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[PB-7047]: feat/only draw the photos on screen - #2302
The photo gallery now only draws the rows that are on screen (plus a couple above and below), so a month with hundreds or thousands of photos scrolls as smoothly as a small one. The look stays the same: tiles of at least 160px with a small gap, and as many columns as fit in the available width, recalculated when the window or the sidebar changes size. Days keep their "Today", "Yesterday" or date header, newest first.
Thumbnails and loading older months while scrolling come in the next PRs, built on this list.
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Unit tests cover a day with 300 photos showing only the first ones, scrolling to the end showing the last ones instead of the first, five photos per row in a wide window and two in a narrow one, and the existing gallery behaviour (days newest first, older months, several devices, retry).
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The page is still not linked from the sidebar.
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Improvements
Browsing long photo timelines is smoother, with visible rows and nearby photos rendered as you scroll.
Photo rows adapt to the available gallery width, showing more photos on wider screens and fewer on narrower screens.
When the gallery width changes, the photo you were viewing stays in view when possible.
Day headings identify today and yesterday, and show formatted dates for other days.
The gallery adjusts its layout as its size changes, including when the window is resized.
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The Photos timeline measures its container, calculates photo rows from the available width, and renders the timeline with a virtual list. Tests cover scrolling through a large day, row counts at different widths, and keeping a viewed photo on screen during resizing.
Changes: Photos timeline
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Measure and calculate timeline layout src/views/Photos/hooks/useElementSize.ts, src/views/Photos/components/PhotosTimeline.tsx
useElementSize reports the observed element dimensions. PhotosTimeline calculates columns, day labels, and photo rows from the measured width.
Render and test the virtual timeline package.json, src/views/Photos/components/PhotosTimeline.tsx, src/views/Photos/PhotosView.test.tsx
PhotosTimeline renders grouped photo rows in a virtual list and tracks a previously visible photo when the column count changes. Tests cover timeline contents, scrolling through 300 photos, column counts at widths of 1000 and 400 pixels, and resizing.
sequenceDiagram
participant ResizeObserver
participant useElementSize
participant PhotosTimeline
participant GroupedVirtuoso
ResizeObserver->>useElementSize: report element dimensions
useElementSize->>PhotosTimeline: provide measured width and height
PhotosTimeline->>GroupedVirtuoso: provide day groups and photo rows
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internxt/drive-web#2288: This PR adds the day-grouped PhotosTimeline that this PR changes to use virtualization.
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The change virtualizes the Photos timeline and is not yet linked from the sidebar. No merge-blocking risk is evident; a stronger test assertion on mounted photo count is optional.
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The width tests only check initial sizes. Trigger a second ResizeObserver update after mounting and assert that the rows change from five photos to two. This would protect window and sidebar resizing against regressions that measure the gallery only once.
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Review comment at @src/views/Photos/PhotosView.test.tsx around lines 447 - 467:
Update the width tests for PhotosView to cover resizing an already mounted
timeline: render at the wide size, confirm the row contains five photos, then
trigger a second ResizeObserver update with the narrow size and assert that the
row contains two. Reuse the existing givenGallerySize and shownRows helpers, and
preserve the current initial-size assertions.
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src/views/Photos/components/PhotosTimeline.tsx: 1
122-136: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Low value
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Add a stable itemKey to the virtual list.
Without itemKey, react-window keys rows by index. When the layout changes (resize changes columns, or new photos load), the same index maps to a different row. Row components then reuse DOM for unrelated content. Provide a key derived from the row content, for example the day label plus the first photo uuid.
This needs a key field on TimelineRow.
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Review comments at @src/views/Photos/PhotosView.test.tsx:
- Around line 447-467: Update the width tests for PhotosView to cover resizing
an already mounted timeline: render at the wide size, confirm the row contains
five photos, then trigger a second ResizeObserver update with the narrow size
and assert that the row contains two. Reuse the existing givenGallerySize and
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getTimelineLayout doesn't clamp gridWidth to non-negative. If container width drops below 2*SIDE_PADDING
(narrow window, expanded sidebar, heavy zoom), columns clamps to 1 via Math.max but tileSize stays negative, feeding a negative itemSize into VariableSizeList and breaking row positioning instead of falling back to a sane minimum width 🤔
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resetAfterIndex(0) fires on every layout change, including a column-count change from a plain resize, with no anchor to preserve scroll position. If the user is scrolled deep into a day with many photos (the exact case this PR targets) and resizes the window, the row-to-photo mapping shifts and they land on unrelated photos.
maybe you could track the topmost visible photo via onItemsRendered, and after the layout recalculates, scroll back to the row containing it instead of just resetting blindly, or something like that
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columns/tileSize are computed from the full measured container width without subtracting a non-overlay scrollbar's width. I think maybe on platforms with classic scrollbars (Windows Chrome/Edge/Firefox), the CSS grid's 1fr columns shrink to the real content area while the JS-computed row height stays wider, possibly leaving a visible gap under each photo row
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Each photo row now gets its own role="group" with the day's label repeated verbatim, and the previous role="region" wrapping header+grid per day was removed with no replacement. A day with many photos renders dozens of rows announcing the same label, so screen-reader users lose the ability to jump to "the day" as one unit
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ResizeObserver updates state on every callback with no debounce, even though useDebounce already exists in the codebase (src/hooks/useDebounce.ts). Dragging the window edge or sidebar fires this roughly once per frame, forcing a full resetAfterIndex(0) + re-render of visible rows on every frame instead of settling once, right? 👀
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src/views/Photos/components/PhotosTimeline.tsx: 1
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Pass a stable scrollerRef callback.
The inline arrow function gets a new identity on every render. Virtuoso can re-invoke a scrollerRef callback whose identity changes, which would call setScroller again on each render. useElementSize(scroller) depends on the state set here, so avoid that churn. Define one stable handler outside the JSX with useCallback.
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Review comment at @src/views/Photos/components/PhotosTimeline.tsx at line 109:
Define a stable `scrollerRef` handler in `PhotosTimeline` using `useCallback`,
preserving the existing `HTMLElement` check and `setScroller` behavior, then
pass that handler to the Virtuoso component instead of the inline callback. Add
`useCallback` to the React import.
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`useCallback`, preserving the existing `HTMLElement` check and `setScroller`
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These assertions also pass when the initial render mounts 299 photos. The end-scroll test does not exclude that regression either.
Add an upper bound on mounted image elements before and after scrolling. Derive the bound from the viewport and the permitted buffer rows. This checks the main virtualization requirement, not only whether the first and last photos appear.
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Review comment at @src/views/Photos/PhotosView.test.tsx around lines 497 - 498:
In the end-scroll test, add assertions before and after scrolling that bound the number of mounted image elements by the viewport capacity plus the permitted buffer rows. Derive the bound from the test’s viewport and buffer configuration, while retaining the existing checks that the first photo appears and the last photo is absent before scrolling.
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Review comments at @src/views/Photos/PhotosView.test.tsx:
- Around line 497-498: In the end-scroll test, add assertions before and after
scrolling that bound the number of mounted image elements by the viewport
capacity plus the permitted buffer rows. Derive the bound from the test’s
viewport and buffer configuration, while retaining the existing checks that the
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Description
The photo gallery now only draws the rows that are on screen (plus a couple above and below), so a month with hundreds or thousands of photos scrolls as smoothly as a small one. The look stays the same: tiles of at least 160px with a small gap, and as many columns as fit in the available width, recalculated when the window or the sidebar changes size. Days keep their "Today", "Yesterday" or date header, newest first.
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Jira: PB-7047 (parent PB-6876)
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