@pixodesk/svg-animator-rn 1.0.21 → 1.0.22

package/src/PixodeskSvgAnimator.tsx

@@ -6,17 +6,21 @@
 import {
     generateNewIds,
     getAnimatorConfig,
+    getDefs,
     materialiseAllInTree,
     validateNodeEffects,
     PxAnimatorEngine,
     type FillMode,
+    type OutAction,
     type PlaybackDirection,
     type PxAnimatedSvgDocument,
     type PxNode,
 } from '@pixodesk/svg-animator-core';
-import React, { useEffect, useImperativeHandle, useMemo, useRef, type ComponentType, type ReactElement, type ReactNode } from 'react';
+import React, { createElement, useEffect, useImperativeHandle, useMemo, useRef, useState, type ComponentType, type ReactElement, type ReactNode } from 'react';
+import { Dimensions, Platform, Pressable, View } from 'react-native';
 import Animated, {
     cancelAnimation,
+    useAnimatedReaction,
     Easing,
     runOnJS,
     useAnimatedProps,
@@ -27,7 +31,9 @@ import Animated, {
     type SharedValue,
 } from 'react-native-reanimated';
 import { compileTracks, sampleProps, type PxCompiledTracks, type PxElementTracks } from './PxRnTracks';
-import { renderRnNode } from './PxRnRender';
+import { renderRnNode, type RenderRnNodeOptions } from './PxRnRender';
+import { PxRnErrorBoundary } from './PxRnErrorBoundary';
+import { openClosedTextPathTargets } from './PxRnSafety';
 
 
 // -- Public types -----------------------------------------------------------
@@ -83,6 +89,15 @@ export interface PixodeskSvgAnimatorProps {
     /** Playback direction. */
     direction?: PlaybackDirection;
 
+    /** Snap back to the start state after a natural finish. */
+    resetOnFinish?: boolean;
+
+    /**
+     * What a second tap does when `startOn: 'click'` is active.
+     * Defaults to the document's `trigger.outAction`, else `'pause'`.
+     */
+    outAction?: OutAction;
+
     // -- Declarative control --------------------------------------------------
 
     /** When true, honours the document trigger (`startOn: 'load'` plays on mount). */
@@ -114,11 +129,41 @@ export interface PixodeskSvgAnimatorProps {
     onPause?: () => void;
     onCancel?: () => void;
     onFinish?: () => void;
+
+
+    // -- Failure handling -----------------------------------------------------
+
+    /**
+     * Called when a document cannot be compiled or rendered. The component
+     * renders {@link fallback} instead of throwing, so a single broken
+     * animation never takes down the screen around it.
+     *
+     * Only JavaScript failures reach this — a crash inside react-native-svg's
+     * native renderer bypasses JavaScript entirely.
+     */
+    onError?: (error: Error, componentStack?: string) => void;
+
+    /** Rendered in place of the animation after a failure. Default: nothing. */
+    fallback?: (error: Error) => ReactElement | null;
 }
 
 
 // -- Animated element wrapper ------------------------------------------------
 
+/**
+ * Whether react-native-svg is backed by NATIVE views here, rather than by the
+ * DOM through react-native-web.
+ *
+ * The two want different things from an animated `transform`: a native view
+ * declares a `matrix` prop taking six numbers, while the DOM wants a
+ * `transform` attribute holding an SVG string. Getting it wrong is silent —
+ * the value is dropped and the element simply never moves — so this single
+ * constant decides it once and feeds both the track compiler (value form) and
+ * the sampler (prop name). Everything else in the package defaults to the
+ * DOM-compatible form.
+ */
+const NATIVE_SVG_VIEWS = Platform.OS !== 'web';
+
 const animatedComponentCache = new Map<ComponentType<any>, ComponentType<any>>();
 
 function getAnimatedComponent(Component: ComponentType<any>): ComponentType<any> {
@@ -147,7 +192,10 @@ function AnimatedPxElement({
     // Runs on the UI thread every frame; `sampleProps` is a trivial indexed
     // lookup into the precompiled tracks — no interpolation logic on the hot path.
     const animatedProps = useAnimatedProps(() => {
-        return sampleProps(tracks, progress.value, stepMs, sampleCount);
+        // On iOS/Android these values bypass react-native-svg's JS prop layer
+        // and land on the native view, which declares `matrix`, not
+        // `transform`. The web build keeps the DOM-facing `transform` name.
+        return sampleProps(tracks, progress.value, stepMs, sampleCount, NATIVE_SVG_VIEWS);
     }, [tracks, stepMs, sampleCount]);
 
     return (
@@ -158,6 +206,153 @@ function AnimatedPxElement({
 }
 
 
+/**
+ * react-native-svg elements whose `render()` returns `null`. They carry data for
+ * their PARENT (a `<Stop>` is read by the gradient that owns it) rather than
+ * producing a native view, so reanimated has nothing to attach to — wrapping one
+ * in `Animated.createAnimatedComponent` throws
+ * "Cannot find host instance for this component".
+ */
+const NON_HOST_TAGS = new Set(['stop', 'feMergeNode']);
+
+/**
+ * Definition elements — they describe paint/geometry for something else rather
+ * than drawing themselves. Their animated attributes (a gradient's `y1`, a
+ * stop's `stop-color`) do not reliably flow through reanimated's animated-props
+ * path, so an animated def is rendered by re-sampling from JS instead. There
+ * are only ever a handful per document and they change slowly, so the cost is
+ * negligible — visual elements still animate entirely on the UI thread.
+ */
+const SAMPLED_DEF_TAGS = new Set(['linearGradient', 'radialGradient', ...NON_HOST_TAGS]);
+
+/** True when this subtree must be driven from JS rather than the UI thread:
+ *  either the node itself is an animated def, or it owns an animated non-host
+ *  child (an animated `<Stop>` only re-renders via its parent gradient). */
+function needsJsSampling(node: PxNode, trackById: Map<string, PxElementTracks>): boolean {
+    const id = (node as any).id;
+    if (SAMPLED_DEF_TAGS.has(String(node.type)) && id && trackById.has(id)) return true;
+    return (node.children ?? []).some(c => needsJsSampling(c, trackById));
+}
+
+/**
+ * Renders a subtree whose animation cannot run on the UI thread (see
+ * {@link NON_HOST_TAGS}) by re-rendering it from JS with sampled values.
+ *
+ * Changing a `<Stop>`'s props does not re-render its parent gradient, so the
+ * whole subtree is rebuilt — which is why this wraps the gradient rather than
+ * the stop. The reaction itself runs on the UI thread and only crosses to JS
+ * when the QUANTISED sample index changes, capping these few elements at
+ * ~30fps instead of a JS call every frame.
+ */
+function SampledSubtree({
+    node, trackById, progress, stepMs, sampleCount, renderOpts,
+}: {
+    node: PxNode;
+    trackById: Map<string, PxElementTracks>;
+    progress: SharedValue<number>;
+    stepMs: number;
+    sampleCount: number;
+    renderOpts: RenderRnNodeOptions;
+}) {
+    const [idx, setIdx] = useState(0);
+
+    useAnimatedReaction(
+        () => Math.floor(Math.round(progress.value / stepMs) / 2) * 2,   // half-rate
+        (next, prev) => {
+            if (next !== prev) runOnJS(setIdx)(next);
+        },
+        [stepMs]
+    );
+
+    const tMs = Math.min(Math.max(idx, 0), sampleCount - 1) * stepMs;
+
+    return renderRnNode(node, {
+        ...renderOpts,
+        // Sampled values are baked in as PLAIN props — nothing reanimated-driven.
+        decorate: (n, Component, staticProps, children, key) => {
+            const id = (n as any).id;
+            const tracks = id ? trackById.get(id) : undefined;
+            if (!tracks) return undefined;
+            // Wire prop names, NOT the native ones: these go back through
+            // react-native-svg's JS prop layer, which does the renaming itself.
+            const sampled = sampleProps(tracks, tMs, stepMs, sampleCount);
+            return createElement(Component, { ...staticProps, ...sampled, key }, children);
+        },
+    });
+}
+
+
+
+/** Overrides that shadow the document's own `animator` config. */
+interface ConfigOverrides {
+    duration?: number;
+    delay?: number;
+    iterations?: number | 'infinite';
+    fill?: FillMode;
+    direction?: PlaybackDirection;
+    resetOnFinish?: boolean;
+}
+
+interface Compiled {
+    /** Materialised document, or null when compilation failed. */
+    doc: PxAnimatedSvgDocument | null;
+    tracks: PxCompiledTracks;
+    error: Error | null;
+}
+
+/** Playable-but-empty tracks, so a failed compile still satisfies every hook
+ *  below it — React forbids skipping hooks on an error path. */
+const EMPTY_TRACKS: PxCompiledTracks = {
+    duration: 1, iterations: 1, direction: 'normal', delay: 0,
+    fill: 'forwards', resetOnFinish: false, stepMs: 1, sampleCount: 2, elements: [],
+};
+
+/**
+ * Materialises + compiles a document. Extracted from the component so the
+ * whole thing sits behind one try/catch, and so it can be tested directly.
+ */
+function compileDocument(doc: PxAnimatedSvgDocument, overrides: ConfigOverrides): Compiled {
+    const { duration, delay, iterations, fill, direction, resetOnFinish } = overrides;
+    const warnings = validateNodeEffects(doc as PxNode);
+    for (const w of warnings) console.warn('[PixodeskSvgAnimator] effects shape warning:', w);
+
+    // `webapi` = the FULLY-FLATTENED materialisation: effects + loops +
+    // sampled motion paths + animated `<use>` inlined into real `<g>`
+    // clones + orphaned defs pruned. That last part is why RN must not use
+    // the `frames` flavour: frames keeps `<use href="#animatedTarget">`
+    // live references, which only work because the DOM propagates
+    // attribute writes through `<use>` shadow trees. react-native-svg has
+    // no such live propagation, so an animated `<use>` would render frozen.
+    let prepared = materialiseAllInTree(doc, PxAnimatorEngine.webapi);
+
+    // Sidestep a react-native-svg NATIVE crash (see PxRnSafety). Guarded on
+    // the platform because the DOM renders this case correctly and the web
+    // document must stay exactly as the core pipeline produced it.
+    if (NATIVE_SVG_VIEWS) {
+        prepared = openClosedTextPathTargets(prepared as PxNode) as PxAnimatedSvgDocument;
+    }
+
+    // Apply prop overrides onto the animator config (mirrors the react wrapper).
+    const animator = getAnimatorConfig(prepared) || {};
+    prepared = {
+        ...prepared,
+        animator: {
+            ...animator,
+            duration: duration !== undefined ? duration : animator.duration,
+            delay: delay !== undefined ? delay : animator.delay,
+            iterations: iterations !== undefined ? iterations : animator.iterations,
+            fill: fill !== undefined ? fill : animator.fill,
+            direction: direction !== undefined ? direction : animator.direction,
+            resetOnFinish: resetOnFinish !== undefined ? resetOnFinish : animator.resetOnFinish,
+        },
+    };
+
+    prepared = generateNewIds(prepared);
+    const tracks = compileTracks(prepared, { native: NATIVE_SVG_VIEWS });
+    return { doc: prepared, tracks, error: null };
+}
+
+
 // -- Main component ----------------------------------------------------------
 
 /**
@@ -171,44 +366,26 @@ function AnimatedPxElement({
  * indexing the precompiled tracks. No JS-thread frame loop.
  */
 export function PixodeskSvgAnimator({
-    doc, duration, delay, iterations, fill, direction,
+    doc, duration, delay, iterations, fill, direction, resetOnFinish, outAction: outActionProp,
     autoplay, play, pause, apiRef, time, timeMs,
-    onPlay, onStop, onPause, onCancel, onFinish,
+    onPlay, onStop, onPause, onCancel, onFinish, onError, fallback,
 }: PixodeskSvgAnimatorProps): ReactElement | null {
 
     // -- Compile the document (once per doc/override change) ------------------
 
-    const compiled = useMemo(() => {
-        const warnings = validateNodeEffects(doc as PxNode);
-        for (const w of warnings) console.warn('[PixodeskSvgAnimator] effects shape warning:', w);
-
-        // `webapi` = the FULLY-FLATTENED materialisation: effects + loops +
-        // sampled motion paths + animated `<use>` inlined into real `<g>`
-        // clones + orphaned defs pruned. That last part is why RN must not use
-        // the `frames` flavour: frames keeps `<use href="#animatedTarget">`
-        // live references, which only work because the DOM propagates
-        // attribute writes through `<use>` shadow trees. react-native-svg has
-        // no such live propagation, so an animated `<use>` would render frozen.
-        let prepared = materialiseAllInTree(doc, PxAnimatorEngine.webapi);
-
-        // Apply prop overrides onto the animator config (mirrors the react wrapper).
-        const animator = getAnimatorConfig(prepared) || {};
-        prepared = {
-            ...prepared,
-            animator: {
-                ...animator,
-                duration: duration !== undefined ? duration : animator.duration,
-                delay: delay !== undefined ? delay : animator.delay,
-                iterations: iterations !== undefined ? iterations : animator.iterations,
-                fill: fill !== undefined ? fill : animator.fill,
-                direction: direction !== undefined ? direction : animator.direction,
-            },
-        };
-
-        prepared = generateNewIds(prepared);
-        const tracks = compileTracks(prepared);
-        return { doc: prepared, tracks };
-    }, [doc, duration, delay, iterations, fill, direction]);
+    const compiled = useMemo((): Compiled => {
+        try {
+            return compileDocument(
+                doc,
+                { duration, delay, iterations, fill, direction, resetOnFinish }
+            );
+        } catch (e) {
+            // A malformed document must not take the host screen down with it.
+            const error = e instanceof Error ? e : new Error(String(e));
+            console.warn('[PixodeskSvgAnimator] could not compile the document:', error.message);
+            return { doc: null, tracks: EMPTY_TRACKS, error };
+        }
+    }, [doc, duration, delay, iterations, fill, direction, resetOnFinish]);
 
     const tracks: PxCompiledTracks = compiled.tracks;
     const totalDuration = tracks.duration * (tracks.iterations === Infinity ? 1 : tracks.iterations);
@@ -221,9 +398,20 @@ export function PixodeskSvgAnimator({
     const playingRef = useRef(false);
     const rateRef = useRef(1);
 
+    /** True when the current rate plays the timeline backwards. */
+    const reversePlayback = () => rateRef.current < 0;
+
+    /** Where the playhead rests once playback ends. `resetOnFinish` snaps back
+     *  to the start; otherwise `fill` decides whether the final frame is held. */
+    const restingPosition = () => {
+        if (tracks.resetOnFinish) return 0;
+        if (tracks.fill === 'none' || tracks.fill === 'backwards') return 0;
+        return reversePlayback() ? 0 : tracks.duration;
+    };
+
     const notifyFinish = () => {
         playingRef.current = false;
-        if (tracks.fill === 'none' || tracks.fill === 'backwards') progress.value = 0;
+        progress.value = restingPosition();
         onFinish?.();
         onStop?.();
     };
@@ -231,16 +419,21 @@ export function PixodeskSvgAnimator({
     const startFrom = (fromMs: number) => {
         const dur = tracks.duration;
         const rate = rateRef.current || 1;
-        const reversedStart = tracks.direction === 'reverse' || tracks.direction === 'alternate-reverse';
+        const backwards = rate < 0;
+        const speed = Math.abs(rate);
+        // `direction` decides which end a leg runs toward; a negative playback
+        // rate flips it again (the two compose, as in the Web Animations API).
+        const directionReversed = tracks.direction === 'reverse' || tracks.direction === 'alternate-reverse';
+        const reversedStart = backwards ? !directionReversed : directionReversed;
         const alternates = tracks.direction === 'alternate' || tracks.direction === 'alternate-reverse';
         const from = Math.max(0, Math.min(fromMs, dur));
 
         const legTarget = reversedStart ? 0 : dur;
-        const legRemaining = Math.abs(legTarget - from) / rate;
+        const legRemaining = Math.abs(legTarget - from) / speed;
         const repeats = tracks.iterations === Infinity ? -1 : tracks.iterations;
 
         cancelAnimation(progress);
-        progress.value = reversedStart ? (from === 0 ? dur : from) : from;
+        progress.value = reversedStart ? (from <= 0 ? dur : from) : (from >= dur ? 0 : from);
 
         const animation = repeats === 1
             ? withTiming(legTarget, { duration: legRemaining, easing: Easing.linear }, (finished) => {
@@ -257,7 +450,7 @@ export function PixodeskSvgAnimator({
             );
 
         progress.value = tracks.delay > 0 && from === 0
-            ? withDelay(tracks.delay / rate, animation)
+            ? withDelay(tracks.delay / speed, animation)
             : animation;
 
         playingRef.current = true;
@@ -266,8 +459,10 @@ export function PixodeskSvgAnimator({
     const api: RnAnimatorApi = {
         isPlaying: () => playingRef.current,
         play: () => {
-            const from = playingRef.current ? progress.value : progress.value >= tracks.duration ? 0 : progress.value;
-            startFrom(from);
+            // `startFrom` rewinds to the opposite end when the playhead is
+            // already resting at a boundary (mirrors WAAPI, where play() on a
+            // finished animation auto-rewinds).
+            startFrom(progress.value);
             onPlay?.();
         },
         pause: () => {
@@ -285,14 +480,14 @@ export function PixodeskSvgAnimator({
         },
         finish: () => {
             cancelAnimation(progress);
-            progress.value = tracks.fill === 'none' || tracks.fill === 'backwards' ? 0 : tracks.duration;
             playingRef.current = false;
+            progress.value = restingPosition();
             onFinish?.();
             onStop?.();
         },
         setPlaybackRate: (rate: number) => {
-            if (!isFinite(rate) || rate <= 0) {
-                console.warn('setPlaybackRate: only finite positive rates are supported in the RN player (reverse is on the feature-gap list)');
+            if (!isFinite(rate) || rate === 0) {
+                console.warn('setPlaybackRate: rate must be finite and non-zero');
                 return;
             }
             rateRef.current = rate;
@@ -300,10 +495,17 @@ export function PixodeskSvgAnimator({
         },
         getCurrentTime: () => progress.value,
         setCurrentTime: (t: number) => {
+            const wasPlaying = playingRef.current;
             cancelAnimation(progress);
             playingRef.current = false;
             const clamped = Math.max(0, Math.min(t, totalDuration));
-            progress.value = tracks.duration > 0 ? clamped % tracks.duration || (clamped === 0 ? 0 : tracks.duration) : 0;
+            const withinIteration = tracks.duration > 0
+                ? (clamped % tracks.duration) || (clamped === 0 ? 0 : tracks.duration)
+                : 0;
+            progress.value = withinIteration;
+            // Seeking mid-playback continues from the new position rather than
+            // silently pausing.
+            if (wasPlaying) startFrom(withinIteration);
         },
     };
 
@@ -311,7 +513,9 @@ export function PixodeskSvgAnimator({
 
     // -- Declarative control --------------------------------------------------
 
-    const startOn = getAnimatorConfig(compiled.doc)?.trigger?.startOn ?? 'load';
+    const trigger = compiled.doc ? getAnimatorConfig(compiled.doc)?.trigger : undefined;
+    const startOn = trigger?.startOn ?? 'load';
+    const outAction = outActionProp ?? trigger?.outAction ?? 'pause';
 
     useEffect(() => {
         if (time !== undefined || timeMs !== undefined) {
@@ -326,12 +530,50 @@ export function PixodeskSvgAnimator({
             else api.play();
             return;
         }
+        // 'click' and 'scrollIntoView' start from their own handlers below.
         if (autoplay && startOn === 'load') {
             api.play();
         }
         // eslint-disable-next-line react-hooks/exhaustive-deps
     }, [compiled, autoplay, play, pause, time, timeMs]);
 
+    // `startOn: 'scrollIntoView'` — react-native has no IntersectionObserver, so
+    // visibility is sampled by measuring the view against the window box. The
+    // poll is cheap (a native measure every 200ms) and only runs while this
+    // trigger is active; `outAction` decides what leaving the viewport does.
+    const scrollRef = useRef<View | null>(null);
+    const inViewRef = useRef(false);
+    useEffect(() => {
+        if (!autoplay || startOn !== 'scrollIntoView') return;
+        const threshold = trigger?.scrollIntoViewThreshold ?? 0;
+        inViewRef.current = false;
+
+        const check = () => {
+            const node = scrollRef.current;
+            if (!node) return;
+            node.measureInWindow((_x, y, _w, h) => {
+                if (!h) return;
+                const screen = Dimensions.get('window').height;
+                const visible = Math.max(0, Math.min(y + h, screen) - Math.max(y, 0));
+                const ratio = visible / h;
+                const isIn = ratio > 0 && ratio >= threshold;
+                if (isIn === inViewRef.current) return;
+                inViewRef.current = isIn;
+                if (isIn) {
+                    if (rateRef.current < 0) api.setPlaybackRate(Math.abs(rateRef.current));
+                    api.play();
+                } else if (outAction === 'reset') api.cancel();
+                else if (outAction === 'reverse') { api.setPlaybackRate(-Math.abs(rateRef.current || 1)); api.play(); }
+                else if (outAction !== 'continue') api.pause();
+            });
+        };
+
+        check();
+        const id = setInterval(check, 200);
+        return () => clearInterval(id);
+        // eslint-disable-next-line react-hooks/exhaustive-deps
+    }, [compiled, autoplay, startOn, outAction]);
+
     // Stop cleanly on unmount / doc swap.
     useEffect(() => {
         return () => {
@@ -350,29 +592,63 @@ export function PixodeskSvgAnimator({
     }, [tracks]);
 
     const warningsRef = useRef<Array<string>>([]);
+    const renderErrorRef = useRef<Error | null>(null);
     const root = useMemo(() => {
         warningsRef.current = [];
-        return renderRnNode(compiled.doc as PxNode, {
+        renderErrorRef.current = null;
+        if (!compiled.doc) return null;
+
+        const renderOpts: RenderRnNodeOptions = {
             warnings: warningsRef.current,
-            decorate: (node, Component, staticProps, children) => {
-                const id = (node as any).id;
-                const elTracks = id ? trackById.get(id) : undefined;
-                if (!elTracks) return undefined;
-                return (
-                    <AnimatedPxElement
-                        key={staticProps.key}
-                        Component={Component}
-                        staticProps={staticProps}
-                        tracks={elTracks}
-                        progress={progress}
-                        stepMs={tracks.stepMs}
-                        sampleCount={tracks.sampleCount}
-                    >
-                        {children}
-                    </AnimatedPxElement>
-                );
-            },
-        });
+            defs: getDefs(compiled.doc),
+        };
+        try {
+            return renderRnNode(compiled.doc as PxNode, {
+                ...renderOpts,
+                decorate: (node, Component, staticProps, children, key) => {
+                    // An animated definition subtree (gradient / its stops) cannot be
+                    // driven on the UI thread — hand the WHOLE subtree to the
+                    // JS-sampled renderer and stop descending here.
+                    if (needsJsSampling(node, trackById)) {
+                        return (
+                            <SampledSubtree
+                                key={key}
+                                node={node}
+                                trackById={trackById}
+                                progress={progress}
+                                stepMs={tracks.stepMs}
+                                sampleCount={tracks.sampleCount}
+                                renderOpts={renderOpts}
+                            />
+                        );
+                    }
+
+                    const id = (node as any).id;
+                    const elTracks = id ? trackById.get(id) : undefined;
+                    if (!elTracks) return undefined;
+                    return (
+                        <AnimatedPxElement
+                            key={key}
+                            Component={Component}
+                            staticProps={staticProps}
+                            tracks={elTracks}
+                            progress={progress}
+                            stepMs={tracks.stepMs}
+                            sampleCount={tracks.sampleCount}
+                        >
+                            {children}
+                        </AnimatedPxElement>
+                    );
+                },
+            });
+        } catch (e) {
+            // Building the element tree threw — report it and render nothing
+            // rather than propagating and unmounting the host screen.
+            const error = e instanceof Error ? e : new Error(String(e));
+            renderErrorRef.current = error;
+            console.warn('[PixodeskSvgAnimator] could not render the document:', error.message);
+            return null;
+        }
         // eslint-disable-next-line react-hooks/exhaustive-deps
     }, [compiled, trackById]);
 
@@ -380,7 +656,51 @@ export function PixodeskSvgAnimator({
         for (const w of warningsRef.current) console.warn('[PixodeskSvgAnimator]', w);
     }, [root]);
 
-    return root;
+    // Surface compile/render failures to the host exactly once per occurrence.
+    const failure = compiled.error ?? renderErrorRef.current;
+    useEffect(() => {
+        if (failure) onError?.(failure);
+        // eslint-disable-next-line react-hooks/exhaustive-deps
+    }, [failure]);
+
+    if (failure) return fallback ? fallback(failure) : null;
+
+    // `startOn: 'click'` — the touch analogue of the web player's click trigger:
+    // tap to start, tap again to apply `outAction`. Hover (`mouseOver`) has no
+    // touch equivalent and `scrollIntoView` needs the surrounding scroll view,
+    // so both are left to the host app.
+    let content: ReactElement | null = root;
+
+    if (autoplay && startOn === 'scrollIntoView' && root) {
+        // `collapsable={false}` keeps the view in the native tree so it can be measured.
+        content = <View ref={scrollRef} collapsable={false}>{root}</View>;
+    } else if (autoplay && startOn === 'click' && root) {
+        content = (
+            <Pressable
+                onPress={() => {
+                    if (playingRef.current) {
+                        if (outAction === 'reset') api.cancel();
+                        else if (outAction === 'reverse') { api.setPlaybackRate(-Math.abs(rateRef.current || 1)); api.play(); }
+                        else if (outAction !== 'continue') api.pause();
+                    } else {
+                        if (rateRef.current < 0) api.setPlaybackRate(Math.abs(rateRef.current));
+                        api.play();
+                    }
+                }}
+            >
+                {root}
+            </Pressable>
+        );
+    }
+
+    // Catches what the try/catch above cannot: throws during React's own render
+    // and commit of the tree — react-native-svg internals, reanimated failing
+    // to attach to a component that turns out not to be a host view, and so on.
+    return (
+        <PxRnErrorBoundary onError={onError} fallback={fallback}>
+            {content}
+        </PxRnErrorBoundary>
+    );
 }
 
 export default PixodeskSvgAnimator;

package/src/PxRnErrorBoundary.tsx

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+/*---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ * Copyright (c) Pixodesk LTD.
+ * Licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file in the project root for details.
+ *---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
+
+import { Component, type ErrorInfo, type ReactNode } from 'react';
+
+export interface PxRnErrorBoundaryProps {
+    children: ReactNode;
+    /** Rendered instead of the children once something has thrown. */
+    fallback?: (error: Error) => ReactNode;
+    onError?: (error: Error, info?: string) => void;
+}
+
+interface State {
+    error: Error | null;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Keeps one bad animation from taking down the screen around it.
+ *
+ * A throw anywhere in the rendered SVG tree — an unsupported prop shape, a
+ * react-native-svg internal, a reanimated attachment failure — otherwise
+ * unmounts the whole React tree above it. Here it is contained to this one
+ * animation, reported through `onError`, and replaced by `fallback`.
+ *
+ * NOTE the limit: this catches JavaScript errors only. A crash INSIDE the
+ * native renderer (see `openClosedTextPathTargets` for a real example) never
+ * reaches JavaScript and cannot be caught here — those have to be avoided
+ * rather than handled.
+ */
+export class PxRnErrorBoundary extends Component<PxRnErrorBoundaryProps, State> {
+    override state: State = { error: null };
+
+    static getDerivedStateFromError(error: Error): State {
+        return { error };
+    }
+
+    override componentDidCatch(error: Error, info: ErrorInfo): void {
+        this.props.onError?.(error, info?.componentStack ?? undefined);
+        console.warn('[PixodeskSvgAnimator] render failed:', error?.message ?? error);
+    }
+
+    override componentDidUpdate(prev: PxRnErrorBoundaryProps): void {
+        // A new document deserves a fresh attempt — otherwise the boundary
+        // would stay latched on the failure for the rest of its life.
+        if (this.state.error && prev.children !== this.props.children) {
+            this.setState({ error: null });
+        }
+    }
+
+    override render(): ReactNode {
+        const { error } = this.state;
+        if (error) return this.props.fallback ? this.props.fallback(error) : null;
+        return this.props.children;
+    }
+}