Releases: WikiJourney/wikijourney_website
WikiJourney v2.0.1
WikiJourney v2.0
After two months of hard work, we are glad to finally present you with the new version of the website! Many improvements are included in this release!
The most obvious upgrade is a complete redesign of the website, including the map page (let's be honest here, this was necessary). Under the hood, this new design uses Bootstrap, and is thus perfectly responsive. Enjoy browsing the website from any mobile device!
But this is not the only modification we are bringing to you, we packed in lots of new features and improvements:
- The API is (much!) faster, with only one call instead of n. This benefits both the website and the app, as the waiting time has been reduced to less than 3s (in most cases). It look even faster though, since it is called asynchronously, allowing the OSM tiles to load while we fetch data from Wikipedia and WikiVoyage. User experience ++ <3
- The code has been completely refactored, and is now easily maintainable.
- The home page now has a new feature: you can chose the language for the Wikipedia search.
- We globally improved the loading speed, by optimizing the images size, limiting redirections.
With this brand new version, we truly aimed at improving the navigation! Feel free to give us any advice on how to improve it even more!
WikiJourney v1.5
Path saving integrated!
In this v1.5, we've integrated a function we wanted to add for a long time: the possibility to export and save paths. It's now possible, thanks to OAuth and Wikimedia accounts!
Once they're connected with their Wikimedia accounts, we can identify our visitors and store the path they have created in a database.
Test it!
On the map, select multiple points of interests, then click on the "Save!" button. You'll have to give a name and a description for the path you've just created. After that, you can recover your path and load it on the map!
These are all the new improvements on this release:
- OAuth integration with Wikimedia
- Path saving and recovering functionality
- WikiJourney API now has its own project and domain, which is now accessible on http://api.wikijourney.eu and https://github.com/WikiJourney/wikijourney_api
- Encryption of the website with Let's Encrypt
- Links to app stores where you can find the WikiJourney App
- Updated Leaflet Routing Machine to latest version
- CSS refactoring
- Various bugfixes and improvements
Thanks for your support, and stay tuned for the next version! 😉