library
- Implemented the media deletion functionality, allowing users to delete
media entries directly from the category view. This enhances the
manageability of content within the platform, providing a more intuitive
and streamlined experience for users managing their media.
- Transitioned from FontAwesome to Phosphor Icons, opting for a lighter
and more flexible icon library that better aligns with the design ethos
of the application. This change not only introduces a fresh aesthetic
but also contributes to slightly improved page load times due to the
decreased footprint of the icon library.
- Updated various UI elements across the platform to maintain a
consistent look and feel, including adjustments in the user area CSS to
ensure visual compatibility with the new icon set.
- Broadened the scope of `.gitignore` to cover all JavaScript files
within the static/js directory, eliminating potential version control
clutter caused by dynamically generated or dependency-included JS files.
These changes collectively aim to refine user interaction and ensure a
more cohesive visual presentation throughout the application.
Introduced a new API endpoint to retrieve media for a given category,
enhancing the user experience by dynamically updating thumbnails
post-upload based on available resolutions. This connects the frontend
to the backend efficiently, ensuring users can see the immediate impact
of their uploads. Additionally, updated serializers and views in the
backend to support this functionality, alongside improving code comments
for future development clarity.
- Implemented `getCategoryMedia` in the JS API for fetching media
resolutions.
- Enabled dynamic thumbnail updates in the user area post file upload,
improving visual feedback.
- Extended the Django REST framework routers to include the new media
endpoint, facilitating easier access to media items.
- Updated the `OriginalMediaSerializer` to include `category` for more
detailed media information.
- Enriched task and views files with necessary TODO comments to guide
future enhancements and exception handling.
This change significantly improves the content management workflow,
making it more interactive and user-friendly.
Enhanced the file upload feedback mechanism in `userarea.js` by
introducing a clearer, success indication and preparing for future
implementations where upload completion will trigger additional checks
against the API for resolution availability. This change brings a more
intuitive user experience during file uploads and lays groundwork for
next steps in upload handling, ensuring users are better informed of the
upload status in real-time.
- Imported `getElementById` for future feature expansion.
- Added a TODO comment as a placeholder for upcoming API check
functionality.
UX
Uniformly changed single quotes to double quotes for consistency
throughout userarea.js. Improved the file upload feature by refining the
visual feedback during file upload processes. This includes more
descriptive progress and success/error messages, ensuring users have
clear, immediate insight into the state of their uploads. Additionally,
refined the data submission structure in `uploadFile`, explicitly
assigning file type and title, optimizing for better server-side
processing. These changes enhance code readability and user experience.
visibly
Improve user feedback during file uploads by explicitly handling HTTP
201 responses as successful uploads. Upon a successful upload, the
progress bar now turns green (`bg-success`) and displays a "Success!"
message, providing a clearer and more immediate visual cue to the user
that their file has been successfully uploaded. This change addresses
usability issues by making the upload progress and outcome more
discernible to users.
This commit overhauls the user area with the addition of comprehensive
file upload capabilities for images and videos. Notably, it integrates
front-end enhancements for drag-and-drop uploads in the user area and
introduces a secure back-end handling process. The back-end adjustments
include a new media upload view and adjustments to image and video
models to support large file handling through settings for maximum image
pixel limits. Additionally, the refactor standardizes CSRF token
retrieval across JavaScript modules, improving security and code
maintainability.
- Front-end additions include detailed user feedback during the file
upload process, such as progress bars and success/error indicators.
- Back-end improvements ensure large image files are processed
efficiently, mitigating potential memory issues by configuring a maximum
image pixel threshold.
- Consolidating the CSRF token retrieval into the `api.js` module
centralizes security mechanisms, reducing redundancy and enhancing the
codebase's clarity.
Overall, these changes enrich the platform's media management
capabilities, bolster security practices, and improve user experience
through intuitive interface updates and robust back-end processing.
Implemented user permissions management functionality across the system,
enhancing control over category access and operations. This includes a
new DataTable in the user area for permissions, updated model relations
with explicit related names for better query readability, and a
migration to enforce these changes at the database level. Additionally,
the UI now features options for ending category membership, deleting
categories, inviting users, and transferring ownership based on user
roles and permissions. This comprehensive update aims at providing more
granular access control and operational flexibility for category owners
and system administrators.
Migrated the SCSS import for the frontend directly into editor.js and
userarea.js from frontend.js, removing redundancy by consolidating style
imports. This adjustment enables more coherent management of SCSS files
and removes the need for a separate frontend bundle. Consequently,
frontend.js and its references in HTML templates were removed to clean
up the codebase and simplify the asset pipeline. These changes should
make future maintenance of CSS easier and improve load times by reducing
unnecessary scripting and network requests.
Introduced significant updates to the user interface for editing VR
scenes, adding new CSS styles for a coherent and modern look.
Implemented data tables for robust content management in the user area,
now users can easily navigate through scenes and media with DataTables
integration. Expanded the API with category retrieval capabilities,
enabling dynamic content categorization.
The editor now seamlessly integrates into the UI with a sidebar for
properties editing, improving usability. The teleportation element
creation and modification logic has been significantly refined,
including a search-enabled dropdown for destination selection, making it
more user-friendly. Added thumbnail display for scenes and media in the
user area, enhancing content overview.
This update also introduced user area templates and routes, providing a
foundational structure for user content management functionality,
including categories and individual category views.
Refactored JavaScript imports to align with the new editor CSS and
adjusted scene loading to support embedded scenes, improving the
flexibility and usability of scene components.
