The earlier approach of loading `/api/config.js` as a script on
initial page load with the necessary variables to init the UI is
ditched. Instead, it's now `/api/config` and `/api/settings` like
all other API calls. On load of the frontend, these two resources
are fetched and the frontend is initialised.
- A check for new versions on the GitHub releases pages happens
once every 24 hours. When a new version is available, a notice
is displayed on the admin UI.
- Change global font to Inter.
- Introduce global top nav bar.
- Restyle form inputs to have inline labels.
- Restyle form inputs to have inline lengt counters.
- Override glitchy Buefy animations (sidebar, toast etc.)
- Fix tag alignment inside tables in responsive view.
- Refactor import page UI.
- Miscellaneous styling fixes.
- Add missing Fontello icons.
This is a major breaking change that moves away from having the
entire app configuration in external TOML files to settings being
in the database with a UI to update them dynamically.
The app loads all config into memory (app settings, SMTP conf)
on boot. "Hot" replacing them is complex and it's a fair tradeoff
to instead just restart the application as it is practically
instant.
A new `settings` table stores arbitrary string keys with a JSONB
value field which happens to support arbitrary types. After every
settings update, the app gracefully releases all resources
(HTTP server, DB pool, SMTP pool etc.) and restarts itself,
occupying the same PID. If there are any running campaigns, the
auto-restart doesn't happen and the user is prompted to invoke
it manually with a one-click button once all running campaigns
have been paused.
- antd+react was resulting in extremely clunky and unreadable
spaghetti frontend code (primarily due to how antd is).
- Buefy is lighter by an order of magnitude, has excellent
responsive views (especially tables) and usability.
- Vue's templating produces far more readable template code.
Kailash Nadh
Shivam Mishra