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layoutShift tracking can loop until the browser throws RangeError: Maximum call stack size exceeded. Passing { layoutShift: false } through autoUpdateOptions stops that, and the option is left off steps that never set it.

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  • New Features

    • Added optional configuration for Floating UI’s automatic positioning updates, available as a tour-wide default or per-step setting.
    • Per-step settings override tour defaults, with nested options merged automatically.
    • Supports disabling layout-shift monitoring where appropriate.
  • Documentation

    • Added configuration guidance, including a warning about potential infinite-loop errors under certain conditions.

layoutShift tracking can loop until the browser throws RangeError: Maximum call stack size exceeded. Passing { layoutShift: false } through autoUpdateOptions stops that, and the option is left off steps that never set it.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
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Walkthrough

The change adds optional autoUpdateOptions to step configuration. Tour and step values are deep-merged, then passed to Floating UI’s autoUpdate function. Unit tests cover direct options, inherited defaults, overrides, and deep merging.

Changes

Floating UI auto-update configuration

Layer / File(s) Summary
Option contract and merging
shepherd.js/src/step.ts, shepherd.js/src/utils/floating-ui.ts
StepOptions accepts AutoUpdateOptions. When tour or step options provide values, mergeTooltipConfig deep-merges them.
Auto-update runtime passthrough
shepherd.js/src/utils/floating-ui.ts, shepherd.js/test/unit/utils/floating-ui.spec.js
setupTooltip passes the merged options to autoUpdate. Tests cover direct options, tour defaults, and step-level overrides.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~15 minutes

Change: Feature

Suggested reviewers: chuckcarpenter

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 27bf5

Updating a step's autoUpdateOptions after construction can silently discard the tour-level layoutShift:false default and restore the layout-shift tracking loop this change is meant to prevent. Merge the options in updateStepOptions before merging.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 27bf5

The new option is limited to client-side tooltip positioning. A partial update to an existing step can discard an inherited setting intended to prevent a browser positioning loop. No access-control or credential impact was identified.

Retained concerns

  • Low · reliability · inferred: A partial updateStepOptions call can replace merged auto-update options, dropping a tour-level setting intended to prevent a positioning loop when the tooltip is recreated.
Security review details

Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The identified failure mode concerns tooltip positioning in a browser page. The reviewed flow supplies configuration to Floating UI; it does not establish a credential, tenant, or server-side authority path.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Tour and step configuration reaches the existing Floating UI autoUpdate argument through Shepherd's tooltip setup. The available source does not establish that an attacker controls those options.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — If a caller supplies only part of autoUpdateOptions during a runtime step update, the recreated subscription can lose an inherited setting that was preventing the documented positioning loop. Whether callers do so is unknown.
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Review comments at @shepherd.js/src/utils/floating-ui.ts:
- Around line 96-100: UpdateStepOptions applies new step options without
recomputing the merged autoUpdateOptions, so tooltip setup can lose tour-level
defaults. When incoming options include autoUpdateOptions, merge them with the
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Comment on lines +96 to +100
if (tourOptions.autoUpdateOptions || options.autoUpdateOptions) {
config.autoUpdateOptions = deepmerge(
tourOptions.autoUpdateOptions || {},
options.autoUpdateOptions || {}
);

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

🔎 Supported by static analysis

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rg -n 'mergeTooltipConfig|updateStepOptions|autoUpdateOptions' shepherd.js/src

Repository: shipshapecode/shepherd

Length of output: 1334


🏁 Script executed:

#!/bin/bash
set -e
printf '%s\n' '--- step.ts: updateStepOptions and setupTooltip ---'
sed -n '600,690p' shepherd.js/src/step.ts
sed -n '730,815p' shepherd.js/src/step.ts
printf '%s\n' '--- floating-ui.ts ---'
cat -n shepherd.js/src/utils/floating-ui.ts
printf '%s\n' '--- relevant tests and declarations ---'
rg -n -C 4 'updateStepOptions|mergeTooltipConfig|autoUpdateOptions|floatingUIOptions' shepherd.js/test shepherd.js/src --glob '!shepherd.js/src/step.ts' --glob '!shepherd.js/src/utils/floating-ui.ts' || true

Repository: shipshapecode/shepherd

Length of output: 41983


🏁 Script executed:

sed -n '620,675p' shepherd.js/src/step.ts
sed -n '755,790p' shepherd.js/src/step.ts
cat -n shepherd.js/src/utils/floating-ui.ts
rg -n -C 5 'updateStepOptions|mergeTooltipConfig|autoUpdateOptions|floatingUIOptions' shepherd.js/test shepherd.js/src

Repository: shipshapecode/shepherd

Length of output: 41991


Preserve tour defaults when step options change.

mergeTooltipConfig() runs in _setOptions(), but updateStepOptions() uses Object.assign() and does not recompute the merged configuration. For a mounted step, the update rebuilds the elements and calls setupTooltip() immediately. A later setup can therefore pass { elementResize: true } to autoUpdate() without the tour’s layoutShift: false.

Merge autoUpdateOptions before applying the update:

Suggested fix
   updateStepOptions(options: StepOptions) {
-    Object.assign(this.options, options);
+    const updatedOptions = options.autoUpdateOptions
+      ? {
+          ...options,
+          autoUpdateOptions: mergeTooltipConfig(this.options, options)
+            .autoUpdateOptions
+        }
+      : options;
+
+    Object.assign(this.options, updatedOptions);
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Review comment at @shepherd.js/src/utils/floating-ui.ts around lines 96 - 100:
UpdateStepOptions applies new step options without recomputing the merged
autoUpdateOptions, so tooltip setup can lose tour-level defaults. When incoming
options include autoUpdateOptions, merge them with the existing tour
configuration using mergeTooltipConfig before assigning the updated options;
leave updates without autoUpdateOptions unchanged.

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review. Visit https://docs.coderabbit.ai/cli?utm_source=ghpr

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