phase
Use when optimizing, auditing, or preparing to ship web animations or rendering performance work: frame loops, scroll/viewport reveals, mount/unmount transitions, canvas/WebGL lifecycles, reduced motion, lazy rendering, and deferred off-screen work. Use for jank, per-frame allocations, forced reflows, render loops, animations that do not pause off-screen, content-visibility, requestIdleCallback, analyzing Chrome DevTools performance traces for animation or rendering issues, or choosing between browser-driven CSS/WAAPI, minimal JS, phase, and Motion/GSAP. Use when the user explicitly asks about phase APIs or behavior. Do not use during exploratory animation ideation, prototyping, visual iteration, or trying variants, even when the code already imports phase; wait until the user asks for performance guidance, an audit, production implementation, ship-readiness review, or about phase itself.