation has staged its frame but a route component suspends, the previous tree remains visible while scope.staged points at the next route. If an urgent update in that visible tree mounts a new useRouterStateSelector consumer, this initializer selects the staged frame and exposes the next location or matches alongside the old page. Initialize from a frame identity carried by the rendering RouterStateFrame, rather than from the scope's mutable staged slot.

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Preserve route-specific pending fallbacks

When this option is enabled after hydration, frameRootBoundary is true for every matched route, so this condition removes all route-level Suspense boundaries. A child route that suspends—such as while its lazy chunk or loader is pending—therefore bubbles to the boundary in Matches, whose fallback is built only from the root route. Any child- or parent-specific pendingComponent is skipped, leaving the old page visible or showing the root/default fallback instead of the configured route fallback.

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Coming back to this with a measurement rather than a description, because a later thread on Matches.tsx turned out to be the same finding and gave me a way to pin it. Both paths, root and route pendingComponent labelled distinctly, pendingMs: 0:

	first render at the pending route	navigation to it
store path	route's pendingComponent	route's pendingComponent
frame path	root route's	neither — the previous route stays on screen

Your first row is exactly right and is what the option's doc described. The second row is worse than either of us wrote: by the time a navigation happens the consolidated boundary is already mounted, and the navigation is a transition, so React keeps the current UI rather than swapping in a fallback. Nothing route-level is skipped in favour of the root fallback — no fallback appears at all, and pendingMs and pendingMinMs have nothing to time.

That is what a transition does, and it is what this option exists to produce, but it is a bigger behaviour change than the doc admitted. RouterOptionsType.md now says it plainly, the PR's Known limitations carries the table, and what stands in for the loading route differs by path asserts both rows against the store path so it cannot drift.

Leaving this open with the others: restoring route pending UI means presenting it inline rather than by suspending, which gives up the atomic publish-and-acknowledge the consolidated boundary exists for. That is a maintainer's call, not a review fix.

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Acknowledge the root fallback before applying pendingMinMs

When frame mode is enabled in a client-rendered app, a pending match throws and this boundary commits pendingElement, but MatchesInner remains in the suspended subtree, so its layout-effect acknowledgement never runs. The pending offer's promise is therefore only settled as false when the successful frame replaces it; its pending-min deadline remains zero, and awaitPendingMinimum returns immediately. A route with pendingMs: 0 and pendingMinMs: 1000 whose loader completes quickly will consequently flash the root fallback instead of keeping it visible for the configured minimum.

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You pointed at the right place, and measuring it turned up something worse than the finding as written — so rather than fix the timing I have corrected what the option claims, and pinned the real behaviour with a test (5b1e5ff).

Your mechanism is right as far as it goes: MatchesInner stays inside the suspended subtree, so its layout-effect acknowledgement never runs and the pending offer's deadline stays zero. But awaitPendingMinimum returning early is not what an adopter sees, because on the frame path the fallback is never shown on a navigation at all. Measured on both paths, root and route pendingComponent labelled distinctly, pendingMs: 0:

	first render at the pending route	navigation to it
store path	route's pendingComponent	route's pendingComponent
frame path	root route's	neither — the previous route stays on screen

The first-render row is the documented limitation (one boundary, fallback built from the root route). The navigation row is not, and it is the interesting one: by then the boundary is already mounted, and the navigation is a transition, so React keeps the current UI rather than replacing it with a fallback. That is exactly what a transition is for — and exactly what this option exists to produce — but it means pendingComponent, pendingMs and pendingMinMs are all inert for client navigations, not just the minimum hold.

So there is no fallback whose minimum I could honour. Acknowledging the frame when the fallback commits would only re-open the timing question in a case that does not arise; making the route's pending UI appear again means presenting it inline rather than by suspending, which would give up the atomic publish-and-acknowledge the consolidated boundary is there for. That is a design call rather than a review fix, and it belongs with the boundary-consolidation limitation I have flagged as the part I most want a maintainer's opinion on.

What I have changed:

• docs/router/api/router/RouterOptionsType.md now says this plainly — the caveat previously implied the root fallback is used on a navigation, which is not true — and points adopters at status / isLoading, which stay live throughout.
• A new test, what stands in for the loading route differs by path, runs both arms and asserts the whole table above, so this cannot quietly change.

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