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Yunfei He 0b61ff2bf4 refactor(runtime)!: public-API audit follow-ups — align to Ink, record decisions (#163)
* refactor(runtime)!: rename AnimationOptions to UseAnimationOptions

Align the useAnimation options type with VueUse's UseXOptions convention, matching its sibling composable options bags (UseInputOptions / UsePasteOptions / UseFocusOptions) and the already-correct UseAnimationReturn. Hard rename, no deprecated alias — done while the package is pre-1.0 (0.0.x), so no stability break.

Recorded under "Public composable naming follows Vue conventions" in .agents/docs/ink-divergences.md. Surfaced by the public-API audit.

BREAKING CHANGE: the exported type AnimationOptions is renamed to UseAnimationOptions; update `import { type AnimationOptions }` to `import { type UseAnimationOptions }`.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* refactor(runtime)!: tighten public API to Ink + record aria decision & alignment principle

Public-API audit follow-ups. Where vue-tui had drifted from Ink with no real Vue reason, align to Ink; reduce speculative surface; and record decisions in .agents/docs/ink-divergences.md.

- renderToString: drop the public `isScreenReaderEnabled` option (Ink's public renderToString is layout-only). The SR-capable variant moves to `@vue-tui/runtime/internal` as `renderToStringWithScreenReader` for the accessibility test suite; SR output is unchanged.

- useTerminalSize -> useWindowSize: drop the invented name + alias, align to Ink's `useWindowSize`. The reactive ref return shape is unchanged (shallowRef divergence still applies).

- DevState/DevErrorInfo: move from the public barrel to `@vue-tui/runtime/internal` (internal HMR types, no public consumer; Ink exposes no HMR types).

- docs(divergences): add a standing "Why align to Ink — and when not to" principle (alignment is a means to reduce bugs, not an end; Vue idiom + reasonableness outrank parity); record the aria-props camelCase decision with its run-verified type-safety boundary; stamp the rawMode-default and measureElement-$el entries with their KEEP decisions.

BREAKING CHANGE: removed public exports `useTerminalSize`, `DevState`, `DevErrorInfo`, and `renderToString`'s `isScreenReaderEnabled` option. Use `useWindowSize`; import HMR types from `@vue-tui/runtime/internal`.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* refactor(runtime)!: move renderScreenReaderOutput to /internal-only

The screen-reader linearizer (ported from Ink's internal
`renderNodeToScreenReaderOutput`) was exported from the public barrel, but it
was never usefully public: its only parameter type `TuiNode` and the
node-construction primitives needed to build one are not public, so a public
consumer could not name or construct the argument. Ink keeps its counterpart
module-internal; we match that.

`renderScreenReaderOutput` + `ScreenReaderOptions` now live only in
`@vue-tui/runtime/internal` (already re-exported there). The live SR machinery
(render, the internal renderToStringWithScreenReader, the <Static> channel)
imports from the source module and is unaffected; public SR output is reached
via the mount `isScreenReaderEnabled` option.

public-api.test.ts: drop it from the public-members list; add a runtime guard
(absent from public, present on /internal) plus a compile-time @ts-expect-error
guard that the `ScreenReaderOptions` type cannot be re-added to the public
barrel.

Docs: new .agents/docs/accessibility-api.md (aria + SR design) and
api-contract.md (public surface = exports + their user-consumable types;
/internal is not the contract); resolve the open item and cross-link from
ink-divergences.md.

BREAKING CHANGE: renderScreenReaderOutput and ScreenReaderOptions are no longer
exported from @vue-tui/runtime; import from @vue-tui/runtime/internal if needed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test(runtime-tests): snapshot the exact public value-export set

Upgrade public-api.test.ts from "documented members present + targeted
negatives" to an exhaustive snapshot of the exact runtime value-export surface
of `@vue-tui/runtime`: adding, removing, or renaming any value export now fails
the test, so every public-surface change must be a deliberate edit to the list.

Type-only exports are erased at runtime and cannot be enumerated, so the type
surface stays guarded individually (the `@ts-expect-error` ScreenReaderOptions
guard); api-contract.md is updated to state this boundary precisely.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-14 01:40:57 +08:00

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Public API contract & surface

What is — and isn't — part of @vue-tui/runtime's public contract, and how the contract is tested. (Behavioral divergences from Ink live in ink-divergences; this file is about the SHAPE of the public surface itself.)

The contract = public exports and their user-consumable types

The public API is everything exported from the main barrel (@vue-tui/runtime): components, composables, entry points — and their TYPES (component prop types, composable return/options types, and named types such as AriaRole, WindowSize, BoxProps, UseXReturn / UseXOptions).

A type is as much a part of the contract as runtime behavior. If user code can name a type and annotate with it, renaming or removing it breaks that code at COMPILE time — exactly as severe as a runtime break. So a type rename/removal is a breaking change, and the type surface is the most important part of the contract to get right.

Because it is contract, it is tested, not merely shipped:

  • public-api.test.ts snapshots the exact public value-export set — adding, removing, or renaming any runtime export fails it, so every surface change must be a deliberate edit there. Specific internal-only members (measureText, the screen-reader linearizer) are additionally tripwired, and internal-only types (e.g. ScreenReaderOptions) are guarded with a compile-time @ts-expect-error. Type-only exports are erased at runtime, so the type surface is guarded individually rather than exhaustively snapshotted.
  • Type-safety behavior is established by RUNNING the type-checker against real usage (tsc for TSX, vue-tsc for templates), never assumed. See accessibility-api for a worked example — which aria spellings the compiler does and does not catch, proven with both tools.

/internal is NOT the contract

@vue-tui/runtime/internal is an explicitly internal / advanced surface — host-node types (TuiNode, …), test-only helpers (renderToStringWithScreenReader), dev/HMR types (DevState, DevErrorInfo), kitty-controller internals, etc. It carries no stability guarantee, is not covered by public-api.test.ts, and may change freely between releases.

Placement rule for any export:

  • A user-facing contract → the main barrel (and it is tested).
  • Needed only by tests or advanced integrators → /internal, never the main barrel.

Packaging/build internals (the exports field shape, .mjs paths, dist layout) are likewise not part of the behavioral/type contract and are not aligned to Ink — see the alignment-scope note in ink-divergences.