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A case study for RAV: Rive Animation Viewer - a desktop app the help your workflow in multiple ways:
- standalone exports
- offline preview
- test any runtime version
- get the snippet for web instantiation
- preview every control rive
- test code
- inspect events
- full built in MCP for AI assistance
Free, Open Source, Actively maintained!
Keeping sizing identical in the preview and every export is the right call. When something looks different on the shipped page, you can compare the same settings instead of chasing four slightly different versions.
Building the MCP support in for AI assistance is the detail that separates a hobby tool from something people actually adopt into their pipeline. Bookmarking this, offline preview alone solves a real pain point.
Building the MCP support in for AI assistance is the detail that separates a hobby tool from something people actually adopt into their pipeline. Bookmarking this, offline preview alone solves a real pain point.
Wow, this looks amazing 💯
Super useful concept. Anything that removes friction from the Rive workflow is a win.
offline preview is the one i'd actually use
Super cool man!! 🔥
Building the MCP support in is a smart move, feels like where every dev tool is heading whether devs like it or not. What's actually driving the maintenance on this, are you using RAV daily on client work yourself, or is it more of a passion project at this point?
I use it myself daily - since I do Rive animation all the time. It’s very helpful, especially for agentic flows that l use between Rive editor with RAV give agent ability to inspect it. and the standalone export is pretty helpful for client handoff. As for maintenance I do it because I like it 😉
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