clean up frontend build config

.gitignore

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 node_modules/
-dist/*.js
-src/
+frontend/dist/*.js
+frontend/.js
 underbbs

README.md

@@ -2,7 +2,19 @@
 
 underBBS is a platform-agnostic messaging and social media client
 
+## design
+
+`underbbs` supports multiple simultaneous account logins, mediating them for each user through a gateway server that handles all protocol-specific logic via `adapter`s and streaming content to the user through a single websocket connection with a singular data interface.
+
+each distinct `adapter` connection/configuration is represented in the frontend as a tab, and using the websocket's event-driven javascript interface with web components we can simply either store the data or tell the currently visible adapter that it might need to respond to the new data
+
+adapters receive commands via a quartzgun web API and send data back on their shared websocket connection
+
 ## building
 
-1. `npm install`
-2. `npx tsc && npx webpack` (or run `./build.sh`, it does this for you)
+requirements are
+
+- go 1.22
+- any recent nodejs that can do `typescript` and `webpack` 5
+
+run `./build.sh` from the project root. you can supply 'front' or 'server' as an argument to build only one or the other; by default it builds both

build.sh

@@ -2,11 +2,15 @@
 
 case "$1" in
   client)
-    if [ ! -e ./src ]; then
-      mkdir ./src
+    if [ ! -e ./frontend/.js ]; then
+      mkdir ./frontend/.js
     fi
     buildlog=$(mktemp)
+    if [ ! -z $"{PLAN9}" ]; then
       npx tsc 2>&1 | nobs | sed -e 's/\.ts\(/\.ts:/g' -e 's/,[0-9]+\)://g' > ${buildlog}
+    else
+      npx tsc 2>&1 > ${buildlog}
+    fi
     if [ -s ${buildlog} ]; then
       cat ${buildlog} | head
       rm ${buildlog}
@@ -18,11 +22,8 @@ case "$1" in
     go mod tidy
     go build
     ;;
-  both)
+  *)
     $0 client
     $0 server
     ;;
-  *)
-    echo "USAGE: ${0} <client|server|both>"
-    ;;
 esac

server/server.go

@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ func New() *BBSServer {
 	}
 
 	// frontend is here
-	srvr.serveMux.Handle("/app/", http.StripPrefix("/app/", renderer.Subtree("./dist")))
+	srvr.serveMux.Handle("/app/", http.StripPrefix("/app/", renderer.Subtree("./frontend/dist")))
 
 	// api
 	srvr.serveMux.Handle("/api/", http.StripPrefix("/api", srvr.apiMux()))

tsconfig.json

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
     "removeComments": false,
     "preserveConstEnums": true,
     "sourceMap": false,
-    "outDir": "./src"
+    "outDir": "./frontend/.js"
   },
-  "include": [ "./ts/*.ts"]
+  "include": [ "./frontend/ts/*.ts"]
 }

webpack.config.js

@@ -1,9 +1,14 @@
 const path = require('path');
 
 module.exports = {
-  context: path.resolve(__dirname, 'src'),
+  mode: 'production',
+  context: path.resolve(__dirname, 'frontend', '.js'),
   entry: {
     main: './index.js',
-    serviceWorker: './serviceWorker.js'
+    serviceWorker: './serviceWorker.js',
+  },
+  output: {
+    filename: '[name].js',
+    path: path.resolve(__dirname, 'frontend', 'dist'),
   }
 }