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Raven development workflow for building, serving, testing, and debugging Swift WASM apps and Raven runtime changes.

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Raven Development Skill

Use this skill when working on Raven examples, runtime rendering behavior, DOMBridge event handling, or WASM dev loops.

When To Use

  • Build/test a Raven example app
  • Reproduce browser-side rendering issues
  • Debug DOM event handler wiring
  • Validate a framework fix end-to-end in an example

Core Workflow

  1. Build phase (prefer app directory)
cd Examples/TodoApp
swift build --swift-sdk swift-6.2.3-RELEASE_wasm
  1. Serve phase (from the WASM UI package root, prefer Raven CLI dev server)
cd Examples/TodoApp
raven dev
  1. Validate in browser
  • Open http://localhost:8000/
  • Check console for runtime errors
  • Verify UI renders expected state
  1. Iterate quickly
  • Use python3 raven-dev.py in Examples/TodoApp for automatic rebuild/reload loops.

High-Value Debug Checks

  • Browser cache mismatch:
    • compare current WASM checksum against served file
    • use versioned filenames/query params when needed
  • DOM event handlers:
    • avoid dynamic JS property access for handler registries
    • prefer JSClosure storage in Swift dictionaries keyed by stable IDs
  • Build scope:
    • build from example app directory to avoid unrelated target/tooling failures

Safe DOMBridge Pattern

private var eventClosures: [UUID: JSClosure] = [:]

public func addEventListener(
    element: JSObject,
    event: String,
    handlerID: UUID,
    handler: @escaping @Sendable @MainActor () -> Void
) {
    let jsClosure = JSClosure { _ in
        Task { @MainActor in handler() }
        return .undefined
    }

    eventClosures[handlerID] = jsClosure
    _ = element.addEventListener!(event, jsClosure)
}

Definition of Done

  • Repro steps documented
  • Relevant tests/builds pass
  • Browser console is clean for changed path
  • Output behavior verified in example app