Node migration

Tomorrow January 6th at 10:00pm EST we are releasing one of biggest upgrades yet. If all goes well, it should be like nothing happened, besides some security updates, some URL changes, and hopefully some improved loading speed. Yet this is one of the biggest features we've ever worked on.

You guessed it, or you read the title of this post. It's a node migration, meaning we took our mostly vanilla codebase and rewrote to be node based. Why?

• clear code
• portability to desktop apps and native mobile using electron
• faster (removed all monolithic code making it work great on a CDN)
• serves locally for easier development
• deploys better reducing chance of bugs in production

It's a pretty significant change code wise and we are hoping everything goes smoothly but there's a small chance of the site and app experiencing some bugs and potentially short down time. We have been planning this for weeks and are doing everything we can to make the experience as seamless as possible.