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fix(page-header): collapse the actions that do not fit into a menu
Playlists slotted three buttons totalling 390px into a header that gets
700px at 900x600, so "New Smart Playlist" rendered 114 of its 162px
with the queue closed, and 158 of 162 at the 800x600 enforced minimum.
On a phone none of the three could be reached at all, which is what the
Android report said. Plan 018's size matrix promises the opposite: no
action is ever unreachable at any supported size.

The header could not fix that for slotted markup, and that is a fact
about the API rather than an effort estimate — a component cannot move
another component's light-DOM children into a dropdown and keep their
behaviour, and arbitrary markup offers nothing generic to render as a
menu item. So a host passes `PageAction[]` and the header chooses the
rendering; the slot survives for markup a data list cannot express, at
the stated cost that a slotted action does not collapse.

All three hosts that slot actions migrated, which also normalises the
plain-<button>/<wa-button> split between them onto one shape the header
styles — and lets it measure a button that has already upgraded, rather
than a wa-button whose shadow DOM arrives in its own first update.

Four things in it are load-bearing:

- Every measuring pass starts from all-visible, so the collapsed set is
  a pure function of the current width and an action comes back when
  the window grows. It flips `hidden` imperatively rather than
  re-rendering between steps, or the intermediate state paints and the
  fix flashes the overflow it exists to prevent.
- "Fits" means nothing is clipped, not that the header does not
  overflow. Once the title can ellipsis it absorbs the pressure and
  scrollWidth reports a perfect fit while the heading reads "Playlis…"
  — this bug moved from the button to the title, and invisible to the
  same measurement that missed it the first time.
- New Playlist has the highest priority because it is the drop target
  and a closed menu cannot be one. `PageAction.drop` therefore carries
  the host's own handlers; the affordance is absent from the overflow
  rather than approximated there.
- The overflow trigger is a named button with aria-expanded and an
  aria-controls naming a panel that is always in the DOM, and the
  keyboard model is the shared `MenuKeyboard`.

`layout-overflow.spec.ts` passes on the broken build — it asserts the
shell needs no sideways scrolling, and clipping inside a component is
invisible to it, which is why this defect survived a spec named for it.
The new spec measures each button against its own header at four
viewports and asserts buttons plus menu account for every declared
action, without which it would pass vacuously on a build rendering none.

Closes #69
2026-08-19 15:08:57 -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