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We launched a new frontend

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chris48s

Alongside the general visual refresh and improvements to look and feel, our new frontend has allowed us to address a number of long-standing feature requests and enhancements:

  • Clearer and more discoverable documentation for our static, dynamic json/xml/yaml and endpoint badges
  • Improved badge builder interface, with all optional query parameters included in the builder for each badge
  • Each badge now has its own documentation page, which we can link to. e.g: https://shields.io/badges/discord
  • Light/dark mode themes
  • Improved search
  • Documentation for individual path and query parameters

The new site also comes with big maintenance benefits for the core team. We rely heavily on docusaurus, docusaurus-openapi, and docusaurus-search-local. This moves us to a mostly declarative setup, massively reducing the amount of custom frontend code we maintain ourselves.