Changelog

2.1.0

March 9, 2023

Welcome ChatGPT 🤖

This version introduces OpenAI's ChatGPT feature. A new ai user named Alicia is created when the seed is ran, this user acts like an assistant for Q&A. You can ask it questions and it will answer you. It's a great way to test the app and see how it works under the hood.

Other minor changes:

Updated to Capacitor 4
Added support for Firebase Emulators
Added hot key "meta+enter" to send messages quickly (mac command+enter, windows ctrl+enter)
Added support for automatically detect links and open them with in-app browser.
Added a new global config APP_INITIAL_ROUTE to customize the initial route, renamed home page to groups and made contacts the initial route.
Many small bug fixes and improvements like a bug on contacts list where it was not showing empty state when there were no contacts.
Updated docs and added more sections

2.0.0

March 2, 2023

Major changes

Updating Firebase, Angular and some other packages. This is a major update and it will require some changes on your side.

Updated to Firebase 9.17.1
Updated to Angular 15.2.1
Updated to Ionic 6.6.0
All external requests have been moved from effects folder to a new folder called api. In addition, the flew dep has been removed and calls rewritten to use pure Firebase v9 APIs.
The elements build feature has been removed. Chatness now doesn’t produce web components anymore and is intended to work as an angular application from now on. We plan to release Chatness for other frameworks soon.
authWithUserIp has been removed as it was only intended to be used by earlier mechanisms of Chatness Demo, it wasn't designed to be a feature at all.
All interfaces and types have been grouped under the new folder types at the root level.
tell(…) effect has been renamed to makeAlert(…)
Enabled angular templates in strict mode for better type checking
Fixed a bug on contacts search where results were not being updated correctly
now Chatness is shipped with a pnpm-lock.yaml file to take advantage of a faster and more efficient package manager. If you prefer to use npm or yarn you can delete the pnpm-lock.yaml file and run npm install or yarn install instead. If you prefer to use pnpm you can run pnpm install as usual. If you don't know what pnpm is, you can read more about it here.

Flew migration

If you have adopted flew in some of your projects, here's a quick guide on how to migrate away from it.

@flew/state becomes @elegante/browser
@flew/core becomes @elegante/sdk
@flew/network removed. You need to rewrite the network requests by yourself using any external source (ie: firebase sdk, parse sdk, native fetch api, etc)
Since flew’s fetch is removed we can use any external source and do cache/state values automatically with the newer fast api importable from @elegante/browser
All cache apis are removed (setCache, getCache, etc). They can be replaced with the LocalStorage and IndexedDB wrappers importable from @elegante/sdk. These wrappers are also used internally by the fast API but you can replace them with any “Storage” mechanism. (See fast options on browser load)
All the other flew packages are deprecated (ie: Firebase, Parse, etc). Everything can be done or reworked using just elegante’s sdk and browser packages. Elegante's packages are fully typed with typescript and examples, if you need help migrating your code, please reach out to us.

1.3.0

February 21, 2022

Minor fixes

Maintenance update with minor fixes

Fixed a bug on elements build script
Updated to Angular v13
Refactor to use Flew.js as network, cache and state foundation

1.2.1

September 16, 2021

Minor fixes

Maintenance update with minor fixes

Fixed a bug on chat contacts
Made android app look as an actual android
Remove emoji-regex dep in favor of a local effect
Integrate Tailwind to Angular CLI
Update to Capacitor v3
Update to Angular v12

1.2.0

February 20, 2021

Push Notifications arrived 🍭

For first time senders, meaning when a contact that has never talked to you before send a private message, that very first message will fire a notification on your registered devices (iphone, android, ipad, tablet, etc). Devices are registered on every login and deregistered on logout.

1x1 push

Once you estabilish contact with someone, your registered devices should receive all notifications from that person in background (app closed or minimized) and increase the app badge counter. Badge counter is reseted once you open the app.

Groups push

When a chat group is visited you automatically opt-in to receive notifications from all the users inside that group.

Notification Settings

You can always decide later on from whom you want to receive push notifications, both for groups and users.

Chat Settings

You can also silent an user or group directly from the chat using the menu option (three dots) in the top/right corner.

Other fixes and improvements

Fixed a bug on loggedOut guard
Increased perf for contacts list by adding virtual scroll
Adjusted tabbar background for Android which doesn’t support backdrop filter
Adjusted icons margin on profile page
Fixed light theme color for textarea
Added Android scripts to run and build
Increased font-size in some places
Added icon+splash and script to generate resources automatically
Reviewed and made tweaks in the existing docs
Added docs for generating resources
Added docs for push notifications

1.1.0

January 19, 2021

Mainly purpose of this release is aiming make it possible to easily add pictures and videos from user's device to a conversation.

Message deletion

Added message delete option (long press on message). It's synced in realtime with cache invalidation.

Media upload

Added media upload options alongside the message bar. Select photos or videos. Take picture or record video.

Other fixes and improvements

Added new rules. Make sure to run firestore:deploy again
Updated elements. Make sure to build:elements again
Added emoji detector to increase font size when a message is composed only by an emoji
Added image zoom
Fixed registerWithFirebase effect
Fixed changeNameWithFirebase effect
Improved perf and fixed issues on chat messages
Improved perf and fixed realtime issues on contact list

1.0.0

January 1, 2021

Happy new year ✨🍾

Finally releasing today Chatness v1, including some minor fixes and great stuff as

database seeds
dark theme
a brand new section for contacts with search
a new searchable groups in home

Hope y'all enjoy.

0.1.0

December 15, 2020

Just released the first stable version of Chatness which adds the main functionalities as

Basic auth workflow

email sign-in
password reset
account creation

Profile handler

change name
change email
change password
logout

Chat in groups and private

adaptive message balloons
timestamp based pagination
messages timestamp
in a group click on user to message in private