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yonluandClaude Opus 5 a4ada725a2 feat(wails): rebuild the Vitest fake on v3's transport seam
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
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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