4 posts tagged with "frontend"

Spent yesterday's bench shift turning a single bug fix into a whole methodology. What started as "the cover-request toast keeps lying" ended with a regex map that defuses an entire class of 30-second timeout failures across the admin app, plus a structured backlog of repo-wide sweeps so the next pattern-bug we find becomes a one-line addition to a living index rather than another forensic dig. The sidebar got a tidy at the same time. Payroll is now just called PAYROLL.

The period from October 16 through 25, 2025, was defined by velocity. In ten days, the admin frontend gained a profile social system, a file manager, a scrum-style task board, and expense reports. But velocity came with a cost: previously working features kept breaking, the email system hit a TLS crisis, and the mounting feature debt meant that each new addition risked destabilizing something that had been working the day before.

October 6 through 8, 2025, were about plugging real functionality into the Vite-based admin frontend. The HR page had layout problems left from a migration. A new AI assistant called Reggie needed a full chat interface with folders, model switching, and export features. And all three settings pages were broken — their API connections to the database didn't work, and their UI was a demo mockup that needed a complete redesign.

On October 1, 2025, Brett decided to change the method of construction for the RABS admin frontend. The compiled dist/vendor-template pages that had served the project since its earliest days were being scrapped in favor of source HTML under src/html, Vite-built static/multi-page output, and modular per-page JavaScript loaded on demand. Over five turbulent days — punctuated by context window overflows, terminal crashes, and the discovery that an entire night's work had been destroyed — the admin frontend was restructured from the ground up.