Summary: Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/facebook/yoga/pull/1481 X-link: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/pull/41684 Absolute nodes can be laid out by themselves and do not have to care about what is happening to their siblings. Because of this we can make `positionAbsoluteChild` the sole place where we handle this logic. Right now that is scattered around algorithm with many `if (child is absolute)` cases everywhere. This makes implementing position static a lot harder since we are relying on the CB to do all this work, not the parent. With this change the only time we set position for an absolute node and it matter (i.e. not overwritten) is in `positionAbsoluteChild` Reviewed By: NickGerleman Differential Revision: D51290723 fbshipit-source-id: 405d81b1d28826cbb0323dc117c406a44d381dff