@adidahiya/raga

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• When migrating or refactoring existing code, try to retain all relevant code comments and naming semantics.
• Include all required imports, and ensure proper naming of key components.
• If you do not know the answer, say so, instead of guessing.

Code Implementation Guidelines

Follow these rules when you write code:

• Use early returns whenever possible to make the code more readable.
• Always use CSS modules using Sass syntax for styling.
• Use classNames to conditionally set class names on React DOM elements.
• Use descriptive variable and function/const names. Also, event functions should be named with a “handle” prefix, like “handleClick” for onClick and “handleKeyDown” for onKeyDown.
• Implement accessibility features on elements. For example, a tag should have a tabindex=“0”, aria-label, on:click, and on:keydown, and similar attributes.

Static Analysis

You may encounter linter errors when you edit code. Try to resolve them, but don't worry about auto-fixable ESLint errors like sorting imports or whitespace or exhaustive react hooks. Those can be fixed later using linting scripts.

State Management (raga-web-app)

• State is managed with Zustand and split into slices under src/store/slices/.
• Use the createSelectors utility for memoized subscriptions; avoid subscribing to the entire store object.
• Add new state domains as a new slice file and compose it into the root store in src/store/appStore.ts.

IPC Events (raga-app / raga-types)

• All IPC channel names and payload types live in raga-types:
  • Client events (renderer → server): packages/raga-types/src/api/clientEvents.ts
  • Server events (server → renderer): packages/raga-types/src/api/serverEvents.ts
• Register new channels in the ClientEventChannel / ServerEventChannel const objects before implementing handlers.

Async Patterns (utility process)

• Use Effection generator functions for complex async flows that need cancellation or structured concurrency in the Electron utility process (raga-app/src/server/).
• Plain async/await is fine for simple one-shot operations.

Logging

• Use roarr scoped loggers — not console.log:

  import { createLogger } from "../common/logger.js";
  const log = createLogger("myModule");
  log.debug("message", { context });
  

Error Handling (IPC)

• Serialize errors before sending them over IPC using serialize-error:

  import { serializeError } from "serialize-error";
  // include in server event payload:
  { error: serializeError(err) }