Claude
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Until now this was built from memory — the reference site is blocked by this environment's egress policy, so the resemblance was asserted rather than checked. Five screenshots of the real thing arrived, and this is what comparing against them changed. Labels say what a thing is, not just what it is called. Every label is now two lines: the name, then its type in smaller, wider-tracked, dimmer capitals. This is the single most characteristic element of the reference and it appears in every frame of it. It also settles a real ambiguity — in a map that mixes scales, "Orion" is an arm, a nebula and a constellation, and nothing about a bare name said which one a label pointed at. For stars the type line distinguishes "System" from "Star", which is the one thing it can say that the map could not otherwise show: which points are somewhere you can actually go. The system view had no body labels at all, where the reference labels every planet. It does now, which turned out to need two supporting changes. The overlay had only ever added and removed labels, never moved them, because stars do not move; planets do, so an existing label is now repositioned rather than left where the body used to be. And the inner four planets printed on top of each other in exactly the clump the star labels were already spread to avoid — so that logic is now shared rather than duplicated, with system bodies ordered outermost-first. Closing in reverses it by itself: the outer orbits leave the frame, their labels drop, and the inner planets take the space. The chrome follows the reference's layout. The scale ladder is a row of chamfered tabs at the top left rather than a vertical list of diamonds at the middle left, and a nameplate across the top centre says what the view is holding. The centre reticle is a hexagon, which is how the reference locks onto a body, and stays distinct from the rectangular panel chrome. Not copied: the ARK/RSI logos, wordmarks, and the bottom-right tool tabs. The first two are someone else's brand, and the third would be four tabs opening features this app does not have. Two e2e assertions moved off bare text matches onto the readout panel's own title. The nameplate names the same thing the panel does, so "is 'Local Stars' on screen" became ambiguous — the assertion, not the design, was what had to give. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WaySiNst4HhDXBHnMy8p5G
End-to-end tests (Playwright)
These tests run the real Angular dev server in a real Chromium browser, covering interactions
that unit/component tests (under src/**/*.spec.ts, run via npm test) can only approximate
under jsdom — most importantly the galaxy↔system camera-flight transitions (real WebGPU/
WebGL2 initialization + raycaster picking) and cross-view search navigation.
Running
npm run e2e # headless run against a freshly started dev server
npx playwright test --ui # interactive UI mode
npx playwright show-report
playwright.config.ts starts npm run start -- --port=4300 automatically and waits for it to
respond before running the suite (webServer.reuseExistingServer is true outside CI, so an
already-running ng serve on port 4300 is reused instead of starting a second one). Port 4300
is used instead of the Angular CLI's conventional 4200 to avoid colliding with an unrelated
server a developer might already have running there.
Notes
- The Sun (
Sol) is always placed at the coordinate-system origin (x=0,y=0,z=0), which is exactly where the default galaxy-view camera looks.camera-flight.spec.tsrelies on this to reliably click-select it by clicking the center of the canvas, without needing pixel-perfect knowledge of the star field's on-screen layout. - Data (bootstrap fetch of
stars.bin/stars-index.json/bodies.json/exoplanets.json/deepsky.json) loads asynchronously after the page loads, so tests poll (re-click/re-check) rather than assume the scene is interactive immediately afterpage.goto(). deepsky.jsonis the one dataset the scene treats as optional: it only feeds the decorative backdrop, so a failure to load it is logged and the star field comes up regardless.