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logan 1ab767a317 feat(shell): take the top bar out of the phone's layout
The row is deleted from the grid template below 600px, not the header
hidden. That is 3.25em of a 439 CSS px viewport -- the single biggest
vertical win the reference device has to give, and the reason the issue
asks for the row rather than for a smaller bar.

Each of the five things the bar held has somewhere else to be there:
nav-history is the platform's own back gesture and was already gone from
899 down, the job indicator is <job-band> (#62, which is what this was
blocked on), the search box is a modal opened from the view's own
header, the library filter is Settings -> Libraries, and the wordmark
stays where it is.

Three things are load-bearing.

**The header is visually hidden rather than display: none**, because
that h1 is the document's top-level heading and several pages have no
other one -- page-header renders no h1 when its heading is empty, and
Settings has no page-header at all. Its four controls are display: none
*inside* it, which is what keeps them out of the tab order: a
visually-hidden container is still focusable, and tabbing into a search
box nobody can see is worse than not having one.

**The fit pass stands down**, from the bar's computed position rather
than from a width. With the bar out of flow there is no content box to
measure children against, and a pass that ran would collapse the
wordmark on every resize and report success about a 1px box.

**top-bar-fit.spec.ts keeps 390 and asserts the stronger property.**
"Nothing hangs out of the bar" is trivially true of a bar with no row
and would pass on a build that merely broke it, so what that width asks
now is that the content starts where the row above it ends. Measuring
against the window instead would have been asserting "and no background
job is running", which that spec is not about and cannot arrange.

Closes #57
2026-08-20 20:03:20 -04:00
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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