From 0fa64b8aafaf5342f63c77ef12fe198e8aaae431 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Miguel Angel Simon Sierra <miguel.sierra@heygen.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2026 23:55:25 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] refactor(studio): drop the soft reload's reparse seeding, the
 held-element sweep covers it

---
 packages/studio/src/utils/gsapSoftReload.ts    | 5 ++---
 packages/studio/src/utils/gsapUndoRestore.ts   | 9 +++------
 packages/studio/src/utils/softReloadTargets.ts | 4 +---
 3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/packages/studio/src/utils/gsapSoftReload.ts b/packages/studio/src/utils/gsapSoftReload.ts
index 5c94e3931e..405d9d764d 100644
--- a/packages/studio/src/utils/gsapSoftReload.ts
+++ b/packages/studio/src/utils/gsapSoftReload.ts
@@ -209,7 +209,6 @@ export interface SoftReloadOptions {
   currentTimeOverride?: number;
   /** After-write file HTML — the primary source for the authored opacity and transform restore. */
   authoredHtml?: string;
-  reparse?: Element[];
   /** Other composition files a reset element is written in, by path; null when one could not be read. */
   nestedFiles?: Map<string, string> | null;
 }
@@ -274,7 +273,7 @@ export function applySoftReload(
   scriptText: string,
   options: SoftReloadOptions = {},
 ): SoftReloadResult {
-  const { onAsyncFailure, currentTimeOverride, authoredHtml, reparse = [] } = options;
+  const { onAsyncFailure, currentTimeOverride, authoredHtml } = options;
   if (!iframe || !scriptText) return "cannot-soft-reload";
 
   const win = iframe.contentWindow as IframeWindow | null;
@@ -347,7 +346,7 @@ export function applySoftReload(
   // fallow-ignore-next-line complexity
   const doReload = () => {
     const timelines = win.__timelines;
-    const targets = collectResetTargets(win, doc, targetKeys, reparse);
+    const targets = collectResetTargets(win, doc, targetKeys);
 
     // Kill ONLY the target composition's timeline(s) — leaving every other
     // composition's timeline (and its children on the global timeline) intact.
diff --git a/packages/studio/src/utils/gsapUndoRestore.ts b/packages/studio/src/utils/gsapUndoRestore.ts
index 04513d5d0e..5814a59afc 100644
--- a/packages/studio/src/utils/gsapUndoRestore.ts
+++ b/packages/studio/src/utils/gsapUndoRestore.ts
@@ -398,20 +398,17 @@ export function applyUndoRestoreToPreview(
   const active = files[activeDocPath];
   const restoredScript = active ? extractGsapScriptText(active.restored) : null;
   const previousScript = active ? extractGsapScriptText(active.previous) : null;
-  const reparse = plan.scripted
-    ? plan.targets.map(({ live }) => live).filter((el) => "_gsap" in el)
-    : [];
-  if (reparse.length && !restoredScript) {
+  const reparse = plan.scripted && plan.targets.some(({ live }) => "_gsap" in live);
+  if (reparse && !restoredScript) {
     reloadPreview();
     return "full";
   }
-  if (restoredScript && (restoredScript !== previousScript || reparse.length)) {
+  if (restoredScript && (restoredScript !== previousScript || reparse)) {
     syncStaleEditMarks(doc, active);
     const result = applySoftReload(iframe, restoredScript, {
       onAsyncFailure: reloadPreview,
       currentTimeOverride: currentTime,
       authoredHtml: active.restored,
-      reparse,
       nestedFiles,
     });
     if (result === "cannot-soft-reload") {
diff --git a/packages/studio/src/utils/softReloadTargets.ts b/packages/studio/src/utils/softReloadTargets.ts
index 46bdd9c7b7..836ba25939 100644
--- a/packages/studio/src/utils/softReloadTargets.ts
+++ b/packages/studio/src/utils/softReloadTargets.ts
@@ -48,10 +48,8 @@ export function collectResetTargets(
   win: { __timelines?: Record<string, unknown> },
   doc: Document,
   targetKeys: string[],
-  reparse: Element[] = [],
 ): Map<Element, Set<string>> {
-  // Elements the caller needs GSAP to parse again, with nothing tweened yet.
-  const targets = new Map<Element, Set<string>>(reparse.map((el) => [el, new Set<string>()]));
+  const targets = new Map<Element, Set<string>>();
   const timelines = (win.__timelines ?? {}) as Record<string, TweenLike | undefined>;
   const others = new Set<unknown>(
     Object.entries(timelines).flatMap(([key, tl]) => (targetKeys.includes(key) ? [] : [tl])),