Engineering Demos 

Engine layer swap: Zack demoed the addition of components to a graph, including the tree of attributes (attribute editing is coming soon). He also showed us a visualization of the entire graph, can be filtered down to show relationships (in this case, to show the graph for the Docker Image schema variant). He’s working on introducing heirarchy, which will make the diagram even more useful. 

Frontend performance: Theo showed some improvements in one of our most costly API requests: the get_diagram call. This work reduces the number of redundant fetches, and optimizes module store handling. 

UI Improvements: Wendy demoed UI enhancements, including resizable frames from any edge, taking info out of modals and putting it inline, hover states for buttons, and improved empty state displays. Adam also demoed a new naming convention for components, replacing generic identifiers with more descriptive names that include the component type along with a random number.

Nested frames: Paul demoed Paulo’s work on a feature that allows users to nest frames and easily configure multiple components at once. 

Copy paste: Paolo showed a work-in-progress feature for cloning parts of the diagram, which is going to make modeling faster and easier and actually kindof delightful.