Documentation

Reorganization

We are doing onboarding usability sessions with potential new platformOS users. In the latest session, we discovered how experienced frontend devs perceive our documentation, and based on the results, we made the following changes:

• UPDATED About platformOS
• Refactored topic (accuracy, updates)
• Merged Technologies into About platformOS
• Made main benefits more readable
• Linked to our new GraphQL topics
• PLANNED Extend About platformOS: explain all major concepts and platformOS’ approach. Especially add anything that can help the user get the logic and thinking behind how platformOS works.
• UPDATED GraphQL section
• Moved GraphQL topics category to Developer Guide DEVELOPMENT section
• UPDATED Developing GraphQL Queries Using GraphiQL
• PLANNED Add more topics on using GraphQL in platformOS
• PLANNED Add information about the learning curve to Get Started

Content production

• NEW Build a ToDo List App - Part 2: Extend Your App: We added part 2 of the Build a ToDo List App series. In this tutorial, you will extend what you have built in part one to explore additional platformOS features in greater depth and learn about more best practices.
• UPDATED Build a ToDo List App - updated GraphQL paths, index sort, updated directory structure
• UPDATED Cleaned up and updated all tutorials related to Notifications (Creating an Email Notification, Creating an SMS Notification, Creating an API Call Notification)
• IN REVIEW New topic about effective development using the pos-cli
• PLANNED Fix typo on GraphQL schema config
• PLANNED Example - notifications via mutation
• PLANNED Remove references to default.yml
• PLANNED Update instance configuration documentation

Improvements, fixes

• UPDATED Improved mobile view
• UPDATED Cleaned up Our Contributors HTML
• FIXED Broken link in Forms/Examples
• UPDATED Twilio API Key & API Notification corrections

UX

Design and Development

• NEW Partner Portal - API for cloning Instance
• NEW Allow to filter admin resources by physical file path
• NEW Do not create first user
• IN REVIEW Partner Portal - Onboarding journey
• IN REVIEW Fix deploy without assets
• IN REVIEW Builder - Migrate data when property type changes
• IN REVIEW Unify domain validation
• IN REVIEW Handle files which do not match any converter
• IN PROGRESS Allow to pick algorithm for jwt token
• IN PROGRESS Split Scope for queries on large model collections
• IN PROGRESS pOS Marketing site Home page

Improvements, fixes

• FIXED Instance copy show errors from import
• FIXED Editing test_email
• IMPROVED Recaptcha - upgrade to fix problems after changes made by Google
• IMPROVED Updating Instance failing silently when Instance is in broken state

Development

To learn more about the most recent changes, improvements and fixes in platformOS, check out our latest release note: platformOS Release Note Mar 23, 2020 —Server-side pos-cli improvements, GraphQL enhancements

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