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feat(library): play all and shuffle all on every track list
Four pages that list tracks — Tracks, genre, artist, and both playlist
views — had no way to start the whole list, or had a broken one. One
shared helper (utils/play-all.ts) now owns what "shuffle this
collection" means: SetQueue's shuffleStart only picks a random first
track when shuffle mode is already on, it does not turn it on, so the
mode is toggled before the queue is set. Each host passes an honest
queue Source (#14): anything that builds a queue names what it built it
from, so "Playing from" stops lying.

Two behaviour changes ride along, both flagged: smart-playlist-details'
Shuffle was a live no-op (shuffleStart without enabling mode played
track 1 in order) and is fixed; playlist-details' Play all drops its
shuffleStart:true, so with shuffle mode already on it now starts at the
first row instead of a random one — the album page's existing
semantics.

Verified: make ui-test (1147, incl. a case that fails when the
smart-playlist fix is reverted), npx tsc --noEmit, make e2e (255,
incl. new play-all and header-fit specs), make lint, make test,
make bindings-check, make css-check; artist header read from
screenshots at 424/320/900 (the pair wraps below the name on a phone).

Closes #31
2026-09-03 17:06:55 -04:00
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2025-03-28 11:43:14 -05:00

YellowJacket Frontend

This directory contains the frontend for YellowJacket.

Dependencies

There are a couple of tools that are required to build and use the frontend.

  • vite for
    • transpiling typescript
    • bundling the final "package" that is useb by the webview
    • running a dev server with hot-reloading
    • configured with the vite.config.ts file in this directory
  • pnpm for managing frontend dependency packages

There are a handful of dependency packages that we use directly in the frontend.

Lastly, there are some dependencies that only benefit development

  • tsserver comes bundled with vscode and can be used as an LSP with other editors using typescript-language-server
    • Used for autocomplete, syntax highlighting, etc.
    • This can be configured with the tsconfig.json file in the root of the project
      • NOTE: your configuration should align with the vite config so you get in-editor feedback that aligns with how the build will be done.

Development

Ideally, you would use the frontend in the wails app as the frontend depends on the Go bindings generated by Wails. You can do this by running wails dev in the root of the YellowJacket repo.

If you want to run the frontend standalone, make sure the Wails go bindings have been generated with wails generate modules. Then, you can run pnpm dev to run the vite dev server. For more information on what commands are available, refer to package.json.

Code

Web Components

Our frontend is based off of Web Components, a standard that provides native browser encapsulation of components that can include HTML, CSS and Javascript all together. Instead of writing these components manually in Javascript, we utilize lit as a wrapper library.

Typescript

To better integrate with our tooling and to provide a better developer experience with strong typing, we have written all functional frontend code in Typescript. Vite serves as our Typescript transpiler.

Important Files and Directories

NOTE: most of these directories have aliases defined in tsconfig.json and vite.config.ts so that we may refer to them by shorthand when importing.

  • index.html and index.js is the entrypoint for the frontend. The first page that loads.
  • wailsjs/go Go code bindings generated by wails reside here
  • wailsjs/runtime the Wails runtime code needed to use Wails features
  • src all app code resides here
  • src/assets static assets like fonts, images and icons
  • src/components lit components that are used to compose the application
  • src/pages pages that serve as other entrypoints for the application that can be navigated to