So heres what happened…

In the last hour Claude generated well over 600 lines of new code, covering roughly 70% of the work, and while it dramatically sped me up the alternative was that my entire project instantly threw errors because none of it was connected together yet. While trying to make some sense of the chaos it dawned on me I had an entirely abandoned folder within my project called Components that was full of React components – HelpPanel, Readout, SettingsPanel, StartOverlay, TopBar – that I’d previously created but never attached to anything, and the kicker was my project wasn’t even set up to buildReact.

My package.json didn’t contain react or react-dom, tsconfig.json had no JSX support, and my main.tsx was just vanilla JS with a button, and a tag masquerading as a UI element. So I decide to just bite the bullet and hook up React to my project for real. I install React, ReactDOM, and the types for both. Add a vite plugin in a new vite.config.ts, update tsconfig.json’s jsx compiler option to “react-jsx”, write an actual App.tsx that owns the top-level application state (my Performer engine, configuration, the live snapshot of what’s playing, and the state of the camera module) and passing that down into all the components so that the top bar, readout, panels and start screen actually did things.

I wire it into my existing drawScene() function via the canvas, I implement some keyboard shortcuts for notes(A-L), octave raises/lowers(Z/X) and tanpura playback(space). I also implement pointer support for playing notes via click and drag without a camera attached. Two things I spotted and removed was a React StrictMode wrap, which would immediately break AudioContext and my handtracking model by remounting them when they just shouldn’t. I also had an import mistmatch between App with braces and a default exported App.

Lastly I added a real index.html with a where React mounts and styled the top bar, readout, panels, and start overlay with a whole new styles.css. I was able to clear down all of Claude’s errors, get TSC output zero errors(tsc –noEmit) and build.