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yellowjacket/frontend
logan 47bd9ef211 fix(header): let the count yield before an action is clipped
Adding the phone's search button to this header is 43px more than the
row has at 320px, which is a width the app promises and which
header-action-overflow.spec.ts asks about. Measured on Playlists there,
after the fit pass had already collapsed all three actions into "More
actions" and truncated the title to nothing: title 0, count 50, sort
143, search 40, More 38, five 12px gaps and 32px of gutters -- 363 in
320, with the More button ending 27px past the edge. That is an action
clipped, which is the exact defect this pass exists to prevent.

The count is what yields, last, because it is the only item on that row
that is neither an identity nor an action. The title yields first and
may ellipsis away entirely, since the navigation also says which page
you are on; the sort control and the buttons are each the only place
they are said. An empty page says it is empty in its empty state and a
full one is being looked at. With the count gone the header is 304 in
304, and the title comes back to 19px.

It is rendered and hidden with an attribute rather than returned as
`nothing`, for the reason the action buttons are: every pass starts
from all-visible and needs a node to un-hide, or the first 320px window
costs the count for the rest of the session.
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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