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feat(android): the touch model reaches the other three lists
Plan 019 phases 3 and 4, which finish #63. The queue panel and both
playlist detail views get tap-to-play and hold-to-select; the playlist
views get swipe-to-queue as well.

Phase 3 was not the pure wiring the plan expected, in two places.

A tap on a queue row plays that position. Copying track-list's tap --
which sets the queue to the list the row is in -- would rebuild the
queue from the queue, discarding its source, its shuffle order and
anything inserted by hand. It reads as a no-op and is not one.

And the queue panel has no swipe, deliberately. A right swipe means add
to the queue everywhere else it exists, and a queue row is already in
the queue; the only thing it could mean there is remove, which is the
same gesture with the opposite effect one screen away. Removing a queue
row is on the row, on its sheet since #60, and now on its selection
bar. The assertion is that its rows do not opt in.

The reveal became utils/swipe-to-queue.ts rather than being copied into
three lists, keyed on a data-swipe attribute so one stylesheet carries
the touch-action half of the device fix to rows that are called two
different things.

Phase 4 was already true and is now asserted: a claimed tap has its
click swallowed, so an explore-link inside a row never sees one and
tap-to-play wins with no rule of its own. Its test was vacuous when
written -- the tap helper sent no click, so there was nothing to
swallow -- which also weakened phase 1's. It sends one now.

Escape leaves selection mode, from selection-bar rather than from each
of the four hosts, since that element exists only while the mode does.
The platform's back gesture deliberately does not reach it: the shell
owns the history stack and four lists reaching for history is four
stacks. That is #200.

Verified on the reference phone: a queue row taps to its own index and
refuses a swipe, a playlist row queues on a swipe and plays its
playlist on a tap, and a hold raises the bar without the menu.

Closes #63
2026-08-22 01:41:21 -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