Web app
The web app is the post-race surface: a React single-page app over the FastAPI backend, launched with f1-webapp. It replaced the Streamlit frontend in v2.0.0, and it is where you go after a race rather than during one. The Arcade is the live surface; this one is for looking back at what happened and asking why.
Launching it
f1-webapp
That wraps docker compose up and brings two services online: the FastAPI backend on :8000 and the SPA served by nginx on :8501, with /api reverse-proxied to the backend so the browser only ever talks to one origin.
f1-webapp --help works without Docker installed, so you can read the options before committing to a pull.
You need a .env with OPENAI_API_KEY, or F1_LLM_PROVIDER=lmstudio if you are running a local model. The chat tab is the only part that needs it; everything else works without an LLM.
What is in it
| Tab | What it answers |
|---|---|
| Telemetry | What the car did, lap by lap: speed traces, sector times, tyre life |
| Comparison | Two drivers at 60 fps over the same lap, synchronised |
| Lab | The ML models themselves, with their calibration and thresholds |
| Race | The multi-agent pit-wall call for any lap, with each agent's reasoning |
| Chat | Natural language over the finished race, streaming, rendering tool results inline |
The Chat tab is an MCP client: it reaches the same fourteen tools the agents expose, so an answer about lap 32 runs the same code path the Race tab does rather than a parallel implementation.
How it relates to the other surfaces
All three surfaces call one shared inference engine, src/strategy/inference/engine.py::run_lap. The web app reaches it over HTTP through the backend, the Arcade calls it in-process, and the CLI calls it directly. That is deliberate: an earlier arrangement had the Arcade carrying its own copy of the orchestrator, it drifted, and it shipped wrong results.
So a strategy call you see in the web app is the same call the CLI would print for that lap. If they ever disagree, that is a bug rather than a difference of surface.
Where the code lives
The SPA is a git submodule at src/telemetry/, under webapp/: React 19, Vite, TypeScript, Tailwind and ECharts. The backend it talks to is src/telemetry/backend/, documented in Backend API.
Its build artefact is not committed. CI builds it, and the compose file builds it for a local run.
The surface it replaced
Streamlit served this role until v2.0.0. That page is kept as a historical record at Streamlit frontend (legacy); the paths it describes no longer exist on main.