- Added new Markdown Editor with live preview, GFM support, PDF/HTML/DOCX export - Upgraded all paste fields to CodeMirror with syntax highlighting and expand/collapse - Enhanced Object Editor with advanced URL fetching and preview mode - Improved export views with syntax highlighting in Table/Object editors - Implemented SEO improvements (FAQ schema, breadcrumbs, internal linking) - Added Related Tools recommendations component - Created custom 404 page with tool suggestions - Consolidated tools: removed JSON, Serialize, CSV-JSON (merged into main editors) - Updated documentation and cleaned up redundant files - Updated release notes with user-centric improvements
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Developer Tools - To-Do List
Last Updated: October 22, 2025
📋 Phase 1: Foundation & Monetization
⭐ Priority 1: Advanced URL Fetch (1-2 days) - ✅ COMPLETED
Design & Planning
- Design UI mockup for simple mode
- Design UI mockup for advanced mode
- Design toggle between modes
- Plan state management structure
- Plan localStorage schema for presets
Component Development
- Create
AdvancedURLFetch.jsxcomponent - Create
HTTPMethodSelector.jsxcomponent - Create
HeadersEditor.jsxcomponent (key-value pairs) - Create
RequestBodyEditor.jsxcomponent (CodeMirror) - Create
QueryParamsBuilder.jsxcomponent - Create
AuthPresets.jsxcomponent - Create
RequestPresetManager.jsxcomponent
Simple Mode
- Implement URL input field
- Implement GET request button
- Implement loading state
- Implement error handling
- Add helper text
Advanced Mode
- Implement mode toggle button
- Implement HTTP method selector (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, PATCH)
- Implement custom headers input
- Add header button
- Remove header button
- Key-value pair inputs
- Validation
- Implement request body editor
- CodeMirror integration
- JSON syntax highlighting
- JSON validation
- Format button
- Implement query parameters builder
- Add param button
- Remove param button
- Key-value pair inputs
- Auto-append to URL
- Implement auth presets
- Bearer Token preset
- Basic Auth preset
- API Key preset
- Custom preset
Response Display
- Create response tabs (Body, Headers, Status)
- Implement response body display (formatted JSON)
- Implement response headers display
- Implement status code display with color coding
- Add response time display
- Add response size display
Presets Management
- Implement save preset functionality
- Implement load preset functionality
- Implement delete preset functionality
- Implement preset list UI
- Store presets in localStorage
- Add preset name input
- Add preset description (optional)
Integration
- Integrate into Object Editor
- Replace simple URL input
- Test with various APIs
- Update Usage Tips
- Integrate into Table Editor
- Replace simple URL input
- Test with various APIs
- Update Usage Tips
- Integrate into Invoice Editor
- Replace simple URL input
- Test with various APIs
- Update Usage Tips
Testing
- Test with GitHub API (requires auth)
- Test with JSONPlaceholder (public API)
- Test with Telegram Bot API
- Test with GraphQL endpoint
- Test with POST request + body
- Test with custom headers
- Test with query parameters
- Test error scenarios (404, 500, timeout)
- Test loading states
- Test preset save/load
- Test on mobile devices
- Test dark mode
Documentation
- Update EDITOR_TOOL_GUIDE.md with advanced URL pattern
- Add code examples
- Add screenshots
- Update EDITOR_CHECKLIST.md
💰 Priority 2: Ad Space Preparation (1 day) - ✅ COMPLETED
Design
- Finalize desktop ad column layout
- Finalize mobile ad banner layout
- Design placeholder ads for testing
- Plan responsive breakpoints
Desktop Ad Column
- Create
AdColumn.jsxcomponent- 300px fixed width
- Sticky scroll behavior
- Space for 3 ad blocks
- Proper spacing between ads
- Create
AdBlock.jsxcomponent- Support 300x250 size (all ads use this size for AdSense compliance)
- Placeholder content for testing
- Loading state
- Error state (if ad fails to load)
- Implement responsive behavior
- Show on screens >= 1200px
- Hide on screens < 1200px
- Smooth transition
Mobile Ad Banner
- Create
MobileAdBanner.jsxcomponent- 320x50 or 320x100 size
- Sticky bottom position
- Close button
- Slide-in animation (optional)
- Implement close functionality
- Hide banner on close
- Store preference in localStorage (optional)
- Respect user choice
- Add padding-bottom to content
- Ensure content not hidden behind banner
- Dynamic padding based on banner height
Layout Integration
- Update
ToolLayout.jsxto include ad spaces- Add ad column container
- Add mobile banner container
- Maintain proper spacing
- Update main content width
- Desktop:
calc(100% - 320px) - Mobile:
100%
- Desktop:
- Test layout on all tool pages
- Object Editor
- Table Editor
- Invoice Editor
Testing
- Test desktop layout (1200px+)
- Test tablet layout (768px - 1199px)
- Test mobile layout (<768px)
- Test sticky scroll behavior
- Test sticky bottom banner
- Test close button functionality
- Test with placeholder ads
- Test dark mode compatibility
- Test on various screen sizes
- Test on actual devices (iOS, Android)
Performance
- Ensure no layout shift
- Optimize rendering performance
- Test scroll performance
- Measure impact on page load time
💵 Priority 3: AdSense Integration (1 day) - ⏳ IN PROGRESS
AdSense Setup
- Apply for Google AdSense account
- Provide website URL
- Provide contact information
- Wait for approval (can take 1-3 days)
- Verify site ownership (add verification code)
Ad Units Creation
- Log in to AdSense dashboard
- Create ad unit: Desktop Sidebar 1 (300x250)
- Create ad unit: Desktop Sidebar 2 (300x250)
- Create ad unit: Desktop Sidebar 3 (300x250)
- Create ad unit: Mobile Bottom Banner (320x50)
- Copy ad unit codes
Implementation
- Add AdSense script to
public/index.html<script async src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-XXXXXXXX" crossorigin="anonymous"></script> - Update
AdBlock.jsxwith AdSense code<ins className="adsbygoogle" style={{ display: 'block' }} data-ad-client="ca-pub-XXXXXXXX" data-ad-slot="XXXXXXXXXX" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins> - Update
MobileAdBanner.jsxwith AdSense code - Initialize ads:
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});
Testing
- Test ad display on desktop
- Test ad display on mobile
- Verify ads load correctly
- Check for console errors
- Test with ad blocker (should show message)
- Test on different browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Safari)
- Test on different devices
Monitoring
- Set up AdSense reporting
- Monitor ad impressions
- Monitor ad clicks
- Monitor ad revenue
- Track CTR (Click-Through Rate)
- Identify best-performing ad units
Compliance
- Create Privacy Policy page
- Data collection disclosure
- Cookie usage disclosure
- Third-party services (AdSense)
- User rights (GDPR)
- Create Terms of Service page
- Acceptable use policy
- Disclaimer
- Limitation of liability
- Add cookie consent banner (if required)
- Show on first visit
- Allow accept/decline
- Store preference
- Add "About Ads" link in footer
- Add "Privacy Policy" link in footer
- Add "Terms of Service" link in footer
Optimization
- Test different ad placements
- Test different ad sizes
- Monitor ad viewability
- Optimize for higher CTR
- A/B test ad positions (optional)
📋 Phase 2: Content Expansion
📝 Markdown Editor - MVP (1-2 weeks) - ✅ COMPLETED (Oct 22, 2025)
Planning
- Finalize feature list for MVP
- Design UI mockup (split view)
- Plan component structure
- Choose markdown parser (marked vs markdown-it)
- Plan export formats
Project Setup
- Create
MarkdownEditor.jsxpage - Set up routing (
/markdown-editor) - Add to navigation menu
- Add to homepage tools list
Input Section
- Implement Create New tab
- Start Empty button
- Load Sample button (with example markdown)
- Tip box
- Implement URL tab
- Use AdvancedURLFetch component
- Support GitHub raw URLs
- Support Gist URLs
- Test with various markdown sources
- Implement Paste tab
- CodeMirror editor
- Markdown syntax highlighting
- Auto-detect markdown
- Parse button
- Collapse after parse
- Implement Open tab
- Support .md files
- Support .txt files
- Support .html files (convert to markdown)
- Support .docx files (convert to markdown)
- Auto-load on file selection
Editor Section
- Set up CodeMirror for markdown
- Install @codemirror/lang-markdown
- Configure markdown mode
- Add syntax highlighting
- Add line numbers
- Add line wrapping
- Implement split view layout
- Editor pane (left)
- Preview pane (right)
- Resizable divider (optional)
- Implement view mode toggle
- Split view (default)
- Editor only
- Preview only
- Fullscreen mode
- Add markdown toolbar
- Bold button (Ctrl+B)
- Italic button (Ctrl+I)
- H1 button
- H2 button
- H3 button
- Link button (Ctrl+K)
- Image button
- Code button (Ctrl+`)
- Quote button
- Unordered list button
- Ordered list button
- Table button
- Add editor features
- Word count
- Character count
- Line count
- Reading time estimate
Preview Section
- Set up markdown parser (marked)
- Install marked
- Install DOMPurify
- Configure marked options
- Implement live preview
- Real-time rendering
- Debounce for performance
- Scroll sync (optional)
- Add syntax highlighting for code blocks
- Install highlight.js
- Configure languages
- Apply highlighting
- Add GitHub Flavored Markdown support
- Tables
- Strikethrough
- Task lists
- Autolinks
- Implement Table of Contents
- Auto-generate from headers
- Clickable links
- Collapsible (optional)
- Add mermaid diagram rendering
- Install mermaid
- Detect mermaid code blocks
- Render diagrams
- Error handling
Export Section
- Create collapsible export section
- Implement Markdown export
- Standard Markdown
- GitHub Flavored Markdown
- CommonMark
- Copy to clipboard
- Download as .md file
- Implement HTML export
- Standalone HTML with CSS
- Inline styles
- Include syntax highlighting CSS
- Copy to clipboard
- Download as .html file
- Implement Plain Text export
- Strip all formatting
- Copy to clipboard
- Download as .txt file
- Implement PDF export
- Install html2pdf.js
- Convert HTML to PDF
- Maintain formatting
- Download as .pdf file
- Implement DOCX export
- Install docx library
- Convert markdown to DOCX
- Maintain formatting
- Download as .docx file
Conversion Features
- HTML to Markdown conversion
- Install turndown
- Convert on paste (if HTML detected)
- Convert on file open (.html)
- DOCX to Markdown conversion
- Install mammoth.js
- Convert on file open (.docx)
- Extract text and formatting
Usage Tips
- Create collapsible Usage Tips section
- Add Input Methods tips
- Add Editor Features tips
- Add Markdown Syntax tips
- Add Export Options tips
- Add Data Privacy tips
Data Loss Prevention
- Implement hasUserData() function
- Implement hasModifiedData() function
- Add confirmation modal for tab changes
- Add confirmation for Create New buttons
Testing
- Test all input methods
- Test markdown rendering
- Test all export formats
- Test HTML to Markdown conversion
- Test DOCX import
- Test mermaid diagrams
- Test code syntax highlighting
- Test Table of Contents
- Test view mode toggle
- Test toolbar buttons
- Test keyboard shortcuts
- Test responsive design
- Test dark mode
- Test on mobile devices
Documentation
- Add to EDITOR_TOOL_GUIDE.md
- Create user guide
- Add screenshots
- Create tutorial video (optional)
📝 Markdown Editor - Post-MVP (Future)
Advanced Markdown Features
- Add table support (GitHub-style)
- Add task lists (checkboxes)
- Add footnotes support
- Add emoji support (😄)
- Add math equations (KaTeX)
- Install katex
- Detect math blocks
- Render equations
Templates
- Create README.md template
- Create Documentation template
- Create Blog post template
- Create Meeting notes template
- Create Project proposal template
- Add template selector UI
- Allow custom templates
Utilities
- Add markdown linter
- Check for common issues
- Suggest improvements
- Show warnings
- Add link checker
- Validate URLs
- Check for broken links
- Show status
- Add format beautifier
- Clean up markdown
- Consistent formatting
- Fix indentation
- Add image optimizer
- Compress images
- Convert to base64
- Optimize for web
Enhanced Features
- Add keyboard shortcuts
- Add auto-save (localStorage)
- Add export history
- Add version history
- Add collaborative editing (future)
🎨 Diagram Tool - MVP (1-2 weeks)
Planning
- Finalize feature list for MVP
- Design UI mockup
- Plan component structure
- Research mermaid.js capabilities
Project Setup
- Create
DiagramEditor.jsxpage - Set up routing (
/diagram-editor) - Add to navigation menu
- Add to homepage tools list
Input Section
- Implement Create New tab
- Start Empty button
- Load Sample button (with example diagrams)
- Diagram type selector
- Implement URL tab
- Use AdvancedURLFetch component
- Support mermaid code URLs
- Support PlantUML URLs (future)
- Implement Paste tab
- CodeMirror editor
- Mermaid syntax highlighting
- Parse button
- Collapse after parse
- Implement Open tab
- Support .mmd files
- Support .mermaid files
- Support .txt files
- Auto-load on file selection
Editor Section
- Set up CodeMirror for mermaid
- Configure mermaid mode
- Add syntax highlighting
- Add line numbers
- Implement diagram type selector
- Flowchart
- Sequence Diagram
- Class Diagram
- State Diagram
- Entity Relationship Diagram
- Gantt Chart
- Pie Chart
- Git Graph
- Add code templates for each diagram type
- Add error detection
- Syntax errors
- Invalid diagram type
- Show error messages
Preview Section
- Set up mermaid.js
- Install mermaid
- Configure mermaid
- Initialize mermaid
- Implement live preview
- Real-time rendering
- Debounce for performance
- Error handling
- Add zoom controls
- Zoom in button
- Zoom out button
- Reset zoom button
- Fit to screen button
- Add pan controls
- Drag to pan
- Pan with mouse wheel
- Add fullscreen mode
Export Section
- Create collapsible export section
- Implement PNG export
- Install html2canvas
- Convert SVG to PNG
- Download as .png file
- Implement SVG export
- Extract SVG from preview
- Download as .svg file
- Implement PDF export
- Convert SVG to PDF
- Download as .pdf file
- Implement Mermaid Code export
- Copy to clipboard
- Download as .mmd file
Usage Tips
- Create collapsible Usage Tips section
- Add Input Methods tips
- Add Diagram Types tips
- Add Mermaid Syntax tips
- Add Export Options tips
- Add Data Privacy tips
Data Loss Prevention
- Implement hasUserData() function
- Implement hasModifiedData() function
- Add confirmation modal for tab changes
- Add confirmation for Create New buttons
Testing
- Test all input methods
- Test all diagram types
- Test diagram rendering
- Test all export formats
- Test zoom controls
- Test pan controls
- Test fullscreen mode
- Test error handling
- Test responsive design
- Test dark mode
- Test on mobile devices
Documentation
- Add to EDITOR_TOOL_GUIDE.md
- Create user guide
- Add screenshots
- Create tutorial video (optional)
🎨 Diagram Tool - Post-MVP (Future)
Visual Editor
- Design drag-and-drop interface
- Implement node library (shapes, icons)
- Implement connection tools
- Implement styling options (colors, fonts, borders)
- Add Excalidraw-style drawing
- Add auto-layout options
Advanced Features
- Add PlantUML import
- Add custom themes
- Add diagram templates
- Add collaboration features (future)
- Add version history
📋 Phase 3: Monetization Backend
💳 Payment Integration (1 week)
Planning
- Choose payment provider (Stripe recommended)
- Plan payment flow
- Plan database schema
- Plan backend architecture
Stripe Setup
- Create Stripe account
- Verify business information
- Set up pricing plans in Stripe
- 1 month: $2.99
- 3 months: $6.99
- 6 months: $11.99
- 12 months: $19.99
- Get API keys (test and live)
Backend Setup
- Choose backend (Node.js + Express or serverless)
- Set up backend project
- Set up database (PostgreSQL or MongoDB)
- Create database schema
- Users table
- Purchases table
- Ad-free status table
- Set up environment variables
API Development
- Create payment intent endpoint
- Create payment confirmation endpoint
- Create purchase history endpoint
- Create ad-free status endpoint
- Add error handling
- Add logging
Frontend Integration
- Design payment flow UI
- Create checkout page
- Integrate Stripe Elements
- Implement payment form
- Implement payment success handling
- Implement payment failure handling
- Add loading states
- Add error messages
Email Integration
- Choose email service (SendGrid recommended)
- Set up email service account
- Create email templates
- Purchase confirmation
- Receipt
- Expiry reminder
- Implement email sending
Testing
- Test payment flow (test mode)
- Test with test cards
- Test payment success
- Test payment failure
- Test email sending
- Test with real payment (small amount)
- Test on different browsers
- Test on mobile devices
Deployment
- Deploy backend
- Set up production database
- Configure environment variables
- Test in production
- Monitor transactions
Legal & Compliance
- Add refund policy
- Add customer support email
- Update Terms of Service
- Update Privacy Policy
👤 User Accounts (1 week)
Planning
- Choose auth provider (Firebase Auth or Auth0)
- Plan auth flow
- Plan user data structure
Auth Setup
- Create auth provider account
- Configure auth provider
- Get API keys
- Set up authentication methods
- Email + password
- Google OAuth (optional)
- GitHub OAuth (optional)
UI Development
- Design login page
- Design signup page
- Design profile page
- Create login form
- Create signup form
- Create profile page
- Add form validation
Auth Implementation
- Implement email + password auth
- Implement OAuth (optional)
- Implement logout functionality
- Implement password reset flow
- Implement email verification
- Add session management
User Profile
- Display user information
- Display ad-free status
- Display purchase history
- Add edit profile functionality
- Add change password functionality
Integration
- Connect auth to payment system
- Store user ID with purchases
- Track ad-free status
- Update UI based on auth state
Testing
- Test signup flow
- Test login flow
- Test logout flow
- Test password reset
- Test email verification
- Test on different browsers
- Test on mobile devices
Security
- Add rate limiting
- Add CSRF protection
- Add XSS protection
- Add SQL injection protection
- Implement secure session handling
🚫 Ad-Free Experience (3 days)
UI Development
- Design ad-free badge
- Design expiry reminder
- Design renewal flow
- Create ad-free badge component
- Create expiry reminder component
Implementation
- Check ad-free status on page load
- Hide ads for ad-free users
- Show ad-free badge in UI
- Implement expiry reminder (7 days before)
- Implement grace period (3 days after expiry)
- Add renewal flow
Testing
- Test ad-free status check
- Test ad hiding
- Test ad-free badge display
- Test expiry reminder
- Test grace period
- Test renewal flow
- Test on different browsers
- Test on mobile devices
Monitoring
- Track ad-free user count
- Monitor expiry dates
- Send expiry reminders
- Collect feedback from ad-free users
🎯 Quick Wins (Can Do Anytime)
SEO & Marketing
- Optimize page titles
- Optimize meta descriptions
- Add Open Graph tags
- Add Twitter Card tags
- Create sitemap.xml
- Submit to Google Search Console
- Create robots.txt
Content
- Write blog post: "How to use Object Editor"
- Write blog post: "How to use Table Editor"
- Write blog post: "How to use Invoice Editor"
- Create tutorial videos
- Share on Reddit
- Share on Hacker News
- Share on Twitter/X
UX Improvements
- Add loading skeletons
- Add empty states
- Add success messages
- Add error messages
- Improve error handling
- Add tooltips
- Add keyboard shortcuts
Performance
- Implement code splitting
- Lazy load components
- Optimize images
- Minify CSS/JS
- Add caching headers
- Implement service worker (PWA)
📊 Metrics to Track
User Metrics
- Daily active users (DAU)
- Weekly active users (WAU)
- Monthly active users (MAU)
- New users per day
- Returning users
- User retention rate
Tool Usage
- Object Editor usage
- Table Editor usage
- Invoice Editor usage
- Markdown Editor usage (when launched)
- Diagram Tool usage (when launched)
- Most popular features
Monetization
- Ad impressions per day
- Ad clicks per day
- Ad CTR (Click-Through Rate)
- Ad revenue per day
- Ad-free purchases per month
- Ad-free revenue per month
- Total revenue per month
Performance
- Page load time
- Time to interactive
- First contentful paint
- Largest contentful paint
- Cumulative layout shift
End of To-Do List