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fix: share the loading flag in every renderer and make boundaries nest (BON-11, BON-14) - #44

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Fixes BON-11 and BON-14 together — investigation showed they're one mechanism.

The flag BonesStart/BonesEnd bracket around a skeleton tree lived in React.cache(). Probing every environment showed cache() memoizes per request only inside a real RSC render: in client renders (react-dom/client), non-RSC SSR (renderToString), and plain calls, every read returns a fresh object. So BonesForce and the <Bones> fallback never forced anything outside RSC (BON-14 — and wider than filed, since SSR is affected too), and inside RSC a nested boundary's BonesEnd cleared the flag for the outer boundary's later siblings (BON-11).

Two changes to the mechanism:

  • getBonesContext calls the cached getter twice. Identical objects mean a request-scoped context (concurrent-request safe, the RSC path, unchanged). Different objects mean the passthrough, where a shared module context takes over — safe because those render passes are synchronous with balanced brackets.
  • The brackets track a depth instead of a boolean: Start increments, End decrements, loading is depth > 0. A nested boundary's end restores the outer level instead of clobbering it. A counter was chosen over the issue's save/restore suggestion deliberately: StrictMode double-invokes render functions, and ++ ++ -- -- stays balanced where a saved-previous-value slot would capture its own true and leak the flag past the boundary.

getBonesContext is internal (not exported from the react entry), so no public API changes — patch changeset.

Five new tests pin the behavior: client-render forcing, renderToString forcing, the nested-BonesForce later-sibling repro from BON-11, flag cleanup after a boundary, and the nested-<Bones>-fallback variant where a later sibling's bones depend entirely on the bracketed flag. All five were verified failing against main's source before the fix (matcher-free assertions, per the suite's convention). Full suite: 195/195.

Fixes BON-11, BON-14.

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  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved loading skeleton behavior across client and server rendering.
    • Nested loading boundaries now preserve outer loading states correctly.
    • Loading states remain balanced under React StrictMode and clear properly after boundaries end.
    • Sibling content within an outer fallback maintains the expected skeleton behavior.
    • Forced loading states no longer leak after rendering errors.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for forced skeletons, nested boundaries, server rendering, error recovery, and state cleanup.

…t (BON-11, BON-14)

The flag BonesStart/BonesEnd bracket around a skeleton tree lived in
React.cache(), which memoizes per request only inside React Server
Components. Client renders and non-RSC server rendering got a fresh
object per read, so BonesForce and the <Bones> fallback never forced
anything there. getBonesContext now calls the cached getter twice:
identical objects mean a request-scoped context, different objects mean
the passthrough, where a shared module context takes over.

The brackets also track a depth instead of a boolean, so a nested
boundary's end restores the outer level instead of clearing the flag
for the outer boundary's later siblings. A counter stays balanced under
StrictMode's double render, where a saved-previous-value slot would
capture its own true and leak.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
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The loading context now supports request-aware selection, nested depth tracking, and recovery after thrown children. BonesForce and Bones use the shared boundary wrapper. Tests cover client, server, nested, sibling, error, and cleanup behavior.

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Nestable loading context

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Request-aware context selection
packages/bones/src/react/create-bones.ts
getBonesContext() selects request-scoped storage when React cache calls share identity and uses module-level storage otherwise. isRequestScopedContext() exposes the identity check.
Nested boundary depth tracking
packages/bones/src/react/recover.ts, packages/bones/src/react/bones.ts
BonesRecover restores the recorded depth when children throw and rethrows the original error. bracket passes guarded children through the recovery boundary, and BonesForce and Bones share this wrapper.
Boundary behavior validation
packages/bones/tests/force-boundaries.test.tsx, .changeset/nestable-loading-context.md
Tests cover forced skeletons across render environments, nested boundaries, sibling preservation, error recovery, and state clearing. The changeset documents the behavior.

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The change shares loading state across renderers and makes nested boundaries restore correctly; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks and review.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant BonesForce
  participant bracket
  participant BonesRecover
  participant BonesContext
  BonesForce->>bracket: wrap children
  bracket->>BonesContext: record loading depth
  bracket->>BonesRecover: render guarded children
  BonesRecover->>BonesContext: restore depth on error
  BonesRecover-->>bracket: rethrow original error
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hunterbecton and others added 2 commits August 26, 2026 22:18
A child that throws between BonesStart and BonesEnd unwinds past
BonesEnd, leaving the module context's depth raised for every render
after the error boundary. BonesForce and the Bones fallback now wrap
their children in a relay boundary that restores the pre-bracket depth
and rethrows for the app's own boundary. Module-context path only: the
request context dies with its request, and class components cannot
render in Server Components.

Addresses the CodeRabbit review on PR #44.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
Next's compiler rejects a Component import in any module server
components evaluate, build-time, regardless of the runtime path check.
The relay now lives in its own "use client" module, which the RSC
bundler turns into an unused client reference on the server path; vp
pack preserves the directive in dist/react/recover.mjs. Also passes
children inside the props object, fixing the createElement overload
error the CI lint caught.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
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