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feat(now-playing): plain text instead of links in the phone mini player
The bottom bar's title, artist and "Playing from X" all navigate. In a
bar sized for a bar they are a few characters of text, which is not a
touch target — and explore-link holds its navigation for one
double-click interval and drops it if a second click arrives, a gesture
that exists so double-clicking a row can play it and that means nothing
on touch.

Below the shell's phone breakpoint the three render as plain text. The
words are unchanged: the source line still says where the queue came
from, because dropping the link is the change and dropping the
information would be a different and worse one. The cover art already
carries the phone-only button that opens the full-screen Now Playing
view, which is where the links live.

This is in JS rather than in the stylesheet because what changes is the
content, not its appearance — no CSS rule takes a click handler off an
element. matchMedia is read in connectedCallback for the reason the
reduce-motion query beside it already is, so a test can answer it first.

Two smaller things. PHONE_QUERY moves out of track-list.ts into
utils/breakpoints.ts: it was a private const when one component needed
it, and a second reader is where a copy starts drifting from index.css.
And `phone` joins geometryKey(), because crossing the breakpoint swaps a
link for a bare string and the marquee travels a distance read from
measuring it — the words being identical either side is not the same as
the box measuring the same.

Closes #61
2026-08-19 14:08:06 -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