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feat(albums): draw the album dropdown that was already being computed
Enter on an album card fetched the album's tracks over the IPC and ran
the whole split state machine (splitMode true, splitIndex measured
against the real container), then render() drew the single grid because
it never consulted splitMode; connectedCallback referenced
renderSplitGrid only to satisfy noUnusedLocals. perf.p2 files this as
dead code — it is the only route from the albums grid to track-details,
since a plain click navigates to the catalog page instead.

Two things it needed that the audit does not mention. The grid could
not scroll: .grid-scroll-container is the markup artists-view and
genres-view use, and cover-grid had the class with no rule for it, so
186984px of albums sat in a 772px box at 5000 albums, unreachable by
wheel, keyboard or scrollbar — and that is the element scroll-manager
saves and restores, so its scrollTop was permanently 0. And the shared
context menu was labelled 'Album actions' unconditionally, which nothing
could observe while a track menu was unreachable.

Both halves of the split grid carry the listbox semantics the single
grid gained in the ARIA pass.
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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