Release 1.7.0

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I wish a happy new year to everyone reading this message!

⭐️ Features

• You can decide to hide pre-releases in your journal by going to your profile's preferences
• The search bar has been revamped to make it simpler yet richer. It understands Github search syntax

💅 Enhancements

• Trying a different alignment for repository statistics

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Release 1.6.0

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This release happily welcomes the Hacktoberfest event! Find projects to start hacking and participate in the Hacktoberfest challenge.
Learn more.

⭐️ Features

• Easily find Hacktoberfest projects and issues
• Add pagination to the search component results

💅 Enhancements

• Set the Hacktoberfest topic in your profile to add it in the topic filter
• Untoggle filtered topic by clicking once again
• The selected topic is now used to filter issues

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Release 1.5.1

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Today bring a small update that addresses graphical issues.

💅 Enhancements

• Replace the DateNavigator InfoIcon disabled button by a span

🐞 Fixes

• Images responsiveness on the landing page

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Release 1.5.0

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I've heard you people being concerned by the "public_repo" Github's permission and added a way to use the application without it.

⭐️ Features

• Register and login permissionless! You can avoid giving the "public_repo" Github's permission but you won't be able to star a repository through the application.
• The journal will now display a block with current conferences and it's even filterable by topic! Many thanks to https://github.com/tech-conferences/confs.tech
• Starred repositories scrollable in user profile modal

💅 Enhancements

• Started a Storybook and extracted the theme
• A dark theme 🌗, the application will switch automatically by reading your browser preferences
• Reduced bundle size (-200ko) by:
  • Removing FontAwesome and replacing all icons by Github's Octicons
  • Removing Github's Primer components dependency by creating some components myself
  • Remove node-sass and make full usage of styled-components instead
• Added a robots.txt for a better SEO
• Starts replacing Semantic UI components and migrate to Fomantic UI CSS for font swapping feature
• Changelogs can be filtered by topic
• Upgrade dependencies
• Delete CircleCi to prepare to move to Github Actions
• Simplify Vercel configuration using zero-configuration mode and configure environment variables for CD

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Release 1.4.0

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This update brings the start of user preferences ! You can now customize your experience to you what suits you best.

⭐️ Features

• User preferences, a profile item has appeared in the menu available by clicking on your avatar
• Topics filtering, select a topic among your favorites ones to filter the side content
• A FAQ, available in the footer, if you have other questions, you can send them to [email protected]

💅 Enhancements

• The welcome page view status is no longer stored in your device localstorage, it is now available across devices
• Redux has been fully replaced by the React context API
• Added a text when the issues blocks are empty
• Repositories topics are now displayed

🐞 Fixes

• Fix Bold on search by topics
• Fix CommitStrip image responsiveness
• Fix code rendering overflow in changelogs
• Fix paragraph overflow in changelogs

Thank you for reading,

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Release 1.3.0

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If you followed React Conf 2019 it's time to refactor/rewrite all the things !
If you did not and are interested, here is the youtube playlist of all the conferences.

⭐️ Features

• Most commented issues if you are curious about what people talk about
• Help wanted issues, an easy way to know where you can help the community

💅 Enhancements

• Migration to TypeScript
• Generate and use ReactApollo hooks (this include caching data !)
• SEO: Added a meta description
• Mobile layout enhancement (changelogs are now displayed in first)

🐞 Fixes

• Fixes assets caching

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Release 1.2.0

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What would be a journal without its comic strip ? I'm proud to annonce that CommitStrip will be part of your journal ! 🎉

CommitStrip is a blog relating our life as developers in comic strips.
Thank you for allowing the integration of your content.

⭐️ Features

• CommitStrip integration in your journal: when a new strip is published, it will appear in your journal the day after

💅 Enhancements

• Use Chomsky font to decorate the website footer

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Release 1.1.0

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⭐️ Features

• A click on the date will show a calendar with highlighted dates when there is some releases
  • The calendar also includes a button to get back to today

💅 Enhancements

• Use Chomsky font to decorate the website title
• The app is now tested with Cypress

Thank you for reading,

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Release 1.0.1

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💅 Enhancements

• Github Emoji interpretation in changelogs 🎉

🐞 Bug fixes

• Fixed a typo "Ever dream" -> "Ever dreamed"
• Fixed favicons configuration thanks to https://realfavicongenerator.net

🔜 Coming soon

• A calendar to easily identify when there has been releases

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Release 1.0.0

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The journal crafted for developers.

Changelogs will be used to tell you about features, improvment, bugfixes and communication.

This release, v1.0.0 is a MVP(Minimal Viable Product).

Features

• Landing page
• Github login
• Read starred repositories changelogs with one day lag
• Date navigation with keyboard arrows
• Trending repositories
• Help wanted repositories
• Responsive design
• User display with a way to log out
• Link to thedeveloperslog-public for issue report/feature request
• Templates for issue report/feature request
• Create a changelog on thedeveloperslog-public (this one)
• Welcome message displayed after first login
• Use the public repository to create changelogs and propage news to users
• Logo + favicon
• CI/CD

More to come

There is a lot of feature ideas in the backlog which will enrich the application, so don't worry if you find the app kind of empty for the moment, its just the start !

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