FrontierNav Update: 26 August 2024

Most of the changes these past few weeks have focused on polishing existing features and improving performance. There are also some new features sprinkled in like the Previous/Next Entity navigation.

Data Contributions

• @Erin has been adding collectopeadia cards and more to Xenoblade Chronicles 3's Wiki.
• @zFourSwordsGD has been adding food and cooking recipes to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild's Wiki.
• For the latest contributions since the last update, check them out on FrontierNav.

Interactive Maps

• Tidied up custom marker and map notes pages.
  • Added map name and thumbnail to map notes lists.
• Improved filtering logic on map list page.
  • Now the current entity or category open in the sidebar is handled separately from any manually added filters.
  • Still more improvements to make here such as persisting filters when clicking through to a map.
• Improved rendering speed of maps with lots of markers by around 100%.
• Improved query times when searching for deeply nested map locations by around 400%.
  • Large queries which took a few seconds should now take less than a second.
  • Some rare, massive queries which took over 3 minutes should now take a bit over 40 seconds. Still room for improvement.
• Reduced memory usage when running queries by around 20%.
  • For example, from 500MB to 400MB depending on the game and query.

Data tables

• Data tables are now more usable on mobile and table devices.
  • The "Name" column will now be unfrozen on narrower screens.
• Tunnel cells can now be edited. When clicked, it will go to the cell from which its value is derived.
• The "Name" column now shows the entity tag by default for consistency.
  • Click it to only view the "Name" value.
• Improved rendering speed of rows when scrolling data tables.
• Improved re-alignment speed between frozen and unfrozen columns.
• Fixed category sidebar page not opening for categories which are not the currently open table.

Entity and Category Pages

• Entities in category pages are now sorted by name rather than ID.
• Improved rendering times of Category pages with 1000+ entities by around 100%.
  • Pages which took a couple of seconds should now take a second or less.
• The "Guides" grid is now smaller to reduce vertical scrolling.
• Fixed some Entity pages showing "Not Found" due to non-Latin characters in Entity ID.

Change Request Page

• Added the change request ID of the current change request to the timeline.

Sidebar Pages

• Added "Previous" and "Next" links on Entity pages to navigate through entities of a specific category quickly.
• The Category Editor, Property Editor and similar editor pages now open in standalone sidebars.
  • This means you can navigate to other pages while the sidebar remains open.
• Added a "Create Category" sidebar page.
  • Previously used a browser prompt that could only set the name.
• Added a "Create Entity" sidebar page.
  • Previously used a browser prompt.
• Fixed list sidebar pages remaining open when the list was deleted.

Quick Search

• Results can now be navigated with arrow keys.
• Fixed quick search keyboard shortcut not working when browser window is focused but the page content isn't.
• Fixed search focus being lost when results changed while a result is in focus.

Navigation

• Added online status under the signed-in member's display name.

Xenoblade Chronicles X

• Updated Probe Simulation sidebar pages to match the Map Marker page.
• Updated Pixi.js v3 to Pixi.js v8.
  • This should improve rendering performance for the Segment and Probe Simulation maps.
• Fixed custom map marker not appearing on reloads.

General improvements

• Reduced padding throughout the app so more content fits on the screen.
• Fixed sidebar crashes when switching between wikis.
• Fixed some text being vertically cut off due to limited line-height.
• Fixed inconsistent font sizes.
• Fixed a bunch of alignment issues and inconsistencies.

Maintenance

• Started migrations away from Redux.
  • Removed redux-thunk.
  • Removed legacy redux connect() usage.
• Started migrations away from Lodash.
• Migrated all legacy image strings in data to image attachments.
• Removed all legacy relationship type ID handling logic.
  • Migrated all legacy relationship type IDs to the latest format.

As always, if you have any feedback or comments, feel free to share them.

Thanks for reading.