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Summary

  • Make scales the only public home for reserved Cartesian and polar scales, and remove the temporary pre-Alpha aliases and compatibility warnings.
  • Tighten built-in mark option types and reserved scale inference at precise authored boundaries.
  • Keep exact-zero values on the correct baseline in diverging stacks.
  • Dismiss locally pinned tooltips when the pointer is pressed outside the chart or tooltip.
  • Document the official Alpha stability contract, migration path, AI authoring guidance, and regular 0.x release policy.
  • Refresh package skills, bundle evidence, library comparisons, and catalog previews.

Migration

  • Move root x and y options to scales.x and scales.y.
  • Move polar angle and radius options to scales.angle and scales.radius.
  • Read polar mappings from layout.scales.
  • Replace ChartMarkX and ChartMarkY with ChartMarkPointX and ChartMarkPointY.

Release

This is a minor Changesets release for the 12-package fixed group. Every public package moves from 0.15.0 to 0.16.0.

Alpha continues on regular 0.x versions using the latest npm tag, without an -alpha suffix.

Fixes and credit

Fixes #109.

The exact-zero diverging stack fix originated in #70. Thanks @Nickman87 for the report and implementation. This PR ports and supersedes that PR.

Validation

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  • pnpm release:artifacts
  • pnpm release:check
  • pnpm changeset status

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • TanStack Charts is now officially Alpha on the regular 0.x release line.
    • Chart scales use structured Cartesian and polar scale configuration.
    • Added Alpha stability guidance and migration documentation.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Pinned tooltips dismiss when pressing outside the chart or tooltip.
    • Diverging stacks correctly handle zero-valued cells without visual spikes.
  • Breaking Changes

    • Removed legacy scale configuration and deprecated mark type aliases.
    • Renamed point mark extractors to ChartMarkPointX and ChartMarkPointY.

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The pull request promotes Charts to official Alpha, removes pre-Alpha scale compatibility, strengthens mark typing, adds outside-tooltip dismissal and zero-aware diverging stacks, and updates documentation, examples, tests, benchmarks, and release synchronization.

Changes

Alpha API contract

Layer / File(s) Summary
Alpha release policy and scale migration
.changeset/official-alpha.md, packages/charts-core/src/types.ts, packages/charts-core/src/scene.ts, packages/charts-core/src/polar.ts
Charts now uses regular 0.x Alpha releases. Cartesian scales use scales.x and scales.y. Polar scales use scales.angle and scales.radius. Legacy root scale options and deprecated aliases are removed.
Mark inference contracts
packages/charts-core/src/{area,arrow,band,bar,dot,hexagon,line,link,rect,rule,text,tick,vector}.ts, packages/charts-core/src/spatial-*.ts
Built-in mark factories now infer channels and named scale IDs through shared call-option, channel-output, and scale-binding types.
Validation and behavior updates
packages/charts-core/src/polar.ts, packages/charts-core/src/stack-internal.ts, packages/charts-core/src/renderer.ts
Polar reserved scales are validated against materialized channels. Diverging stack zero cells remain on their running baseline. Outside pointer presses dismiss pinned tooltips when automatic pointer handling is active.

Documentation and release synchronization

Layer / File(s) Summary
Alpha documentation
README.md, MARKETING.md, PLAN.md, docs/*, packages/charts-core/docs/*, llms.txt, packages/charts-core/llms.txt
Release status, migration guidance, stability policy, authoring rules, navigation, and package examples now describe the Alpha API.
Skills and version synchronization
packages/charts-core/skills/*, scripts/sync-release-version.mjs, scripts/sync-release-version.test.mjs
Shipped chart skills now target version 0.15.0. Release synchronization tracks all shipped skill files and verifies their version references.
Fixtures and validation coverage
packages/charts-core/src/*test.ts, benchmarks/conformance/cases/*
Chart definitions now use structured scale registries. Positionless dimensions use explicit null entries. Type, runtime, interaction, polar, and conformance tests cover the updated contracts.

Benchmarks and generated metadata

Layer / File(s) Summary
Bundle baselines and budgets
benchmarks/bundle-size/*, benchmarks/comparison/*, docs/comparison.md, packages/charts-core/docs/comparison.md, scripts/measure-bundles.mjs
Bundle measurements, metadata, documented ranges, and gzip budgets were refreshed for the updated implementation.
Generated preview metadata
benchmarks/conformance/previews/manifest.json
Preview source and asset hashes and byte counts were refreshed.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to e6bca

This release changes the public chart configuration and typing contract, but the current head can reject valid responsive definitions and advertise scale configurations that fail at runtime; release guidance also still identifies the previous version. Merge should wait for these bounded correctness and documentation issues to be fixed or explicitly accepted.

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Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The PR addresses issue #109 by dismissing locally pinned tooltips on pointer presses outside the chart and tooltip, with tests covering the behavior.
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The PR includes substantial changes unrelated to issue #109, including the Alpha scale API migration, mark typing refactors, deprecated export removal, diverging-stack behavior, extensive documentation, benchmarks, and release tooling.

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Inline comments:
In @.changeset/official-alpha.md:
- Around line 10-12: Update the custom mark type migration guidance to state
that ChartMarkPointX and ChartMarkPointY must be imported from the
`@tanstack/charts/mark/scale-values` subpath, preserving the existing replacement
and polar layout guidance.

In `@docs/reference/focus-and-interaction.md`:
- Line 25: Update the pinned-tooltip behavior statement in the
focus-and-interaction documentation to specify that dismissal occurs only when
the pointer press is outside both the chart and the tooltip, keeping it
consistent with the behavior described near the related interaction guidance.

In `@packages/charts-core/skills/configure-scales-guides-color/SKILL.md`:
- Line 11: Update the library_version metadata to 0.16.0 in
packages/charts-core/skills/configure-scales-guides-color/SKILL.md:11-11,
packages/charts-core/skills/coordinate-charts-with-tanstack/SKILL.md:13-13,
packages/charts-core/skills/debug-and-verify-charts/SKILL.md:11-11,
packages/charts-core/skills/design-a-chart/SKILL.md:11-11,
packages/charts-core/skills/design-responsive-charts/SKILL.md:11-11, and
packages/charts-core/skills/update-and-animate-charts/SKILL.md:11-11.

Apply the same fix in
`@packages/charts-core/skills/extend-tanstack-charts/SKILL.md` at line 10: Same
stale release metadata.

In `@packages/charts-core/src/scene.ts`:
- Around line 101-104: Update ErasedChartSpec to require reserved x and y scale
entries while retaining the existing scale map typing. In defineChart, reverse
the conditional return-type check to test whether
ReturnType<TDefinition['chart']> extends ErasedChartSpec, preserving valid
narrower scale option types and rejecting chart results that omit x or y.
- Around line 233-236: Reverse the conditional-type check in the definition
parameter within the relevant scene type so it tests whether
ReturnType<TDefinition['chart']> extends ErasedChartSpec, preventing valid
responsive definitions from becoming never. Add a responsive type-level
regression case covering a concrete chart callback return type.
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