Changelog

The main entrypoint scripts for development and use (dev, e2e, lint, test, serve) have deliberately remained the same, but some of the underlying details have changed. The following table summarises the main changes between v1 and v2.

What	Why	Notes
Dropped support for Node <20.9 and npm <10	Encourage LTS use, brings more native functionality (e.g. node --watch instead of Nodemon)	-
Repo setup now uses npm workspaces	Makes each workspace's package.json more manageable, clearer dev/prod split for each one	You can install a dependency/run a script for a specific workspace with npm --workspace {name} ...
Base directories changed from client/ -> web/ and server/ -> api/	Support more deployment options (Vercel requires api/ directory)	-
Client transpiling/bundling has migrated from a custom Babel+Webpack setup to Vite	Faster, fewer files to maintain	Similarly tests moved from Jest to Vitest, which is mostly API-compatible
Server transpiling no longer happens	Node 20+ JS syntax support is now good enough it's not really needed	dist/ directory is gone, everything now runs from api/ in production mode
Global test watching has been dropped	No longer using Jest for everything	Use npm --workspace {api-or-web} run test:watch to run one or the other in watch mode
Content Security Policy has been disabled by default	It caused a disproportionate amount of confusion	Update configuredHelmet as needed, according to the docs
E2E tests migrated from Cypress to Playwright	Partly experimenting with new tools, partly to avoid some of the limitations of Cypress (see Cypress's trade offs)	-
Postgres database/migration support is now in the core	Most apps will need a DB, this now shows all the moving parts needed	-