### The problem
Writing in the text editor can be very frustrating, the reason is that
the editor had a debounced save method which would push the article to
the backend and update the current state. This however is a bad idea,
since the can take anywhere between 100-300ms depending on network
conditions.
While this would be in progress, the article is still being edited by
the user. So at the end of the network request, the state returned from
the backend and the current state in the editor is diverged. But since
the update happens anyway, the editor would prepend older context.
```
Time -->
User Action: [Edit 1] ---> [Edit 2] ---> [Edit 3]
Backend Save: Save Req (Edit 1) ----> Response (Edit 1)
Resulting Editor State: [Edit 3] + [Edit 1] (Outdated state prepended)
```
### The solution
The solution is to unbind the article from the backend state, ensuring
that the article editor is the source of truth and ignoring the
responses. This pull request does this by adding an asynchronous save
functionality. The changes include adding a new `saveArticleAsync` event
and ensuring that the local state is not updated unnecessarily during
asynchronous saves.
```
Time -->
User Action: [Edit 1] ---> [Edit 2] ---> [Edit 3]
Backend Save: Save Req (Edit 1) ----> Response (ignored)
Resulting Editor State: [Edit 3] (Consistent and up-to-date)
```
Added the following two debounced methods
These complementary debounce methods prevent unnecessary re-renders
while ensuring backend is in sync. `saveArticleAsync` preserves the
editor as the source of truth, while `saveArticle` manages periodic
state updates from the backend with a delay large enough to safely
assume that the user has stopped typing
Method | Delay | Behavior
-- | -- | --
`saveArticleAsync` | 400ms | Sends data to backend and ignores the
response
`saveArticle` | 2.5s | Sends data and updates local state with the
backend response
### How to test
1. Remove the following line
https://github.com/chatwoot/chatwoot/blob/dc042f6ddcb4e108795ff83bb57f8d92c6a2b90a/app/javascript/dashboard/components-next/HelpCenter/Pages/ArticleEditorPage/ArticleEditor.vue#L64
1. Update the latency here to 400 (P.S. the diff shows the latency to be
600, but that was added as a stop-gap solution)
https://github.com/chatwoot/chatwoot/blob/dc042f6ddcb4e108795ff83bb57f8d92c6a2b90a/app/javascript/dashboard/components-next/HelpCenter/Pages/ArticleEditorPage/ArticleEditor.vue#L51
1. Set the browser network latency to Slow 3G or 3G
1. Start writing on the editor, try fixing typos with backspace or
moving around with the cursor
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Co-authored-by: Sivin Varghese <64252451+iamsivin@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Pranav <pranav@chatwoot.com>
This PR allows attributify for `variant`, `size` and `color` props. This allows using shorthands, instant of writing full props.
We also added a small computed method to ensure these does not show up
in the DOM and pollute it
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This pull request introduces a new `ChannelIcon` component and refactors the existing code to use this component, which simplifies the icon management for different channel types and providers.
This PR updates the background used in dropdown to match our design system. Previous PR failed to add this correctly.
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This PR adds dropdown primitives to help compose custom dropdowns across the app. The following the sample usage
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Co-authored-by: Pranav <pranav@chatwoot.com>
The last item in the sidebar top level group has an indicator specified,
the problem in our case is that the structure can be nested and have sub
groups. So selecting the last item correctly can be tricky.
Previous implementation relied on the using DOM queries to find the last
item from a flat list of children, it would trigger on a `watch`. This
was error-prone as well as non idiomatic. The new approach is CSS-only
and reduces the unnecessary compute required.
Codepen for reference: https://codepen.io/scmmishra/pen/yLmKNLW
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Ensures users are seamlessly directed to the first available menu item upon opening a group, improving UX by reducing unnecessary clicks. This change enhances navigation flow within groups.
Co-authored-by: Pranav <pranavrajs@gmail.com>
This PR has the initial version of the new sidebar targeted for the next major redesign of the app. This PR includes the following changes
- Components in the `layouts-next` and `base-next` directories in `dashboard/components`
- Two generic components `Avatar` and `Icon`
- `SidebarGroup` component to manage expandable sidebar groups with nested navigation items. This includes handling active states, transitions, and permissions.
- `SidebarGroupHeader` component to display the header of each navigation group with optional icons and active state indication.
- `SidebarGroupLeaf` component for individual navigation items within a group, supporting icons and active state.
- `SidebarGroupSeparator` component to visually separate nested navigation items. (They look a lot like header)
- `SidebarGroupEmptyLeaf` component to render empty state of any navigation groups.
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Co-authored-by: Pranav <pranav@chatwoot.com>
Co-authored-by: Pranav <pranavrajs@gmail.com>
