When I first started working on Novel-It I mapped out the features I want the application to have, and a very sketchy requirements document.
I’ve got to the point now where I have, what I consider, a minimum viable product available in GitHub. It’s no where near all the features I put into the specification. And some of the features that have been implemented deviate somewhat from their feature descriptions.
Novel-It v0.1.6 fixes an issue that carries the obscure title “Vendor all external frontend dependencies”. What on earth does that mean?
When an application, such as Novel-It, is developed it sometimes (often) relies on external code libraries that are pulled foim the Internet everytime the application is run. For example, Novel-It uses external libraries to provide the ability to drag and drop the chapter and scene cards and external libraries are used to provide the fonts used.
I’ve rolled two important fixes into this patch release:
If you created a bulleted (unordered) or numbered (ordered) list in the scene editor then the bullets or numbers did not display when you clicked the Preview button. You still got an indented list, but without the bullets or numbers. This is now resolved.
gunicorn is the command you run to start the application server. In the installation guide the command wad given as:
Slated for the next release is a fix for Issue #29. When you type an unordered list (bullet points) or a numbered list into the editor and click the preview button, the bullets and numbers aren’t displayed.
Go figure.
Anyway, that’s next up.
Novel-It was originally “released” to GitHub as v0.1.0 - a working application but not yet ready for a formal release. As with the way of things, as soon as I’d uploaded it, I started to find a few bugs and there have been a number of patch releases since then. This post summarises those patches. Going forwards there will be individual posts for each Novel-It update.
Novel-It is now publicly available on GitHub. The project is in active pre-v1.0 development and licensed under AGPL-3.0.