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spacewave-debug

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Use the spacewave-debug CLI to inspect and interact with the running page.

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Spacewave Debug

Use the spacewave-debug CLI tool to inspect the running Spacewave Alpha page from the terminal.

Quick reference:

# Get page info
go run ./cmd/spacewave-debug/ info

# Evaluate JS expression (auto-returns single expressions)
go run ./cmd/spacewave-debug/ eval "document.title"

# Evaluate from file (avoids shell quoting issues)
go run ./cmd/spacewave-debug/ eval --file .tmp/script.js

# Evaluate TypeScript from file (bundles with the app aliases first)
go run ./cmd/spacewave-debug/ eval --file .tmp/script.ts

# Show exact visual line breaks
go run ./cmd/spacewave-debug/ linebreaks "h1"

# Detect typographic orphans
go run ./cmd/spacewave-debug/ orphans "p"

# Dump geometry and typography
go run ./cmd/spacewave-debug/ measure ".card"

# Check grid row height consistency
go run ./cmd/spacewave-debug/ grid-check ".grid"

# Preview text rendering (inject, measure, restore)
go run ./cmd/spacewave-debug/ preview-text "h1" "New heading"

# Watch: re-evaluate a JS file on interval
go run ./cmd/spacewave-debug/ watch --file .tmp/script.js

Notes

  • Prefer eval --file .tmp/script.js or eval --file .tmp/script.ts for anything more than a short expression. Inline shell quoting gets fragile fast.
  • Plain expression eval auto-returns the expression value. Multi-line JavaScript should use an explicit return when a result is needed.
  • TypeScript eval files are bundled through Vite, so app aliases such as @s4wave/... are available.
  • The page-side eval result is serialized with JSON.stringify. Convert bigint values to strings in debug scripts before exporting or returning.
  • Use window.__s4wave_debug.root to access the SDK root from page context. When using resource handles in TypeScript eval scripts, dispose only actual resource instances. For example, mountSessionByIdx returns a wrapper object; use const mounted = await root.mountSessionByIdx(...) and then using session = mounted.session.
  • If TypeScript eval reports a module MIME/type error or fails to fetch a dynamically imported module, check that the debug bridge is serving /p/spacewave-debug/eval/*.js and the emitted chunks in .bldr/debug/eval/out/.