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tsconfig set "strict": true and then disabled noImplicitAny and strictNullChecks — the two flags carrying most of its weight. Both are on now, both at zero errors (40 and 28 respectively). The include glob was also single level, so anything under src/Xarrow was only checked because something imported it.

The published declarations no longer contain any: refType was MutableRefObject<any>, and Xwrapper's children was any.

The published types did not compile under React 19

Found while checking whether narrowing refType broke anyone. React 19 removed the global JSX namespace and stopped exporting ReactSVG, both of which index.d.ts referenced:

error TS2305: Module '"react"' has no exported member 'ReactSVG'.
error TS2503: Cannot find namespace 'JSX'.   ×5

Every runtime code path already worked on 19 — this was declarations only, and invisible to anyone with skipLibCheck on (the common default).

React.JSX is the obvious fix but does not exist on the older @types/react the >=16.8.0 peer range still admits, so it would trade one broken audience for another. The two uses are spelled out instead: ReactElement, and a mapped type over SVGProps. The mapped form matters — it preserves the per-tag union, where a plain SVGProps<union> would reject a ref typed for one specific element.

CI now guards this. A type-tests workspace package compiles a consumer against the built lib/index.d.ts once per supported @types/react major, with skipLibCheck off. Verified to fail against the previous declarations: 4 errors inside index.d.ts under React 19, none under 18.

Nothing existing could have caught it. type-check compiles src/ against the single React the root installs, and the demo resolves the library through a Vite source alias — neither ever reads the emitted declarations.

Narrowing refType

MutableRefObject<any> silently accepted everything, so this needed care. It is now a structural readonly reader rather than React.RefObject or React.MutableRefObject: React 19 redefined RefObject as mutable, and MutableRefObject is invariant, so a MutableRefObject<HTMLDivElement> would not be assignable to one of HTMLElement.

It reads Element rather than HTMLElement and allows undefined alongside null. My first attempt did neither, which broke three patterns that compile today and work at runtime — useRef<T>() with no argument, refs to SVG elements, and useRef<Element | null>. All three are now fixture cases.

Parsed types

Parsed values have their own types now, separate from the user-facing ones.

parsedEdgeShapeType is the biggest win: offsetForward is optional on the user type and always filled in by parsing, and reusing the user type meant 15 "possibly undefined" errors in getPosition — over half of all strictNullChecks errors.

parsedAnchorType was already written as a local interface in useXarrowProps and never propagated, so calcAnchors kept indexing a five-key table with a union that included 'auto'.

Four bugs fell out of annotating things

  • a custom head/tail shape with no svgElem defaulted it to the bare string 'path', which React renders as the literal text "path" instead of an arrowhead
  • parseEdgeShape filled its defaults in place — for a shape name that object is the shared arrowShapes constant, for a custom shape it is the caller's own
  • dashness={{ strokeLen: n }} rendered stroke-dasharray="n undefined"
  • dashness animation: true was stored as a boolean where the parsed type promised a number, and only worked because 1 / true is 1

Plus the curve key for grid/smooth paths was assembled by concatenating characters and regex-replacing them, so an anchor position matching none of the branches produced a key with no table entry and threw. Built per anchor as a union now.

Verification

This package has ~150k weekly downloads, so behaviour was checked rather than assumed. Rendered DOM compared byte for byte against main using an out-of-tree harness run in both checkouts:

suite cases differing
static prop matrix 189 1 (the stroke-dasharray fix)
update sequences + multi-arrow 9 sequences, 32 frames 0

The static matrix covers all 36 anchor pairs against every path, so the curve-key rewrite is confirmed behaviour-identical across all 144 combinations. The dynamic suite drives prop updates on a mounted arrow, three arrows sharing an Xwrapper, and a useXarrow update — covering the parse loop.

The three fixes that do change output are locked in __test__/propParsing.test.tsx (23 tests), including one asserting the caller's shape object is left untouched.

Not included

No version bump. Phase 3 — making ParsePropFunc generic over the prop name, which ties xarrowPropsType[K] to parsedXarrowProps[K] — is deliberately left out. It would have caught all four bugs above at compile time, and the animateDrawing: number lie is still live behind a cast in Xarrow.tsx:53.

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  • New Features

    • Added React 19-compatible TypeScript declarations and SVG prop typings.
    • Improved compatibility for refs, labels, custom edge shapes, and wrapper usage.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Fixed custom arrowhead and tail rendering and parsing.
    • Corrected dashness defaults, explicit zero values, and animation handling.
    • Improved anchor and path calculations.
  • Tests

    • Added declaration compatibility coverage for React 18 and React 19.
    • Added regression tests for parsing, rendering, anchors, and fallback behavior.
  • Documentation

    • Added Unreleased changelog notes covering these improvements.

Eliav2 and others added 2 commits August 16, 2026 23:13
tsconfig set "strict": true and then disabled noImplicitAny and strictNullChecks,
which are the two flags carrying most of its weight. Both are now on, and both
are at zero errors: 40 implicit-any and 28 null errors respectively. The include
glob was also single level, so anything under src/Xarrow was only checked because
something imported it.

The published declarations no longer contain `any`. refType was
MutableRefObject<any> and Xwrapper's children was any.

Narrowing refType needed care, since MutableRefObject<any> silently accepted
everything. It is now a structural readonly reader rather than React.RefObject
or React.MutableRefObject: React 19 redefined RefObject as mutable, and
MutableRefObject is invariant, so a MutableRefObject<HTMLDivElement> would not be
assignable to one of HTMLElement. It reads Element rather than HTMLElement and
allows undefined alongside null, so that useRef with no argument and refs to svg
elements keep compiling. Verified by type checking a consumer against the emitted
index.d.ts under both @types/react 18 and 19.

Which turned up that the published types did not compile at all under
@types/react 19: React 19 removed the global JSX namespace and stopped exporting
ReactSVG. React.JSX would fix the namespace but does not exist on the older
@types/react this package still supports, so the two uses are spelled out
instead - ReactElement, and a mapped type over SVGProps that preserves the
per-tag union rather than collapsing to SVGProps<union>.

Parsed values now have their own types, separate from the user facing ones.
parsedEdgeShapeType is the largest win: offsetForward is optional on the user
type and always filled in by parsing, and reusing the user type meant fifteen
"possibly undefined" errors in getPosition. parsedAnchorType is the type that
was already written as a local interface in useXarrowProps but never propagated,
so calcAnchors kept indexing a five key table with a union that included 'auto'.

Four bugs fell out of annotating things:

- a custom head or tail shape with no svgElem defaulted it to the bare string
  'path', which React renders as the literal text "path" instead of an
  arrowhead. It now falls back to the default shape, as the unknown-shape-name
  branch beside it already did.
- dashness={{ strokeLen: n }} rendered stroke-dasharray="n undefined", because
  nonStrokeLen is optional and was read without a fallback.
- dashness animation: true was stored as a boolean where the parsed type
  promised a number, and only worked because 1 / true is 1.
- parseEdgeShape filled its defaults in place. For a shape name that object is
  the shared arrowShapes constant and for a custom shape it is the caller's own,
  so it wrote into whichever it was handed.

The curve for a grid or smooth path is selected by a key built from both anchor
positions. That key was assembled by concatenating characters and regex
replacing them, so a position matching none of the branches produced a key with
no entry in the table and threw. It is now built per anchor as a union.

Behaviour was checked rather than assumed: the rendered DOM was compared byte
for byte against the previous release across 189 prop combinations, covering all
36 anchor pairs against every path, plus nine prop update sequences on a mounted
arrow and three arrows sharing an Xwrapper. The only difference is the
stroke-dasharray fix above. The three fixes that do change output are covered by
new tests.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The React 19 breakage that the previous commit fixed got through every existing
check. type-check compiles src/ against the single React the root has installed,
and the demo resolves the library through a Vite source alias, so neither ever
reads lib/index.d.ts. The declarations referenced the global JSX namespace and
ReactSVG, both gone in React 19, with all of CI green.

Adds a type-tests workspace package that compiles a consumer against the built
declarations once per supported @types/react major. Both majors are installed
side by side under aliases, and each tsconfig points "react" at one of them.
skipLibCheck is off on purpose: it defaults to on in most setups and would hide
exactly the errors this exists to catch.

The fixture covers what a consumer touches - every prop on xarrowPropsType, the
exported type aliases, rendering, and the ref shapes start and end accept. The
ref cases are there because refType replaced a MutableRefObject<any> that
accepted all of them, including useRef with no argument and refs to svg
elements. svgElemPropsType is asserted to still take a ref typed for one
specific element, which fails if the per-tag union ever collapses to
SVGProps<union>.

Runs in CI after the build, since the declarations are the thing under test.
Verified to fail against the previous declarations: four errors inside
index.d.ts under React 19, none under 18.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The change improves React 18 and React 19 declaration compatibility, adds explicit internal types, fixes edge-shape and dashness parsing defaults, strengthens geometry typing, and adds runtime and published-declaration tests.

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Type contracts and parsed state
src/types.ts, src/privateTypes.ts, src/Xwrapper.tsx, src/Xarrow/useXarrowProps.ts
Public React and SVG types now use explicit element, nullable, and mapped SVG prop types. Parsed anchors, labels, edge shapes, contexts, and parsed props now have dedicated types.
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src/Xarrow/useXarrowProps.ts, __test__/propParsing.test.tsx, CHANGELOG.md
Label, dashness, and edge-shape parsing now apply typed defaults without mutating supplied objects. Tests cover shapes, animation, dashness, anchors, and generated paths.
Geometry and rendering typing
src/Xarrow/Xarrow.tsx, src/Xarrow/anchors.ts, src/Xarrow/utils/*
Position calculations and DOM helpers now use shared types and explicit axis selection. Path values, nullable elements, SVG references, and debug styles receive explicit handling.
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- Around line 82-94: Update parseDashness so strokeLen and nonStrokeLen are
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Comment thread src/Xarrow/useXarrowProps.ts
They were read as a pair, so nonStrokeLen was only consulted when strokeLen was
also given - and then passed straight through, rendering a stroke-dasharray of
"<n> undefined". Supplying nonStrokeLen on its own was discarded for the
default. `??` rather than `||` so that an explicit 0 is kept: `{ nonStrokeLen: 0 }`
draws the solid line it asks for.

Changes rendered output for five prop shapes, each one a case where the value
the caller passed was previously thrown away. Measured against the previous
release, dasharray before -> after:

  { strokeLen: 10 }                 "10 undefined" -> "10 4"
  { nonStrokeLen: 10 }              "8 4"          -> "8 10"
  { strokeLen: 0 }                  "8 4"          -> "0 4"
  { nonStrokeLen: 0 }               "8 4"          -> "8 0"
  { strokeLen: 0, nonStrokeLen: 0 } "8 4"          -> "0 0"

Nothing divides by either length downstream - dashoffset is their sum - so a
zero is safe to pass through.

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Taken, in 6d66e5a — both points are right, and both are cases where the value the caller passed was silently discarded.

Checked strokeLen: 0 was safe to pass through before applying it: nothing divides by either length downstream, dashoffset is just their sum.

Measured the blast radius against the previous release across the rendered DOM. Five prop shapes change, dasharray before → after:

props before after
{strokeLen: 10} "10 undefined" "10 4"
{nonStrokeLen: 10} "8 4" "8 10"
{strokeLen: 0} "8 4" "0 4"
{nonStrokeLen: 0} "8 4" "8 0"
{strokeLen: 0, nonStrokeLen: 0} "8 4" "0 0"

All five now have tests, and the CHANGELOG calls out that {strokeLen: 0} draws zero-length dashes where it used to fall back to the default pattern.

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Comment thread CHANGELOG.md Outdated
`stroke-dasharray="n undefined"` and `{ nonStrokeLen: n }` on its own was
discarded for the default. An explicit `0` is also kept rather than replaced
by the default, so `{ nonStrokeLen: 0 }` now draws the solid line it asks for
— and `{ strokeLen: 0 }` draws zero length dashes, where it previously fell

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Use a hyphen in zero-length dashes.

Change zero length dashes to zero-length dashes on Line 20.

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