Skip to content

⚡ bolt: optimize scroll progress bar to prevent layout thrashing#38

Open
dttdrv wants to merge 1 commit intomainfrom
bolt-scroll-bar-optimization-7080221203339076071
Open

⚡ bolt: optimize scroll progress bar to prevent layout thrashing#38
dttdrv wants to merge 1 commit intomainfrom
bolt-scroll-bar-optimization-7080221203339076071

Conversation

@dttdrv
Copy link
Copy Markdown
Owner

@dttdrv dttdrv commented Apr 6, 2026

💡 What: updated the scroll progress bar to use transform: scaleX() instead of width.

🎯 Why: animating width causes expensive layout reflows (layout thrashing) on every frame during scroll. transform uses gpu compositing and prevents these main-thread blocking reflows.

📊 Impact: eliminates layout thrashing during scroll, ensuring a smoother 60fps scroll experience, especially on slower devices.

🔬 Measurement: observe the timeline in devtools performance tab; you will see "recalculate style" and "layout" tasks are eliminated during scroll updates.


PR created automatically by Jules for task 7080221203339076071 started by @dttdrv

Replaced animating `width` on `.scroll-progress` with `transform: scaleX()`.
Animating `width` forces reflows and layout recalculations on every frame during scrolling. Using `transform` only triggers compositing, which is offloaded to the GPU. This eliminates layout thrashing.
@google-labs-jules
Copy link
Copy Markdown

👋 Jules, reporting for duty! I'm here to lend a hand with this pull request.

When you start a review, I'll add a 👀 emoji to each comment to let you know I've read it. I'll focus on feedback directed at me and will do my best to stay out of conversations between you and other bots or reviewers to keep the noise down.

I'll push a commit with your requested changes shortly after. Please note there might be a delay between these steps, but rest assured I'm on the job!

For more direct control, you can switch me to Reactive Mode. When this mode is on, I will only act on comments where you specifically mention me with @jules. You can find this option in the Pull Request section of your global Jules UI settings. You can always switch back!

New to Jules? Learn more at jules.google/docs.


For security, I will only act on instructions from the user who triggered this task.

@cloudflare-workers-and-pages
Copy link
Copy Markdown

Deploying personal-website with  Cloudflare Pages  Cloudflare Pages

Latest commit: 7950077
Status: ✅  Deploy successful!
Preview URL: https://213ce6da.personal-website-5ns.pages.dev
Branch Preview URL: https://bolt-scroll-bar-optimization.personal-website-5ns.pages.dev

View logs

Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment

Labels

None yet

Projects

None yet

Development

Successfully merging this pull request may close these issues.

1 participant