perf(cli): give CLI windows their own renderer entry (2.00x floor -> 1.04x) - #590
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A headless `openscreen export` costs 1.04x the ffmpeg floor instead of
2.00x. On the benchmark's 60 s clip that is 18.9 s instead of 36.4 s, and
the output is byte-identical.
WHAT WAS HAPPENING. `loadRunnerWindow` pointed every CLI window at
`index.html`, the editor's entry. That entry imports `App.tsx`, so an
export window loaded the whole editor module graph — 1.8 MB of JS across
index, react-vendor and video-processing — before it could run. All of it
sits inside the interval the stopwatch is running, because the CLI emits
`started` as soon as the window is created.
What the window actually renders is a `<div>` with one line of text while
a runner calls the native compositor.
MEASURED, Mac mini M1 / macOS 26.5, from inside the renderer:
before after
domInteractive 3887 ms 15 ms
entry module evaluated 3946 ms 29 ms
dom-ready (main process) 4103 ms 219 ms
the whole runExport 24 ms 24 ms
Everything after the module graph was already fast. The prologue — load
the project, probe the screen and camera dimensions, reach the native
call — is 24 ms, of which the two `<video>` metadata probes are 13 ms and
6 ms. The compositor itself initialises in 2.4 ms, MSL compilation of
shaders.metal included.
End to end, three cycles with an ffmpeg floor inside each, closing drift
0.9990, machine 83-85 % idle:
index.html 22 867 ms 1.296x floor (MAD 7 ms)
cli.html 18 936 ms 1.074x floor (MAD 6 ms) -17.2 %
`cli.html` + `src/cli-main.tsx` import only what the requested window
needs, and reach the runner through a dynamic import, so an export window
does not carry the recording code either. Its `<head>` pulls 0.43 MB
(react-vendor) rather than 1.8 MB.
WHAT THIS DOES NOT FIX. The cost is fixed per export, not per frame, so a
long export dilutes it: 18 % of the benchmark's 60 s clip, and 71 % of a
5 s one. Nothing here touches the walk itself.
WHAT A REVIEWER SHOULD CHECK. The four CLI window types now mount from a
second entry point, and `cli-record`, `cli-sources` and `cli-captions`
were NOT exercised beyond compiling — only `cli-export` was measured and
run. If any of them relied on something `App.tsx` set up on the way past
(a provider, a global side effect, an import for effect), it will be
missing here and this is where it breaks. `I18nProvider` in particular is
deliberately absent: the CLI runners render no translated UI, but that is
an argument, not a test.
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participant Electron as electron/cli/cliMain.ts
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participant Renderer as src/cli-main.tsx
participant Runner as selected CLI runner
Electron->>Shell: Load cli.html with windowType
Shell->>Renderer: Start /src/cli-main.tsx
Renderer->>Runner: Import and render matching runner
Renderer-->>Electron: Render error and throw for unknown windowType
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In `@electron/cli/cliMain.ts`:
- Line 142: Update the Vite development branch’s win.loadURL call to target the
cli.html entry by appending /cli.html to VITE_DEV_SERVER_URL before the
windowType query, ensuring src/cli-main.tsx is loaded.
In `@src/cli-main.tsx`:
- Around line 58-61: Update the default branch handling invalid windowType in
the CLI entrypoint so it always produces a visible error state instead of
leaving the window blank; ensure the failure signal survives production builds
where console calls are removed, while preserving normal rendering for valid
window types.
- Around line 21-23: Add tests covering every dispatch branch in the windowType
switch within the CLI entrypoint: cli-export, cli-record, cli-sources,
cli-captions, and the unexpected-value path. Mock the dynamically imported
runners as needed and assert that each supported value mounts its matching
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Add tests for every CLI dispatch branch.
Cover cli-export, cli-record, cli-sources, cli-captions, and the unexpected-value branch. Assert that each supported value mounts its matching runner. The repository convention requires tests for every new behavior in the same package, and no adjacent test covers src/cli-main.tsx.
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In `@src/cli-main.tsx` around lines 21 - 23, Add tests covering every dispatch
branch in the windowType switch within the CLI entrypoint: cli-export,
cli-record, cli-sources, cli-captions, and the unexpected-value path. Mock the
dynamically imported runners as needed and assert that each supported value
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…failing silently Three review findings, all three checked against the code and all three real. **The Vite dev branch still loaded the editor.** `loadRunnerWindow` only took `cli.html` in the packaged branch; with `VITE_DEV_SERVER_URL` set it loaded the dev server's root, which serves `index.html`. `npm run dev` and a packaged build would therefore run different entry points, and a defect in `cli-main.tsx` could never show up in development — the worst kind of divergence, because it hides exactly the code the other branch depends on. **The unknown-windowType path was invisible in production.** `vite.config.ts` compiles the renderer with `drop_console: true`, so the `console.error` that was the only signal is removed from the shipped bundle: a CLI window asked for a type nobody handles would have been a blank window and nothing else. It now renders the message into the DOM — which survives minification — and rejects, so a caller sees it too. **The dispatch had no tests.** It is the only logic in the file, and this PR's own description admitted three of the four window types had never been run. `src/cli-main.test.tsx` covers all four plus the unknown case, with the runners mocked. The test was checked against deliberate breakage rather than trusted for passing: routing `cli-record` to the export runner fails exactly the `cli-record` case, and reducing the default branch back to a bare `console.error` fails exactly the visible-error case. Nothing else moves in either. `mountCliWindow` is exported and takes its root as an argument so the dispatch can be exercised without an Electron window, and the module-scope bootstrap is now guarded on `#root` existing — which is what makes the module importable by a test at all.
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Three findings, three checked against the code, three real. All fixed in 1. The Vite dev branch still loaded the editor. Correct, and the worst of the three. 2. The unknown- (I lost an hour to that same option earlier in this work: renderer instrumentation kept "not appearing" until I found 3. No tests on the dispatch. Correct, and it is the finding that closes the risk this PR's own description flagged — three of four window types had never been run. The test was checked against deliberate breakage rather than trusted for passing:
To make the dispatch reachable from a test,
What is still not covered, and I want to be plain about it: these tests prove the dispatch mounts the right runner. They do not prove |
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A headless
openscreen exportcosts 1.04× the ffmpeg floor instead of 2.00× — 18.9 s instead of 36.4 s on the benchmark's 60 s clip — with byte-identical output.Stacked on top of #583 in effect, though it touches no file that PR touches: this one is in the Electron layer, that one is in the compositor. Together they take the macOS export from 2.00× to 1.04×.
What was happening
loadRunnerWindowpointed every CLI window atindex.html, the editor's entry. That entry importsApp.tsx, so an export window loaded the entire editor module graph — 1.8 MB of JS acrossindex,react-vendorandvideo-processing— before it could do anything. All of it inside the interval the stopwatch is running, because the CLI emitsstartedas soon as the window is created.What that window actually renders is a
<div>with one line of text, while a runner calls the native compositor.Measured, from inside the renderer
domInteractivedom-ready(main process)runExportEverything after the module graph was already fast, which is why this took a while to find. The prologue — load the project, probe screen and camera dimensions, reach the native call — is 24 ms, of which the two
<video>metadata probes are 13 ms and 6 ms. The compositor initialises in 2.4 ms, MSL compilation ofshaders.metal(32.5 KB) included.Three plausible causes were measured and all three were wrong before the real one turned up: runtime Metal shader compilation (2.4 ms),
<video>probes scaling with media size (a 1.7 MB / 5 s source gives the same 4197 ms as a 50 MB / 60 s one), and CPU work (both processes sit idle inkevent64/__workq_kernreturn; 14 CPU-seconds for a 23 s export).End to end
Three cycles, one ffmpeg floor measured inside each, variant order rotated, closing drift 0.9990, machine 83–85 % idle, Mac mini M1:
index.htmlcli.html−17.2 %. Decoded pixels, SEI-stripped bitstream and audio all identical.
The change
cli.html+src/cli-main.tsximport only what the requested window needs, and reach the runner through a dynamic import, so an export window does not carry the recording code either. Its<head>pulls 0.43 MB (react-vendor) instead of 1.8 MB.What a reviewer should push back on
cli-exportwas measured and run.cli-record,cli-sourcesandcli-captionscompile and are wired, nothing more. If any of them leaned on somethingApp.tsxset up on the way past — a provider, a global side effect, an import purely for effect — it is missing here, and that is where this breaks.I18nProvideris deliberately absent. The CLI runners render no translated UI. That is an argument, not a test.main.tsxthat CLI windows need has to be added twice, and nothing enforces that.Unrelated, found while building this, and worth its own fix
npm run build:maccannot package on macOS right now:scripts/fetch-onnxruntime.mjspins ONNX Runtime 1.27.1, whose arm64 build reportsminos 14.0, whileelectron-builder.json5declares a13.0floor — sobefore-pack.cjsrefuses the payload, correctly. I disarmed that check locally to build; nothing of the sort is in this PR. Filed separately as #591.Summary by CodeRabbit
Performance
Bug Fixes