Today's Development Updates: Client Improvements & API Enhancements
What developments have taken place today?
This commit focused on improving client generation, adding new API functionality for domain management, optimizing message loading within channels, and updating visual assets for the status page.
Specifically, the Dart client now utilizes the dart package instead of dio, with code cleanup implemented to address issues in generated API files. Three programs – chat, api, and cdn – were compiled using go build incorporating upx compression, improving their size efficiency. Simultaneously, SSH permissions were adjusted on a remote server for key executables, and systemd service configurations were introduced for automatic startup and restart of the chat and admin programs with defined logging. A new API endpoint (/api/v1/domain/{id}) was added to allow domain status page updates, alongside validation, authorization checks, and appropriate HTTP response codes (204, 400, 401, 403, 404, 500). Client-side logic was incorporated to enable and disable the status page for domains via an API call. Furthermore, message loading within channels now fetches existing messages from an API when a channel is selected, caching them for subsequent access, reducing redundant calls. Finally, the status page logo image was updated to blue_daemon_logo.webp, along with associated HTML and CSS adjustments to enhance layout presentation and minimal style added to incidents section.
These changes collectively represent improvements by streamlining client generation, expanding API capabilities for domain management, optimizing application performance through efficient message loading, enhancing visual clarity on the status page, and establishing robust system administration practices for service reliability.