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fix(player): put the phone's Now Playing button above the artwork
`.expand` is the phone's only route into the full-screen now-playing
view. It is absolutely positioned with `z-index: auto` over
`.cover-art`, which is a *later* sibling with the same z-index, so the
two tie on paint order and the later one wins. An `<img>` costs nothing
there; a track with no artwork renders a placeholder `wa-icon`, which
takes every click aimed at the button underneath it.

So the control did not work whenever the current song had no cover, on
the one platform that has no other way in. Nothing to do with the
fixture: any library has untagged files.

Measured at 390px with elementFromPoint at the button's centre — the
icon with a placeholder, the button with an image, and the button
either way with the z-index. Chosen over `pointer-events: none` on the
art, which would take the cover preview's mouseenter with it, and over
reordering the DOM, which leaves the same tie to be won by the same
accident in the other direction.

This was filed as an e2e flake, and the diagnosis was wrong: it failed
on both engines three times across two branches that could not have
caused it, and passed on re-run each time, because the spec starts the
*first* row of the track list and which track that is depends on the
order the scan inserted rows — the same root cause as #156. The new
spec picks a track *for* having no artwork, and asserts the placeholder
is rendered rather than assuming it, so it cannot quietly go back to
measuring the easy case.

Two things it has to get right, both already documented traps: the
track must be the 90-second one, since a 2-second one finishes before
the assertions run; and `library.Track.CoverArt` is empty for all 31
fixture rows, so "the first track with no cover art" selects nothing in
particular and picked a short one.

Verified by mutation: without the z-index the new spec fails on the
click in 30s, and the pre-existing one beside it passes, which is
exactly how this survived.

Closes #150
2026-08-20 01:33:35 -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