project-manager/docs/history.md

# Development history

A stage-by-stage log of major features, in the order they landed. Each row
describes the app as it was *at that point* — later stages sometimes
superseded earlier ones (e.g. password login, added in stage 1, was removed
again in stage 12); see [docs/api.md](api.md) and
[web/README.md](../web/README.md) for how things work now.

| Stage | Scope | State |
|-------|-------|-------|
| 1 | Auth API — register, login, `GET /me` | ✅ done |
| 2 | Frontend shell — Vite PWA, auth-gated routing, register/login pages | ✅ done |
| 3 | Project + card CRUD API | ✅ done |
| 4 | Frontend projects view — project index + create form | ✅ done |
| 5 | Frontend project detail — cards UI with drag-and-drop reorder | ✅ done |
| 6 | Project view — inline title/description editing, delete via a Manage menu | ✅ done |
| 7 | Email verification (magic links) + profile page (resend, change email) | ✅ done |
| 8 | Passwordless login — magic-link by default, password login behind a toggle | ✅ done |
| 9 | Per-project card statuses ("To do" / "Doing" / "Done"); status chip, new cards start with none | ✅ done |
| 10 | Project view — full-width, tabbed: alphabetical "All tasks" list + "Kanban" board, per-column drag ordering | ✅ done |
| 11 | Persistent left sidebar (Dashboard link + project dropdown); dashboard = grid of project tiles + a "Create a project" tile | ✅ done |
| 12 | Passwordless-only auth — registration and password login removed; a magic link is the sole way in, and creates the account if needed | ✅ done |
| 13 | Global inbox — cards can have no project; moved into the sidebar, drag in/out of any project's kanban columns | ✅ done |
| 14 | New-project form moved to the dashboard; sidebar project list is now a switcher dropdown; Kanban is a project's default tab | ✅ done |
| 15 | Passkeys (WebAuthn) — register from the profile page, sign in with one instead of a magic link; a dismissible notice nudges users with none | ✅ done |
| 16 | Project configuration view — manage a project's statuses: add, drag to reorder, delete (reassigning any cards on it first) | ✅ done |
| 17 | Card detail view (`/cards/:id`) + its own configuration view — a card's text is no longer inline-editable; every list links to its own page instead | ✅ done |
| 18 | Project view split into real routes — Explore (`/projects/:id`) and Kanban (`/projects/:id/kanban`) are separate pages under a shared layout, not client-side tab state | ✅ done |
| 19 | Backend/frontend refactoring pass — deduplicated controller/repository boilerplate and CSS, dropped the never-surfaced project `description` field, squashed the SQL migration history into one clean initial schema | ✅ done |
| 20 | Docker image rebuilt on Alpine (apk's own php83/apache2 packages instead of compiling PHP from source on Debian) — ~735MB down to ~90MB, same architecture otherwise; `.dockerignore` trimmed to match | ✅ done |