- Add clear distinction between Server and Static deployment modes
- Restructure run instructions with specific npm commands and their purposes
- Clarify Docker deployment scenarios (static vs server, with examples)
- Rewrite music section to explain server-side vs browser-side playlist generation
- Remove large JSON data injection from EJS templates
- Add client-side data-loader utility with cache-busting support
- Create server endpoints for JSON data with long-term caching
- Add graceful failure handling if core data fails to load
- Copy JSON data files to dist/data for static hosting
- Update app initialization to load data asynchronously
- Set serverAvailable flag for static builds in gulp task
This reduces HTML payload size and enables better caching strategies
for both server and static deployment modes.
Implement STATIC=1 environment variable to enable browser-only deployment
without proxy server infrastructure. Uses WS4KP_SERVER_AVAILABLE flag to
distinguish between server-backed and static deployments for proper URL
rewriting and User-Agent header handling.
- Add STATIC env var to skip proxy route registration at startup
- Inject WS4KP_SERVER_AVAILABLE flag via EJS template based on STATIC mode
- Update fetch.mjs to conditionally send User-Agent headers based on server availability
- Update url-rewrite.mjs to skip proxy rewriting when server is unavailable
- Use renderIndex helper for consistent template data across dev/prod modes
- Improve music playlist logging
Benefits of integrated approach:
- Single environment variable controls both server and client behavior
- Flag injection happens once at render time, not on every request
- No runtime HTML string manipulation overhead
- Clean separation between server-backed and static deployment logic
- Same codebase supports both deployment modes without duplication
Static mode (STATIC=1): Direct API calls to external services, no caching
Server mode (default): Local proxy with caching and API request observability
- Replace magic numbers with seconds-based timing constants
- Switch from scrollTo() to hardware-accelerated transform
- Add scroll caching to prevent repeated DOM queries every scroll cycle
- Switch to safeJson() for centralized error handling across alert modules
- Horizontal alert scroll now goes edge-to-edge
- Integrate global speed settings into horizontal scroll timing
- Improve error handling flow with better fallback behavior for missing data
- Remvoe unused getCurrentData() function in hazards.mjs
- Move background color from scrolling element to container to avoid
showing the underlying content when scrolling with trasnform
- Replace magic numbers with seconds-based timing constants
- Switch from scrollTo() to hardware-accelerated transform for smooth scrolling
- Add scroll caching to prevent repeated DOM queries every scroll cycle
- Fix calculations to support flexible hourly forecast lengths
(i.e. in the future, could offer every other hour)
- Switch to safeJson() for centralized error handling
- Replace magic numbers with seconds-based timing constants
- Switch from scrollTo() to hardware-accelerated transform
- Add scroll caching to prevent repeated DOM queries every scroll cycle
- Fix calculations to allow an arbitrarily-sized list of travel forecast cities
- Switch to safeJson() and safePromiseAll() for centralized error handling
- Switch to safe*() methods for centralized error handling
- Add error handling and validation
- Optimize radar API usage by only fetching yesterday's data when needed
- Use centralized URL rewriting for caching proxy support
- Add debug logging throughout radar processing pipeline
- Improve canvas context validation and error recovery
- Handle worker errors gracefully by setting totalScreens = 0 to skip in animation
- Remove unused OVERRIDES parameter passing to workers
- DOM-based measurement system for accurate forecast lines
- Replace fixed-timing with dynamic timing based on actual forecast lines
- Filter out expired forecasts
- Improve error handling and only set failed state if enabled
- Debug logging for timing calculations and content measurement
- Switch from json() to safeJson() for centralized error handling
- Add module for expired period filtering
- Switch from json() to safeJson() for centralized error handling
- Improve nighttime period handling to focus on full days
- Fix day/night temperature pairing logic
- Add debug logging
- Add utility function to augment missing weather observation data from METAR
- Switch from json() to safeJson() for centralized error handling
- Data quality validation and age checks
- Add null/undefined value handling for wind direction calculations
- Default debug flags settable by query param or env variable
- Allows comma-separated list of debug flags
- Runtime modification (enable/disable/set) via console
- Support "all" flag for enabling/disabling everything
- "eslint.validate": [ "javascript" ] is no longer needed
(Modern versions of the ESLint VS Code extensions
automatically validate JavaScript files by default.)
- Configure editor to use tabs instead of spaces per ESLint rules
- Switch to VS Code's built-in HTML formatter
- Add EJS file associations for proper syntax highlighting
- Add recommended extensions for development workflow
- Remove need to maintain duplicate .js data files alongside JSON sources
- Load JSON data once at server startup and inject into templates
- Dev and production modes use the same data sources
Removes:
- server/scripts/data/{travelcities,regionalcities,stations}.js
- gulp compressJsData task for bundling data files
- Pass query parameters to EJS template for kiosk mode detection
- Add kiosk class to body when enabled via query parameter
- Simplify kiosk mode CSS to hide all elements except main weather display
- Add null checks for progress object to prevent errors in kiosk mode
- Prevent navigation errors when no suitable displays are available
