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Depends on #8360, #8340 and #8562.

Review only this PR's change: vjeux/astryx@bbc0a4a...94bba42

User need

Part of matching Astryx's touch components to iOS 26, so apps built with it feel native on phones; this is TabBar's first PR. Phone apps switch sections with a bottom tab bar. Astryx has none, so apps hand-roll one without iOS's capsule, sliding lens and badges.

Problem and solution fit

  • Lens: slides on UIKit's spring under a finger (iOS and Android), in CSS under a mouse, and cross-fades under Reduce Motion.
  • Reselect: tapping the selected tab calls onReselect.
  • Badges: read with the tab's name ("Library, 3").
  • Accessibility: a tablist named by label, aria-label or aria-labelledby ("Tabs" otherwise), one tab stop, arrow keys, Enter or Space.

Current specification

spec:AST-094 FR13, FR8, FR24 and FR4 (FR4 names none of the tab bar's values, so its springs play as measured). An engineering owner decides this new lab component and its manually activated tablist.

Public delta and caller burden

New lab TabBar, TabBarItem; core uikit.tabBar; message @astryx.tabBar.badgedItem; names added to internal/motion and internal/touch. Leave 83 px below content.

<TabBar value={tab} onChange={setTab} onReselect={popToRoot} label="Sections">
  <TabBarItem value="inbox" label="Inbox" icon={<Icon icon={BellIcon} size="lg" />} badge={3} />
</TabBar>

Size, gzip against the base (no TabBar): TabBar's import 0 → 40.3 KB JavaScript, 0 → 1,524 B CSS.

Design and alternatives

  • Chosen: at rest the selected tab draws its own look; a copy of the items rides in the lens only while a finger moves it, half-tinting a half-covered item, as on iOS.
  • Rejected: TabList at the bottom (other semantics); one highlight under tinted items (the tint jumps); a permanent copy (every item in the DOM twice).

Evidence

iOS 26.2 simulator (taps, a 600 ms block, Reduce Motion), then Android 15 Chrome.

iOS: taps
iOS: busy main thread
iOS: Reduce Motion
Android

Scope

  • One capability is added.
  • Unrelated fixes, cleanup, and policy changes were removed or split.
  • Consumer docs, focused tests, and evidence ship with the feature.
  • Public text and artifacts contain no internal Meta context.

Stack: #8360 (which carries #8320 and the PRs below it), with #8340 and #8562 merged in → this PR.

Testing

Try it: pnpm storybook, Lab › TabBar › Default.

  • On a phone or Chrome's device mode, tap Library: the lens slides over; tap Home mid-slide: it turns back smoothly.
  • With a mouse, a click slides it on the theme's motion.
  • With Reduce Motion, it cross-fades on a phone and jumps with a mouse.
  • With a screen reader and no label, the tab list reads as "Tabs".

Browser tests: the slide follows UIKit's spring, even through a 600 ms block; each tab is drawn once at rest; a mouse runs no touch code.

Passing: pnpm test:interaction TabBar, pnpm vitest run packages/lab/src/TabBar, pnpm typecheck, lint.

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Approval of TabBar waits on an engineering-owner decision about its direction: a new lab component beside TabList, its API, tab roles without tab panels, and geometry and motion fixed to iOS 26.2, all resting on the draft spec:AST-094, which no owner has approved yet. An engineering owner records that decision by commenting /approve-spec <full head SHA> on this pull request (the author may do so as an engineering owner) or by asking for changes to that direction. Whatever the decision, these still need fixing:

  • Land the stacked predecessors on their own so this diff is the TabBar commit; the range here is about 27,600 authored lines, and the TabBar commit alone is 2,022.
  • Add a Changeset naming @astryxdesign/cli for the new astryx discover entries; the lint job's Changeset coverage check fails without it.
  • Remove zIndex: 2 from the fixed root in TabBar.tsx, which sets a page-level stacking rank against app content (spec:AST-027 FR1/FR3).
  • Build the badge suffix (", 3") from one translated ICU message instead of a literal joined in code.
  • Tell callers to declare the bar as inset on LayerProvider so toasts and menus clear it, and correct the changeset and motion README, which list lens values uikit.tabBar does not contain.

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zIndex: 2 on this position: fixed root sets a page-level stacking rank against app content, which spec:AST-027 FR1 rules out ("MUST NOT establish an ordering contract against unrelated components, application content"), and FR3 keeps the outer owner at its parent's paint level. Drop it here and keep the lens and badge ordering inside an isolated capsule. Whether the bar must escape page content through the Layer host is part of the placement decision.

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This joins a literal , to the badge inside the tab's accessible name ("Library, 3"). The internationalization architecture's INV1a asks for joined labels to be one ICU message resolved by the translator. A key with a {badge} placeholder, through useTranslator from @astryxdesign/core/i18n (as lab's Chat and Comments do), keeps the separator localized.

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displayName: 'Tab Bar',
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Besides reserving 83 px under the content, apps need to declare the bar as inset={{blockEnd: 83}} on LayerProvider (spec:AST-059 FR6), or toasts and menus anchored near the bottom render under it. Worth saying here and showing in the stories.

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[experimental] The UIKit constants table read through `@astryxdesign/core/motion/experimental` gains `uikit.tabBar`: the iOS 26 tab bar's measured geometry (capsule, items, badge) and its selection lens's springs, lift, flex and edge rubber band, each with its source. Nothing else changes.

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uikit.tabBar has no lift, flex or edge rubber-band entries: only the geometry, the badge, lensTravel and reducedMotion. The same wording is in the uikit/tabBar.ts row of packages/core/src/motion/README.md. Also, packages/cli/assets/discover/official-packages.json changes in this commit, and CI's Changeset coverage check needs a Changeset naming @astryxdesign/cli.

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Approval of TabBar waits on an engineering-owner decision about its direction (a new lab component beside TabList, its API, tab roles without tab panels, and geometry and lens motion fixed to iOS 26.2 and kept under Reduce Motion), which rests on the draft spec:AST-094 that no owner has approved yet. An engineering owner records that decision by commenting /approve-spec <full head SHA> on this pull request, and the author may do so as an engineering owner. Whatever the decision, these still need fixing:

  • Land the stacked predecessors on their own so this diff is the TabBar commit; the range is about 27,600 authored lines and the TabBar commit alone is 2,029.
  • Remove zIndex: 2 from the fixed root in TabBar.tsx, which sets a page-level stacking rank against app content (spec:AST-027 FR1/FR3).
  • Build the badge suffix (", 3") from one translated ICU message instead of a literal joined in code.
  • Tell callers to declare the bar as inset on LayerProvider so menus and toasts clear it.
  • Correct the changeset and motion README, which list lens values uikit.tabBar does not contain, and move the released adaptive threshold change into its own pull request.

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zIndex: 2 on this position: fixed root, with no isolation owner, sets a page-level stacking rank against application content, which spec:AST-027 FR1 rules out ("It MUST NOT establish an ordering contract against unrelated components, application content, AppShell chrome, or another page region"); drop it and keep any local values inside an isolation: isolate owner.

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This joins the badge into the tab’s name with a literal English ", " ("Browse, !", "Library, 3"); internationalization INV1a requires one ICU message with placeholders resolved by the translator instead of call-site concatenation.

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name: 'TabBar',
displayName: 'Tab Bar',
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"The bar. It sits fixed at the bottom of the viewport, over the page, so leave 83 px of room at the bottom of the scrolling content. You own the selection: pass the selected tab's value and update it in onChange.",

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Besides the 83 px of padding, spec:AST-059 FR6 has an app with a bar floating over a viewport edge declare it on LayerProvider’s inset (here blockEnd: 83), so menus, popovers and toasts clear the bar; the doc should say so.

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[experimental] The UIKit constants table read through `@astryxdesign/core/motion/experimental` gains `uikit.tabBar`: the iOS 26 tab bar's measured geometry (capsule, items, badge) and its selection lens's springs, lift, flex and edge rubber band, each with its source. Nothing else changes.

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uikit.tabBar holds lensTravel and reducedMotion for the lens, not lift, flex or edge rubber-band values (the PR puts press-and-drag and minimize out of scope); please describe what ships, here and in the motion README row.

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Approval of TabBar waits on an engineering-owner decision about its direction (a new lab component beside TabList, its API, tab roles without tab panels, and geometry and lens motion fixed to iOS 26.2 and kept under Reduce Motion), which rests on the draft spec:AST-094 that no owner has approved yet. An engineering owner records that decision by commenting /approve-spec <full head SHA> on this pull request, and the author may do so as an engineering owner. Whatever the decision, these still need fixing:

  • Land the stacked predecessors on their own so this diff is the TabBar commit; the range is about 28,000 authored lines and the TabBar commit alone is 2,044.
  • Remove zIndex: 2 from the fixed root in TabBar.tsx, which sets a page-level stacking rank against app content (spec:AST-027 FR1/FR3).
  • Build the badge suffix (", 3") from one translated ICU message instead of a literal joined in code.
  • Tell callers to declare the bar as inset on LayerProvider so menus and toasts clear it.
  • Describe what ships in the uikit.tabBar changeset and the motion README, which list lift, flex and rubber-band values the table does not contain, and rebase onto main, where pr-a11y runs a spec this branch predates.

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…mates while it runs

The proof read the element's animations 230 ms in, after the dip had
ended, and asserted only that every animated key is opacity, which an
empty list passes: with the cross-fade removed from the plan (the move
still landing), the proof still passed. It now reads the keyframe keys
right after the call starts and asserts they include opacity and nothing
else; the same mutant fails it. Chromium and WebKit pass. (F1's in-flight
read from c648034.)
…roller, and its claimed moves are cancelled under pointer events

Two comparisons stop at the shadow boundary, each failing a case:
- once the host's listener on a recognizer's inner node has seen the
  finger, isFingerDownIn reads it as outside a light-DOM scroller around
  that root, so a scroll under it is not the finger's (FR20);
- under inputMode 'pointer-events', a claimed pan on a shadow host
  cancels none of its finger's moves over the inner content, since the
  finger's target is the inner node and its touches reach the host
  retargeted (FR19).
…the flat tree

isFingerDownIn and the pointer-events finger match compare with
containsAlongFlatTree, as the scroll watch already does: a finger on
content inside an open shadow root is down in the scroller around that
root, and its touches, retargeted to the shadow host, match its pointer
finger, so a claimed pan cancels its moves there (spec:AST-094 FR19,
FR20).
…achments asks, and only then

The host let the last attachment decide whether an element is an action
group (useGestureRecognizer always passes the option), and never
recomputed it at a detach: a plain attachment after the group's turned
the group off, and a group's attachment released left a recognizer that
never asked taking presses under a fine pointer. Fails until the host
counts the attachments that ask.
…ents asks

The host counts the attachments that pass actionGroup: true and keeps the
element a group while one remains, recomputed at each detach. An
attachment that passes false, as useGestureRecognizer does by default,
no longer turns a group off, and a group's last asking attachment taking
its leave ends the group.
… that content

The presented hit test takes the document's elementFromPoint, which
answers a shadow host for anything inside its open root, and compares
with Node.contains, which stops at the boundary: a recognizer on a
control inside a moving sheet's shadow root gets no finger, and the tap's
click goes to the host. Fails until the hit test descends into open roots
and compares along the flat tree.
Where a moving element is drawn away from its layout box, the host
hit-tests what is drawn under the finger with the document's
elementFromPoint, which answers a shadow host for anything inside its
open root. The hit test now descends through each open root's own
elementFromPoint and compares with the movers along the flat tree, so a
recognizer on a control inside a moving sheet's shadow root gets its
finger and the tap clicks that control.
…nt lets go

The host's touch-action rules sit in an adopted sheet or a style element
per document or shadow root, and were never removed, so a page whose
last recognizer detached kept them, against spec:AST-094 FR24 (nothing
touch-related remains after the last instance unmounts). Fails until a
root's rules go with its last marked element.
…th its last marked element

The touch-action writer records which elements it marked in each
document or shadow root, and when the last one is unmarked (its last
recognizer detached) it removes that root's adopted sheet or style
element, so nothing touch-related remains after the last instance
unmounts (spec:AST-094 FR24). A later mark writes the rules again; an
element marked in another root first lets go of the old one.
… the inline style it reads

- The motion registry, the host's engine gate and the README name the
  presented hit test as an engine workaround (spec:AST-013 FR6) with its
  review condition (re-measure on each iOS release; remove it once iOS
  WebKit hit-tests a compositor-moved element where it is drawn) and its
  regression fixture.
- While a curve runs the animator holds the value it starts from inline,
  so presentation.ts and the README no longer say the inline style holds
  the end.
…core/internal/touch

Core ships the internal entry @astryxdesign/core/internal/touch, which
re-exports the gesture primitives for Astryx's own packages, and the
Lab-import guard fails a Lab import of core outside core's exports
(architecture:react-component-runtime INV13). The README and the barrel's
header named internal workspace imports and said nothing here is
exported; they now name that entry.
…ill needs the element, and the listeners that cancel

The release note, the stream's header, the host's comment and the README
said the stream is one passive listener per event type and that a
document-capture stopPropagation no longer starves the recognizers. Such a
stop never hid a listener on the same node, and some subscriptions cancel.
They now say what changed: an app's window-capture stopPropagation, or a
document-capture stopImmediatePropagation registered before core, no
longer hides a touch; a recognizer that must claim still needs the touch to
reach its element; the gesture host's touchend, click and contextmenu
cancel while a claimer is attached and the page hold's touchmove while it
holds; and the stream stays ahead of an app's window-capture listener only
until a type's listener is re-added. The README's list of blocking
touchmove listeners gains the claimed touch's target and the document
while a claiming element moves.
…default it moves

The {stylexOptions} form of astryxStylex now passes StyleX
treeshakeCompensation: true unless the caller sets it. spec:AST-017 FR3
asks the release note to name the old and new default and the option
that restores the old one; it now does.
…er and for the two stops the input stream fixes

- A still finger with sub-pixel jitter over a scroll view keeps its tap
  and scrolls nothing (spec:AST-094 FR18–FR22).
- A tap is still recognized under an app's window-capture
  stopPropagation, and under a document-capture
  stopImmediatePropagation registered before core's: the recognizers hear
  touches on the window's capture phase.
Chromium and WebKit pass.
…s once

Where nothing that claims is attached, the host's touchend listener is
passive and cannot cancel the engine's own click after a retargeted tap
clicks what is drawn. The shared click guard swallows that late click
whatever is attached; this case pins it, as asked on meta#8293.
Takes meta#8360's head, which removes a document's or shadow root's
touch-action rules with its last marked element and names the build
changeset's treeshakeCompensation default, in place of 1e1431f.
…esture host's subscriptions

The gesture host subscribes no click: the one cancelling click subscriber
is the click guard's, added at a window's first arm and kept. The release
note, the stream's header and the gestures README listed click with the
host's touchend and contextmenu; they now name the guard's own.
meta#8360 now carries the gesture foundation this stack built on (meta#8320 and the
PRs below it).
The merge of the heads meta#8129 builds on: meta#8360 @ 045f666 (the gesture
foundation), meta#8340 @ 339a352 (the animator) and meta#8562 @ cd3ad72
(Core's internal entries). With it as an ancestor, GitHub's compare from it
shows exactly meta#8129's own files.
…changed)

bbc0a4a is the merge of the heads this pull request builds on. With it
as an ancestor, GitHub's compare from it shows exactly this pull request's
own files.
…ps reach it

Red first: with no label the tab list has no name, and aria-label or
aria-labelledby passed to TabBar land on its root, where they name nothing.
As TabList does, the tab list is named by aria-labelledby, else aria-label,
else label, else the translated `@astryx.tabList.label` ("Tabs"), and the
aria naming props go to the tab list instead of the root.
spec:AST-094 FR4 names none of the tab bar's values, and Core's roles test
pins the registered roles to exactly FR4's list, so registerTabBarTable()
lists no motion role and each spring plays as measured, as the scroll and
navigation tables do. The comments and the changeset no longer call them
motion roles.
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Thanks, fixed in this push:

  • The tab bar's springs stay internal measured values. Core's roles test pins the registered roles to exactly the ones spec:AST-094 FR4 names, so registerTabBarTable() lists none, as the scroll and navigation tables do. The comments and the changeset now say so.
  • Without label, the tab list is named "Tabs" (TabList's translated fallback). aria-label and aria-labelledby now reach the tab list instead of the root, with tests for all three.
  • The lens's selection Effect now says what it synchronizes: the animator's compositor animations with the selected tab.

The stack below lands first; the review link in the description shows only this pull request's files.

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Approval of TabBar waits on an engineering owner providing its governing spec: no current record owns the component, and family:action-groups counts a tab bar as a member, so that decision must settle whether TabBar follows the family's press model (FR1-FR3, through the shared tracker) or carries the UIKit exception proposed in the comments, together with its API beside TabList, tablist roles without tab panels (spec:AST-020 FR15), the item copy the lens carries under a finger (spec:AST-017 FR60), the new mouse presentation (FR59) and a motion role for the lens spring (spec:AST-094 FR4, DEC-5). An engineering owner records that decision by commenting /approve-spec <full head SHA> on this pull request, and the author may do so as an engineering owner. Whatever the decision, two changes remain:

  • Land the dependency stack through its own pull requests so this diff carries TabBar (30,468 authored lines today, 27,845 of them dependency work).
  • Register the lens spring as the motion role the approved record names instead of playing it as a literal (packages/core/src/motion/uikit/tabBar.ts:184-186).

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export function registerTabBarTable(): void {
registerMotionTable('tabBar', tabBar);
}

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This registers no motion role, so the lens plays tabBar.lensTravel as a literal spring. spec:AST-094 FR4: "A component MUST read touch motion through these roles and MUST NOT play a literal"; a component's own measured spring joins the role set through its record (DEC-5). Once an approved record names it, register it here with {roles: ['lensTravel']} and correct the comments at lines 24-26 and 178-180 and the changeset.

Comment on lines +648 to +679
{lens.isCopyShown ? (
<div
ref={lens.copy}
data-tab-bar-copy=""
{...stylex.props(styles.copyInner)}>
<div
{...stylex.props(
styles.copyOuter,
styles.copyOuterGeometry(
capsuleInset,
px(tabBar.barHeight),
),
styles.copyRest(lensOffset(restIndex, count)),
)}>
{items.map((item, index) => (
<span
key={item.value}
{...stylex.props(
styles.copyItem,
styles.box(
`calc(${center(index, count)} - ${size(count)} / 2)`,
ITEM_TOP,
itemSize,
ITEM_HEIGHT,
),
)}>
<ItemFace item={item} isSelectedLook isCopy />
</span>
))}
</div>
</div>
) : null}

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Under a finger every slide mounts a second copy of all the items here. spec:AST-017 FR60 lets a component render more elements under touch than under a fine pointer only for a layer while it is open, so this copy needs an owner exception recorded with its element counts, which the open direction question asks for.

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@cixzhang family:action-groups now counts a tab bar as a member, but UIKit's tab bar commits a lift above the bar and holds the lens on the nearest enabled tab over a disabled one, which FR2 and FR3 rule out. Should TabBar's record carry an exception to FR2 and FR3 for that UIKit behavior (keeping its own tracker), or should TabBar follow the family?

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