Recently when working with the regl WebGL wrapper library, I encountered a weird error that I didn’t understand the cause of:

(regl) invalid dynamic attribute "position" in command

I checked my code, and I was indeed passing a position attribute and the data array I was using to construct the buffer looked correct. The error also happened intermittently, happening after my application hot-reloaded.

The Cause⌗

It turns out that I had accidentally created two regl instances and was trying to use buffers allocated on one with commands created on a different one.

When my app hot-reloaded, it was incorrectly creating a new instance for the command while re-using the old buffers.

The Fix⌗

I corrected the issue that was causing duplicate regl instances from getting created, and the error went away and my app worked again!

It was a bit tricky to figure out due to the rather vague error message, though.