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2024

Project foundation -- monorepo migration, table system, upload/audio/comments, registry, emoji system, kanban, and initial components.

November 2024

Documentation docs

Added accordion, toggle, and toggle-group docs with examples.

Accordion

Toggle

Toggle Group

Textarea

Sonner

Component Refactors refactor

  • Refactored button component with updated documentation
  • Working on table refactor for improved typing and reactivity
  • Improved component source preview for multi-file display

Button

Registry System feat

Built the component registry build system:

  • Built a script to generate the registry JSON and __ui_registry__ index with spinner and text feedback
  • Registry can now read example source files and serve them for code preview in docs
  • Added type-safe validation for registry entries to catch missing dependencies early

October 2024

Monorepo Migration feat

Migrated entire project to Turborepo monorepo structure.

  • Apps: duck-ui-docs, benchmark
  • Packages: registry-ui, registry-examples, duck-cli, duck-motion, duck-variants, duck-hooks, duck-libs, duck-lazy
  • Created new contributing guide
  • Set up CLI application in TypeScript
  • Made website and CLI app build with basic functionality

Upload and Media System feat

Built a complete upload and media system:

  • Upload attachment system with file type detection
  • Image preview component with responsive dialog
  • Lazy loading for file downloads
  • Fixed file upload submit button conflict with image preview dropdown

Audio System feat

Built a full audio player with recording capabilities:

  • Audio visualization with theme-aware rendering (light/dark mode)
  • Download button and volume controller
  • Play state, speed control, and mouse click tracking for seeking
  • Fixed performance issues with long audio recordings
  • Audio animation with loading indicator
  • Integrated audio with comments system

Comment System feat

  • Refactored comment components to be dynamic and customizable
  • Added forward ref support for external control
  • Made attachment tree with upload support

September 2024

Comment System feat

Built the comment engine from scratch:

  • Reply functionality with nested threads
  • Popover tools with emoji insertion
  • Dropdown menu for comments with love reaction functionality
  • Refactored state management from Redux to React Context
  • Dynamic content rendering from MDX editor

Emoji System feat

Built a custom emoji extension for the MDX editor:

Type : followed by a keyword and close with : to insert emojis. The extension handles autocomplete, tooltip previews, and deletion of the entire emoji token.

  • Type :code: to insert emojis with tooltip previews as React components
  • Added auto-complete for emoji search
  • Fixed mention system to work alongside emoji
  • Handles spaces before and after emoji tokens

Voice Recording feat

  • Added audio visualizer and recorder
  • Working on voice message integration with comments

Kanban Board feat

  • Built basic kanban board with drag-and-drop
  • Started work on advanced customizable kanban with abstraction layer

Code Block feat

  • Added new popover menu component
  • Fixed code block rendering in docs

August 2024

Table System feat

Built a type-safe table from scratch with full auto-completion:

  • Auto-completion for column configuration via TypeScript inference
  • Sorting, filtering, and search with debouncing
  • Nested dropdown-menu functionality
  • New context menu functionality
  • Unified icon structure across the library
  • Added table documentation

Initial Components feat

First batch of components shipped:

Combobox

Command

Tooltip

Dialog

Drawer

Alert Dialog

  • Responsive Dialog — Dialog that adapts to screen size
  • Built initial navigation and header components
  • Refactored with smart multi-action onClick handling
  • Organized code structure for better maintainability

Earlier 2024

Project Init feat

Initial repository setup and foundational commits in January-February 2024. Basic project structure established.