run-appdevicebridge

# Run the Shiny.AppDeviceBridge sample Paths are relative to the repository root (`webapphost/`). macOS only. The sample is three processes: - `samples/Sample.ReleaseServer` — the update server, `:5199` - `dotnet watch` on `samples/Sample.Blazor` — the dev server, `:5288` - `samples/Sample.MacOS` — the AppKit head. Its loopback host (`:5780`) proxies pages from the dev server and serves the native bridges. `.claude/skills/run-appdevicebridge/driver.sh` starts them in the right order, screenshots the app window, clicks in it, and triggers hot reload. Screenshots land in `artifacts/run-appdevicebridge/`. ## Prerequisites Verified on this machine: .NET SDK 10.0.401 with the `maui` and `macos` workloads, Xcode 27.0, and `cliclick` at `/opt/homebrew/bin/cliclick`. The terminal needs Screen Recording permission for `screencapture`. ## Run (agent path) ```bash .claude/skills/run-appdevicebridge/driver.sh up .claude/skills/run-appdevicebridge/driver.sh status ``` `up` is idempotent and takes about 25 seconds cold. It returns once the app's loopback server answers, but a Debug Blazor app shows "Starting…" for another 10–20 seconds. Wait before the first screenshot: ```bash perl -e 'select(undef,undef,undef,20)' && .claude/skills/run-appdevicebridge/driver.sh shot home ``` Clicks take points from the window's top-left, title bar included. Screenshots are 2x, so divide image pixels by 2. The window is 1280×720 points: ```bash .claude/skills/run-appdevicebridge/driver.sh click 459 55 # the "Device" nav link .claude/skills/run-appdevicebridge/driver.sh shot device ``` Hot reload changes the Home page `<h1>` in place and waits for `dotnet watch` to report it: ```bash .claude/skills/run-appdevicebridge/driver.sh heading "AppDeviceBridge + Blazor (hot reloaded)" .claude/skills/run-appdevicebridge/driver.sh heading "AppDeviceBridge + Blazor" ``` The rest: ```bash .claude/skills/run-appdevicebridge/driver.sh logs # dotnet watch output .claude/skills/run-appdevicebridge/driver.sh test # the full unit and integration suite .claude/skills/run-appdevicebridge/driver.sh down ``` ## Run (human path) ```bash cd samples/Sample.Blazor && dotnet watch run --launch-profile device ``` With that running, start `samples/Sample.MacOS` from your IDE. Edits to `Sample.Blazor` go to the app through the dev server. ## Gotchas - **`shot` and `click` bring the app forward and move the real mouse.** Don't run them while someone is using the Mac. A click sent while another app was in front landed in that app. - **Screenshot by window id, not screen rectangle.** A rectangle capture picked up a Discord splash floating over the app. `shot` uses `screencapture -l`. - **Start order matters.** The app only uses the dev server if it answers when the app starts. If `dotnet watch` starts later, the app quietly serves the embedded build. `up` starts the servers first. - **Apple builds need `-p:ValidateXcodeVersion=false`.** The installed macOS SDK (26.5) expects Xcode 26.6; this machine has 27.0. - **Hot reload can leave the page broken.** A Razor edit logs "C# and Razor changes applied", but the rebuild deletes and rewrites the fingerprinted `_framework/dotnet.<hash>.js`. The page reloads in between and stops at "Could not start: Failed to start platform. Reason: TypeError: Importing a module script failed." It stays there; `up` relaunches the app and it loads. - **Save files in place.** Saving a `wwwroot` file by writing a temp file and renaming it crashed `dotnet watch` (`Unexpected true - file HotReloadMSBuildWorkspace.cs line 158`), and the Blazor app exited. `heading` writes in place. To recover: `down` then `up`. - **`dotnet watch` needs `NBGV_CacheMode=None`.** Without it, it failed with `An item with the same key has already been added. Key: ProjectInstanceId { ProjectPath = …/nerdbank.gitversioning/…/PrivateP2PCaching.proj }`. The setting is committed in `Directory.Build.props`. - **gps and geofences are struck through on AppKit.** Shiny.Locations has no macOS build, so this is expected. - **Use the AppKit head.** The Mac Catalyst head (`samples/Sample.Maui -f net10.0-maccatalyst`) builds, but exits at launch with code 133 and leaves no crash report. Unresolved. - **No `sleep`.** Agent shells here block it, so the driver waits with `perl -e 'select(...)'`. - **Drive it with MAUI DevFlow, not `click`/`shot`, when someone is at the Mac.** Sample.MacOS registers the DevFlow agent and its WebView (`DevFlowWebView.cs`, Debug only), and `up` launches the app with `open -g`, behind whatever is in front. `maui devflow webview Runtime evaluate -ah 127.0.0.1 "<js>"` runs script in the page; `maui devflow ui screenshot -ah 127.0.0.1 --overwrite --output x.png` captures the window. Pass `-ah 127.0.0.1` (`localhost` resolves to `::1`, the agent listens on IPv4), and retry "Another DevFlow session is driving this app": the agent holds a lease of a few seconds after each command. A window that was never on screen screenshots blank and throttles the page's timers; the Maps page's **Snapshot** button renders the map to an `<img>` whose `src` can be read instead. - **After editing any JS in Sample.Blazor, restart `dotnet watch`** (`down` then `up`). The page's import map points at fingerprinted file names that watch does not refresh, so the edited module fails with "Importing a module script failed" until it restarts. Edit wwwroot files in place: a temp-file-and-rename save serves them as empty bodies. - **`dev server did not start` again and again:** earlier `dotnet watch` processes that crashed can hang and keep the watcher; `pgrep -fl "dotnet watch run --launch-profile device"` and kill them before `up`. ## Troubleshooting - **`shot` says `could not create image from window`** while `status` is all green: the Mac's screen is locked (`ioreg -n Root -d1 -a | grep -A1 CGSSessionScreenIsLocked`). Nothing can be captured or clicked until it is unlocked; drive the bridges with `curl` instead — a Debug build answers any caller. - **`up` fails with `dev server did not start`** and `devserver.log` ends in `Failed to start the EventStream` then `PAL_SEHException`: `dotnet watch` could not start its file watcher. Build and `open` the app without it; the embedded build is served. - **`_LSOpenURLsWithCompletionHandler() failed with error -600`** came from `open` running while the previous instance was still exiting. `up` now waits for it to exit. - **`could not create image from rect`** came from the old rectangle capture during a display change. `shot` now captures by window id. - **The window spins forever and `status` shows `app loopback :5780 000`** happened when `WebAppHostView` only started from `Loaded`, which the maui-labs AppKit backend never raises. It now also starts from `OnHandlerChanged`; if the spinner is back, that has regressed. - **The window says `The web app host could not be created: InvalidOperationException: Unable to resolve service for type 'Shiny.IPlatform' while attempting to activate 'Shiny.Push.PushManager'`.** A bridge registered a Shiny service on macOS without `EnsureShinyCore()` (`src/Shared/ShinyCoreHosting.cs`).