3.0.0

📦 Changelog – Major Platform Overhaul (v3.0.0)

📢 Overview

This release introduces a complete overhaul of the platform with a modern UI/UX, enhanced dashboard experience, upgraded authentication, real-time notification support, and extensive codebase refactoring. It marks a significant step forward in usability, maintainability, and responsiveness.

✨ What's New

🎨 UI/UX Enhancements

• ✅ Custom cursor styling for a sleek and modern interface.

• ✅ Skeleton loaders for HeaderAvatar and ProfileCard to enhance perceived performance.

• ✅ Fully redesigned dashboard header with improved authentication handling and intuitive navigation.

• ✅ Revamped Error and 404 pages with friendlier visuals and messaging.

• ✅ New loaders and spinners for smoother interactions.

• ✅ Styled scrollbar and progress bar for UI consistency.

• ✅ Introduced feature section on the Premium page for clearer value proposition.

• ✅ Updated route: /dash ➜ /dashboard for clarity and better semantics.

• ✅ Overhauled authentication pages, including:

  • "Auth in Progress"
  • "Auth Failure"
  • New authentication loader animation

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📊 Dashboard & Analytics

• 📈 API usage charts to visualize request volumes and endpoint popularity.
• 🏆 Leaderboard component for ranking user stats and performance.
• 🧭 Breadcrumb navigation added for better page tracking.
• 📊 Enhanced "My Analytics" page with new visuals and insights.

🔐 Authentication & Account Settings

• 🔒 RequireDiscordOAuth component now guards private areas of the app.

• 🛠 New pages for:

  • Change Email
  • Change Username
  • Change Password

• ✅ Includes error handling, inline validation, and secure update flows.

• ✅ Password strength meter added for better password hygiene.

🌐 Real-Time Notifications (WebSockets)

• 🔌 WebSocketProvider added to enable real-time features.
• 🔔 Live notification popup system — get alerts instantly without reloads.

🧩 New Components & Features

• 🦶 Custom dashboard footer with branding and helpful links.
• 🔘 Toggle switches for privacy and settings preferences.
• 📚 New sidebar introduced for the upcoming dashboard layout.
• ⌨️ useTypewriter React hook for animated text effects.

🔄 Refactors & Optimizations

🧱 UI Component Refactors

• 🧩 Modularized UI into reusable folders: features/, head/, header/
• 🗑 Removed deprecated Tools page.
• 🪪 Plan Cards UI redesigned for Premium features.
• 🧼 Removed react-progressbar in favor of custom implementation.
• 🧭 Refactored useRouter usage across dashboard for better navigation logic.
• 🏚 Old dashboard moved to /old/dashboard, outdated files removed.

📄 Page Handling & Fetching

• ✅ Introduced a centralized PageWrapper component:

  • Handles page status and restriction checks.

• 🔄 Refactored all routes to integrate PageWrapper.

• ⚙️ Updated fetchValidation for new backend response schema.

🧰 Utility Management

• 🔁 Moved formatTime() and playNotificationSound() to shared utils/ directory.
• 🧽 Cleaned up unused or redundant imports.
• ✅ Improved Error Page logic and design for consistency.

🛠 API & Backend Updates

• 🆕 POST /api/notifications route added to fetch and manage user notifications.
• 🔍 Introduced Page Validator Utility for easier debugging and testing.
• 🍪 Updated cookie handling for improved security and compliance.
• 🆔 GET /users/:id/roles route added to fetch roles from external API.
• 🎮 New internal Discord API integration to fetch user info.
• ✅ Enhanced Validator endpoint with new query support.

🧹 Clean-Up

• 🧼 Removed unused legacy components.
• 🗑 Deprecated Settings page and replaced it with modern structure.
• 🚫 Deprecated /dash and redirected to /dashboard.

📌 Summary

This is a game-changing update for the platform — making it faster, cleaner, more intuitive, and feature-rich. From real-time notifications to beautiful UI polish, this version lays the foundation for future scalability and innovation.

🚀 Welcome to the new era of the platform!

Full Changelog: 2.1.2...3.0.0