🎯 Problem: Buttons and styling lost when saving rich content
✅ Solution: Smart content application that preserves HTML structure
🔧 New Features:
- parseMarkdownToBlocks() - Intelligently parses markdown
- updateRichContent() - Updates elements in place vs wholesale replacement
- canUpdateElement() - Checks element/content compatibility
- updateElementContent() - Preserves classes while updating content
- looksLikeButton() - Heuristics to detect and preserve button styling
🎨 Layout Preservation:
- Buttons keep their 'btn-primary' classes and styling
- Headings maintain existing CSS classes and hierarchy
- Paragraphs preserve lead/subtitle classes
- Links maintain href and visual styling
✨ User Experience:
- Edit 'Get Started Today' button → still looks like a button after save
- Rich content maintains professional appearance
- No more plain text where buttons should be
Smart frontend content management without backend complexity!
🛠️ Development Infrastructure:
- package.json with npm scripts for development
- live-server for hot reload during development
- Custom dev helper script with project validation
- Comprehensive .gitignore for Node.js and Go
📖 Documentation:
- Updated README.md with project overview and quick start
- DEVELOPMENT.md with detailed development guide
- Demo instructions and testing scenarios
🚀 Available Commands:
- npm run dev (start development server)
- npm run dev:check (validate project setup)
- npm run dev:demo (show testing instructions)
- npm run dev:help (list all commands)
✨ Features:
- Live reload on file changes
- Project health checking
- 18 editable elements detected
- 14.3KB core library size
Next: Ready for active development and testing!
✨ Features implemented:
- Complete demo website (Acme Consulting Services)
- Core insertr.js library with edit-in-place functionality
- Support for simple text and rich markdown content
- Mock authentication system (login/logout simulation)
- Edit mode toggle for client interface
- Local storage persistence
- Visual feedback for saving content
- Multi-page support (index.html, about.html)
- Responsive design with clean UI
🎯 Three user experiences:
- Customer: Clean website with no edit interface
- Client: Same website + edit buttons when authenticated
- Developer: Simple class-based integration
🏗️ Architecture:
- Vanilla JavaScript (no framework dependencies)
- Alpine.js ready for enhanced interactivity
- CSS-only styling for edit indicators
- Mock API structure for backend planning
Next: Connect to Go backend with real persistence
- Research existing CMS solutions (TinaCMS, Strapi, Contentful, Ghost)
- Tech stack decision: Go + htmx/Alpine for edit-in-place functionality
- User experience design for three user types (Customer/Client/Developer)
- Prototype roadmap with three phases
- Authentication strategy with Authentik OAuth 2.0
- Core vision: Simple 'add a class and it works' integration
