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💡 Overview

CallState declared every piece of state three times: the BehaviorSubject, a bare x$: Observable<T> placeholder carrying the JSDoc, and an assignment in the constructor. Understanding one field meant jumping between three regions ~200 lines apart, and adding one meant touching all three. This collapses it to one subject/observable pair per field, then takes the two performance wins that fall out of it.

📝 Implementation notes

  • Three module-local helpers keep each declaration to a single line. subject() is overloaded so the seeded and empty cases stay honest at the type level: subject<T>(initial) yields BehaviorSubject<T>, subject<T>() yields BehaviorSubject<T | undefined>. duc() and shared() replace the constructor-local distinctUntilChanged closure and the six hand-spelled shareReplay({ bufferSize: 1, refCount: true }) calls.
  • Every observable is now a field initializer, which leaves the constructor holding only the event handler map (215 lines -> 98). The map has to stay in the constructor: it references private arrow-function fields declared further down, so as a field initializer it would capture undefined and those events would silently stop updating state.
  • The 18 undefined entries in eventHandlers existed purely as a compile-time guard. They are replaced by an UnhandledEventType union in the new src/store/types.ts, enforced with satisfies CallStateEventHandlers. This keeps the "a newly introduced event fails to compile until it is triaged" guarantee and adds two more: a stale name in the ignore list, and an event that appears in both lists, now also fail to compile. All three are verified by perturbing the source, not assumed.
  • RxUtils.getCurrentValue no longer wraps its argument in combineLatest. That wrapper landed in perf(client): share replay of computed observables #1095 to replace pipe(take(1)), whose problem was resolving with the first rather than the last synchronous value; a bare subscribe already has that property. It now also reads a BehaviorSubject's value directly instead of subscribing.
  • The 27 getters backed by a plain asObservable()/duc() pair read their subject so they take that fast path. The eight backed by transforming pipelines (participants, rawParticipants, localParticipant, remoteParticipants, dominantSpeaker, pinnedParticipants, hasOngoingScreenShare, ownCapabilities) still read their observable, since those pipelines change the value.
  • call.state.getCurrentValue() and call.state.setCurrentValue() are removed in favour of calling RxUtils directly, which is what stateStore, DeviceManagerState, SpeakerState and Call.ts already do.

📈 Benchmarks

Measured with the existing bench/ harness against this branch's merge base, median of 7, three full runs agreeing within ~2%.

exercise before after result
read a scalar field (state.callingState) 248 ns 12 ns 20.2x faster
six setters, one of which reads a getter 366 ns 128 ns 2.9x faster
updateFromCallResponse 900 ns 633 ns 1.42x faster
participant patch, 10-participant call 1.1 µs 791 ns 1.36x faster
participant patch, 50-participant call 2.2 µs 1.8 µs 1.21x faster
read state.participants 919 ns 754 ns 1.17x faster
updateFromSfuCallState, fan-out, subscribe churn flat
bundle, minified / gzip 456.6 kB / 133.2 kB 453.7 kB / 132.8 kB -2.9 kB / -0.3 kB

Two caveats measured rather than waved away. Scalar writes look ~1.1x slower in the harness, but those totals are sub-millisecond and therefore display granularity; at 2M writes across 9 interleaved rounds the real delta is 14.31 -> 14.47 ns, i.e. flat. Heap per CallState instance is genuinely ~250 bytes (~1%) larger; the harness reports +8%, but that number is cold-start attribution, and repeating it with the order swapped gives a stable ~0.9%.

⚠️ Breaking change

call.state.getCurrentValue() and call.state.setCurrentValue() are removed. Use RxUtils.getCurrentValue() and RxUtils.setCurrentValue(), both already exported from @stream-io/video-client. Nothing in this repo outside CallState itself used them and no docs reference them.

One further intentional behavior change: RxUtils.getCurrentValue on a completed BehaviorSubject now returns its last value instead of undefined, because it reads the held value rather than subscribing (RxJS does not replay to subscribers of a stopped subject). Nothing in the SDK completes a BehaviorSubject (the only .complete() in the monorepo is IceTrickleBuffer.live, a plain Subject), and there is a test pinning the new behavior. Every other shape was verified identical: ReplaySubject at buffer size 1 and 2, finite windowTime, completed and errored subjects, plain Subject, AsyncSubject, of(1,2,3), EMPTY and throwError.

✅ Verification

yarn lint:ci:all, yarn test:ci:client (82 files, 1168 passed, 1 skipped), yarn test:react-native:sdk (22 suites, 130 passed), yarn build:client. react-bindings, react-sdk and react-native-sdk all typecheck against the rebuilt client. The generated CallState.d.ts is unchanged apart from the two removed members, so all 35 observables keep their exact public types.

🎫 Ticket: https://linear.app/stream/issue/REACT-1106/callstate-clientstate

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Refactor

    • Improved internal call-state handling and event processing while preserving existing calling, recording, membership, blocking, and caption behavior.
    • Improved synchronous access to live call and session state across supported observable types.
  • Tests

    • Expanded coverage for call-state updates, screen sharing settings, and observable edge cases to help maintain consistent behavior.

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CallState declared every piece of state three times: the subject, a bare
observable placeholder carrying the JSDoc, and an assignment in the
constructor. Collapse that into one subject/observable pair per field and
take the two performance wins that fall out of it.

- add subject(), duc() and shared() helpers so each declaration is one line
- initialize every observable as a field, leaving the constructor with only
  the event handler map (215 lines -> 98)
- replace the 18 `undefined` entries in eventHandlers with an
  UnhandledEventType union in store/types.ts, enforced via `satisfies`
- drop the combineLatest wrapper in RxUtils.getCurrentValue and read a
  BehaviorSubject's value directly
- point the 27 getters backed by a plain subject at that subject

Reading a scalar field is 20x faster, updateFromCallResponse 1.42x, a
participant patch in a 10-person call 1.36x. Bundle is 2.9 kB smaller
minified; heap per CallState grows ~250 bytes (~1%).

BREAKING CHANGE: call.state.getCurrentValue() and
call.state.setCurrentValue() are removed. Use RxUtils.getCurrentValue()
and RxUtils.setCurrentValue(), both exported from @stream-io/video-client.
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The change refactors CallState to use shared RxJS helpers and direct subject access. It adds typed event-handler contracts, updates getCurrentValue, and expands observable edge-case tests.

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CallState reactive state refactor

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Direct observable value access
packages/client/src/store/rxUtils.ts, packages/client/src/store/__tests__/rxUtils.test.ts
getCurrentValue now reads BehaviorSubject values directly and subscribes directly to other observables. Tests cover completion, errors, buffering, and synchronous emissions.
CallState subjects and event contracts
packages/client/src/store/types.ts, packages/client/src/store/CallState.ts
CallState uses shared subject, getter, setter, mutation, and update helpers. Event handlers use typed mappings that exclude events with no state changes.
State update migration and validation
packages/client/src/store/CallState.ts, packages/client/src/devices/__tests__/ScreenShareManager.test.ts, packages/client/src/store/__tests__/CallState.test.ts
Lifecycle, participant, recording, caption, membership, and metadata updates use direct subject helpers. Tests use the updated helper access pattern.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 3b0c5

Call state initialization is refactored to subject-backed fields and direct reads. The remaining risk is limited to nonconformance with the required mutable-state initialization convention, with no demonstrated behavior failure.

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In `@packages/client/src/store/CallState.ts`:
- Around line 115-145: Update CallState so sortParticipantsBy and all subject
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…tState (#2422)

### 💡 Overview

`StreamVideoReadOnlyStateStore` and `StreamVideoWriteableStateStore`
were the last remnant of the original Writable/Readable split,
deprecated years ago and never worked out. `StreamVideoClient` had to
build both and keep a `protected writeableStateStore` next to a public
`readonly readOnlyStateStore`, with `get state()` returning the
read-only half, so internal code wrote through one field and read
through another, while `Call` received the writeable one under the name
`clientStore`.

This replaces both with a single `ClientState` that is readable and
writable, reachable as `client.state`, shaped exactly like `CallState`:
private subjects, `x$` observables as field initializers, a getter per
observable, and `@internal` setters.

### 📝 Implementation notes

- `store/stateStore.ts` is deleted; `store/ClientState.ts` takes its
place. Both class names are gone from the public surface of
`@stream-io/video-client`, `-react-sdk` and `-react-native-sdk`, with no
aliases left behind.
- `client.readOnlyStateStore` and `get state()` are replaced by a public
`readonly state: ClientState`.
- `CallConstructor.clientStore` is renamed to `clientState` (and
`Call`'s private field with it).
- `subject`, `duc` and `shared` move out of `CallState.ts` into an
internal `store/subjects.ts` so both state classes can share them. It is
deliberately not added to `store/index.ts`, the same treatment as the
existing `store/types.ts`.
- **The auto-leave-on-disconnect effect moves out of the state class.**
It used to be a live `connectedUserSubject.subscribe(...)` in the
store's constructor; it is now `StreamVideoClient.leaveAllCalls`, called
from `disconnectUser`. Two deliberate behavior changes, and the main
thing to review here: the leaves are now **awaited**, so
`disconnectUser()` resolves only once every call has left; and they run
**before** `streamClient.disconnectUser(timeout)` rather than after. The
ordering is what makes the awaiting safe: `Call.leave()` does real
network work (`reject('cancel')`, `sfuStatsReporter.flush()`,
`sfuClient.leaveAndClose()`), and awaiting that against an
already-closed coordinator connection is how `disconnectUser` would
start hanging in apps. Running the loop while the connection is still
live is both faster and more correct. Coverage is unchanged:
`setConnectedUser` has exactly two callers, both in `StreamVideoClient`.
- Two logger scopes change, worth knowing since consumers can key
`logOptions` by name: the call-registry trace moves from `client-state`
to `ClientState`, and the leave-all lines now log under `client`.
- `sample-apps/react/react-dogfood/hooks/useGleap.ts` needed a fix that
was not obvious. It walked `Object.entries(client.state)` filtering on
"has a `.subscribe`", which worked only because the old read-only store
had nothing but the two observables. TypeScript `private` is erased at
runtime, so the merged class exposes `connectedUserSubject` and
`callsSubject` too; without a guard the Gleap payload would have
duplicated every value and then hit a circular-reference
`JSON.stringify` failure on raw `Call` objects, silently falling into
the catch. Now filtered on `key.endsWith('$')`, which is what
`serializeCallState` in the same file already does for `call.state`.
- `sample-apps/react/egress-composite` drops its `@ts-expect-error
private api` and calls `client.state.registerCall(call)` directly.

> [!NOTE]
> Stacked on #2419. Review that one first; the diff here is only the
`ClientState` change. Base will retarget to `main` once #2419 merges.


🎫 Ticket:
https://linear.app/stream/issue/REACT-1106/callstate-clientstate


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## Summary by CodeRabbit

- **New Features**
- Added a unified client state API for accessing connected-user and call
information.
- Added support for registering, updating, unregistering, and finding
calls through client state.
- Client state observables now provide reactive updates for user and
call changes.

- **Bug Fixes**
- Disconnecting now leaves active calls before closing the connection,
while continuing even if leaving a call fails.

- **Documentation**
- Updated client architecture documentation to describe the unified
state API.

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