
Older turns prepend above the reader while the row they were reading stays put.
@reui
c-message-scroller-5.tsx
"use client"
import { useEffect, useRef, useState } from "react"
import { Badge } from "@/components/reui/badge"
import {
Avatar,
AvatarFallback,
AvatarImage,
} from "@/components/ui/avatar"
import { Bubble, BubbleContent } from "@/components/ui/bubble"
import { Button } from "@/components/ui/button"
import {
Card,
CardAction,
CardContent,
CardDescription,
CardHeader,
CardTitle,
} from "@/components/ui/card"
import { Marker, MarkerContent } from "@/components/ui/marker"
import {
Message,
MessageAvatar,
MessageContent,
} from "@/components/ui/message"
import {
MessageScroller,
MessageScrollerButton,
MessageScrollerContent,
MessageScrollerItem,
MessageScrollerProvider,
MessageScrollerViewport,
useMessageScrollerScrollable,
} from "@/components/ui/message-scroller"
import { Spinner } from "@/components/ui/spinner"
import { IconPlaceholder } from "@/app/(create)/components/icon-placeholder"
type Turn = {
id: string
role: "user" | "assistant"
author: string
text: string
}
const VIEWER_AVATAR =
"https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1535713875002-d1d0cf377fde?w=96&h=96&dpr=2&q=80"
const INITIAL_VISIBLE = 6
/*
* Sixteen rows against a six row window, so there is real history to reveal
* and the restored position is somewhere in the middle rather than at an edge
* where any implementation would look correct.
*/
const HISTORY: Turn[] = [
{
id: "th_5p3w9k_1",
role: "user",
author: "Jonas Weber",
text: "Pulling up ticket 4821. The customer says their exports have been empty since Friday.",
},
{
id: "th_5p3w9k_2",
role: "assistant",
author: "Nimbus",
text: "Empty, not failing. Every job in that window finished with a zero row result.",
},
{
id: "th_5p3w9k_3",
role: "user",
author: "Jonas Weber",
text: "Same workspace every time?",
},
{
id: "th_5p3w9k_4",
role: "assistant",
author: "Nimbus",
text: "One workspace, ws_3311. No other account shows the pattern.",
},
{
id: "th_5p3w9k_5",
role: "user",
author: "Jonas Weber",
text: "What changed for them on Friday?",
},
{
id: "th_5p3w9k_6",
role: "assistant",
author: "Nimbus",
text: "They moved their default view onto a saved filter whose date range ends last Thursday.",
},
{
id: "th_5p3w9k_7",
role: "user",
author: "Jonas Weber",
text: "So the export is right and the filter is wrong.",
},
{
id: "th_5p3w9k_8",
role: "assistant",
author: "Nimbus",
text: "Right for the filter, yes. The export inherits the active view, and that view now excludes everything recent.",
},
{
id: "th_5p3w9k_9",
role: "user",
author: "Jonas Weber",
text: "Does the interface show them that range anywhere?",
},
{
id: "th_5p3w9k_10",
role: "assistant",
author: "Nimbus",
text: "Only inside the filter chip, which is collapsed by default at their screen width.",
},
{
id: "th_5p3w9k_11",
role: "user",
author: "Jonas Weber",
text: "That is the actual bug then.",
},
{
id: "th_5p3w9k_12",
role: "assistant",
author: "Nimbus",
text: "It is at least why nobody caught it. The export dialog does show a row count, but it renders after the request, so a zero reads as loading.",
},
{
id: "th_5p3w9k_13",
role: "user",
author: "Jonas Weber",
text: "Can we tell them what to change today?",
},
{
id: "th_5p3w9k_14",
role: "assistant",
author: "Nimbus",
text: "Clear the saved range on the view, or export from the unfiltered table. Either one gives them Friday onward straight away.",
},
{
id: "th_5p3w9k_15",
role: "user",
author: "Jonas Weber",
text: "Send that, then flag the dialog for the product review.",
},
{
id: "th_5p3w9k_16",
role: "assistant",
author: "Nimbus",
text: "Sent, and the dialog is on the review list with a screenshot attached.\n\nI left a note on the ticket too, so the next person reads the filter before they open the worker logs.",
},
]
/*
* The chip sits outside the scroll frame but inside the Provider. Every hook
* resolves through that context, so a control in the header still has to be a
* descendant of it.
*/
function HistoryChip() {
const { start } = useMessageScrollerScrollable()
return (
<Badge variant="info-light">
{start ? "Earlier messages above" : "Top of thread"}
</Badge>
)
}
export function Pattern() {
const [visibleCount, setVisibleCount] = useState(INITIAL_VISIBLE)
const [loading, setLoading] = useState(false)
const loadTimer = useRef<number | null>(null)
useEffect(() => {
return () => {
if (loadTimer.current !== null) window.clearTimeout(loadTimer.current)
}
}, [])
/*
* The window is a slice taken during render, so loading earlier messages is
* only a longer slice. That is the same shape a cursor paginated endpoint
* produces, and it keeps the already mounted rows identical.
*/
const visible = HISTORY.slice(-visibleCount)
const allLoaded = visibleCount >= HISTORY.length
/* The delay is a real beat rather than decoration, so the restored scroll
position is measured against rows that arrived after a paint. */
function loadEarlier() {
if (loading || allLoaded) return
setLoading(true)
loadTimer.current = window.setTimeout(() => {
loadTimer.current = null
setVisibleCount((count) => Math.min(count + 5, HISTORY.length))
setLoading(false)
}, 700)
}
return (
/*
* The frame owns the height. Restoring a scroll position only means
* something while the reader is inside a bounded region, so a card that
* grew with its content would have nothing to preserve.
*/
<Card className="h-110 w-full max-w-2xl gap-0 overflow-hidden py-0">
<MessageScrollerProvider>
{/*
* The load control lives in the header, never as the first row of the
* content. A prepend is detected by the previously first row moving to
* an index above zero, so a permanent loader row at the top never moves
* and the restore would never fire.
*/}
<CardHeader className="shrink-0 border-b py-4">
<CardTitle>Support escalation</CardTitle>
<CardDescription className="flex items-center gap-2">
<HistoryChip />
<span>
{visible.length} of {HISTORY.length} messages
</span>
</CardDescription>
<CardAction>
<Button
variant="outline"
size="sm"
disabled={loading || allLoaded}
onClick={loadEarlier}
>
{loading ? (
<Spinner className="size-3" aria-hidden="true" />
) : null}
{allLoaded ? "All loaded" : "Load earlier"}
</Button>
</CardAction>
</CardHeader>
<CardContent className="min-h-0 flex-1 p-0">
<MessageScroller>
{/*
* preserveScrollOnPrepend is on by default. Stable ids are what
* give it a specific row to hold under the reader, so a list keyed
* by index loses the behavior without any error.
*/}
<MessageScrollerViewport aria-label="Support escalation transcript">
<MessageScrollerContent className="gap-5 p-(--card-spacing)">
{visible.map((turn) => {
const isUser = turn.role === "user"
return (
<MessageScrollerItem
key={turn.id}
messageId={turn.id}
scrollAnchor={isUser}
>
<Message align={isUser ? "end" : "start"}>
<MessageAvatar className="size-8">
{isUser ? (
<Avatar>
<AvatarImage
src={VIEWER_AVATAR}
alt={turn.author}
/>
<AvatarFallback>JW</AvatarFallback>
</Avatar>
) : (
<>
<IconPlaceholder
lucide="SparklesIcon"
tabler="IconSparkles"
hugeicons="SparklesIcon"
phosphor="SparkleIcon"
remixicon="RiSparklingLine"
aria-hidden="true"
className="text-muted-foreground size-4"
/>
<span className="sr-only">{turn.author}</span>
</>
)}
</MessageAvatar>
<MessageContent>
<Bubble
variant={isUser ? "muted" : "ghost"}
align={isUser ? "end" : "start"}
>
<BubbleContent className="space-y-2">
{turn.text
.split("\n\n")
.map((paragraph, index) => (
<p
key={index}
className="whitespace-pre-wrap"
>
{paragraph}
</p>
))}
</BubbleContent>
</Bubble>
</MessageContent>
</Message>
</MessageScrollerItem>
)
})}
{/*
* A row with no messageId still counts for prepend detection
* and for anchoring, it is only invisible to scrollToMessage
* and to visibility tracking. A divider wants exactly that.
*/}
<MessageScrollerItem scrollAnchor={false}>
<Marker variant="separator">
<MarkerContent>Escalated to Sam Okafor</MarkerContent>
</Marker>
</MessageScrollerItem>
</MessageScrollerContent>
</MessageScrollerViewport>
<MessageScrollerButton
variant="outline"
className="rounded-full shadow-sm"
/>
</MessageScroller>
</CardContent>
</MessageScrollerProvider>
</Card>
)
}





























