🚀 Gan Engine Handbook — Release v0.50
Release Date: July 2026
Status: Stable Documentation Release
📖 Overview
Version 0.50 marks the first stable release of the Gan Engine Handbook. This milestone introduces a fully functional, lightweight documentation website built entirely with static technologies, making it easy to host, maintain, and contribute to.
The handbook now provides a clean and modern reading experience with dynamic Markdown rendering, intuitive navigation, syntax highlighting, and responsive layouts—all without relying on build tools or frontend frameworks.
✨ What's New
📚 Interactive Documentation
- Dynamic Markdown rendering
- Client-side routing
- Automatic Table of Contents generation
- Syntax highlighting for code blocks
- Fast page navigation without reloads
🎨 Modern User Interface
- Three-column documentation layout
- Sticky navigation sidebar
- Sticky Table of Contents
- GitHub-inspired Markdown styling
- Improved typography using the Inter font
- Responsive design for desktop and mobile devices
⚡ Performance Improvements
- Built entirely with HTML, CSS, and Vanilla JavaScript
- No frontend frameworks
- No build tools required
- Lightweight architecture
- Fast client-side page loading
- Fully compatible with GitHub Pages
📄 Documentation Improvements
- Reorganized handbook structure
- Improved installation guide
- Better page navigation
- Cleaner Markdown formatting
- Updated code examples
- Enhanced readability across all pages
🐞 Bug Fixes
- Fixed incorrect Table of Contents links
- Resolved navigation routing issues
- Corrected Markdown rendering behavior
- Improved page transition animations
- Fixed sidebar active-state navigation
- Removed deprecated search implementation
- Improved documentation formatting consistency
- Removed exposed OAuth credentials from the documentation
🛠 Technology Stack
- HTML5
- CSS3
- Vanilla JavaScript
- Markdown
- marked.js
- highlight.js
📁 Repository Improvements
- Improved project organization
- Cleaner documentation structure
- Better maintainability
- Simplified file hierarchy
- Optimized static asset loading
🚧 Planned for v0.60
- Active Table of Contents highlighting while scrolling
- Mobile sidebar navigation
- Search powered by Fuse.js
- Callout and alert blocks
- Image zoom support
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Additional handbook content
- GitHub Pages deployment
📌 Version Information
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Project | Gan Engine Handbook |
| Version | v0.50 |
| Release Type | Stable Documentation Release |
| Platform | Static Website |
| License | MIT |
Thank you for following the development of Gan Engine.
This release establishes the foundation for a modern, lightweight, and developer-friendly documentation system. Future releases will focus on expanding documentation coverage, improving usability, and enhancing the overall user experience.