helldots 0.5.0 → 0.6.0
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- package/README.md +198 -12
- package/dist/helldots.esm.js +6 -5
- package/dist/helldots.esm.js.map +4 -4
- package/dist/helldots.umd.js +13 -12
- package/dist/index.d.ts +203 -10
- package/package.json +4 -2
package/README.md
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- **Leave it.** Captures of such a page stay misaligned where text is
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concerned; everything else about them is correct.
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## Identity
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HellDots authenticates nobody. It takes whoever your app says is signed in
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and records that:
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```js
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createCommentOverlay({
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user: { name: currentUser.fullName, id: currentUser.id },
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});
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```
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`name` is the display name — it is what appears on every comment and reply.
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`id` is optional, never rendered, and persisted as `authorId` on everything
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that user creates. Pass it whenever two people on your team can share a
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display name: without it they are indistinguishable in the record, and they
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share one reaction.
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```js
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overlay.serializeComments()[0];
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// { author: "Ana Pérez", authorId: "u_42", ... }
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```
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Both fields ride along in `serializeComments()` output, on comments and on
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replies alike. **The display name travels with the record**, so a store that
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holds nothing but comments — a database of its own, with no users table —
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renders every author and every audit entry without a single lookup back into
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your app. The id is opaque to HellDots: point it at your user table, at a
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comments-only store, or at nothing. `authorId` is `null` when you pass no
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`id`, and on records written before it existed — the field is additive, so no
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stored corpus needs migrating.
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What the denormalised name costs: a rename does not travel backwards. Old
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comments keep the name that was current when they were written, which is what
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an audit trail should do, and the id is what lets you reconcile if you want
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the current one.
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With no `id` at all, two people sharing a display name are one author. If your
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app has no accounts, mint the id yourself — you control the key, the lifetime
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and the consent story, which HellDots cannot:
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```js
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const KEY = "my-app-anon-id";
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let id = localStorage.getItem(KEY);
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if (!id) localStorage.setItem(KEY, (id = crypto.randomUUID()));
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createCommentOverlay({ user: { name: typedName, id } });
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```
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Bear in mind what that identifies: a browser profile, not a person.
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Whatever you declare here is taken at face value and stored as-is. The record
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says what your application asserted about who acted; verifying that claim is
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your backend’s job, and `onChange` carries every mutation to it.
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## Triage
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Comments carry an optional type, priority and free-form tags. All three start
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| `type` | `bug`, `suggestion`, `question`, `improvement`, or `null` |
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| `tags` | any strings — trimmed, lowercased and de-duplicated |
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| `status` | `open`, `in_progress`, `in_review`, `resolved` |
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The status is the one field that is never neutral: every comment starts `open`
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and moves through the lifecycle in any order. `open` is the only state painted
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in an unsaturated off-white, so the three states somebody actually moved a
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comment into are the ones that stand out.
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Passing `null` to `setCommentType` or `setCommentPriority` returns the field to
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its neutral state. Reopening a resolved comment clears its resolution time.
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### Reactions
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Comments and replies take one of six reactions — 👍 👎 ❤️ 🎉 👀 🚀 — so a team
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can agree, flag "watching this" or mark something shipped without adding a
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reply. The set is fixed: a searchable picker would need an emoji dataset
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larger than the whole widget.
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where a reaction starts. Once there is one, a row of pills sits under the
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comment — below its screenshot when it has one — and carries its own button for
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adding another. Nothing is shown there until somebody reacts.
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Both toggle: reacting again with the same emoji removes it. A reaction is
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stored against `user.id` when you pass one, and against `user.name`
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otherwise — so give HellDots an `id` if two people on your team can share a
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`{ emoji: actorKey[] }` map that is `null` when nobody has reacted. The pills
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Every comment carries an append-only log of what happened to it — who created
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it, edited its text, moved its status or changed its classification, and when.
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// { type: "created", at: "…", actor: { id: "u_42", name: "Ana Pérez" } },
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// { type: "status", at: "…", actor: {…}, from: "open", to: "resolved" },
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the resolution currently in force, and the superseded ones are listed under
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- **It is attributive, not evidential.** HellDots authenticates nobody. The log
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what your application asserted about who acted — not a verified fact. Verify
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- **Timestamps come from the acting client’s clock.** Merge corpora written on
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belongs to. Durations are clamped at zero rather than rendered negative.
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## Metrics and reports
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dashboard: totals, how many were resolved and how many came back, average and
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