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yellowjacket/frontend
yonlu 7a1412383f perf(library): send the track list as a dictionary-encoded column table
GetTracks answered with one JSON object per track: 20.5 MB at 26k
tracks, ~350 bytes a row of repeated key names, four cover URLs that
are identical across an album, and the album, artist and genre strings
repeated on every track. Encoding it was ~170 MB of transient Go
allocation, and parsing it the WebView's memory peak.

GetTrackTable replaces it: one array per column, every repeated
string stored once and sent as an index, genre lists interned, and only
the fields the Tracks view reads. LastPlayed and the three larger cover
tiers are left to the details dialog, which now fetches whole tracks by
path. Each row still goes through trackFromRow, so this is an encoding
of the one projection, not a second one. 167 bytes a track against 929
in the test library; a Go test holds it under a quarter of the object
encoding, and a Vitest test reads the Go columns and the generated
Track interface and fails if they drift.

An empty library is now an empty table rather than the "no tracks in
library" error the old binding returned.

Closes #281
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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