FrontierNav Update: 24 March 2025

The main focus this month was to ensure FrontierNav can handle the increased traffic from Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definition Edition's release. Some navigation improvements were also made so that features are more intuitive and easier to find.

Contributions

• Kyralyn#lCc8 has started adding Tockle Pastword locations for Dragon Quest XI.
• Sylphoid#CC3V has added Innocent data for Disgaea 5.
• Visit FrontierNav for a list of contributions since the last update.

Data Tables

• Added support for copy and pasting cell values.
• Added support for pasting file and binary content into attachment cells.
  • This includes pasting image data.
  • Some browsers and operating systems may not support copying transparent images and will use a black background instead.
• Added context menu button to column headings.
  • Previously only right-click or long-tap opened the context menu.
• Added "Open attachment" option to attachment cell context menus.

Change Requests

• Added more data validation.

Authentication

• Removed alert when an account does not have an email address assigned.
  • This was a migration step for any members who used legacy sign-in methods many years ago which didn't provide an email.
  • All current methods of signing in requires an email address.
• Visitors who are not signed in will now use one-off Fetch APIs for data instead of real-time Websockets APIs.

User Interface

• Added "Trending Maps" section to home page.
• Added "Trending Databases" section to home page.
• Added "Recently Changed" section to home page.
• Renamed "Data Tables" to "Database" in navigation.
• Removed "Featured Wikis" section on the home page.
• Moved "Interactive Maps" to top-level in navigation drawer.
• Moved "Database" to top-level in navigation drawer.
• Moved "Clone sidebar" to the drop-down menu in sidebar headings.
• Added shortcut links in page, sidebar, and entity context menus to access database tables, maps, and wiki pages of the same context.
• Added "Add to list" option to entity context menus.
• Wiki switcher now shows trending wikis when no wiki has been added to the member's library.

Maintenance

• Migrated all unit tests from Jest to NodeJS's native test runner.
• Migrated all integration tests from Cypress to Playwright.
• Migrated build from Babel to swc.
• Migrated build from Webpack to Rspack.

Thanks for reading.