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fix(theme-mermaid): serialize initialize and render calls to prevent empty SVGs (#12757) - #12923
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Motivation
On documentation pages with multiple Mermaid diagrams (especially complex flowcharts or sequence diagrams using asynchronous layouts like ELK), refreshing or loading the page concurrently mounts all diagram components.
Mermaid functions as a mutable singleton whose initialize(config) call modifies global shared site configuration used by subsequent render(id, text) invocations. When multiple diagrams mount simultaneously:
useMermaidRenderResult triggers renderMermaid in parallel across all diagrams.
Concurrent invocations of mermaid.initialize(config) and mermaid.render(id, text) interleave and race against each other.
This race condition causes in-flight renders to resolve with empty SVG outputs (""), leaving diagrams blank without triggering error boundaries.
This PR addresses the root cause by serializing mermaid.initialize and mermaid.render through an internal promise queue:
Sequential Execution: Each diagram's initialize and render lifecycle runs atomically in sequence.
Resilience: Queued renders continue executing even if an earlier diagram fails or throws a syntax error.
Unmount Protection: An isCancelled guard in useMermaidRenderResult prevents React state updates if a diagram component unmounts while queued or rendering.
Test Plan
Added comprehensive unit tests in packages/docusaurus-theme-mermaid/src/__tests__/renderMermaid.test.ts:
Verified that concurrent calls to renderMermaid are executed in strict serial order (initialize followed by render start/end for diagram 1, then diagram 2, etc.), never exceeding a concurrency of 1.
Verified that if an earlier diagram throws an error (e.g. invalid syntax), its promise rejects as expected while subsequent queued diagrams continue and render successfully.
Verified that temporary error DOM elements (#d${id}) are cleaned up safely when errors occur.
Ran complete test suite and linters:
npm test -- packages/docusaurus-theme-mermaid (9/9 tests pass)
…empty SVGs (meta#12757)
Mermaid is a mutable singleton where initialize() sets global siteConfig.
When multiple diagrams on a page mount simultaneously, concurrent
initialize() and render() calls can corrupt internal state, leading to
empty SVG outputs on page reload.
This change:
- Serializes Mermaid initialize and render calls through a module-level queue
- Ensures queued renders continue even if a preceding diagram throws an error
- Adds an unmount cancellation check to avoid setState on unmounted components
- Adds unit tests verifying sequential execution and error handling
Closesmeta#12757
Signed-off-by: Aryan Sachin <aryansachinixd@gmail.com>
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The Mermaid client serializes initialization and rendering through a shared promise queue. It continues queued work after a failed render and ignores render results after effect cleanup. Tests cover queue ordering, failure handling, and error-element removal.
renderMermaid is exported and queues initialization and rendering. A failed render rejects its caller without blocking later queued renders. Error cleanup checks for document before removing the error element. Tests verify ordering, queue continuation, and error-element removal.
Guard updates after effect cleanup packages/docusaurus-theme-mermaid/src/client/index.ts
The hook updates React state after success or failure only while its effect remains active. Cleanup marks the effect as cancelled.
Rendering serialization is mergeable with bounded follow-up: selector-unsafe IDs can leave temporary elements after failed renders. Use an exact ID lookup to close this narrow cleanup gap.
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[#12757] A shared queue serializes each Mermaid initialization and render, including renders with different color-mode configurations. Effect cleanup ignores stale results. Automated tests cover rende…
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[#12757] The queue, effect cleanup, error handling, and tests support reliable diagram rendering. The exported render function and queue reset support the tests.
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[#12757] A shared queue serializes each Mermaid initialization and render, including renders with different color-mode configurations. Effect cleanup ignores stale results. Automated tests cover render order, different configurations, failure recovery, and error-element cleanup. The tests mock Mermaid; they do not verify ELK rendering in a browser.
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Update the cleanup cancellation flow so queued renders that have not started are
skipped after cleanup. Propagate the cancellation state to renderMermaid and
have its queued work check that state before loading Mermaid or rendering;
preserve the existing behavior for renders that have already started.
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Test cancellation of stale render completions.
The tests call renderMermaid directly, so they cannot detect removal of the hook’s cancellation guards. Add hook or component tests that change inputs while a render is pending. Resolve and reject the obsolete render, and verify that it neither displays a stale SVG nor reaches the error boundary.
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Add hook or component tests that exercise the cancellation guards around
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- Line 41: Update the error-cleanup path in renderMermaid to locate the
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- Around line 135-136: Update the cleanup cancellation flow so queued renders
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MDN document.querySelector SyntaxError invalid CSS selector pseudo class colon ID CSS.escape
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- Element: querySelector() method - Web APIs | MDN — https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Element/querySelector
- Selection and traversal on the DOM tree - Web APIs | MDN — https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Document_Object_Model/Selection_and_traversal_on_the_DOM_tree
- CSS error handling - CSS | MDN — https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Guides/Syntax/Error_handling
- id HTML global attribute - HTML | MDN — https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/Global_attributes/id
- Element: querySelectorAll() method - Web APIs | MDN — https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Element/querySelectorAll
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If a caller supplies :r0:-0, Mermaid can leave a temporary container after rejecting. The cleanup selector then throws another SyntaxError and leaves that container in the document. Use getElementById for cleanup and update the cleanup test.
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Update the error-cleanup path in renderMermaid to locate the temporary container
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Motivation
On documentation pages with multiple Mermaid diagrams (especially complex flowcharts or sequence diagrams using asynchronous layouts like ELK), refreshing or loading the page concurrently mounts all diagram components.
Mermaid functions as a mutable singleton whose
initialize(config)call modifies global shared site configuration used by subsequentrender(id, text)invocations. When multiple diagrams mount simultaneously:useMermaidRenderResulttriggersrenderMermaidin parallel across all diagrams.mermaid.initialize(config)andmermaid.render(id, text)interleave and race against each other.""), leaving diagrams blank without triggering error boundaries.This PR addresses the root cause by serializing
mermaid.initializeandmermaid.renderthrough an internal promise queue:initializeandrenderlifecycle runs atomically in sequence.isCancelledguard inuseMermaidRenderResultprevents React state updates if a diagram component unmounts while queued or rendering.Test Plan
packages/docusaurus-theme-mermaid/src/__tests__/renderMermaid.test.ts:renderMermaidare executed in strict serial order (initializefollowed byrenderstart/end for diagram 1, then diagram 2, etc.), never exceeding a concurrency of 1.#d${id}) are cleaned up safely when errors occur.npm test -- packages/docusaurus-theme-mermaid(9/9 tests pass)npx tsc -p tsconfig.tests.json(0 errors)npx oxfmt --list-different packages/docusaurus-theme-mermaid(clean)npx eslint packages/docusaurus-theme-mermaid/src/client/index.ts packages/docusaurus-theme-mermaid/src/__tests__/renderMermaid.test.ts(0 errors, 0 warnings)Test links
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Closes #12757
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