1.0.0

Major Features

GitHub Integration

• Added new GitHub repository header component with real-time star count
• Implemented automatic star count updates every 3 minutes
• Added support for both development and production environments
• Included GitHub API integration with token authentication

Analytics & Production Setup

• Integrated Plausible Analytics for website tracking
• Added production environment settings
• Enhanced logging system with improved type annotations

Modal System Enhancements

• Implemented comprehensive modal navigation system
• Added detection for nested modal states using inModal URL parameter
• Added content updating for existing modals instead of creating new ones
• Improved loading states with visual feedback
• Fixed scroll position and event propagation issues
• Enhanced iframe communication with new message types
• Added special handling for index page navigation

Table of Contents (TOC) Improvements

• Added close button functionality
• Enhanced filtering system to show parent headings with context hierarchy
• Improved dark mode styling for filter and toolbar
• Optimized progress bar visibility logic
• Added debounced window resize handling
• Adjusted muted text opacity values in both light and dark themes

Visual and Content Updates

• Updated various diagrams and illustrations
• Fine-tuned Dataset sections in diagrams
• Improved Push illustration
• Enhanced dark mode compatibility
• Updated documentation and README

Technical Improvements

• Removed unused heading activation method
• Disabled Astro dev toolbar
• Updated Spline runtime
• Enhanced type safety across components
• Improved error handling and logging

Notes

• This release marks version 1.0.0 of the project
• Includes significant improvements to navigation, user interface, and overall stability
• Added proper documentation in RELEASES file

Development Environment

• Enhanced development workflow with better error handling
• Improved TypeScript integration and type safety
• Added support for mock data in development environment

0.5.1

0.5.1

Navigation & Modal System

• Added new modal-based navigation system for internal links:
  • Responsive design with semi-transparent overlay
  • Click-outside-to-close functionality
  • Proper event handling and error logging
  • Body scroll prevention when modal is open
• Enhanced cross-page hash link navigation support
• Added smooth scroll behavior for navigation events
• Added new Banner component for improved navigation context on inner pages

Documentation & Content

• Refactored documentation file structure:
  • Renamed files to follow kebab-case convention
  • Updated all internal cross-references
  • Improved dataset schema documentation
• Updated environment variables documentation:
  • Added ACTOR_FULL_NAME and ACTOR_BUILD_TAGS variables
  • Enhanced technical details for developers

Technical Improvements

• Removed unused heading activation method from TOC component
• Disabled Astro dev toolbar
• Updated Spline runtime
• Simplified background color format in Tailwind configuration
• Enhanced navigation handling and link management
• Improved error logging and type safety

Illustrations & Visual Updates

• Multiple illustration updates and optimizations
• Removed obsolete illustrations
• Removed Future Work illustration
• Cleanup of unused illustration assets

Bug Fixes

• Fixed Vercel deployment issues
• Improved modal navigation behavior
• Enhanced error handling and logging
• Fixed navigation issues with hash links

Development & Infrastructure

• Updated spellcheck configurations
• Improved file naming conventions
• Enhanced type safety throughout the codebase
• Optimized asset management

Note

This release focuses on improving navigation with a new modal system, enhancing documentation structure, and updating illustrations. Users will experience smoother internal navigation and better visual consistency across the platform.

0.4.0

Documentation & Content

• Added new API-related illustrations for Actor operations including initialization, abort, charging money, exit, and more core functionalities
• Enhanced documentation's visual elements with new descriptive illustrations for Actor definition files and concepts
• Added Actors logo and improved text formatting throughout documentation
• Updated content and documentation across multiple sections

UI/UX Improvements

• Added new hero animation with enhanced appearance and pointer event handling
• Improved header responsiveness for mobile devices
• Enhanced Table of Contents (TOC) component:
  • Optimized progress bar rendering
  • Adjusted base width from 8 to 5 pixels
  • Removed debounced rendering for better performance
• Enhanced Illustration component with dynamic image handling
• Adjusted illustration width for left and right positions from 1/3 to 1/2 of container width

Layout & Typography

• Improved heading and blockquote spacing in MDX content:
  • Added clear-both to headings
  • Adjusted vertical spacing for h2, h3, and h4 headings
  • Added consistent margin spacing to blockquotes
• Enhanced main content typography
• Fixed heading anchor link underline styles
• Improved code example styling:
  • Made code example tabs responsive with smaller text on mobile
  • Increased vertical margin around code switcher component
  • Enhanced button layout with better padding and text scaling

Technical Improvements

• Updated package dependencies and configurations
• Enhanced ESLint and TypeScript configurations
• Standardized interface naming convention by adding 'I' prefix
• Replaced innerHTML with safer DOM manipulation methods
• Fixed PostCSS configuration
• Improved file paths and code organization throughout the project

Styling & Visual Updates

• Updated dark mode icon color to accent-dark
• Multiple illustration updates and optimizations
• Image optimization improvements
• Removed Spline-based illustrations in favor of upcoming test images

Bug Fixes

• Fixed build issues
• Addressed WebKit scrolling problems by deactivating mouse events for the hero
• Fixed file paths and DOMRect fallback in CodeSwitcher component
• Resolved layout spacing issues with clear-both divs
• Fixed robots.txt configuration

Development & Infrastructure

• Updated ESLint configuration and removed problematic plugins
• Enhanced project configuration and build process
• Improved TypeScript support and type definitions
• Updated package dependencies and configurations
• Standardized file paths and code organization

Note

This release includes multiple commits focused on documentation updates, UI improvements, and technical enhancements. Users should notice improved performance, better mobile responsiveness, and enhanced visual consistency across the platform.

0.3.0

New Features

• Added smooth hero section docking for TOC with dynamic position updates
• Implemented class-based managers for improved functionality:
  • CodeCopyManager for code copying features
  • Refactored smooth scroll functionality into a class-based structure

Improvements

• Enhanced TOC positioning with smooth transitions from hero section
• Added proper lifecycle management with cleanup handling
• Fixed scroll position preservation when switching code tabs
• Simplified CodeSwitcher initialization

Code Quality

• Consolidated logger-related imports
• Relocated type definitions for better organization
  • Moved logger types to utils/logger.ts
  • Moved scroll types to utils module
• Added proper method binding for better event handling

Other Changes

• Removed sitemap references
• Updated package dependencies
• Adjusted Prettier settings
• Updated spellcheck configurations

Full Changelog: 0.2.1...0.3.0

0.2.0

New Features

• Added synchronized code tab switching across multiple CodeSwitcher instances
• Introduced new CodeSwitcher component with tab management functionality
• Added CodeExample component for individual code examples
• Implemented code copy functionality with visual feedback
• Added SmoothScroll component for anchor links with enhanced logging
• Added placeholder images for non-content illustrations
• Enhanced TOC for wide screens with dynamic behavior

Improvements

• Improved table responsiveness and spacing in MDX content
• Enhanced styles for HeadingLinks and MDX content
• Added external link indicator in MDX content
• Refactored TOC visibility thresholds for better user interaction
• Enhanced logging and error handling throughout components
• Improved code readability and organization
• Updated component styling and layout consistency

Bug Fixes

• Fixed code block overflow issues
• Resolved TOC conflicts with edge-to-edge illustrations
• Fixed anchor styling issues
• Improved handling of heading IDs and scroll behavior

Other Changes

• Removed wide image layout option
• Updated VSCode settings
• Cleaned up unused components and content files
• Reorganized component configurations
• Updated dependencies

Breaking Changes

• Removed 'wide' layout option from illustrations and images
• Renamed CopyCode component to CodeCopy
• Removed SCROLL_OFFSET from component configurations

Full Changelog: 0.1.0...0.2.0

0.1.0

Initial release.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/vancura/developer-actor/commits/0.1.0