- Add comprehensive nested route structure with proper authentication layers
- Implement UpdateContent and ReorderCollectionItems handlers with repository pattern
- Add automatic mock JWT token fetching for seamless development workflow
- Restore content editing and collection reordering functionality broken after database refactoring
- Provide production-ready authentication architecture with development convenience
- Enable full CMS operations in browser with proper CRUD and bulk transaction support
- Update collection manager to use data-collection-id instead of data-content-id
- Add safety checks to prevent undefined Map access in addItemControls
- Add validation in editor to only initialize collections with valid collection IDs
- Resolves TypeError and missing attribute errors in frontend collection management
- Add bulk reorder API endpoint (PUT /api/collections/{id}/reorder) with atomic transactions
- Replace individual position updates with efficient bulk operations in frontend
- Implement unified ID generation and proper data-item-id injection during enhancement
- Fix collection item position persistence through content edit cycles
- Add optimistic UI with rollback capability for better user experience
- Update sqlc queries to include last_edited_by fields in position updates
- Remove obsolete data-content-type attributes and unify naming conventions
Consolidates duplicate code and removes technical debt accumulated during rapid development. This cleanup improves maintainability while preserving all functionality.
Backend cleanup:
- Remove unused legacy function findViableChildrenLegacy()
- Consolidate duplicate SQL null string helper functions into shared utils
- Unify text extraction functions across utils, engine, and id_generator
- Consolidate duplicate attribute getter functions into single implementation
Frontend cleanup:
- Remove duplicate authentication methods (authenticateWithOAuth vs performOAuthFlow)
- Remove unused hasPermission() method from auth.js
- Centralize repetitive API endpoint construction in api-client.js
- Reduce excessive console logging while preserving important error logs
Impact: -144 lines of code, improved maintainability, no functionality changes
All tests pass and builds succeed
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• Add full multi-table schema for collections with normalized design (collections, collection_templates, collection_items, collection_item_versions)
• Implement collection detection and processing in enhancement pipeline for .insertr-add elements
• Add template extraction and storage from existing HTML children with multi-variant support
• Enable collection reconstruction from database on server restart with proper DOM rebuilding
• Extend ContentClient interface with collection operations and full database integration
• Update enhance command to use engine.DatabaseClient for collection persistence support
- Remove .insertr-default-style special styling (blue background, border, dot indicator)
- Make ALL buttons use .insertr-style-preview with unified appearance
- Maintain authentic style previews in isolated .insertr-style-sample layer
- Bold buttons show bold text, .brand buttons show green uppercase text, etc.
- Eliminate visual inconsistency between semantic and detected style buttons
- Simplify CSS by removing ~50 lines of duplicate button styling
- Provide consistent professional toolbar appearance across all formatting options
- Move padding from .insertr-button-frame to .insertr-style-btn.insertr-style-preview
- Add align-items and justify-content to button container for proper centering
- Remove width: 100% from button frame to prevent unnecessary stretching
- Fix off-center text in default Bold, Italic, and Link buttons
- Maintain style isolation while ensuring consistent button alignment
- Add margin/padding reset to .insertr-style-sample to prevent browser defaults
- Remove unused .insertr-default-preview CSS that was causing confusion
- Ensure consistent spacing across all button types (default vs detected styles)
- Clean up legacy CSS classes that are no longer used with three-layer architecture
- Add button frame isolation layer to prevent site CSS from affecting toolbar appearance
- Create style sample container for authentic style previews without layout interference
- Update CSS with proper containment boundaries and !important rules for button structure
- Preserve all authentic styling (color, weight, transform, decoration) in isolated preview
- Fix inconsistent button appearance across different site stylesheets (e.g. .brand class)
- Maintain professional toolbar UX while showing accurate style previews
Multi-Property Editor Polish:
- Add comprehensive form styling (.insertr-form-group, .insertr-form-input, etc.)
- Professional layout with titles, validation, auto-focus, and help text
- Enhanced link/button/image editors with real-time validation
- Consistent spacing, colors, and visual hierarchy
Smart Default Formatting:
- Add Bold, Italic, Link options when not detected in content
- Intelligent detection respects existing developer styles
- Visual distinction for default vs detected styles with info-colored borders
- Content-aware: only adds to elements that benefit from text formatting
Link Interface Unification:
- Create shared createLinkConfigurationForm() component
- Eliminate code duplication between direct editing and popup creation
- Update createLinkEditor() and showLinkConfigPopup() to use shared component
- Fix link button styling to match other style buttons with preview content
Benefits:
- Consistent professional editing experience across all interfaces
- Reduced maintenance burden through code unification
- Enhanced UX with validation, keyboard shortcuts, and visual feedback
- Maintains CLASSES.md philosophy while improving out-of-box experience
- Add backend container transformation in engine.go following syntactic sugar specification
- Containers with .insertr get class removed and viable children get .insertr added
- Remove incorrect frontend container expansion - frontend only finds enhanced elements
- Fix StyleAwareEditor hasMultiPropertyElements runtime error
- Add addClass/removeClass methods to ContentEngine for class manipulation
- Update frontend to match HTML-first approach with no runtime container logic
- Test verified: container <section class='insertr'> transforms to individual h1.insertr, p.insertr, button.insertr
This completes the container expansion functionality per CLASSES.md:
Developer convenience (one .insertr enables section editing) + granular control (individual element editing)
- Extract content from formData.content instead of passing whole object
- Add logic to call updateContent() for existing content vs createContent() for new
- Fix 400 Invalid JSON error caused by sending object instead of string
- Handle different formData formats: string, {content: string}, {text: string}
The frontend was sending html_content as {type:'html', content:'...'} object
but server expected a plain string. Now properly extracts the content value.
- Replace value field with html_content for direct HTML storage
- Add original_template field for style detection preservation
- Remove all markdown processing from injector (delete markdown.go)
- Fix critical content extraction/injection bugs in engine
- Add missing UpdateContent PUT handler for content persistence
- Fix API client field names and add updateContent() method
- Resolve content type validation (only allow text/link types)
- Add UUID-based ID generation to prevent collisions
- Complete first-pass processing workflow for unprocessed elements
- Verify end-to-end: Enhancement → Database → API → Editor → Persistence
All 37 files updated for HTML-first content management system.
Phase 3a implementation complete and production ready.
## Library Code Cleanup (~1,200+ lines removed)
- Remove legacy markdown system (markdown.js, previewer.js)
- Delete unused EditContext code from ui/editor.js (~400 lines)
- Remove version history UI components from form-renderer.js (~180 lines)
- Clean unused CSS styles from insertr.css (~120 lines)
- Update package.json dependencies (remove marked, turndown)
## Documentation Updates
- README.md: Update from markdown to HTML-first approach
- AGENTS.md: Add current architecture guidance and HTML-first principles
- TODO.md: Complete rewrite with realistic roadmap and current status
- demos/README.md: Update for development demo server usage
## System Reality Alignment
- All documentation now reflects current working system
- Removed aspirational features in favor of actual capabilities
- Clear separation between development and production workflows
- Accurate description of style-aware editor with HTML preservation
## Code Cleanup Benefits
- Simplified codebase focused on HTML-first approach
- Removed markdown conversion complexity
- Cleaner build process without unused dependencies
- Better alignment between frontend capabilities and documentation
Ready for Phase 3a server updates with clean foundation.
- Add JavaScript-based style copying from original elements to toolbar buttons
- Use getComputedStyle() to dynamically apply color, font-weight, text-decoration, text-transform
- Preserve button clickability with protected backgrounds and hover states
- Support any CSS framework/custom styles without hardcoded mappings
- Add comprehensive documentation to TODO.md for future enhancements
Examples:
- 'Emphasis' button now shows red bold text (from .emph class)
- 'Highlight' button displays with style preview while remaining clickable
- 'Brand' button demonstrates text-transform and color changes
This provides intuitive visual feedback so users immediately understand
what each formatting button will do to their content.
- Remove clunky multi-property editor with separate text + URL inputs
- Implement single rich text editor (contentEditable) for all content
- Add popup-based link configuration: select text → click 🔗 Link → configure
- Filter out link styles from formatting toolbar (links use popup, not buttons)
- Consolidate CSS: remove separate style-aware-editor.css, integrate into insertr.css
- Clean up 200+ lines of unused multi-property form code and styles
- Fix duplicate link style detection (no more 'Fancy Link' + 'Link' buttons)
Result: Much cleaner UX similar to modern editors where formatting uses
toolbar buttons and complex elements (links) use dedicated popups.
- Fix TypeError when accessing form.style by adding fallback selectors
- Support both legacy (.insertr-edit-form) and new editor class names
- Add null checks to prevent crashes when form element is not found
- Ensure ensureModalVisible works with all editor types
Resolves positioning error when opening style-aware editor interface.
- Add StyleAwareEditor class with intelligent editing strategy detection
- Implement three editing modes: simple text, rich content, multi-property forms
- Create dynamic formatting toolbar with buttons for detected styles
- Add multi-property editing forms for complex elements (links, images, buttons)
- Integrate contentEditable with style application/removal functionality
- Replace markdown-based editor.js with style-aware architecture
- Add comprehensive CSS styling for modern, responsive editor interface
- Support fallback editing for error cases with graceful degradation
- Enable real-time style application to selected text in rich editor
- Preserve all element attributes and structure during editing workflow
Complete implementation of CLASSES.md style preservation specification.
Phase 2 foundation ready for final testing and refinement.
- Add StyleDetectionEngine with one-layer-deep nested element analysis
- Add HTMLPreservationEngine for direct HTML manipulation without lossy conversion
- Implement structure-preserving content parsing that maintains element positions
- Add multi-property element support for links (href + content), images (src + alt), buttons
- Create comprehensive test suite with real DOM element validation
- Replace markdown-based system foundation with HTML-first architecture
- Preserve all element attributes (classes, IDs, data-*, aria-*) during editing
- Generate human-readable style names from detected nested elements
- Support template extraction with multiple insertion points for complex elements
Foundation complete for Phase 2 style-aware editor interface per CLASSES.md specification.
- Remove complex style preservation system from editor
- Simplify markdown conversion back to straightforward approach
- Remove StyleContext class and style-aware conversion methods
- Switch content type from 'html' back to 'markdown' for consistency
- Clean up editor workflow to focus on core markdown editing
- Remove ~500 lines of unnecessary style complexity
This completes the UI unification cleanup by removing the overly complex
style preservation system that was making the editor harder to maintain.
- Add StyleContext class for extracting and applying HTML attributes/styles
- Enhance MarkdownConverter with style-aware conversion methods
- Switch backend storage from markdown to HTML with 'html' content type
- Update editor workflow to preserve CSS classes, IDs, and attributes
- Maintain markdown editing UX while storing HTML for style preservation
- Support complex attributes like rel, data-*, aria-*, etc.
This enables editing styled content like <a class="fancy" rel="me">text</a>
while preserving all styling attributes through the markdown editing process.
- Rebuild JavaScript library with delayed control panel initialization
- Update server assets to include latest UI behavior changes
- Ensure built assets reflect invisible UI for regular visitors
The control panel now only appears after gate activation, maintaining
the invisible CMS principle for end users.
- Move control panel initialization from start() to startEditor()
- Ensure UI only appears after successful gate activation
- Regular visitors now see zero indication of insertr presence
- Maintains 'invisible CMS' principle for end users
User Experience:
- Before gate: Website appears completely normal
- After gate: Control panel slides in for authenticated editors
- Gates remain the only trigger mechanism for editors
- Create InsertrControlPanel class for unified UI management
- Separate business logic from presentation layer
- Remove DOM manipulation from auth.js and editor.js
- Add comprehensive CSS for status indicators and editing effects
- Implement consistent kebab-case file naming
- Add event-driven communication between core and UI layers
UI Architecture:
- Unified control panel with status indicator and action buttons
- Color-coded status dots (gray/blue/green for visitor/auth/editing)
- Professional editing hover effects with tooltips
- Responsive design for mobile devices
- Proper z-index and accessibility management
Business Logic:
- Pure auth.js focused on authentication state and OAuth flows
- Pure editor.js focused on content editing workflow
- Event emitters for state changes between modules
- Clean separation of concerns and testable architecture
- Remove @layer declarations and complex hybrid approach
- Eliminate all !important usage - rely on natural CSS specificity
- Add explicit color declarations to prevent inheritance issues
- Class selectors (0,0,1,0) naturally beat universal selectors (0,0,0,0)
- Fixes white-on-white modal issues on sites with CSS resets
- Works in all browsers without 2022+ cascade layer requirements
- Cleaner, more maintainable CSS architecture
- Migrate from inline CSS to external insertr.css with cascade layer architecture
- Add CSS CDN serving capability (ServeInsertrCSS handler and /insertr.css route)
- Implement hybrid approach: @layer insertr for modern browsers + html body selectors for legacy browsers
- Remove scattered inline CSS from JavaScript modules for better maintainability
- Solve form element spacing conflicts with aggressive site CSS resets like '* {margin:0; padding:0}'
- Enable proper CSS caching and separation of concerns
- Restructure demo directory from test-sites/ to demos/ with flattened layout
- Add auto-enhancement on server startup for all sites with auto_enhance: true
- Fix inconsistent content ID generation that prevented dan-eden-portfolio content persistence
- Update server configuration to enhance from source to separate output directories
- Remove manual enhancement from justfile in favor of automatic server enhancement
- Clean up legacy test files and unused restore command
- Update build system to use CDN endpoint instead of file copying
- Replace dual script injection (external + inline) with single script approach
- Pass site configuration via data attributes instead of inline JavaScript
- Update library auto-initialization to read config from script data attributes
- Reduce HTML bloat by eliminating 30+ lines of inline initialization code
- Maintain future-proof CDN compatibility and duplication prevention
Enhanced files now contain only one clean script tag with configuration.
- Replace complex multi-server setup (live-server + API) with unified Go server
- Serve all sites at /sites/{site_id} endpoints, eliminating port conflicts
- Fix content-type middleware to serve proper MIME types for static files
- Prevent script injection duplication with future-proof CDN-compatible detection
- Remove auto page reload from enhance button to eliminate editing interruptions
- Enable seamless content editing workflow with manual enhancement control
Development now requires only 'just dev' instead of complex demo commands.
All sites immediately available at localhost:8080 without hot reload conflicts.
- Move all ContentItem, ContentClient, ContentResponse types to engine/types.go as single source of truth
- Remove duplicate type definitions from content/types.go
- Update all imports across codebase to use engine types
- Enhance engine to extract existing data-content-id from HTML markup
- Simplify frontend to always send html_markup, let server handle ID extraction/generation
- Fix contentId reference errors in frontend error handling
- Add getAttribute helper method to engine for ID extraction
- Add GetAllContent method to engine.DatabaseClient
- Update enhancer to use engine.ContentClient interface
- All builds and API endpoints verified working
This resolves the 400 Bad Request errors and creates a unified architecture where the server is the single source of truth for all ID generation and content type management.
Database Structure Cleanup:
- Move all SQL files from ./db/ to ./internal/db/
- Update sqlc.yaml to use new paths (preserving schema+setup.sql hack)
- Consolidate database-related code in single directory
- Remove empty ./db/ directory
Injector Migration:
- Move injector.go from content package to engine package
- Update ContentClient interface to return map instead of slice for GetBulkContent
- Update database client implementation to match interface
- Remove injector dependency from enhancer (stub implementation)
Demo-Site Consolidation:
- Move demo-site to test-sites/demo-site for better organization
- Update build scripts to use new demo-site location
- Maintain all functionality while improving project structure
This continues the unified architecture consolidation by moving core content
processing logic to the engine and organizing related files properly.
- Create internal/engine module as single source of truth for content processing
- Consolidate 4 separate ID generation systems into one unified engine
- Update API handlers to use engine for consistent server-side ID generation
- Remove frontend client-side ID generation, delegate to server engine
- Ensure identical HTML markup + file path produces identical content IDs
- Resolve content persistence failures caused by ID fragmentation between manual editing and enhancement processes
Backend changes:
- Updated parser to treat <span> elements as markdown by default
- Changed span content type detection from ContentText to ContentMarkdown
- Spans now support **bold**, *italic*, and [links](url) formatting
Frontend changes:
- Updated content type detection to match backend behavior
- Frontend now treats spans as markdown elements for consistent processing
- Editor preview behavior now matches server-side enhancement
Benefits:
- <span class='highlight'>**bold** text</span> now processes markdown correctly
- Inline elements maintain all styling while supporting rich formatting
- Complete frontend/backend consistency for span element handling
- Expands markdown support to common inline wrapper elements
Tested and verified:
- Span elements preserve all classes, IDs, and styles
- Bold, italic, and link formatting works in span elements
- Content type properly detected as 'markdown' in both systems
Backend implementation:
- Add goldmark dependency for markdown processing
- Create MarkdownProcessor with minimal config (bold, italic, links only)
- Update content injector with HTML injection capabilities
- Add injectHTMLContent() for safe DOM manipulation
- Server now converts **bold**, *italic*, [links](url) to HTML during enhancement
Frontend alignment:
- Restrict marked.js to match server capabilities
- Disable unsupported features (headings, lists, code blocks, tables)
- Update turndown rules to prevent unsupported markdown generation
- Frontend editor preview now matches server output exactly
Server as source of truth:
- Build-time markdown→HTML conversion during enhancement
- Zero runtime overhead for end users
- Consistent formatting between editor preview and final output
- Raw markdown stored in database, HTML served to visitors
Tested features:
- **bold** → <strong>bold</strong> ✅
- *italic* → <em>italic</em> ✅
- [text](url) → <a href="url">text</a> ✅
- Replace separate POST/PUT endpoints with unified POST upsert
- Add automatic content ID generation from element context when no ID provided
- Implement version history preservation before content updates
- Add element context support for backend ID generation
- Update frontend to use single endpoint for all content operations
- Enhanced demo site with latest database content including proper content IDs
- Problem: Element ID collisions between similar elements (logo h1 vs hero h1)
causing content to be injected into wrong elements
- Root cause: Enhancer used naive tag+class matching instead of parser's
sophisticated semantic analysis for element identification
Systematic solution:
- Enhanced parser architecture with exported utilities (GetClasses, ContainsClass)
- Added FindElementInDocument() with content-based semantic matching
- Replaced naive findAndInjectNodes() with parser-based element matching
- Removed code duplication between parser and enhancer packages
Backend improvements:
- Moved ID generation to backend for single source of truth
- Added ElementContext struct for frontend-backend communication
- Updated API handlers to support context-based content ID generation
Frontend improvements:
- Enhanced getElementMetadata() to extract semantic context
- Updated save flow to handle both enhanced and non-enhanced elements
- Improved API client to use backend-generated content IDs
Result:
- Unique content IDs: navbar-logo-200530 vs hero-title-a1de7b
- Precise element matching using content validation
- Single source of truth for DOM utilities in parser package
- Eliminated 40+ lines of duplicate code while fixing core bug
- Add manual enhance API endpoint (POST /api/enhance?site_id={site}) for triggering file enhancement
- Implement enhance button in JavaScript library status indicator (🔄 Enhance)
- Disable auto-enhancement in development mode to prevent live-reload conflicts
- Add dev mode parameter to SiteManager to control enhancement behavior
- Update API routing structure to support /api/enhance endpoint
- Include enhance button styling and user feedback (loading, success, error states)
- Button triggers file enhancement and page reload to show updated static files
Development workflow improvements:
- Content edits → Immediate editor preview (no unwanted page reloads)
- Manual enhance button → Intentional file updates + reload for testing
- Production mode maintains automatic enhancement on content changes
This resolves the live-reload conflict where automatic file enhancement
was causing unwanted page reloads during content editing in development.
- Replace dual update systems with single markdown-first editor architecture
- Add server-side upsert to eliminate 404 errors on PUT operations
- Fix content persistence race condition between preview and save operations
- Remove legacy updateElementContent system entirely
- Add comprehensive authentication with JWT scaffolding and dev mode
- Implement EditContext.updateOriginalContent() for proper baseline management
- Enable markdown formatting in all text elements (h1-h6, p, div, etc)
- Clean terminology: remove 'unified' references from codebase
Technical changes:
* core/editor.js: Remove legacy update system, unify content types as markdown
* ui/Editor.js: Add updateOriginalContent() method to fix save persistence
* ui/Previewer.js: Clean live preview system for all content types
* api/handlers.go: Implement UpsertContent for idempotent PUT operations
* auth/*: Complete authentication service with OAuth scaffolding
* db/queries/content.sql: Add upsert query with ON CONFLICT handling
* Schema: Remove type constraints, rely on server-side validation
Result: Clean content editing with persistent saves, no 404 errors, markdown support in all text elements
🎯 Major Achievement: Insertr is now a complete, production-ready CMS
## 🚀 Full-Stack Integration Complete
- ✅ HTTP API Server: Complete REST API with SQLite database
- ✅ Smart Client Integration: Environment-aware API client
- ✅ Unified Development Workflow: Single command full-stack development
- ✅ Professional Tooling: Enhanced build, status, and health checking
## 🔧 Development Experience
- Primary: `just dev` - Full-stack development (demo + API server)
- Alternative: `just demo-only` - Demo site only (special cases)
- Build: `just build` - Complete stack (library + CLI + server)
- Status: `just status` - Comprehensive project overview
## 📦 What's Included
- **insertr-server/**: Complete HTTP API server with SQLite database
- **Smart API Client**: Environment detection, helpful error messages
- **Enhanced Build Pipeline**: Builds library + CLI + server in one command
- **Integrated Tooling**: Status checking, health monitoring, clean workflows
## 🧹 Cleanup
- Removed legacy insertr-old code (no longer needed)
- Simplified workflow (full-stack by default)
- Updated all documentation to reflect complete CMS
## 🎉 Result
Insertr is now a complete, professional CMS with:
- Real content persistence via database
- Professional editing interface
- Build-time content injection
- Zero-configuration deployment
- Production-ready architecture
Ready for real-world use! 🚀
- Add root package.json with development scripts and dependencies
- Move scripts/ from lib back to root for intuitive developer experience
- Clean lib/package.json to contain only runtime dependencies
- Add comprehensive justfile with cross-platform command shortcuts
- Update README.md with new development workflow instructions
- Maintain lib as clean, publishable package while enabling root-level commands
- Add marked and turndown libraries for bidirectional conversion
- Create comprehensive MarkdownConverter utility with proper paragraph preservation
- Implement perfect round-trip HTML→Markdown→HTML conversion
- Add rich formatting support (bold, italic, paragraphs) with live preview
- Fix save handler conflict where general editor overwrote group changes
- Implement debounced live preview for group editing (500ms like regular elements)
- Enable dynamic paragraph creation/removal during markdown editing
- Add comprehensive test cases with HTML formatting examples
Result: World-class drop-in markdown editing with 29KB bundle size
- Add container element detection and child expansion in InsertrCore
- Implement .insertr descendant expansion matching CLI behavior
- Add .insertr-group collective editing with markdown editor
- Fix UX issue where div.insertr got text input instead of proper child editors
- Add comprehensive test cases for both features in about.html
- Enable live preview for group editing with proper content splitting
- Add ResizeObserver to automatically detect element height changes during live preview
- Implement repositionModal() to keep modal positioned below expanded content
- Combine modal repositioning with scroll-to-fit for optimal visibility
- Solve UX issue where modal would overlap newly added content
- Implement debounced live preview in modal editing (500ms)
- Add LivePreviewManager class with element tracking and restoration
- Enhance modal sizing for comfortable 60-80 character editing
- Add auto-copy plugin to rollup config for seamless development
- Update dev command to automatically sync changes to demo-site
The live preview system provides real-time visual feedback while typing in modals,
showing changes in context without saving. Enhanced dev workflow eliminates manual
build steps, enabling instant iteration during development.
