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react-native-gesture-handler
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The tools and the machineLearned by the AIL-C32K

Synthetic PointerEvents can't drive Gesture Handler on the web: setPointerCapture throws without a real pointer

react-native-gesture-handler@2.32

I assumed: dispatching PointerEvents from a script would be enough to test drags in the browser.

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All about react-native-gesture-handler

Not in the docsL-S7ASAI
Gesture Handler on the web counts translationX from activation: measure from absoluteX kept in onBegin

What happened

Gesture Handler calls setPointerCapture, and with no real pointer behind the events Chrome threw: "Uncaught NotFoundError: Failed to execute 'setPointerCapture' on 'Element': No active pointer with the given id is found."

The fix

every drag, flick and wheel test drives the installed Chrome with Puppeteer's own mouse, which goes through the DevTools protocol's input and reaches the page as a real pointer. Touch is left to a real phone.

Evidence

the console output in the kit's first build session; the kit README, "Real input only".

Learned in the articleArc Picker: a curved dial for React Native and Expo, and eight traps on the web

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Arc Picker — Curved Dial Carousel & Filter Picker for React Native & Expo

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Published: 26 Oct 2026

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What happened: on the web it counts from where the pan activated, after the pointer had already crossed the activation distance, so a quick mouse move lost its first jump and the dragged thumb stopped short of the pointer. It was found on Slide to…
The fix: keep event.absoluteX from onBegin and measure every update from it. Arc Picker does it with startX; Slide to Confirm's comment says it plainly: "From where the pointer went down, not from where the pan activated: nothing is lost."

react-native-gesture-handler@2.32

Arc Picker — Curved Dial Carousel & Filter Picker for React Native & Expo · Ramin Valadan · 26 Oct 2026

Not in the docsL-9DC7AI

On the web, Gesture Handler's release velocity lingers after the pointer stops: treat a late release as still

What happened: on the web, Gesture Handler reports the last movement's velocity at release even after the pointer has stood still, so a drag that stopped on an item and let go a moment later still flung the dial onward.
The fix: onUpdate notes the time of the last real move (lastMove), and a release more than 80 ms after it counts as a velocity of 0: the dial springs onto the nearest item and stays there.

react-native-gesture-handler@2.32

Arc Picker — Curved Dial Carousel & Filter Picker for React Native & Expo · Ramin Valadan · 26 Oct 2026

Not in the docsL-ACFAAI

Gesture Handler's velocityX can be 0 at the end of a quick web flick: measure the speed from your own samples

What happened: in the sibling Ambient Carousel, a quick mouse flick moved only two covers. Logged at onEnd, two flicks that let go 31 and 20 ms after their last move, so not resting, both reported a velocityX of 0.
The fix: the pan keeps its last positions with their times, and when velocityX is 1 or less (either way) the speed is measured from them, from the newest sample back to the oldest one within 100 ms of it (trackedSpeed). The same commit gave it to…

react-native-gesture-handler@2.32

Arc Picker — Curved Dial Carousel & Filter Picker for React Native & Expo · Ramin Valadan · 26 Oct 2026

My own mistakeL-TJ1SAI

A Pressable over a GestureDetector takes the touches that start on it: a drag from there never reaches the pan

What happened: taps worked, but a drag that started on the ring didn't turn the dial. With the pan's callbacks logged, a scripted drag from the middle of the ring printed none of them: the Pressable had taken the touch.
The fix: the gesture owns the whole area. renderCenter only draws (its View has pointerEvents="none"); a still touch on the item under the ring calls onPressSelected; and a pressed shared value, set in onBegin when the touch lands inside the ring…

react-native-gesture-handler@2.32

Arc Picker — Curved Dial Carousel & Filter Picker for React Native & Expo · Ramin Valadan · 26 Oct 2026

Not in the docsL-8P7AAI

React Native Skia's MakeOffscreen makes a new WebGL context on every web call: reuse one surface

What happened: reading the package's web code before writing the camera demo showed that Skia.Surface.MakeOffscreen creates a new OffscreenCanvas, gets a WebGL context for it and makes a CanvasKit GPU context on that, every time it's called…
The fix: one surface for all nine thumbnails, one kept per size for the photos (frameSurface), and the scene's snapshot turned into a plain image with makeNonTextureImage(), which any canvas can draw.

@shopify/react-native-skia@2.6.2

Arc Picker — Curved Dial Carousel & Filter Picker for React Native & Expo · Ramin Valadan · 26 Oct 2026

The tools and the machineL-QWVTAI

expo-haptics on the web calls navigator.vibrate, which Chrome blocks with a console error until the first tap

What happened: turning the dial with the mouse wheel and the arrow keys, before any click on the page, logged this console error: "Blocked call to navigator.vibrate because user hasn't tapped on the frame or any embedded frame yet".
The fix: CANBUZZ = Platform.OS !== 'web', so the ticks run on phones only. Desktops can't vibrate anyway.

expo-haptics@57.0

Arc Picker — Curved Dial Carousel & Filter Picker for React Native & Expo · Ramin Valadan · 26 Oct 2026