update record and playback to account for parent node missing when it will be added later

Author: mikeyagner

.changeset/dirty-scissors-promise.md

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+"rrweb": patch
+---
+
+updating record and playback side to account for mutations where a node is missing a parent but it gets added in a different iteration of the mutation

packages/rrweb/src/record/mutation.ts

@@ -383,9 +383,11 @@ export default class MutationBuffer {
     }
 
     for (const n of this.movedSet) {
+      const parentNode = dom.parentNode(n);
       if (
         isParentRemoved(this.removesSubTreeCache, n, this.mirror) &&
-        !this.movedSet.has(dom.parentNode(n)!)
+        !this.movedSet.has(parentNode!) &&
+        (!this.addedSet.has(parentNode!))
       ) {
         continue;
       }

packages/rrweb/src/replay/index.ts

@@ -82,6 +82,7 @@ import {
   getPositionsAndIndex,
   uniqueTextMutations,
   StyleSheetMirror,
+  type ResolveTree
 } from '../utils';
 import getInjectStyleRules from './styles/inject-style';
 import './styles/style.css';
@@ -1703,6 +1704,18 @@ export class Replayer {
       appendNode(mutation);
     });
 
+    const nodeIdsToBeAdded = (resolveTrees: Array<ResolveTree>) => {
+      const ids = new Set();
+      for (const tree of resolveTrees) {
+        ids.add(tree.value.node.id);
+        if (tree.children && tree.children.length > 0) {
+          const res = nodeIdsToBeAdded(tree.children);
+          res.forEach(id => ids.add(id));
+        }
+      }
+      return ids;
+    };
+
     const startTime = Date.now();
     while (queue.length) {
       // transform queue to resolve tree
@@ -1717,7 +1730,8 @@ export class Replayer {
       }
       for (const tree of resolveTrees) {
         const parent = mirror.getNode(tree.value.parentId);
-        if (!parent) {
+        const ids = nodeIdsToBeAdded(resolveTrees);
+        if (!parent && !ids.has(tree.value.parentId)) {
           this.debug(
             'Drop resolve tree since there is no parent for the root node.',
             tree,

packages/rrweb/src/utils.ts

@@ -354,7 +354,7 @@ export function polyfill(win = window) {
   }
 }
 
-type ResolveTree = {
+export type ResolveTree = {
   value: addedNodeMutation;
   children: ResolveTree[];
   parent: ResolveTree | null;