radish 🫜

A free, open source weather radar for the web. Built for performance, designed to be extended.

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Radish renders real-time NEXRAD Level II radar data in 3D using a custom Bevy/WebAssembly rendering engine. It's fast, free to use, and built with extensibility in mind.

The goal is a weather radar that runs entirely in a browser and doesn't require a subscription.

Features

• Animated radar loop — play, pause, scrub through radar frames
• NEXRAD Level II data — fetched directly from S3, parsed and decompressed client-side
• NOAA severe weather alerts — polygon overlays with severity filtering and detail panel
• Radar site map — clickable NEXRAD site markers to quickly switch locations
• 3D visualization — orbit camera with pan, tilt, zoom, and pinch gesture support
• Multi-layer — stack multiple radar sites and layers simultaneously

Architecture

The app is split into a React/TypeScript frontend and a Bevy rendering engine compiled to WebAssembly. They communicate over a simple command/event bus — React sends JSON commands, Rust dispatches events back.

Everything that touches data lives in Rust. The JS layer handles UI only.

Plugin system

Layers are plugins. Each plugin is a pair:

• Rust side — a Bevy Plugin that registers systems and handles commands
• TypeScript side — a PluginDefinition with a sidebar card component and optional hooks

i.e.

plugins/
  layer-basemap/       Geographic reference lines
  layer-radar-l2/      NEXRAD L2 reflectivity
  layer-noaa-alerts/   NWS alert polygons
  layer-radar-sites/   Clickable radar site markers

Core crates

radish/
  radish-core/     Shared types, NEXRAD parsing, coordinate math
  radish-fetch/    HTTP utilities (S3, NOAA endpoints)
  radish-render/   Bevy plugin system, command bus, camera
  radish-web/      WASM entry point, JS-exported API
  radish-worker/   Second WASM module — runs in a Web Worker for decompression
  radish-cli/      Native debug binary

Stack

• Rust + Bevy 0.18 — rendering engine, compiled to WASM
• wasm-bindgen — Rust/JS FFI
• React 19 + TypeScript — UI
• Vite — bundler

Building

# Build WASM (both modules)
pnpm build:wasm

# Dev server
pnpm dev

# Production build
pnpm build

License

MIT