name	running-tower
description	Launch and drive the Tower map app in a real browser — dev server, Playwright with working WebGL, and how to draw routes/zones via the right-click context menu.

Running Tower

Tower is a Vite + React PWA rendering MapLibre + interleaved deck.gl. Verifying rendering changes requires a real GPU-backed browser and drawing on the map.

Launch

npm run dev   # background; parse the port from output — 5173 is often taken, Vite bumps to 5174+

The gateway (ws://localhost:9000) is usually absent in dev. The app works without it; filter the repeating WebSocket connection ... failed console errors out of script output.

Drive with Playwright

Import Playwright by absolute path (scripts outside the repo can't resolve it otherwise):

import { chromium } from '<repo>/node_modules/playwright/index.mjs';

Headless does not work — Chromium falls back to SwiftShader and WebGL context creation fails, so MapLibre throws and the map never mounts. Use:

const browser = await chromium.launch({ headless: false, args: ['--use-angle=metal'] });
const page = await browser.newPage({ viewport: { width: 1400, height: 900 }, deviceScaleFactor: 2 }); // 2 = match Retina

Readiness: wait for [data-testid="map-container"], then ~4s for tiles.

Drawing features

There are no toolbar drawing buttons. Drawing starts from the map's right-click context menu — selectDrawingMode() in e2e/utils.ts implements this flow and is the reference:

Right-click on the map → menu appears with items labeled from DRAWING_MODES in src/renderer/constants.ts ("✈️ Air Route", "🛤️ Ground Route", "⛔ No-Go Zone", …). Click one (page.getByText).
Left-click each vertex (~350ms between clicks).
Double-click the last vertex to finish.

Drawn features appear in the Mission Elements panel (📋 button), which opens on the right and shifts layout — take screenshots after all drawing is done and crop regions out of the full screenshot rather than pre-computing clip rectangles.

window.__TOWER_STORE__ exposes the Zustand app store in every build (set at the bottom of src/renderer/stores/appStore.ts). Use it to verify feature state (getFeatureCount in e2e/utils.ts) or read getState() directly from page.evaluate.

Inspecting rendering quality

To judge antialiasing/pixel-level output, crop a small region and upscale with nearest-neighbor (PIL is available):

from PIL import Image
img = Image.open('full.png')  # 2x device pixels at deviceScaleFactor: 2
img.crop((x-60, y-60, x+60, y+60)).resize((600, 600), Image.NEAREST).save('zoom.png')

Running Tower

Tower is a Vite + React PWA rendering MapLibre + interleaved deck.gl. Verifying rendering changes requires a real GPU-backed browser and drawing on the map.

Launch

npm run dev # background; parse the port from output — 5173 is often taken, Vite bumps to 5174+

The gateway (ws://localhost:9000) is usually absent in dev. The app works without it; filter the repeating WebSocket connection ... failed console errors out of script output.

Drive with Playwright

Import Playwright by absolute path (scripts outside the repo can't resolve it otherwise):

import { chromium } from '<repo>/node_modules/playwright/index.mjs';

Headless does not work — Chromium falls back to SwiftShader and WebGL context creation fails, so MapLibre throws and the map never mounts. Use:

const browser = await chromium.launch({ headless: false, args: ['--use-angle=metal'] }); const page = await browser.newPage({ viewport: { width: 1400, height: 900 }, deviceScaleFactor: 2 }); // 2 = match Retina

Readiness: wait for [data-testid="map-container"], then ~4s for tiles.

Drawing features

There are no toolbar drawing buttons. Drawing starts from the map's right-click context menu — selectDrawingMode() in e2e/utils.ts implements this flow and is the reference:

Right-click on the map → menu appears with items labeled from DRAWING_MODES in src/renderer/constants.ts ("✈️ Air Route", "🛤️ Ground Route", "⛔ No-Go Zone", …). Click one (page.getByText).

Left-click each vertex (~350ms between clicks).

Double-click the last vertex to finish.

Inspecting rendering quality

To judge antialiasing/pixel-level output, crop a small region and upscale with nearest-neighbor (PIL is available):

from PIL import Image img = Image.open('full.png') # 2x device pixels at deviceScaleFactor: 2 img.crop((x-60, y-60, x+60, y+60)).resize((600, 600), Image.NEAREST).save('zoom.png')

running-tower

Running Tower

Launch

Drive with Playwright

Drawing features

Inspecting rendering quality

Running Tower

Launch

Drive with Playwright

Drawing features

Inspecting rendering quality