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Solid can now drive Perry native widgets through a new local perry-solid package. h, reactive property getters, text accessors, and keyed For children use a retained universal-renderer tree; disposal stops effects, releases user callbacks, and detaches the mounted widgets. The package includes a counter/list example, installation instructions, and repeatable portable and native tests.

The real widget test exposed two blockers for keyed ordering: macOS indexed insertion appended regardless of its index, and the compiler passed integer reorder indices to native functions expecting doubles. This change fixes both, preserves AppKit layout metadata when moving between stacks, refreshes hidden-view positions, and replaces the Windows reorder stub with a layout-aware move.

Validation:

  • All 64 local lint/compile gates pass; two GitHub-expression-only checks are skipped by the runner.
  • Node assertion suite, TypeScript typecheck, and the native release fixture pass. The portable suite covers reactive text/properties, callback replacement, keyed identity, reparenting, invalid tree operations, disposal, and opaque handles.
  • Actual AppKit integration test fails before the insertion fix and passes afterward, including retained width constraints and hidden reattachment.
  • An independently installed consumer imports perry-solid by package name and compiles as 5 native modules, 0 JavaScript. Geisterhand verifies stable text handles, button events, keyed row order, and disposal; saved screenshots were inspected.
  • With the separate GC verifier correction in fix(gc): allow retained array-growth aliases during copying verification #9822, the portable suite passes three protected/verifying GC schedules. The actual UI passes at schedule rate 1: 92 copying collections and 14,142 moved objects.

Executed native coverage is macOS; other platforms still need platform runs. No workspace version bump or package publication. This implements the runtime/native-hyperscript stage of #4644 following #9821; Solid JSX compilation remains open.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added the perry-solid package, enabling Solid.js applications to render native Perry interfaces.
    • Added support for native stacks, text, buttons, spacers, dividers, reactive properties, events, keyed lists, reparenting, and cleanup.
    • Added a counter example demonstrating Solid-based native UI development.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Fixed child reordering and indexed insertion behavior on macOS and Windows while preserving layout metadata.
  • Documentation

    • Added installation, usage, API, and validation guidance for perry-solid.
  • Tests

    • Added renderer, release, native ordering, and macOS smoke-test coverage.

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The pull request adds the perry-solid Solid native renderer, native widget drivers, reactive lifecycle handling, keyed movement, and disposal. It also fixes macOS and Windows child ordering and adds unit, native smoke, release-fixture, and documentation coverage.

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Solid native renderer

Layer / File(s) Summary
Renderer contracts and lifecycle
packages/perry-solid/src/renderer.ts
Defines native node types and driver operations. Implements element creation, text materialization, reactive properties, keyed movement, reparenting, hyperscript, and disposal.
Native driver and package integration
packages/perry-solid/src/index.ts, packages/perry-solid/package.json, packages/perry-solid/tsconfig.json, packages/perry-solid/examples/counter.ts, packages/perry-solid/README.md, packages/perry-solid/.gitignore
Maps Solid elements and properties to Perry widgets. Adds package configuration, TypeScript settings, a counter example, and usage documentation.
macOS stack ordering
crates/perry-ui-macos/src/widgets/mod.rs, crates/perry-ui-macos/tests/native_widget_order.rs, crates/perry-ui-macos/Cargo.toml
Uses gravity-based stack operations. Refreshes cached parent indices after insertion, movement, removal, and hidden-child reattachment. Tests native order, reparenting, constraints, and cached positions.
Cross-platform reorder dispatch
crates/perry-dispatch/src/ui_table/part_a.rs, crates/perry-ui-windows/src/ffi/widget_layout_extras.rs, crates/perry-ui-windows/src/widgets/mod.rs
Passes reorder indices as floating-point arguments and implements Windows child reordering with bounds checks and layout requests.
Native and release validation
packages/perry-solid/test/*, tests/release/packages/perry-solid/*, changelog.d/9825-solid-native-renderer.md
Adds mock-driver tests, a macOS Geisterhand smoke test, a native release fixture, expected output, fixture ignores, and changelog coverage.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to cf0c8

Platform-specific insertion behavior and validation workflows can produce incorrect ordering or unreliable test results. The fixes are localized, but should be applied before relying on cross-platform and release validation.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant SolidApp
  participant SolidRenderer
  participant PerryDriver
  participant NativeWidgetTree
  SolidApp->>SolidRenderer: render reactive component tree
  SolidRenderer->>PerryDriver: create widgets and set properties
  SolidRenderer->>PerryDriver: insert or move keyed children
  PerryDriver->>NativeWidgetTree: update native widget order
  SolidApp->>SolidRenderer: dispose root
  SolidRenderer->>PerryDriver: remove and release subtree
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Description check ✅ Passed The description clearly explains the renderer, native widget fixes, test coverage, platform scope, and excluded work. It does not reproduce the template headings or checklist, but it provides the requ…
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely identifies the main change: adding a Solid universal renderer for native widgets.
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In `@crates/perry-ui-macos/src/widgets/mod.rs`:
- Line 530: Update the Windows add_child_at implementation to clamp the signed
index to zero before converting it to usize, matching the behavior in the macOS
widgets module so negative indices insert the child first rather than append it.

In `@packages/perry-solid/test/native-smoke.py`:
- Line 55: Synchronize the native smoke test’s polling port with the binary’s
compile-time Geisterhand port. Update the invocation around subprocess.Popen and
the related argument handling so --port is either removed or passed consistently
to both the test URL and the compiler’s --geisterhand-port value.

In `@tests/release/packages/perry-solid/fixture.sh`:
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  • crates/perry-dispatch/src/ui_table/part_a.rs
  • crates/perry-ui-macos/Cargo.toml
  • crates/perry-ui-macos/src/widgets/mod.rs
  • crates/perry-ui-macos/tests/native_widget_order.rs
  • crates/perry-ui-windows/src/ffi/widget_layout_extras.rs
  • crates/perry-ui-windows/src/widgets/mod.rs
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  • packages/perry-solid/examples/counter.ts
  • packages/perry-solid/package.json
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child.removeFromSuperview();
let stack = unsafe { &*(Retained::as_ptr(&parent) as *const NSStackView) };
let count = stack.viewsInGravity(NSStackViewGravity::Top).len();
let index = index.max(0) as usize;

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Keep negative indexed insertion consistent on Windows.

Line 530 clamps a negative index to zero. The macOS native test expects add_child_at(parent, b, -1) to insert b first. Windows converts the same value to usize before clamping, so it appends the child instead. Update crates/perry-ui-windows/src/widgets/mod.rs to clamp before conversion.

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-            let insert_at = (index as usize).min(widgets[idx].children.len());
+            let insert_at = (index.max(0) as usize).min(widgets[idx].children.len());
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In `@crates/perry-ui-macos/src/widgets/mod.rs` at line 530, Update the Windows
add_child_at implementation to clamp the signed index to zero before converting
it to usize, matching the behavior in the macOS widgets module so negative
indices insert the child first rather than append it.

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with (args.output_dir / "stdout.log").open("wb") as stdout, (args.output_dir / "stderr.log").open("wb") as stderr:
process = subprocess.Popen([str(args.binary.resolve())], stdout=stdout, stderr=stderr)

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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  packages crates tests README.md .github 2>/dev/null || true

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printf '%s\n' '--- smoke test source and package README ---'
rg -n -C 5 'geisterhand|19764|/health|fetch|http|port' \
  packages/perry-solid/test packages/perry-solid/README.md

printf '%s\n' '--- compiler option and listener bindings ---'
rg -n -C 4 --glob '*.rs' --glob '*.ts' --glob '*.js' \
  'geisterhand-port|GEISTERHAND_PORT|Geisterhand|geisterhand' \
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printf '\n--- Geisterhand bindings ---\n'
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printf '%s\n' '--- package references ---'
rg -n -C 4 'geisterhand|19764|/health|fetch|http|port' packages/perry-solid/test packages/perry-solid/README.md
printf '%s\n' '--- implementation references ---'
rg -n -C 4 --glob '*.rs' --glob '*.ts' --glob '*.js' 'geisterhand-port|GEISTERHAND_PORT|Geisterhand|geisterhand' crates packages tests

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Keep --port synchronized with the compiled Geisterhand port.

native-smoke.py --port changes only the polling URL. The binary embeds its listener port through compile-time --geisterhand-port. If the values differ, the harness can poll an unused port and time out. Remove --port, or make the test invocation provide the same value to both commands.

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In `@packages/perry-solid/test/native-smoke.py` at line 55, Synchronize the native
smoke test’s polling port with the binary’s compile-time Geisterhand port.
Update the invocation around subprocess.Popen and the related argument handling
so --port is either removed or passed consistently to both the test URL and the
compiler’s --geisterhand-port value.

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source ../_fixture_lib.sh
fixture_dir="$PWD"
package_dir="$(cd ../../../../packages/perry-solid && pwd)"
mkdir -p work

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Recreate work/ before copying fixture files.

mkdir -p work preserves files from an earlier run. The recursive copy at Line 10 can then leave deleted source or test files in work. A stale file can make a repeated release check pass against code that is not in the current package.

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- mkdir -p work
+ rm -rf work
+ mkdir -p work
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Landed on main via merge train #9875. Validated as a tree: 64/64 lint gates, and perry-runtime/codegen/hir/stdlib all green (5,891 tests, 0 failures). Thanks!

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