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The phone's top bar is about to go, and the search box is the one thing in it that is an action rather than chrome. It becomes a button in the row that already says which page you are on, opening a wa-dialog with the real search box in it. Three decisions worth the words. **A wa-dialog, and that is a mechanism rather than a taste.** wa-popup renders `<div popover="manual">` and feature-detects the Popover API, falling back to `strategy: "fixed"` where there is none -- which is Chrome 113, the reference device, since `popover` is Chrome 114. And `position: fixed` escapes ancestor overflow but not `contain: paint`, which `.main-panel` carries, so a popup-shaped search panel opened from a view's header is structurally clipped on that device. `<dialog>` / `showModal()` is Chrome 37 and uses the real top layer. No tier here can see the difference -- CI's Chromium and WebKit both have the Popover API -- so the component test asserts the *mechanism*, a native `<dialog>` in the tree, rather than the symptom. **An element, not a PageAction.** Two of the seven searchable views are detail views with no page-header; they filter on the term and say so in their own headers. Declaring search as an action would mean seven hosts each writing it out, which is a second list of searchable views, and it would put a phone mode for actions inside page-header, which that component documents its refusal to grow. search-store's own map is the condition, asked by one component placed three times. **The modal carries the real search-bar**, so there is still one debounce, one clear button and one view-scoped placeholder. Escape closes it and *keeps* the term -- the input treats Escape as "clear the search", which is right in a header where the box stays on screen and wrong in a surface whose dismissal would then discard the search.
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