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Closes #87.

Why

Arabic, Hebrew, and Farsi read right to left, and in those locales the value
axis belongs on the right. That is not a stylistic preference: the reading eye
starts at the right edge, so a left-hand value axis puts the scale behind the
data instead of in front of it.

@tanstack/charts had no lever for it. ChartAxisPresentationOptions covered
the line, ticks, tick labels, and title, but never the placement, so the y axis
always resolved against the left plot edge. x.reverse already ordered
categories right to left, which made the axis the single remaining element
pointing the wrong way.

The usual workarounds are not workarounds. transform: scaleX(-1) on the
container mirrors the marks and the tick text and breaks pointer hit-testing.
direction: rtl on the host changes nothing, because placement is resolved
during layout rather than by the browser.

We hit this migrating a bilingual production dashboard off Recharts, which
covers the case with <YAxis orientation="right" />. Everything else about the
migration was an improvement, so we shipped the Arabic locale with a knowingly
misplaced axis. This patch is the fix for that, written so the same option
serves anyone who wants a right-hand or top axis in any locale.

@Thom-ASM pointed at scene.ts in the issue thread, which was the right place
to start.

API

const chart = {
  x: { scale: xScale, reverse: true },
  y: { scale: yScale, axis: { side: 'end' } },
}

ChartAxisSide is 'start' | 'end' rather than physical literals. The y axis
reads start as left and end as right; the x axis reads start as bottom and
end as top. One spelling covers both dimensions, composes with the existing
reverse, and keeps a right-to-left chart to a single flag per axis rather than
a per-axis vocabulary the caller has to memorize.

side defaults to start, so every existing chart is untouched.

Implementation

axisPlacement() resolves each axis once into a plot edge and an outward sign,
and every coordinate derives from that pair: the axis line, the tick stubs, the
tick labels and their default anchor, the title with its rotation, and the
crosshair value label. No site branches on the side on its own.

Two things fell out of the existing design rather than needing new code:

  • Automatic margins already grow from measured label bounds, so the reserved
    gutter moves to the other edge on its own.
  • Every renderer and adapter consumes the same scene nodes, so SVG, canvas, and
    all twelve packages follow without a change.

The crosshair is included because it is the other half of a placed axis. Its
value labels are resolved outside createAxes, so SceneFocusGuideAxis carries
the side and the resolver derives the same placement from the guide's own plot
bounds.

Compatibility

side is optional and defaults to the current behavior. A test asserts that an
explicit 'start' produces a scene node tree identical to an unset side, so
this is provably inert for existing charts rather than only intended to be.

Verification

  • 901 charts-core tests pass, the 897 existing ones unchanged.
  • New scene tests cover the end-side y axis against the right plot edge (line,
    stubs, label anchor, 90 degree title, and the margin moving from left to
    right), the end-side x axis against the top edge, and the start-side
    equivalence above.
  • A new crosshair test asserts both value labels follow the placement, anchor
    included.
  • All 188 catalog previews regenerate byte-identically; only the manifest
    sourceHash changes, which is a second check that default rendering did not
    move.
  • Rendered SVG reviewed in all three configurations, including an Arabic locale
    with Eastern Arabic numerals: default, y.side: 'end' with x.reverse, and
    x.side: 'end'.

Rendered output: default start side, end side with x.reverse in Arabic, and an end-side x axis on top

Changeset, root docs, and an API-FRICTION.md entry (F-285) are included per
CONTRIBUTING.md and AGENTS.md. Package versions and changelogs are left to
the automated version pull request.

Two notes on the baselines

The comparison bundle baseline is refreshed in its own commit, following the
existing convention. Competitor measurements reproduced byte for byte, and only
the TanStack entries, the input digest, and the timestamp move.

benchmarks/bundle-size/universal-baseline.json is deliberately not
refreshed. It already mismatches on unmodified main in my environment, so I
could not separate a real delta from local drift and did not want to lock in
numbers measured on my laptop. For the record, the placement code adds roughly
190 B gzip to the React adapter here. Say the word and I will include the
refresh, or leave it to a maintainer run.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added configurable axis placement with axis.side: 'start' | 'end'.
    • Axes can now appear on the opposite plot edge, including aligned ticks, labels, titles, crosshair values, and automatic margins.
    • Supports right-to-left and reversed layouts, such as placing the value axis on the right.
  • Documentation

    • Added configuration guidance, type references, and a right-to-left layout example.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for axis positioning, label alignment, crosshair labels, titles, and margins.

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Walkthrough

The chart core adds axis.side with start and end placement. Axis geometry, labels, titles, crosshair values, focus guides, and automatic margins now follow the selected plot edge. Documentation and tests cover RTL layouts and explicit start-side compatibility.

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Axis-side placement

Layer / File(s) Summary
Axis-side contracts and placement resolver
packages/charts-core/src/types.ts, packages/charts-core/src/guide-layout.ts, packages/charts-core/src/universal-types.ts, packages/charts-core/src/index.ts
Adds the ChartAxisSide type, optional presentation metadata, focus-guide side metadata, public exports, and the axisPlacement resolver.
Scene axis and focus-guide layout
packages/charts-core/src/scene.ts, packages/charts-core/src/scene-layout.test.ts
Uses resolved sides for axis edges, ticks, labels, titles, extents, margins, focus guides, and geometry validation.
Crosshair label placement
packages/charts-core/src/crosshair-resolver.ts, packages/charts-core/src/crosshair.test.ts
Positions crosshair labels from the configured edge and direction, with side-aware anchoring and baseline adjustments.
Axis-side documentation and release records
docs/concepts/layout-axes-and-coordinates.md, packages/charts-core/docs/concepts/layout-axes-and-coordinates.md, docs/reference/types.md, packages/charts-core/docs/reference/types.md, .changeset/opposite-axis-side.md, API-FRICTION.md
Documents axis.side, RTL configuration, automatic margins, the public type, and the resolved API finding.

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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 8b75d

The PR adds configurable axis placement while preserving existing defaults; the remaining documentation wording issue could briefly confuse users but does not affect runtime behavior, so no actionable merge-blocking risk remains.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant ChartOptions
  participant scene
  participant axisPlacement
  participant crosshairResolver
  ChartOptions->>scene: configure axis sides
  scene->>axisPlacement: resolve axis edges and directions
  axisPlacement-->>scene: return placement data
  scene->>scene: lay out axes, labels, titles, margins, and guides
  crosshairResolver->>axisPlacement: resolve crosshair label placement
  axisPlacement-->>crosshairResolver: return edge and direction
  crosshairResolver-->>ChartOptions: render positioned crosshair labels
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The changes satisfy issue #87 by adding ChartAxisSide with start/end placement, moving the y-axis to the right for RTL layouts, preserving default behavior, and updating related axis, label, title, crosshair, margin, type, documentation, and test coverage.

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Resolve each axis to a plot edge and an outward sign so `axis.side` can move
the line, stubs, tick labels, title, and crosshair value label to the opposite
edge. Automatic margins follow the placement, and an unset side keeps the
existing scene output.
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In `@docs/concepts/layout-axes-and-coordinates.md`:
- Around line 165-171: Correct the RTL axis example in both
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packages/charts-core/docs/concepts/layout-axes-and-coordinates.md lines 165-171:
use axis.side: 'end' with reverse on the x axis, hyphenate y-axis and x-axis,
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Comment on lines +165 to +171
`axis.side` defaults to `start`, which places the y axis left and the x axis
bottom. `end` places the y axis right and the x axis top, and moves that axis's
stubs, tick labels, title, and crosshair value label with it. Automatic margins
follow the placement, so the reserved gutter moves rather than being duplicated.

A right-to-left locale reads the value axis on the right, which is `side` on the
y axis combined with `reverse` on the x axis:

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Correct the RTL axis.side documentation in both copies.

The prose uses side as though it were a valid value. Use side: 'end' and hyphenate y-axis and x-axis.

  • docs/concepts/layout-axes-and-coordinates.md#L165-L171: update the source documentation.
  • packages/charts-core/docs/concepts/layout-axes-and-coordinates.md#L165-L171: regenerate the package copy from the corrected source.
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In `@docs/concepts/layout-axes-and-coordinates.md` around lines 165 - 171, Correct
the RTL axis example in both docs/concepts/layout-axes-and-coordinates.md lines
165-171 and packages/charts-core/docs/concepts/layout-axes-and-coordinates.md
lines 165-171: use axis.side: 'end' with reverse on the x axis, hyphenate y-axis
and x-axis, and regenerate the package copy from the corrected source.

Apply the same fix in
`@packages/charts-core/docs/concepts/layout-axes-and-coordinates.md` around lines
159 - 179.

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No way to place the Y axis on the right, which breaks RTL locales

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