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yellowjacket/frontend
logan 4025106234 fix(queue): overlay the content instead of taking its width
The panel is flex-shrink: 0 in the flow of .content-area, so an open
queue was paid for by the main panel rather than covering it. Measured
on Playlists: 379px of content left at 900x600 with all three of the
page header's actions clipped, 69px at 390px, and 0px at 320px — where
the content was not degraded but gone.

It goes to an overlay with a scrim when the content cannot spare the
width, and the rule is computed rather than breakpointed:
`available - panelWidth < 480`, where available is .content-area's
width and so already accounts for the sidebar's collapse at 900. A
media query cannot express this, which is the reason for the property:
the panel is drag-resizable between 200 and 500px and persisted, so a
viewport breakpoint silently assumes the default 320 and is wrong by up
to 180px for a user who widened it — in the direction that hurts, since
a wider queue is exactly when the content can least afford it.

480 is a judgement and the comment says so: there is no cliff to derive
it from (the track list rescales continuously, 213px to 124px columns
with no row overflow), so it is anchored to keep the default 1100px
window inline while putting every measured-broken case on the overlay
side.

The overlay is a presentation and not a fork — #55 asks for one
component with two mount points — so the roving tab stop, Alt+Arrow
reorder, drag reorder and selection semantics are untouched. Escape
closes it and returns focus, attached only while the overlay is up: it
is a dismissal rather than a shortcut, which is why it is not a
panel-scoped binding. The scrim covers the content area only, not the
sidebar or the transport, because the queue is not modal.

Refs #24
2026-08-19 10:54:52 -04:00
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2025-03-28 11:43:14 -05:00

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