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feat: preview vertex pages with local headless Chrome - #15
A localhost sidecar runs one muted headless Chrome and keeps up to 100 page targets, with a still for each vertex and a single live screencast for the focused vertex.
The browser viewer paints that capture on a camera-facing quad. Frames use a latest-only mailbox and do not enter the 64-command queue.
This is a local proof of concept. It does not change the published npm or Python packages, and setPageFrame is not part of the public TypeScript API.
Test plan
node --test poc/hypergraph-browser/session.test.mjs poc/hypergraph-browser/server.test.mjs poc/hypergraph-browser/chrome.test.mjs (no Chrome)
Manual, with local Chrome: npm run build --prefix web, then node poc/hypergraph-browser/server.mjs and npm run serve --prefix web. Open http://127.0.0.1:8080/demo/browser.html. All five vertices become stills. Focusing one animates only that quad. Focusing another freezes the first on its last frame. Stopping the sidecar leaves no Chrome process.
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New Features
Added a browser demo that displays page previews and live frames for pages in a graph. Selecting a page brings it into focus; changing or clearing the selection updates live capture.
Added viewer support for receiving page images up to 640 pixels per side; larger frames are ignored. The demo displays connection status and errors, and keeps audio muted.
Included a sample graph to explore the demo.
Added a browser service that opens pages from the graph, provides preview images, and streams live frames for the focused page.
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- Around line 21-23: Update the browser startup and cleanup flow controlled by
handleSIGINT, handleSIGTERM, and handleSIGHUP so cleanup handlers are registered
before Chrome launches and remain active for the full browser lifetime; include
SIGHUP and ensure each handled signal closes the detached Chrome process.
- Line 86: Update the `Page.screencastFrame` handler to retain the newest frame
suppressed by the 200 ms throttle and emit it when the interval expires, while
sending the first frame immediately and maintaining the 5 Hz limit. When
screencasting stops, clear the pending timer and frame so no stale frame is
emitted.
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This change adds a Chrome-backed page capture sidecar and browser demo. It also adds page-frame submission through the web SDK and runtime into Bevy textured quads. The sidecar sends initial JPEG stills and focused live frames for fixture vertices.
Adds Chrome target creation, JPEG screenshots, throttled screencasting, and page-session focus management. Tests cover executable paths, page opening, focus switching, and the target limit.
Sidecar server and message flow poc/hypergraph-browser/fixture.json, poc/hypergraph-browser/server.mjs, poc/hypergraph-browser/server.test.mjs
Adds a fixture-backed HTTP and WebSocket server. It sends stored stills to clients, routes focus messages to the page session, and broadcasts live frames.
Page-frame submission and rendering crates/hyper-viz-bevy/src/lib.rs, crates/hyper-viz-bevy/src/page_frame.rs, crates/hyper-viz-bevy/src/render.rs, crates/hyper-viz-web/src/runtime.rs, web/src/sdk.mjs, web/test/sdk.test.mjs
Adds frame validation and mailbox handling, then applies frames to matching scene nodes as camera-facing textured quads. The SDK exposes setPageFrame; tests cover submission, size rejection, and disposal.
Adds the browser demo page and client. The client loads the fixture, displays sidecar stills and frames, and sends focus updates for a single selected vertex.
sequenceDiagram
participant BrowserDemo
participant SidecarServer
participant PageSession
participant ChromeDriver
participant HyperViewer
BrowserDemo->>SidecarServer: Connect and receive stills
BrowserDemo->>HyperViewer: Load fixture and display page nodes
BrowserDemo->>SidecarServer: Send focus for selected vertex
SidecarServer->>PageSession: Focus selected vertex
PageSession->>ChromeDriver: Start screencast
ChromeDriver->>SidecarServer: Deliver live frame
SidecarServer->>BrowserDemo: Send frame
BrowserDemo->>HyperViewer: Submit frame with setPageFrame
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Merge Risk: Moderate · up to c1ec7
The demo can leave a stale quad showing an earlier page image, can keep more than one page animating after quick focus changes, and may render page quads facing away from the camera. Chrome can also be left running if the sidecar is interrupted during startup. These are local proof-of-concept issues, but they should be resolved or accepted before merge.
Security architecture risk: Moderate · up to c1ec7
The localhost-only default limits exposure, but connecting clients receive captured pages and control a shared browser session without authentication. Overlapping focus requests can also leave multiple pages streaming after focus is cleared. These are meaningful isolation and capture-lifecycle risks, even for a local proof of concept.
Retained concerns
Medium · security · observed: The new WebSocket service authenticates neither clients nor browser origins. Every accepted connection immediately receives all configured-page stills and subsequently receives live frames, while also gaining global focus control. An unauthorized loopback client, including an untrusted web origin where browser policy permits the connection, can therefore read captured content and interfere with capture selection. The default public fixture limits immediate confidentiality impact, but custom configured pages can contain private content. Loopback binding restricts network reachability; it does not establish viewer identity.
Medium · security · inferred: All clients share one session, but focus requests execute without serialization. Two requests can both observe no live target, pass the asynchronous foregrounding step, and start different screencasts before either commits the live identity. Only the last identity remains tracked, so clearing focus can leave another stream active and still broadcast. A connecting client can exploit this interleaving to defeat the intended single-stream resource and capture-lifecycle boundary across configured targets. Serial stop-before-start and per-target idempotency do not prevent the cross-target race.
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Security Blast Radius
inferred — The independently reachable scope is one running sidecar's configured pages, captured pixels, and global focus state, with a default ceiling of 100 targets. A socket client learns existing vertex IDs from still messages but cannot introduce navigation URLs. Private-resource exposure depends on configured URLs and Chrome's network reach; the bundled fixture uses public resources. No cloud, persistent-store, or cross-tenant authority expansion was established.
Security Findings and Attack Paths
inferred — An unauthorized client that can reach the loopback socket can receive all stored stills without issuing a command, select known targets, and receive subsequent frames. Overlapping focus commands can additionally create untracked active streams that survive a later clear-focus request. Cross-origin web access is conditional on browser policy, not demonstrated by a live-browser test.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
observed — Controls restrict socket input to focus operations and default exposure to loopback. Navigation URLs originate in a startup fixture, not socket messages. Chrome launch options do not explicitly disable sandboxing, reuse a user-data directory, or publish a remote debugging endpoint. Those controls limit authority but do not authenticate viewers or isolate clients sharing the session.
Resilience and Maintainability Implications
inferred — The single-stream guarantee currently depends on caller serialization rather than an enforced transition boundary. Divergent session and driver flags complicate recovery, while frame broadcasting checks target membership rather than current capture ownership. Consequently, the target-count limit and per-target throttle do not establish a one-stream aggregate capture bound.
Hardening Proposals
proposed — Require a per-launch viewer capability before disclosing captures or accepting focus commands, validate expected browser origins, and retain loopback binding. Define whether multiple clients intentionally share capture authority.
proposed — Give one owner responsibility for serialized focus transitions, capture-state recovery, and frame-forwarding eligibility. Make failed starts restore recoverable state, define disconnect behavior, and pair browser acquisition with explicit startup rollback.
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Headless Chrome often paints a static page once. Skipping every third frame dropped that paint, so focus produced no live image. Forward every paint and keep the listener near 5 Hz, and let the sidecar own process signals so its close is the one that stops Chrome.
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Review comments at @crates/hyper-viz-bevy/src/page_frame.rs:
- Around line 111-113: Update the billboard rotation assignment in the
page-frame setup so the Rectangle’s local +Z front face points toward
camera_position; since looking_at points local -Z toward its target, aim it in
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start commands; do not add the optional CHROME_PATH note.
- Around line 50-61: In the vertices loop, isolate failures from session.open so
one failed page does not stop processing later vertices: log the failure and
continue. Preserve the existing target-limit behavior by rethrowing its error
rather than treating it as a per-vertex failure.
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- Around line 24-36: Serialize calls to focus so concurrent selections cannot
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Bevy 0.18.1 Rectangle mesh front face +Z Transform looking_at -Z StandardMaterial default cull_mode
Result:
Sources consulted:
- StandardMaterial in bevy::pbr - Rust — https://docs.rs/bevy/0.18.1/bevy/pbr/struct.StandardMaterial.html
- bevy/crates/bevy_mesh/src/mesh.rs at main · bevyengine/bevy · GitHub — https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/blob/main/crates/bevy_mesh/src/mesh.rs
- StandardMaterial in bevy::pbr - Rust — https://docs.rs/bevy/latest/bevy/pbr/struct.StandardMaterial.html
- StandardMaterial in bevy::pbr::prelude - Rust — https://docs.rs/bevy/latest/bevy/pbr/prelude/struct.StandardMaterial.html?search=Option%3CT%3E%2C+%28T+-%3E+U%29+-%3E+Option%3CU%3E
- Portal in bevy_easy_portals - Rust — https://docs.rs/bevy_easy_portals/latest/bevy_easy_portals/struct.Portal.html
- …and 20 more
Web query:
Bevy 0.18.1 Rectangle mesh source winding normal +Z Transform looking_at local -Z docs.rs
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Sources consulted:
- bevy/crates/bevy_mesh/src/primitives/dim2.rs at v0.18.1 · bevyengine/bevy · GitHub — https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/blob/v0.18.1/crates/bevy_mesh/src/primitives/dim2.rs
- Transform in bevy::prelude - Rust — https://docs.rs/bevy/0.18.1/bevy/prelude/struct.Transform.html
- Rectangle in bevy::prelude - Rust — https://docs.rs/bevy/0.18.1/bevy/prelude/struct.Rectangle.html
- …and 25 more
Reverse the billboard target.
Transform::looking_at points local -Z toward camera_position, while the Bevy 0.18.1 Rectangle front face points along +Z. The quad therefore faces away from the camera and can be removed by the default back-face culling.
Suggested fix
--- "a/crates/hyper-viz-bevy/src/page_frame.rs"+++ "b/crates/hyper-viz-bevy/src/page_frame.rs"@@ -108,9 +108,10 @@
continue;
}
// Parent rotation stays identity; local rotation is the world facing.
- transform.rotation = Transform::from_translation(origin)- .looking_at(camera_position, Vec3::Y)- .rotation;+ // Rectangle's front face is +Z. looking_at points -Z, so aim away from the camera.+ transform.rotation = Transform::from_translation(origin)+ .looking_at(origin * 2.0 - camera_position, Vec3::Y)+ .rotation;
}
}
Add a unit test with a camera at +Z and a quad at the origin. Assert that rotation * Vec3::Z points toward the camera.
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Add the dependency install step to the run instructions.
server.mjs imports ws and, through chrome.mjs, puppeteer-core. Both are declared only in poc/hypergraph-browser/package.json. The header lists the web build, the sidecar start, and the viewer start. It does not list the install step. A fresh checkout fails with ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND.
📝 Proposed fix
--- "a/poc/hypergraph-browser/server.mjs"+++ "b/poc/hypergraph-browser/server.mjs"@@ -9,11 +9,13 @@
// Sends captured page bytes to the browser demo. `still` is one JPEG per vertex.
// `frame` is the single live screencast. `focus` selects that vertex, or null to stop.
//
// Build the viewer once so this demo's WASM frame path exists:
// npm run build --prefix web
// Then start the sidecar and the viewer:
+// npm install --prefix poc/hypergraph-browser+// CHROME_PATH=/path/to/chrome (optional on macOS)
// node poc/hypergraph-browser/server.mjs
// npm run serve --prefix web
// Open http://127.0.0.1:8080/demo/browser.html
export async function startPageServer({session, driver, vertices, host = '127.0.0.1', port = 0}) {
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// Build the viewer once so this demo's WASM frame path exists:
// npm run build --prefix web
// Then start the sidecar and the viewer:
// node poc/hypergraph-browser/server.mjs
// npm run serve --prefix web
// Open http://127.0.0.1:8080/demo/browser.html
// Build the viewer once so this demo's WASM frame path exists:
// npm run build --prefix web
// Then start the sidecar and the viewer:
// npm install --prefix poc/hypergraph-browser
// CHROME_PATH=/path/to/chrome (optional on macOS)
// node poc/hypergraph-browser/server.mjs
// npm run serve --prefix web
// Open http://127.0.0.1:8080/demo/browser.html
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Update the run instructions in the header of server.mjs to include installing
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Isolate per-vertex failures during startup.
session.open rejects if page.goto fails with a non-timeout error. Examples are net::ERR_ABORTED for a download-type URL, DNS failure, or no network. The await in this loop then rejects startPageServer. One bad external URL stops the whole sidecar. The fixture includes .mp4 and .pdf URLs and URLs on three external hosts, so this is a realistic trigger.
Catch the error per vertex, log it, and continue. The remaining vertices still get stills.
🛡️ Proposed fix
--- "a/poc/hypergraph-browser/server.mjs"+++ "b/poc/hypergraph-browser/server.mjs"@@ -47,10 +47,16 @@
broadcast({type: 'frame', vertexId, jpeg: Buffer.from(jpeg).toString('base64')});
});
for (const vertex of vertices) {
const before = created.length;
- const opened = await session.open({id: vertex.id, url: vertex.url ?? vertex.attrs?.page}, pages);+ let opened;+ try {+ opened = await session.open({id: vertex.id, url: vertex.url ?? vertex.attrs?.page}, pages);+ } catch (error) {+ console.error(`page ${vertex.id} failed: ${error.message}`);+ continue;+ }
if (opened.skipped) continue;
const targetId = created[before];
vertexByTarget.set(targetId, opened.vertexId);
stills.push({
This catch also swallows the 100-target limit error. Rethrow it if the limit must stay fatal.
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In the vertices loop, isolate failures from session.open so one failed page does
not stop processing later vertices: log the failure and continue. Preserve the
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Serialize focus calls. Concurrent calls can leave more than one page screencasting.
focus reads live before its await calls and writes live only after startScreencast resolves. Two focus messages in flight therefore see stale state.
Example trigger: the demo sends focus('a') and then focus('b') on two quick selection changes.
focus('a') is still awaiting bringToFront or startScreencast, so live is null.
focus('b') sees live === null and skips the stop step. It starts b.
live ends as b, and nothing ever stops a.
a keeps broadcasting frames. This breaks the PR invariant that only the focused vertex animates.
The same race applies to focus(null) while a start is in flight. The stream starts after the user cleared focus.
A promise chain fixes this. It also covers several WebSocket clients that call focus at the same time.
🔒️ Proposed fix: run focus operations one at a time
export function createPageSession({maxTargets = MAX_PAGE_TARGETS} = {}) {
const targets = new Map();
let live = null;
+ let focusQueue = Promise.resolve();++ async function focusNow(vertexId, driver) {+ if (live && live !== vertexId) {+ await driver.stopScreencast(targets.get(live));+ live = null;+ }+ if (vertexId == null) return;+ const targetId = targets.get(vertexId);+ if (!targetId) throw new Error(`No page target for ${vertexId}`);+ if (live === vertexId) return;+ await driver.bringToFront(targetId);+ await driver.startScreencast(targetId);+ live = vertexId;+ }
return {
...
- async focus(vertexId, driver) {- if (live && live !== vertexId) {- await driver.stopScreencast(targets.get(live));- live = null;- }- if (vertexId == null) return;- const targetId = targets.get(vertexId);- if (!targetId) throw new Error(`No page target for ${vertexId}`);- if (live === vertexId) return;- await driver.bringToFront(targetId);- await driver.startScreencast(targetId);- live = vertexId;- },+ focus(vertexId, driver) {+ const run = focusQueue.then(() => focusNow(vertexId, driver));+ focusQueue = run.catch(() => {});+ return run;+ },
};
}
Add a test that starts focus('a') and focus('b') without awaiting the first. It should assert that only b is screencasting.
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Serialize calls to focus so concurrent selections cannot leave multiple pages
screencasting or allow a pending start to override focus(null); queue each
operation and run it only after the prior operation settles, while preserving
individual call results and allowing later calls to proceed after a rejection.
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handleSIGINT, handleSIGTERM, and handleSIGHUP so cleanup handlers are registered
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- Line 86: Update the `Page.screencastFrame` handler to retain the newest frame
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Cover signals for the full browser lifetime.
server.mjs installs SIGINT and SIGTERM handlers only after all targets are opened, and it never installs a SIGHUP handler. A signal during startup, or SIGHUP after startup, can terminate Node without closing the detached Chrome process. Register cleanup before launch and handle SIGHUP too. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
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Update the browser startup and cleanup flow controlled by handleSIGINT,
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Supported by static analysis
Web query:
Does Chrome CDP Page.startScreencast emit another frame after a page stops painting?
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Sources consulted:
- content/browser/devtools/protocol/page_handler.cc - chromium/src - Git at Google — https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/%2B/refs/heads/main/content/browser/devtools/protocol/page_handler.cc
- Page - DevTools Protocol — https://chromedevtools.github.io/devtools-protocol/tot/Page/
- cdproto/page/page.go at main · chromedp/cdproto · GitHub — https://github.com/chromedp/cdproto/blob/main/page/page.go
- Source/devtools/protocol.json - chromium/blink - Git at Google — https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/blink/%2B/master/Source/devtools/protocol.json
- content/browser/devtools/protocol/devtools_protocol_browsertest.cc - chromium/src - Git at Google — https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/%2B/HEAD/content/browser/devtools/protocol/devtools_protocol_browsertest.cc
- …and 26 more
Script executed:
# Locate the throttle, screencast, and frame-forwarding identifiers in the sidecar.
rg -n -F -e 'everyNthFrame' -e 'screencast' -e 'Date.now' -e 'setTimeout' -e 'ackScreencast' -e 'screencastFrameAck' -- poc/hypergraph-browser/chrome.mjs ||test"$?" -eq 1
# Read the complete screencast block around the reported lines, with line numbers.
sed -n '55,110p' poc/hypergraph-browser/chrome.mjs | cat -n
Repository: atomicstrata/hyper
Length of output: 2541
Deliver the latest throttled screencast frame.
Within 200 ms of the last forwarded frame, the throttle at chrome.mjs:74 returns without keeping the new frame. If Chrome sends a burst of paints and then the page stops painting, the final paint is discarded. The quad can then keep an earlier frame. Store the newest suppressed frame and emit it when the interval expires. This keeps the rate at or below 5 Hz and still sends the first paint immediately.
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Review comment at @poc/hypergraph-browser/chrome.mjs at line 86:
Update the `Page.screencastFrame` handler to retain the newest frame suppressed
by the 200 ms throttle and emit it when the interval expires, while sending the
first frame immediately and maintaining the 5 Hz limit. When screencasting
stops, clear the pending timer and frame so no stale frame is emitted.
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Summary
setPageFrameis not part of the public TypeScript API.Test plan
node --test poc/hypergraph-browser/session.test.mjs poc/hypergraph-browser/server.test.mjs poc/hypergraph-browser/chrome.test.mjs(no Chrome)npm test --prefix webcargo fmt --all -- --checkcargo test --locked -p hyper-viz-bevy --libcargo test --locked -p hyper-viz-web --libcargo check --locked -p hyper-viz-web --target wasm32-unknown-unknown --no-default-features --features webgpunpm run build --prefix web, thennode poc/hypergraph-browser/server.mjsandnpm run serve --prefix web. Open http://127.0.0.1:8080/demo/browser.html. All five vertices become stills. Focusing one animates only that quad. Focusing another freezes the first on its last frame. Stopping the sidecar leaves no Chrome process.Summary by CodeRabbit