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💡 What: Removed the global decorationGeneration mechanism from the collaborative cursors rendering and implemented the factory pattern with stable dynamic keys for ProseMirror's Decoration.widget.

🎯 Why: Previously, appending a generation counter to every cursor decoration's key forced ProseMirror to destroy and recreate the DOM node on every single transaction (e.g., typing a character). This caused excessive layout thrashing and garbage collection, severely degrading performance when multiple remote cursors were present.

📊 Impact: This drastically reduces unnecessary DOM allocations and garbage collection pressure by properly reusing existing DOM nodes for inactive or moving cursors whose visual state hasn't fundamentally changed.

🔬 Measurement: The improvement can be verified by observing significantly reduced GC activity in Chrome DevTools during active typing with multiple collaborative cursors connected. Tests have been successfully verified with bun run typecheck and bun run test.


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- Removed global `decorationGeneration` hack that forced DOM recreation.
- Refactored `Decoration.widget` to use factory functions instead of passing pre-instantiated DOM nodes.
- Implemented stable keys dynamically derived from visual state (e.g., opacity, color, connection state) to ensure nodes are only recreated when their appearance fundamentally changes.

Co-authored-by: dezren39 <11225574+dezren39@users.noreply.github.com>
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- Removed global `decorationGeneration` hack that forced DOM recreation.
- Refactored `Decoration.widget` to use factory functions instead of passing pre-instantiated DOM nodes.
- Implemented stable keys dynamically derived from visual state (e.g., opacity, color, connection state) to ensure nodes are only recreated when their appearance fundamentally changes.

Co-authored-by: dezren39 <11225574+dezren39@users.noreply.github.com>
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