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A data attribute set from a media query after hydration shifted the layout: keep server markup stable, use CSS

I assumed: centring the hero on narrow screens by setting data-align="center" from a useMediaQuery hook was harmless.
What happened: the server can't know the screen's width, so it rendered the hero's own alignment, and on a phone the attribute flipped to "center" after hydration, moving the copy. A chip shown only on touch screens also appeared after mount. Lighthouse mobile measured a layout shift of 0.026.
The fix: data-align always carries the prop, and a @media (max-width: 1023px) rule centres the copy; the media query is now used only for what the canvas draws (where the light is centred), which moves no layout. The tilt chip is rendered from the start, and CSS shows it on touch screens only.
Evidence: LightfallHero.tsx lines 148–153, 273–275 and 310; styles.css lines 1115–1121; CLS 0 on desktop and mobile.

Learned in the articleA WebGL hero in a Web Worker: Lightfall's lane-space shader, OffscreenCanvas and eight traps

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Published: 26 Oct 2026

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ANGLE warns that dynamic indexing of a vector is emulated and slow: pick the component with ternaries
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Chrome on Windows (ANGLE over Direct3D 11) compiled it but left a warning in the shader's info log, on two lines of the scene shader: "Performance: dynamic indexing of vectors and matrices is emulated and can be slow". It surfaced only…

The fix

pick the component with ternaries, L == 0 ? uLanes.x : (L == 1 ? uLanes.y : uLanes.z), and keep the test: it compiles every shader in Chrome and fails on any warning.

Lightfall — Crypto & Web3 Hero Section for React with WebGL Background · Ramin Valadan · 26 Oct 2026

My own mistakeL-HJW0AI

checkFramebufferStatus is a round trip to the GPU: ask once per format and rebuild render targets lazily

What happened: the first configure happens at 1×1, and a resize and a quality change can arrive in the same tick; each one rebuilt every target, and every checkFramebufferStatus call made the thread wait for the GPU's answer. The rebuilds showed up in…
The fix: a change only marks the targets dirty; they are rebuilt once, before the next frame. The framebuffer is checked once per format, and only to choose one: if a float format is advertised but not renderable, the renderer drops from…

Lightfall — Crypto & Web3 Hero Section for React with WebGL Background · Ramin Valadan · 26 Oct 2026

My own mistakeL-H9QMAI

toLocaleString with options builds a new Intl.NumberFormat on every call: make one per precision and reuse it

What happened: each call with options builds a new formatter, and the ticker formats its 14 pairs on every update. Number formatting showed up in the load profile too.
The fix: one Intl.NumberFormat per number of decimals, made the first time it's needed and reused.

Lightfall — Crypto & Web3 Hero Section for React with WebGL Background · Ramin Valadan · 26 Oct 2026

My own mistakeL-8VEAAI

Creating a WebGL context costs about 150 ms of main thread on its own: create it in a worker with OffscreenCanvas

What happened: creating the context is CPU work on the thread that asks for it: one long task of about 150 ms at load, which no amount of tidying in our code could remove. Lighthouse desktop Performance had been 69–71.
The fix: the page hands its canvas to a Web Worker (transferControlToOffscreen), and context creation, shader compiles and every frame happen there; the page talks to the engine through messages. Lighthouse desktop Performance went to 98–99, with…

Lightfall — Crypto & Web3 Hero Section for React with WebGL Background · Ramin Valadan · 26 Oct 2026

My own mistakeL-HQ1TAI

A requestAnimationFrame timestamp can be earlier than the performance.now() you took before it: clamp progress at zero

What happened: the timestamp a frame callback gets is when that frame began, which can be a little before t0. Progress came out slightly negative, and the ease 1 - 2^(-10t) turned that into a negative number: a phone capture caught a stat flashing below…
The fix: clamp progress to 0..1 before easing.

Lightfall — Crypto & Web3 Hero Section for React with WebGL Background · Ramin Valadan · 26 Oct 2026

My own mistakeL-WE4MAI

Text over moving light can pass contrast in one frame and fail in the next: measure the worst moment, then add a scrim

What happened: a test that renders eight moments of the animation and compares each text block with the brightest light behind it (the 98th percentile of the pixels under it, so a few stray ones don't count) found the stats' labels at 1.01:1 in the dark…
The fix: a stronger scrim in two parts: a darkening toward the bottom of the hero, and a soft pool of the background colour behind the copy itself, which follows the text block at any size. The test now requires at least 4.5:1 at the worst of the…

Lightfall — Crypto & Web3 Hero Section for React with WebGL Background · Ramin Valadan · 26 Oct 2026