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The useToast hook in Chakra UI manages notifications by stacking based on arrival time. While the id prop effectively prevents duplicate instances of the same event, the system lacks a native mechanism to define importance or priority levels for concurrent alerts. When high-frequency events trigger multiple notifications—such as critical system errors alongs
Goal: prevent ToastContainer from displaying an unbounded number of toast notifications that can clutter the interface and overwhelm assistive technologies. In Chakra UI v2.6+, each toast is rendered as a separate portal element and the underlying zustand store does not provide a built‑in mechanism to automatically discard older toasts when a limit is exceed
Managing Toast Auto‑Close and Cancellation The goal is to ensure that toast notifications dismiss correctly whether they close automatically or are manually dismissed. In Chakra UI v2.x, the useToast hook accepts an autoClose prop that starts a timer per toast. When closeToast(id) is called, the pending timer should be cleared to avoid a duplicate dismissal.
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