ai4s-research / verify
Verify apps/desktop frontend changes visually without launching the Tauri app or a live model
Verifying desktop frontend changes
Full-app runs need an OpenCode session + live model turn. For pure frontend
component changes, mount the component in a throwaway vite page instead:
Create
apps/desktop/verify-<x>.html(plain html,<div id="root">,<script type="module" src="/src/verify-<x>.tsx">) andapps/desktop/src/verify-<x>.tsx(ReactDOM.createRoot, import./index.cssfor Tailwind, import the component via@/). Vite serves
any .html underapps/desktop/automatically.cd apps/desktop && npx vite --port 5199 --strictPort(background).
The npx wrapper may double-spawn and report "port in use" failure while
the first instance is fine — checklsof -iTCP:5199before retrying.Drive with the browser-control skill (Chrome HTTP API, port 9528):
createWindow→waitForSelector→readDom→screenshotTab
(screenshots land in~/Downloads/).
Gotchas:evalScriptis blocked by CSP on the extension — usereadDom/scrollTabinstead;readDomrequires an explicit"attributes": []or it errors with "Value is unserializable".Clean up:
closeTab, kill the vite pid, delete both harness files,
confirmgit statusis clean.