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logan 12af6ec1f7 feat(settings): scan from Settings, and watch every job in place
Scanning goes back where libraries are managed -- the Jobs tab's own
comment said the per-library controls had been taken out of Settings to
build it. "Scan All" and "Full Rescan" join "Add Library", "Scan now"
joins the per-library overflow menu beside Rename and Remove, and a
library being scanned says so where its track count goes.

Each surface then gets the job rows for its own kind: scans under
Libraries, index and enrichment under Search Index, downloads under the
download clients, and the autotag apply in the Autotag view -- where
stopping a run matters most, since applying rewrites tags on disk and
that view had no cancel at all.

The autotag panel shares the header's grid row through a wrapper rather
than taking a third row: it is display:none while nothing is applying,
which is nearly always, and a grid row would still spend the
container's gap on it.

The Launch Page select is derived from `VIEW_META` instead of listing
its ten options, since removing a destination is exactly the change
that leaves two hand-written copies disagreeing.
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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