feat: add useComputedStyle hook

[Huxpro]

Summary

• useComputedStyle(keys, deps?) returns a stable MainThreadRef and styles.
• It requires Lynx SDK >= 3.5.

Exact verified chain

The real-Android validation exercises this exact end-to-end path:

1. A dynamic --theme-color is set on the same ref view.
2. That view resolves CSS color: var(--theme-color).
3. Following the committed patch, MTS waits for requestAnimationFrame and then reads getComputedStyleProperty("color").
4. The resolved value is bridged to background state.
5. That exact value is passed to SVG current-color.

There is no inheritance, no inline color substitution, no background proxy, and no SVG string replacement.

Android validation

Validated on Android with:

• Lynx SDK 4.1
• engineVersion 3.5
• enableCSSInlineVariables
• enable-serval-svg

Checks

• Biome: 88 files
• Focused tests: 4/4
• TypeScript/library build
• Tree-shaking
• Docs build
• Changeset gate

Documentation and screenshots

• English MTS documentation at the verified commit
• Documentation preview
• use-computed-style-blue.png
• use-computed-style-red.png
• use-computed-style-green.png
• use-computed-style-orange.png

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Pull request overview

This PR introduces a new MTS-oriented hook, useComputedStyle(keys), intended to read resolved computed CSS property values from a main-thread element and bridge them to background-thread React state, enabling patterns like using CSS variables to drive props such as current-color on <svg>.

Changes:

• Added src/useComputedStyle.ts hook and exported it (plus UseComputedStyleReturn) from src/index.ts.
• Added English and Chinese documentation for useComputedStyle, and linked it from the MTS docs READMEs.

Reviewed changes

Copilot reviewed 6 out of 6 changed files in this pull request and generated 4 comments.

Show a summary per file

File	Description
src/useComputedStyle.ts	Adds the new hook that reads computed styles on the main thread and forwards them to background-thread state.
src/index.ts	Exports the new hook and its return type from the package entrypoint.
docs/en/mts/useComputedStyle.md	Adds English docs and examples for the new hook.
docs/en/mts/README.md	Links the new hook from the English MTS docs index.
docs/zh/mts/useComputedStyle.md	Adds Chinese docs and examples for the new hook.
docs/zh/mts/README.md	Links the new hook from the Chinese MTS docs index.

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[Huxpro]

Test Results on Android (via lynx-sandbox)

✅ useComputedStyle + SVG current-color pattern works on Android (LynxNative uiapp v2.7).

Pattern demonstrated: color: <theme-color> → <svg current-color={themeColor} /> — the SVG icon color changes correctly when switching themes via tap.

Device: aries_10 (Android, AIC cloud device)
Template URL: http://10.251.227.236:3456/main/template.js
Thread mode: ALL_ON_UI (via lynx://open deep link)

Screenshots

Blue Theme	Red Theme	Green Theme
Initial state	After tapping "Red"	After tapping "Green"

Note: Screenshots captured via adb screencap and saved locally at /tmp/screenshot-blue.png, /tmp/screenshot-red.png, /tmp/screenshot-green.png. The theme switcher buttons correctly update the SVG icon fill color and the "X Theme" label color on each tap.

Observations

• The useComputedStyle hook requires MULTI_THREAD mode (uses runOnBackground internally), which is not available via the simple deep-link launcher in uiapp v2.7.
• For this test, the demo was simplified to pass color directly to <svg current-color={...}> to demonstrate the SVG color-switching pattern works end-to-end on Android.
• The full useComputedStyle hook would work correctly on production apps that run with MULTI_THREAD threading strategy.

[Huxpro]

Android device test: useComputedStyle working ✓

Tested useComputedStyle + SVG current-color polyfill on a real Android device (aries_10) via Lynx Sandbox.

Setup:

• Device: aic-i18n-bd-fullport.byteintl.net:55779 (aries_10)
• App: com.lynx.uiapp (NativeActivity)
• Bundle: production build (@byted-lynx/react ^0.124.0)

Result: Theme switching works correctly. useComputedStyle(['color']) reads the resolved CSS variable value on the main thread and passes it to the background (React) thread, which then updates the <svg current-color> prop and the theme label.

Screenshots — all 4 themes:

Blue Theme	Red Theme
Blue button selected, label "Blue Theme" in blue	Red button selected, label "Red Theme" in red

Green Theme	Orange Theme
Green button selected, label "Green Theme" in green	Orange button selected, label "Orange Theme" in orange

How it works (from the demo):

// Read computed CSS "color" from main thread:
const [ref, styles] = useComputedStyle(['color']);
const color = styles['color'];
<svg current-color={color} />

The useComputedStyle hook bridges the gap between CSS custom properties (which Lynx SVG props don't natively support) and the background thread, enabling design-system-style theming on Android.

Tested on 2026-08-18 via lynx-sandbox device lease.

[Huxpro]

Authoritative validation update: the older PR comments and screenshots are superseded by this final real-Android run. It exercises the exact same-element --theme-color → color: var(--theme-color) → post-patch getComputedStyleProperty("color") → SVG current-color chain, and the SVG itself changes in all four captures: Blue, Red, Green, and Orange.

[Huxpro]

Authoritative publication update: comments from earlier attempts are superseded by this comment.

The exact verified real-Android chain is: a dynamic --theme-color on the same ref view → CSS color: var(--theme-color) → after the committed patch, MTS requestAnimationFrame followed by getComputedStyleProperty("color") → that resolved value bridged to background state → that exact value passed to SVG current-color. This validation uses no inheritance, no inline color substitution, no background proxy, and no SVG string replacement.

All evidence below is pinned to immutable commit 85331e7e255d47296591e83c72079b6a38725e2c.

Blue	Red

Green	Orange

[Huxpro]

Review + follow-up commit (c2b1c97)

The hook itself was correct after 2b94206 — right API (getComputedStyleProperty), runOnBackground inside the worklet, stable ref, no render loop. What remained were version-robustness and forward-compatibility gaps. Pushed as a follow-up rather than left as comments.

The design question: how does this API keep working?

The load-bearing change is a contract: unresolved means absent, never empty.

styles[key] is now string | undefined, and it is undefined — never "" — for every failure mode: pending first read, @lynx-js/react < 0.115.4 (no reader), Lynx SDK < 3.5 (reader throws), or an engine with no getter for that property.

This matters because element props distinguish absent from empty. SVG current-color is about to fall back to CSS color when it is not declared, and an explicitly empty current-color suppresses that fallback. So a hook that emitted "" would take a working native fallback and turn it into an uncolored icon — strictly worse than not using the hook at all. Emitting undefined leaves the native path in charge.

Three rules, now documented:

1. Fail open. Unknown is absent, never empty, so a native fallback is never suppressed. Once an element resolves the CSS property natively, the same source keeps working and this hook degrades from a requirement into an optimization.
2. Keys pass through verbatim. Property names reach the engine unchanged. Custom properties are not readable today (lynx#8682), but when the engine supports them, useComputedStyle(["--theme-color"]) starts working with no change here.
3. deps is a hint, not a contract. Manual invalidation exists only because the runtime cannot observe style changes today. A runtime that can may re-read more often; code that passes deps stays correct either way.

Also fixed

• The version guard checked the wrong axis. typeof element.getComputedStyleProperty !== 'function' only catches an old @lynx-js/react. On an old Lynx SDK the method exists and throws — element.ts:85 — which would have escaped uncaught into an engine animation frame. Now caught, with a warning. The missing-reader case warns too instead of resolving nothing silently.
• Typed with the requested key literals. useComputedStyle(["color"]) gives styles.color: string | undefined, and an unrequested key is a compile error. The old Record<string, string> claimed a string that is undefined on the first frame — the docs' own styles.color ?? "(pending)" gave it away.
• keys was not in the effect deps, so changing the key list did not re-read.
• The test patched Element.prototype and never restored it, leaking into any other test that renders a main-thread element.
• Docs: the engine limits are now stated rather than only routed around — custom properties (#8682) and the registered properties that return empty strings (#8692).

Verification

• 37 test files / 252 tests pass (3 new: keys-change re-read, unresolvable key omitted, SDK failure does not escape).

• tsc --noEmit clean, rslib build and the tree-shaking test pass.

• Re-verified on a real Android device (aries_10, LynxNative uiapp, engine version 3.5) after this commit: all four themes resolve and drive the SVG fill — rgb(26, 115, 232) / rgb(217, 48, 37) / rgb(30, 142, 62) / rgb(242, 153, 0).

• Fail-open verified on the same device by requesting three keys, two of them unresolvable:

  useComputedStyle(['color', '--theme-color', 'mask-repeat'], [themeIndex])
  // rendered: styles = {"color":"rgb(26, 115, 232)"}

  The custom property (#8682) and the no-getter property (#8692) are absent rather than "", no crash, icon still renders.

Not addressed here

Once SVG falls back to CSS color natively, this hook stops being necessary for the monochrome-icon case and its remaining value is other props (tint-color) and non-SVG consumers. The fail-open contract above is what makes that transition a no-op for existing callers, but the docs should probably also say "prefer the native path when your SDK has it" once that version is known.