0.1.8

FoodSaver — Internationalization

Why?

FoodSaver is now available in both 🇬🇧 English and 🇫🇷 French.

🧭 What's new

UI

• Add language toggle (🇫🇷 / 🇬🇧)
• Improve dashboard readability for bilingual usage
• Localized food expiry dates
• Preserved functionality across both languages

This makes FoodSaver easier to use for French-speaking households while keeping full English support.

0.1.7

FoodSaver — Low stock insights

Why?

FoodSaver now helps identify foods that are running low before they are forgotten during shopping.

🧭 Changes

• Add low stock
  • Indicator for foods with quantity equal to 1
  • Inventory filter
  • Dashboard insight
• Improve inventory visibility for shopping planning

🧪 Validation

• Validate low stock
  • Dashboard metrics
  • Badge display
  • Filtering behavior

0.1.6

FoodSaver — Dashboard insights

🧭 Why?

This release adds a dashboard overview to give a quick understanding of your food inventory at a glance.

📊 Inventory overview

You can now see about foods displayed in the list:

• Total number of foods
• Total quantity available
• Foods expiring today
• Foods expiring soon

📈 Global insights

The dashboard now also highlights global stock informations:

• Next expiring food
• The percentage of foods expiring soon

This helps quickly assess how much of your inventory needs attention.

♿ Accessibility

• Improved contrast of badges for better readability (WCAG 2 AAA checks)

🔧 Technical improvements

• Improved dashboard selectors structure
• Added dashboard E2E critical feature coverage

0.1.5

FoodSaver — Food list filtering and sorting

🧭 Why?

Improve food list usability by allowing users to focus on relevant items and organize their view.

🚀 Changes

• Add filter by expiry state
  • Today
  • Soon
  • All fresh foods
• Add sorting by name and expiry date
• Integrate UI state into global store for consistency with existing search behavior

🧠 UX impact

• Easier prioritization of foods close to expiry
• Improved list readability for larger datasets

0.1.4

FoodSaver — Search

Why?

Finding foods is now faster and easier as your inventory grows.

🧭 What's New

Search foods by name

You can now quickly find foods using the search bar instead of scrolling through the entire list.

🧠 Smarter matching

Search is case-insensitive, so searches such as milk, Milk, or MILK return the same results.

🚀 Faster results

Results are filtered as you type and match foods whose names start with the entered text, helping you find items more quickly.

🧪 Behind the Scenes

This release also includes improvements to application reliability and automated testing to support future features and maintain a consistent experience as the project grows.

0.1.3

FoodSaver — Smarter persistence & performance foundation

🚀 What’s new

FoodSaver moves to a more robust relational persistence layer powered by SQL Server, improving reliability and long-term scalability.

🧠 Improvements

• Replace SQLite with SQL Server for data persistence
• EF Core migrations manage database schema automatically

⚡ Performance & scalability

• Faster expiry-based queries
• Relational model prepared for production deployments
• Environment-based configuration (dev / prod ready)

🔧 Developer experience

• Local development supported via SQL Server Docker
• Connection strings managed via environment variables or user secrets

🧪 Verified flows

• Create food item
• Update food item
• Consume food item
• Query food list (optimized read path)

💡 Notes

This release is a foundational step toward production readiness.
It introduces no breaking changes to the API contract, but significantly upgrades the persistence layer.

0.1.2

FoodSaver — Import Tool

Why?

FoodSaver can now import food items in bulk from a CSV file.

This makes it faster to populate inventory without adding items manually one by one.

🧭 Highlights

• Import food items from CSV
• Preview imports with dry-run mode
• Validate imported data before sending to API
• Automatically skip invalid rows
• Import directly into FoodSaver.Api

Examples

./tools/FoodSaver.Import.cs foods.csv

./tools/FoodSaver.Import.cs foods.csv --dry-run

./tools/FoodSaver.Import.cs foods.csv --base-url http://localhost:5050

0.1.1

FoodSaver — Lighthouse

Why?

Improve Lighthouse scores to strengthen SEO visibility and ensure a fast, accessible baseline experience.

🔎 SEO

• Add meta description for better search engine indexing
• Add robots.txt for crawler discovery

⚡ Performance

• Render app shell immediately while foods load
• Improve Largest Contentful Paint (2.5s → 1.3s)
• Reach 100/100 Lighthouse scores (Performance, Accessibility, Best Practices, SEO)

📊 Results

• SEO: 82 → 100
• Performance: 97 → 100

0.1.0

FoodSaver — MVP

FoodSaver reaches its first MVP release.

Track food expiry dates simply and reduce household waste.

🧭 Included features

• Add food items with expiry dates
• Track food quantities
• Highlight food expiring soon or today
• Consume one or all quantities
• Accessible and lightweight interface

⚙️ Technical highlights

• ASP.NET Core + Minimal API backend
• React + TypeScript frontend
• SQLite persistence
• End-to-end and integration test coverage
• Accessibility checks included in CI workflow

📚 Documentation

• Simplified project README
• Reviewed architecture decision records
• Documented MVP scope

0.0.14

FoodSaver — UX & DX improvements

Why?

This release finalizes MVP UX and DX enhancements.

🧭 Changes

• Add quantity-based food consumption
• Add “consume 1” and “consume all” actions
• Add undo/confirm flow for consumption
• Add “expiring today” badge
• Improve responsive layout for food list
• Center app layout for improved visual balance

♻️ Improvements

• Inline snackbar actions into list items

🧹 Cleanup

• Simplify error message markup and spacing
• Remove unused UI color token
• Remove redundant aria attributes
• Optimize Docker image size