Field Guide¶

How the web UI is put together, how it talks to the server, and what the server does with each request. Read it top to bottom once, then use it as a map when you open a file.

Overview

• The big picture
• Where things live

The UI

• Starting up
• Routing and views
• Components
• The html template
• Events
• Live updates
• The player
• Long lists and the track cache
• What the browser keeps
• Offline music
• The Android and iOS apps
• Styles and themes

The server

• How a request is handled
• Who's asking
• API reference

Putting it together

• Tracing a click
• Adding things
• Gotchas