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logan 24887d6840 fix(a11y): make Settings and the Downloads tabs keyboard-reachable
a11y.1 is the audit's last Critical and reproduced exactly: seven
config-section headers, seven bare `<div @click>`s with no tabindex,
no role and no aria-expanded, and every section collapsed by default —
so every setting in the app was behind a control that could not be
tabbed to. a11y.2 is the same bug in Downloads' two `<div class=tab>`s.

Both now follow patterns the app already had: a real
`<button aria-expanded aria-controls>` (explore-artist-details has five),
and a role=tablist/tab/tabpanel with a roving tab stop and
Left/Right/Home/End. The section body renders unconditionally and is
toggled with `hidden`, because aria-controls has to name an element
that exists and the slot's light-DOM children exist either way.

H-22's reorder ships with them: Libraries is first and the only
expanded section, Search Index — configured once, if ever — is second
to last. The Playback/Audio section H-22 also asks for is deliberately
not here: there is no output-device, gapless, crossfade or replay-gain
setting in backend/config to expose, and a section of controls that do
nothing is worse than admitting it does not exist.

Settings also stops advertising `tracklist.delete`, which was bound to
Delete and configurable in the UI while nothing listened for the event
it dispatched.
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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