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Token changes can alter text, borders, and layout without failing behavior tests. This adds six Mosaic screenshot tests. They cover both open switchers, the user profile Account page in light, dark, and narrow layouts, and an edit-name form showing a banner and a field error. The profile tests render the real <UserProfile /> against the fake FAPI, so a change to the profile's sections or pages shows up in the screenshots.

Screenshots are generated and compared only inside the digest-pinned Playwright 1.62.1 image, locally and in CI. pnpm --filter @clerk/mosaic test:visual compares, and test:visual:update regenerates every Linux baseline with Vitest's update mode, so new screenshots are created and unused ones removed. Locally, both mount the checkout into the image and install Linux dependencies into Docker volumes, leaving the host node_modules untouched. In CI, the Mosaic Visual Tests job builds on the runner with the turbo remote cache and only runs Vitest in the image. The suite bundles Inter, disables CSS motion, hides carets, checks the narrow profile for horizontal overflow, and compares with zero color tolerance and zero mismatched pixels.

The comparison is advisory and not a required check. Screenshot differences warn and upload actual, expected, and diff images for seven days. A failed build, or a comparison that crashes before writing images, fails the job.

A token change the suite catches

Dimming dark-mode secondary text from neutralMix(50, 64.25) to neutralMix(50, 40) fails only the dark profile screenshot. The comparison also catches the change to 62, which is too small to see.

Baseline With the token change
Dark profile baseline Dark profile with dimmer secondary text

Checklist

  • pnpm test runs as expected for Mosaic.
  • pnpm build runs as expected for Mosaic and its dependencies.
  • All six screenshot comparisons pass locally and in CI.
  • Scoped lint and formatting pass.
  • Screenshot differences upload diff images without failing the advisory visual job.
  • (If applicable) JSDoc comments have been added or updated for any package exports
  • (If applicable) Documentation has been updated

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  • 🐛 Bug fix
  • 🌟 New feature
  • 🔨 Breaking change
  • 📖 Refactoring / dependency upgrade / documentation
  • other: test infrastructure

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Minor Include anti-aliased pixels in comparisons.

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- Line 121: Update comparatorOptions in the visual comparison configuration to
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The change adds a Chromium visual-test project for Mosaic, with screenshot tests for organization and user switchers and user profiles. It adds fixtures, deterministic browser and font setup, and Docker commands for comparing screenshots or updating baselines. A CI job reports screenshot differences and uploads artifacts. The testing guide now describes the visual-test workflow and its role alongside Swingset stories.

Priority: Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Possibly related PRs

  • clerk/javascript#10514: Changes the UserProfile presentation contract, which is exercised by the UserProfile screenshots added here.
  • clerk/javascript#10408: Changes Mosaic colors that affect the light- and dark-mode UserProfile screenshots.
  • clerk/javascript#10472: Adds coverage for server-rejected last names and field errors, which are also shown in the failed edit-name screenshot.
Merge Risk: Moderate · up to 52484

Visual-test failures can be missed or misreported, and a failed baseline update can discard local screenshot edits. Resolve these issues before merging.

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Title check Passed The title clearly and concisely identifies the main change: adding Mosaic screenshot testing as a proof of concept.
Description check Passed The description directly explains the six Mosaic screenshot tests, visual-test infrastructure, CI behavior, comparison method, and covered scenarios.
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This is awesome, always found visual tests to be a bit flaky, mostly comes from the rendering environment, so maybe we:

  1. Pin the environment. Baselines are *-darwin.png, so Linux CI won't match. Generate and compare only in the pinned Playwright Docker image, locally and in CI.
  2. Self-host a font in test/public instead of Arial, which is likely missing on Linux (not verified).
  3. Kill motion globally. reducedMotion only helps where CSS respects it. Add a setup stylesheet that disables animations/transitions and hides the caret.
  4. Roll out non-blocking. Upload diffs as artifacts and rerun the same commit to measure flake rate before making it required.
  5. Prefer layout assertions for layout bugs, e.g. scrollWidth === clientWidth overflow checks.

I haven't run the suite; these come from reading the code.

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- Around line 480-483: Update the failure handling near the attachment check so
a nonzero test status is treated as an advisory visual difference only when
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of PNG files in `.vitest/attachments` as evidence. Preserve the existing exit
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- Around line 141-142: Update the direct-Vitest command in the testing
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must not be used for the visual project; keep the package commands for
screenshot testing.

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- Around line 39-40: In the `update` flow, back up the existing screenshot
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if [[ "$status" -ne 0 ]] && find packages/mosaic/.vitest/attachments -name '*.png' -print -quit 2>/dev/null | grep -q .; then
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Major · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Do not classify every PNG attachment as a visual difference.

If a browser test fails on an ordinary assertion, Vitest can write a failure screenshot under .vitest/attachments/. This branch then reports the nonzero exit as an advisory difference and lets the CI job pass. Distinguish screenshot-comparison failures from other test failures before suppressing the exit status. (vitest.dev)

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Review comment at @.github/workflows/ci.yml around lines 480 - 483:
Update the failure handling near the attachment check so a nonzero test status
is treated as an advisory visual difference only when Vitest identifies a
screenshot-comparison failure; do not use the mere presence of PNG files in
`.vitest/attachments` as evidence. Preserve the existing exit behavior for other
test failures.

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Use these package commands for screenshots. Calling Vitest directly bypasses
the pinned image.

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Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Correct the documented direct-Vitest command.

Line 101 still recommends pnpm --filter @clerk/mosaic exec vitest run for every project. That command now includes visual and bypasses the pinned image, contrary to this guidance. Replace the command with explicit nonvisual projects, or state that it is unsuitable for the visual project.

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if [[ "$update" == all && "$status" -ne 0 ]]; then
git -C "$root" checkout -- ':(glob)packages/mosaic/src/**/__screenshots__/**' 2>/dev/null || true

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Supported by static analysis

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cat packages/mosaic/scripts/test-visual.sh

Repository: clerk/javascript

Length of output: 1796


Back up baselines before update deletes them.

In update mode, the script deletes every *-chromium-linux.png baseline before the Docker run. If the run fails, the restore step runs git checkout only on tracked screenshot files. That step overwrites uncommitted edits to tracked baselines with their HEAD versions. It does not restore untracked baselines, so those stay deleted. Copy the baselines to a temporary directory before deleting them, then restore that copy on failure.

🐛 Suggested fix
 baselines=$(find "$root/packages/mosaic/src" -path '*/__screenshots__/*-chromium-linux.png')
 rm -rf "$root/packages/mosaic/.vitest/attachments"
+backup=$(mktemp -d)
 if [[ "$update" == all && -n "$baselines" ]]; then
+  printf '%s\n' "$baselines" | while IFS= read -r file; do
+    relative=${file#"$root"/}
+    mkdir -p "$backup/$(dirname "$relative")"
+    cp -p "$file" "$backup/$relative"
+  done
   printf '%s\n' "$baselines" | xargs rm
 fi

 status=0
 "${run[@]}" || status=$?

 if [[ "$update" == all && "$status" -ne 0 ]]; then
-  git -C "$root" checkout -- ':(glob)packages/mosaic/src/**/__screenshots__/**' 2>/dev/null || true
+  cp -Rp "$backup"/. "$root"/
 fi
+rm -rf "$backup"
 exit "$status"
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In the `update` flow, back up the existing screenshot baselines to a temporary
directory before deleting them, then restore that backup if the Docker run fails
instead of checking out tracked files from Git. Remove the temporary backup
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- Line 121: Update comparatorOptions in the visual comparison configuration to
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expect: {
toMatchScreenshot: {
comparatorName: 'pixelmatch',
comparatorOptions: { threshold: 0, allowedMismatchedPixelRatio: 0 },

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Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Include anti-aliased pixels in comparisons.

Vitest’s pixelmatch comparator ignores anti-aliased pixels by default. A change limited to those pixels can therefore pass without a warning. Set includeAA: true to enforce the documented zero-mismatch comparison. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

As per coding guidelines, the suite “compares with zero mismatched pixels allowed.”

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Review comment at @packages/mosaic/vitest.config.mts at line 121:
Update comparatorOptions in the visual comparison configuration to set includeAA
to true, ensuring anti-aliased pixels are included while preserving the
zero-mismatch threshold and allowedMismatchedPixelRatio settings.

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