v2 installed two globals and the fake replaced both. v3 has neither — the runtime is an npm module and the generated bindings call into it. What it has instead is better: setTransport() is a public seam for replacing the IPC transport, and *every* runtime call goes through it, so the fake is smaller than v2's and covers strictly more. The event dispatcher is no longer mirrored at all. v2's fake reimplemented desktop/events.js — the listener list, maxCallbacks expiry, the reverse iteration — because there was no way to reach the real one; emit() now goes through window._wails.dispatchWailsEvent, which is the entry point the backend's own push uses. What is mirrored instead is one line of Go: how EventManager.Emit packs variadic data into an event's single data field. Registration and unregistration are the public Events API. The one non-public thing left is the listener registry, aliased in vitest.config.mts and used only by listenerNames() — a test asks whether importing a store subscribed it, which nothing public can answer. A binding carries a method ID, not a name, so the fake derives the ID -> path map from the generated tree: FNV-1a over the FQN, with the Go type's casing recovered from each package's index.ts, which is the only place it survives (library/library.ts cannot tell you it is FrontendUtil). The map has to be complete rather than lazy because 21 assertions read calls() with no argument and compare the whole list. Two things had to move that are not the fake. fixture() drains microtasks between two renders: a v3 binding settles several hops later than v2's, and tests were already written as though fixture() meant "mounted and loaded". Microtasks and not a timer, which would hang under the suites that install fake ones. tracklist-store keeps its defaults on an empty answer instead of emptying the column list. GetTrackListColumns substitutes DefaultColumns only when the whole config section is missing; a section that exists with no columns returns nothing. Until now this was accidental — the binding was typed Column[], an absent answer arrived as undefined, and .map threw into the catch. 757 tests pass across all 63 files. They are run in batches: a single browser session dies partway through the 58 it queues, which reproduces unchanged at the pre-migration commit and is a resource limit on this machine rather than anything here. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UDCbcCZQepnpSQYJ6SxxZm
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.
vitefor- transpiling typescript
- bundling the final "package" that is useb by the webview
- running a dev server with hot-reloading
- configured with the
vite.config.tsfile in this directory
pnpmfor managing frontend dependency packages
There are a handful of dependency packages that we use directly in the frontend.
picocssfor basic CSS while developinglitfor a simple but powerful wrapper around Web Components
Lastly, there are some dependencies that only benefit development
tsservercomes bundled with vscode and can be used as an LSP with other editors usingtypescript-language-server- Used for autocomplete, syntax highlighting, etc.
- This can be configured with the
tsconfig.jsonfile in the root of the project- NOTE: your configuration should align with the
viteconfig so you get in-editor feedback that aligns with how the build will be done.
- NOTE: your configuration should align with the
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.htmlandindex.jsis the entrypoint for the frontend. The first page that loads.wailsjs/goGo code bindings generated by wails reside herewailsjs/runtimethe Wails runtime code needed to use Wails featuressrcall app code resides heresrc/assetsstatic assets like fonts, images and iconssrc/componentslit components that are used to compose the applicationsrc/pagespages that serve as other entrypoints for the application that can be navigated to