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feat(player): centre the transport and show the volume inline
Two issues over one bar, because they are one relayout. #42's own
findings say so: giving wa-slider a label grows it 6px to 14px and
moves the transport, which is #23's subject, so doing them in sequence
means measuring the bar twice and throwing the first set away.

The bar was `320px 1fr auto`, so the transport sat in the middle of
what the metadata and the queue button did not use — its centre was
~140px right of the window's at every width. The outer two tracks are
the same expression now, so the middle is centred by construction.

The side width is the metadata's, capped at a quarter of the bar, and
the cap was measured as a regression before it was a decision:
reserving the full `--now-playing-width` on both sides is perfectly
centred and takes the seek bar's track from 257px to 61px at 800px, and
to 0 at 200% text. The control you drag was paying for the symmetry.
With the cap it is 246, which is parity. It is a `min()` rather than a
breakpoint because that variable is user state — the metadata has a
drag handle — and tying both sides to it is also what keeps dragging
meaningful; a plain `1fr … 1fr` centres just as well and silently makes
the handle a no-op.

The volume moved out of `audio-player` into the bar because the
transport column has to hold the transport and nothing else, and it
joins the queue button in one cell rather than a second column, since
the centring compares columns.

It is a slider by default and a popup by setting. The stored flag names
the *popup*, which is this config's polarity rule — the zero value has
to be the intended answer, so an existing config.toml gets the new
default with no migration. Inline, the icon is the mute toggle and is
named after that action rather than the state, because with the slider
beside it there is nothing to disclose; the component tier now covers
both presentations rather than whichever is default.

Three nested rules in this block began with a bare element selector,
which Chrome 120 relaxed and the phone's Chrome 113 **silently drops** —
including the ellipsis on the bar's own title and artist, which has
therefore never truncated on the device. They are `&`-prefixed now.
Filed as #154 for the class and for a check.

`bottom-bar.spec.ts` pins both halves separately on purpose: an
uncapped build is perfectly centred and fails only the seek-bar width,
so a spec asserting centring alone would have passed the regression
above. Both were verified by mutation.

Closes #23
Closes #42
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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