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yellowjacket/frontend
logan e8690476bd feat(ui): long-press opens the menus a right-click opens
Every context menu in the app opens from a `contextmenu` event, bound
three different ways across six components -- delegated on a
virtualizer, per row, per card. A phone has no right-click, so a phone
reached none of them (plan 016 B2 phase 3).

This is one document-capture listener installed once from `index.ts`,
not six components' worth of touch handling: a touch that holds still
for 500ms dispatches a synthetic `contextmenu` at the touch point, and
every existing handler runs unchanged. A seam no component has to opt
into is one no future component can forget.

Four details are load-bearing, each a way the obvious version fails.
The target is `composedPath()[0]`, not `elementFromPoint`, which stops
at the outermost shadow host -- every menu here is bound inside one, so
a host-targeted event reaches a delegated listener and no per-row one.
A browser that fires its own long-press `contextmenu` (Chromium does;
WebKit and the Android WebView vary) wins, and ours is told from theirs
by identity rather than `isTrusted`: `isTrusted` works in the app and
is untestable, which would leave the suppression path as the one thing
with no coverage. And the click ending the gesture is swallowed, keyed
on the gesture rather than a time window, or the first tap on the menu
it just opened is eaten too.

The e2e spec presses `.track-row`, not `[role="row"]`: the column
header is a row too, and it is the first one -- a press on it is
correctly ignored, which reads exactly like the gesture not working.
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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