1.0 beta

This release brings:

• A visual feedback (through the form of a spinner) of ongoing network activity in the front-end
• Through https://github.com/my-koop/module.user:
  • The possibility to register for a user account
  • The possibility to login to a user account
  • The possibility to update a user profile and change a user password
• Through https://github.com/my-koop/module.inventory:
  • The possibility to add a new item
  • The possibility to permanently delete an item
  • The possibility to specify a quantity threshold for an item and to list items under their threshold
• Through a new event management module (https://github.com/my-koop/module.event):
  • The possibility to create an event
  • The possibility to list events
  • The possibility to delete an event
• Through a new transaction management module (https://github.com/my-koop/module.transaction):
  • The possibility to create a bill (with basic tax support), and optionally tie it to a user
  • The possibility to mark a bill as paid
  • The possibility to list bills
  • An experimental utility that simplifies the use of MySQL transactions
• A foundation for a member management module (https://github.com/my-koop/module.member).

For developers:

• Validation utilities tied to requests and leveraged both in the front-end and in the back-end
• An error middleware that eases the sending of error messages back to the client (through serialization, see the changes in utilities below)
• A local session store in the front-end
• A global custom alert utility
• A debouncing utility that can be used to process user input with a delay
• Through https://github.com/my-koop/module.user :
  • The possibility to validate a user email
• In the utilities module (https://github.com/my-koop/module.utils):
  • Descriptive error classes with a hierarchy and that can be serialized for eventual transmission over the wire
  • A new utility that simplifies the binding of straightforward requests to a controller
  • A new utility that simplifies the transitioning to other routes in the front-end
  • The renaming of the MetaData utilitiy to MetaDataBuilder, to better convey what it does
• A template module (https://github.com/my-koop/module-template) updated to be on par with all the API changes
• An updated install tool (https://github.com/my-koop/installation) that:
  • Is now checking out the default branch if the directory exists on install
  • Dropped the node-git dependency since it greatly slowed down the install time of the tool