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An embedded preview browser's screenshots scaled the WebGL canvas wrongly: check visuals in real Chrome on the GPU

I assumed: the screenshots of the preview pane I was building in would show what the shader drew.
What happened: they scaled the WebGL canvas inconsistently with the page around it, so one capture couldn't be compared with the next.
The fix: every visual check runs in Playwright driving the installed Chrome on the real GPU: the 12 reference images (six palettes in two themes), the frame-rate test and the contrast test.
Evidence: the 16 GPU tests (pnpm test:gl), all run in the installed Chrome.

Learned in the articleA WebGL hero in a Web Worker: Lightfall's lane-space shader, OffscreenCanvas and eight traps

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Published: 26 Oct 2026

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ANGLE warns that dynamic indexing of a vector is emulated and slow: pick the component with ternaries
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Chrome on Windows (ANGLE over Direct3D 11) compiled it but left a warning in the shader's info log, on two lines of the scene shader: "Performance: dynamic indexing of vectors and matrices is emulated and can be slow". It surfaced only…

The fix

pick the component with ternaries, L == 0 ? uLanes.x : (L == 1 ? uLanes.y : uLanes.z), and keep the test: it compiles every shader in Chrome and fails on any warning.

Lightfall — Crypto & Web3 Hero Section for React with WebGL Background · Ramin Valadan · 26 Oct 2026

My own mistakeL-HJW0AI

checkFramebufferStatus is a round trip to the GPU: ask once per format and rebuild render targets lazily

What happened: the first configure happens at 1×1, and a resize and a quality change can arrive in the same tick; each one rebuilt every target, and every checkFramebufferStatus call made the thread wait for the GPU's answer. The rebuilds showed up in…
The fix: a change only marks the targets dirty; they are rebuilt once, before the next frame. The framebuffer is checked once per format, and only to choose one: if a float format is advertised but not renderable, the renderer drops from…

Lightfall — Crypto & Web3 Hero Section for React with WebGL Background · Ramin Valadan · 26 Oct 2026

My own mistakeL-H9QMAI

toLocaleString with options builds a new Intl.NumberFormat on every call: make one per precision and reuse it

What happened: each call with options builds a new formatter, and the ticker formats its 14 pairs on every update. Number formatting showed up in the load profile too.
The fix: one Intl.NumberFormat per number of decimals, made the first time it's needed and reused.

Lightfall — Crypto & Web3 Hero Section for React with WebGL Background · Ramin Valadan · 26 Oct 2026

My own mistakeL-8VEAAI

Creating a WebGL context costs about 150 ms of main thread on its own: create it in a worker with OffscreenCanvas

What happened: creating the context is CPU work on the thread that asks for it: one long task of about 150 ms at load, which no amount of tidying in our code could remove. Lighthouse desktop Performance had been 69–71.
The fix: the page hands its canvas to a Web Worker (transferControlToOffscreen), and context creation, shader compiles and every frame happen there; the page talks to the engine through messages. Lighthouse desktop Performance went to 98–99, with…

Lightfall — Crypto & Web3 Hero Section for React with WebGL Background · Ramin Valadan · 26 Oct 2026

My own mistakeL-5XZPAI

A data attribute set from a media query after hydration shifted the layout: keep server markup stable, use CSS

What happened: the server can't know the screen's width, so it rendered the hero's own alignment, and on a phone the attribute flipped to "center" after hydration, moving the copy. A chip shown only on touch screens also appeared after mount. Lighthouse…
The fix: data-align always carries the prop, and a @media (max-width: 1023px) rule centres the copy; the media query is now used only for what the canvas draws (where the light is centred), which moves no layout. The tilt chip is rendered from the…

Lightfall — Crypto & Web3 Hero Section for React with WebGL Background · Ramin Valadan · 26 Oct 2026

My own mistakeL-HQ1TAI

A requestAnimationFrame timestamp can be earlier than the performance.now() you took before it: clamp progress at zero

What happened: the timestamp a frame callback gets is when that frame began, which can be a little before t0. Progress came out slightly negative, and the ease 1 - 2^(-10t) turned that into a negative number: a phone capture caught a stat flashing below…
The fix: clamp progress to 0..1 before easing.

Lightfall — Crypto & Web3 Hero Section for React with WebGL Background · Ramin Valadan · 26 Oct 2026