Developments and Improvementds
The project development followed an iterative approach, with a strong focus on addressing both core functionality and underlying architectural quality. Key improvements and fixes during the process included:
- Centralized Configuration: Extracting “magic numbers” and configuration values (like subscription plan limits, screening thresholds, UI timings) into a constants.js file for better maintainability.
- Code Duplication Elimination: Removing redundant code, such as PLAN_CONFIG and createPageUrl definitions, ensuring a single source of truth.
- Optimized Database Interactions: Refining how user data (especially subscription and quota limits) is loaded and updated to prevent excessive database writes.
- Enhanced User Experience with Toasts: Replacing intrusive browser alert() calls with elegant, non-blocking toast notifications for a smoother user flow for confirmations, warnings, and errors.
- Improved State Synchronization: Fixing issues in the ProjectWorkspace editor to ensure that local content changes are immediately reflected and correctly synchronized with the backend.
- Refactored Navigation: Ensuring consistent and logical navigation throughout the application based on project status and user actions.
- Redundant Page Removal: Consolidating functionality to eliminate unnecessary pages (ExportProject, JournalFinder) by integrating their features into PublishProject.