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Sun Nov 16 2025

Tucker McKnight <tucker@pangolin.lan>

Remove typescript from frontend, go with plain JS

The added `export {}` statement at the bottom makes it unuseable
in browsers. Apparently the solution is to use webpack, which I'd
rather not do. Not many typescript features were being used in
the frontend anyway.

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frontend/main.ts:1
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  const setCheckbox = (<any>window).setCheckbox
  const currentTheme = (<any>window).currentTheme
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  const setCheckbox = window.setCheckbox
  const currentTheme = window.currentTheme
frontend/main.ts:17
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  const createClonePopover = (currentRepo: string) => {
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  const createClonePopover = () => {
frontend/main.ts:32
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      const target = event.target as HTMLElement
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      const target = event.target
frontend/main.ts:62
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    const originalInnerHtml = event.target.innerHTML
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frontend/main.ts:79
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  const bootstrap = (<any>window).bootstrap
  const jsVars = (<any>window).jsVars
    createClonePopover(jsVars.nav.repoName)
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  const bootstrap = window.bootstrap
  const jsVars = window.jsVars
    createClonePopover()
frontend/top.ts:1
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  window['setMode'] = (mode: string) => {
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  window['setMode'] = (mode) => {
frontend/top.ts:30
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    const link: any = document.getElementById("prism-theme")
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    const link = document.getElementById("prism-theme")
frontend/tsconfig.json:1
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{
  "compilerOptions": {
    "outDir": "../dist/frontend",
  }
}
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make.sh:2
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cp -r frontend dist/
package.json:4
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    "build": "npm run schemas && npm run ts && npm run ts-frontend && npm run docs",
    "ts-frontend": "npx tsc --project frontend",
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    "build": "npm run schemas && npm run ts && npm run docs",