0.2.2

NodeGX 0.2.2 — alpha

The release where we stopped building NodeGX and started using it, and wrote down everything
that broke. Three real applications built through the product's own doors, plus a fortnight
living inside the shipped editor. Almost everything here is a defect a builder would have hit,
fixed on the product surface rather than patched in the template that found it.

📖 Read the full changelog, in plain language →

There is no 0.2.1. It was an internal cut, held back as too buggy to ship; its work rolled
forward into this one.

Three templates you can start from

• A members' area — a landing page for an association, sign-in, ask-to-join, a moderator queue
  that approves people, announcements, a diary and a directory, with the restriction enforced by
  the backend rather than merely hidden in the interface.
• A site builder — a content-managed website with pages and sections stored as records, an
  admin panel that writes them, a theme editor, and a public site that shows only what has been
  published.
• Landing pages, with no backend at all — three complete pages in one project (freelancer,
  local business, product launch) sharing a header, a footer and a contact form that opens the
  visitor's own mail app. Every string you have to change is named EDIT — and listed in a
  generated START-HERE note.

The launcher also grows a Templates tab reading the same shelf the create wizard reads.

Your app leaves as code

Settings → Project → Export as React code… shows what will and will not translate before
anything is written, then writes a Vite + React project that talks to your deployed backend, with
a report naming every node it left out and why. @nodegx/core is on npm, so the npm install in
the exported README works.

117 of the 127 nodes you can place export today (92%). The other 10 are badged Not
exportable on the picker card and in the property panel. Code export is alpha — explore the
code and build on it; don't ship a production app out of it yet.

What real use found

A Dropdown that no longer crashes when it has a selected value, ships with default items, and
lets you make an option by typing its label · a Video node that plays a pasted YouTube or Vimeo
link with start and end times · Circle grown into a Shape node with polygons, stars, corner
rounding and custom SVG · a text input whose placeholder is empty instead of "Type here…" · icons
that default to black · a var() value that survives being touched · eight guided lessons that
ship inside the app and seed themselves on first run · and a long list of contrast, border and
focus fixes across the editor.

Under that: the MCP door now refuses five classes of wiring that used to author cleanly and fail
silently at runtime, a render is mandatory before an agent may call a page done, and the look of a
page is graded against a written rubric from a real screenshot rather than asserted.

Known and open

• The members' area ships at passable, not worthy. Fifteen screens, graded three times;
  worthy is the V2 brief.
• The Design Tokens panel is built and reachable by nobody — it registers behind a flag that is
  undefined in every build. One line, and a decision about two other undriven panels.
• Four site-builder screens are still open: sections worth having, a theme editor that demos
  itself, messages, and live preview over the realtime hub.

Installing

macOS	Signed and notarised — no Gatekeeper workaround needed. Apple Silicon (mac-arm64) and Intel (mac-x64) builds.
Windows	Not code-signed yet, so SmartScreen warns on first run: More info → Run anyway.
Linux	AppImage and .deb, unsigned — normal for Linux desktop distribution. There is no in-app updater on Linux.

platform	download
macOS (Apple Silicon)	NodeGX-0.2.2-mac-arm64.dmg
macOS (Intel)	NodeGX-0.2.2-mac-x64.dmg
Windows	NodeGX-0.2.2-win-x64.exe
Linux	NodeGX-0.2.2-linux-x86_64.AppImage · NodeGX-0.2.2-linux-amd64.deb

Updating. An update downloads quietly and installs when you quit. If you accept one
and nothing appears to happen, it is working — quit the app and it will be there.

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