JavaScript keyboard input

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Use these calls inside a JavaScript lifecycle callback.

if (rustic.key("KeyW").held) {
  rustic.log("debug", "forward key is held");
}

The editor's embedded Play viewport currently forwards held WASD, arrow, and Shift keys. Use rustic.key(name).held with KeyW, KeyA, KeyS, KeyD, ArrowUp, ArrowDown, ArrowLeft, ArrowRight, ShiftLeft, or ShiftRight. The API exposes pressed, released, key_events(), any_key_pressed(), and named input() actions, but those values are not populated by the current Play bridge. Other key names and separate runtime windows do not forward input yet. For focus and setup steps, see the Lua input guide; the input transport and limitations are the same for JavaScript.