Pause Query hero animation offscreen

[tannerlinsley]

What changed

• reuse the existing useInView hook for the Query landing hero
• stop its per-frame freshness updates while the hero is offscreen
• resume from current timestamps when the hero becomes visible again

Why

The Query hero updates React state on every animation frame to keep three freshness gauges smooth. That loop continued after visitors scrolled past the hero, causing roughly one component render per frame with no visible result.

Impact

The hero keeps the same visible animation and interaction behavior. Offscreen work drops from continuous frame-driven renders to none; periodic Query demo updates remain unchanged.

Validation

• pnpm test — TypeScript and type-aware lint passed; 191 tests passed and 1 environment-gated smoke test skipped
• browser measurement — gauge widths changed while visible, stayed unchanged across a 500 ms offscreen sample, and changed again after scrolling back
• git diff --check

Risk

Low. This only gates the existing timer effect with the repository's existing intersection hook. When IntersectionObserver is unavailable, that hook preserves the current always-running behavior.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Performance

  • Improved the query cache panel so animations and time updates pause when it is offscreen.
  • Resumes visual updates automatically when the panel becomes visible again.

• Bug Fixes

  • Prevented elapsed-time calculations from displaying incorrect negative freshness values.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

QueryCachePanel now tracks viewport visibility with useInView. It skips animation and timing setup while offscreen, attaches the visibility ref to its root container, and clamps elapsed time to prevent negative freshness calculations.

Changes

Query cache visibility

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Visibility-aware cache panel updates src/components/landing/QueryLanding.tsx	QueryCachePanel tracks root visibility with useInView. Its timing effect skips setup while the panel is outside the viewport and re-evaluates when visibility changes. Elapsed time is clamped to zero before freshness calculations.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 78214

The hero now pauses per-frame freshness updates while offscreen, but background Query refreshes may still advance timestamps and briefly produce an incorrect freshness bar when the hero becomes visible again. This is a localized, mergeable risk requiring owner awareness or follow-up.

Possibly related PRs

• TanStack/tanstack.com#1093: Both changes use useInView to pause viewport-dependent animations and updates.
• TanStack/tanstack.com#1142: This change modifies the QueryCachePanel implementation introduced by that PR.

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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: pausing the Query hero animation when it is offscreen.
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365-379: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Rebase now before resuming the gauge.

When inView is false, this effect freezes now, but refetchInterval remains active at Line 248. After a refetch while hidden, query.dataUpdatedAt can be newer than now. Lines 310 and 327 then produce negative interpolation values, and Lines 323-329 can write a negative value into gauge.shown. The first visible render can show an invalid freshness width until the next animation frame, or until the next one-second tick for reduced-motion users.

Clamp the interpolation inputs to zero and set now to Date.now() when visibility resumes.

Proposed fix

-    const elapsed = now - query.dataUpdatedAt
+    const elapsed = Math.max(0, now - query.dataUpdatedAt)

   React.useEffect(() => {
     if (!inView) return
+    setNow(Date.now())

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In `@src/components/landing/QueryLanding.tsx` around lines 365 - 379, Update the
visibility effect around the now state and animation setup to reset now to
Date.now() whenever inView becomes true, and clamp freshness interpolation
inputs to zero in the gauge calculations before deriving gauge.shown. Preserve
the existing animation-frame and reduced-motion interval behavior while ensuring
visibility resumption cannot produce negative widths.

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Outside diff comments:
In `@src/components/landing/QueryLanding.tsx`:
- Around line 365-379: Update the visibility effect around the now state and
animation setup to reset now to Date.now() whenever inView becomes true, and
clamp freshness interpolation inputs to zero in the gauge calculations before
deriving gauge.shown. Preserve the existing animation-frame and reduced-motion
interval behavior while ensuring visibility resumption cannot produce negative
widths.

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