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yellowjacket/frontend
logan ae85df0dad fix(shell): give the top bar a measured fit at every width
The bar was 611px inside a 600px viewport at the bottom of the Compact
band, and 862px while a scan with a real library's title ran, because
`job-indicator` is `hidden` when idle and 235px wide when it is not.
`body` is `overflow-x: auto`, so a user got a horizontal scrollbar on a
shell #24 promised would not need one — and the band is 600 to 899 with
work in flight, not the 600 to 610 the idle measurement suggested.

`services/top-bar-fit.ts` is `page-header`'s treatment one bar up: a
ResizeObserver, every pass starting from all-visible, hiding the
lowest-priority child until it fits. Measured rather than breakpointed
because three of the five children are as wide as their content — the
library filter by the longest library name, the indicator by the
running job's title, the search box by its view-scoped placeholder — so
any width picked is right for one library, one job and one view.

What yields is decided by #24's own sentence, which rules out the two
cheapest candidates in the Direction. Hiding the library filter takes
away an action, since it is the only control in the app that selects a
library (filed as #148, which is the phone already doing it), and
collapsing search to an icon is #57's, which is blocked behind #62. So
the wordmark yields first — a brand the window title bar repeats, and
visually-hidden rather than `display: none` because that h1 is the
document's heading — and then the indicator's label, leaving the ring,
which the component already does below 600px and whose live region
announces the state either way.

"Fits" is the children against the content box, not `scrollWidth`
against `clientWidth`: `scrollWidth` counts the left padding and not
the right, so the first version read 700/700 with the indicator sitting
in the whole right gutter. And the bar does not resize when a job
starts, which is the case this is for, so every child is observed too.

Pinned before it was fixed, as the issue asks. On the unfixed build the
new spec fails at 600 idle and at 600, 800 and 900 with a job, and
passes at 390, 899 and 1440; `layout-overflow.spec.ts` gains 600x600
and failed there. That spec asserts on the *shell*, so it was green
throughout this defect — the per-child measurement is #69's lesson, and
it is what caught the gutter case above.

Closes #143
2026-08-19 21:35:03 -04:00
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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