Adds a transparent self-hosting path for users who would rather not
run Velxio's prebuilt libqemu binaries. The prebuilts have always
been a convenience under the AGPLv3 license; this just documents
how to skip them.
- docs/BUILD-QEMU.md as the canonical step-by-step (dependencies per
Debian/Arch/macOS, ESP32 xtensa + ESP32-C3 riscv32 configure-and-
ninja, drop-in instructions, troubleshooting, license notes on the
QEMU/Velxio GPL-vs-AGPL boundary).
- DocsPage gets a new 'build-qemu' section between Setup and Roadmap
in the sidebar. Content is hardcoded English (technical reference,
not marketing copy) and ends with a link to the .md on GitHub.
- nav + SEO meta keys added to all 9 locales (de en es fr it ja
pt-br ru zh-cn). Body remains English in every locale; technical
content doesn't need translation for the audience that follows it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The /pricing page exists (PricingPlaceholder upstream, real PricingPage
portal-mounted by the private overlay) but had no entry in the top nav.
Adds 'pricing' to header.nav in all 9 locales (de, en, es, fr, it, ja,
pt-br, ru, zh-cn), wires the Link in AppHeader between About and Blog,
and mirrors the link in the landing-page footer.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
A new entry in the games category for the Raspberry Pi Pico. Renders
a first-person 3D corridor à la Wolfenstein / early Doom using a
column-wise DDA raycaster — 160 rays per frame drawn straight to a
320×240 ILI9341 TFT via drawFastVLine, no framebuffer. 16×16 tile map
with 5 wall palettes (slate, blood, brown, toxic green, bronze door),
darkened on NS faces so corners read in 3D. Forward / back move,
two more buttons turn the player. 40-px HUD bar.
Why a demo, not the canonical id Software Doom: Graham Sanderson's
rp2040-doom port shoehorns DOOM1.WAD into 2 MB of flash with custom
compression and pushes video out over PIO-driven DVI / VGA — none of
that survives the rp2040js emulator (no PIO accuracy, no flash
mapping for huge assets). A raycaster reproduces the *visual* of
early Doom using only ~67 KB of flash and 9 KB of RAM, which the
emulator runs perfectly.
Pre-flight: arduino-cli compile against rp2040:rp2040:rpipico
already verified inside the Velxio backend container — 3 % flash,
3 % RAM. The Adafruit_GFX + Adafruit_ILI9341 libs the example
declares are already in the gallery's auto-install list.
Bundled:
test/pico_doom_demo/arduino_sketch.ino — source of truth sketch
test/pico_doom_demo/README.md — what + why + pin map
test/pico_doom_demo/compile_check.sh — operator script that
runs arduino-cli against the same FQBN the prod backend uses
frontend/src/data/examples.ts — gallery entry (boardType
raspberry-pi-pico, category games, difficulty advanced, 5
components, 14 wires)
frontend/src/__tests__/examples-pico-doom.test.ts — 10 vitest
assertions: example is registered exactly once, target board /
category / difficulty match, libraries declared, all four
pushbuttons present, every wire endpoint references a real
component id, SPI pin mapping matches the sketch's #define
block, every button has a GND wire, the renderFrame loop is
still present in the embedded code.
Renders a 200×150 px overview of the whole 4000×3000 world in the
bottom-right corner of .canvas-content. Boards show as filled blue
rectangles, components as small white dots, and the current viewport
appears as an outlined rectangle the user can drag to pan.
Geometry mirrors the canvas's existing pan+zoom model:
SCALE_X = MINIMAP_W / WORLD_W = 0.05
rect.x = -pan.x / zoom * SCALE_X
rect.w = viewport.width / zoom * SCALE_X
Two interaction modes, decided at pointerdown by hit-testing the
rectangle:
- Inside the rect → drag-pan: keep updating pan as the pointer
moves, with delta in minimap-px converted back to world units
by (delta / SCALE) * zoom.
- Outside the rect → teleport: re-center the viewport on the
clicked world point.
Pan is clamped so the viewport rectangle never escapes the minimap
bounds (matches the canvas's implicit world boundaries at 4000×3000).
ResizeObserver on the canvas-content keeps the rect accurate when
the user toggles side panels or resizes the window.
Mobile: at ≤720 px width the minimap shrinks to 140×105 px so it
doesn't eat too much of the canvas. Touch events go through the same
pointerdown / pointermove path — no separate touch code path needed
thanks to Pointer Events.
Bundles with: matching CSS file, import + JSX hookup inside
.canvas-content's render tree.
Two small fixes that compound:
1. Drop LLM model names from the landing AI section. The agent
auto-routes between several providers (9router combo, direct
DeepSeek, direct Gemini, future-others) and naming any of them on
the homepage misleads visitors. Replace "DeepSeek-V4-Flash and
Gemini 2.5 under the hood" with "frontier LLMs auto-routed for
cost and reliability" so the marketing line stays accurate as the
provider mix changes.
2. Pricing copy switches from absolute message counts (300/day,
700/day — small, intimidating, hard to anchor) to comparative
multipliers (Pro = 20×, Pro Max = 50×). Visitors instinctively
read these as "much more" without needing to count usage. The
multipliers reflect the new backend quotas (400/day, 1000/day,
committed separately in velxio-prod's pro overlay).
3. --color-bg-canvas moves from gray-1000 (#000000) to gray-950
(#0a0a0c). Pure black collided with the slightly-lighter card
surface (gray-900 #141416) and produced a harsh transition wherever
a `min-height: 100vh` page wrapper grew taller than its content —
visible on docs and user-profile pages with sparse content. The
2-luminance-step shift removes the jarring while keeping the dark
palette feel intact. gray-1000 stays in the scale for intentional
black uses.
All 9 locales updated for (1) and (2).
Two new sections on the landing page, between Features and Support:
1. "Powered by AI agents" — three cards explaining the in-editor agent
(place & wire parts, generate code, diagnose circuits). Calls out
DeepSeek-V4-Flash + Gemini 2.5 as the LLM backbone so visitors know
the simulator does more than draw boxes.
2. "Pricing" — three cards summarising Free / Pro / Pro Max with the
actual monthly cost, the daily AI-message quota, and a CTA per
tier. Pro is highlighted as Most Popular. Free CTA opens the editor,
the two paid CTAs link to /pricing where the PayPal subscription
flow lives.
The simulator itself stays free — only the AI-agent quota changes per
tier — that copy is repeated in the section subtitle so visitors don't
worry about the boards/components becoming paywalled.
All 9 locales translated.
Closes the long-standing "components are frozen during simulation"
complaint. Once the user clicked Run, interactive wokwi parts
(pushbuttons, slide-switches, potentiometers …) called
stopPropagation in their bubble-phase mousedown handlers and the
canvas's React onMouseDown never fired — so dragging them to
rearrange the layout was impossible without first stopping the sim.
Two surgical changes:
1. DynamicComponent.tsx switches the wrapper from `onMouseDown` to
`onMouseDownCapture`. Capture phase runs before the inner
wokwi-element, so the canvas sees the mousedown regardless of
stopPropagation downstream. The existing posDiff < 5 check in
mouseup keeps disambiguating click vs drag: a click still falls
through to the wokwi-element's own mousedown/up for button-press
semantics, only sustained movement promotes to a drag.
2. SimulatorCanvas.tsx's touch path used to early-return on touchstart
when interactionRunning + .web-component-container, killing any
chance of a touch-drag. Now we remember the touch's start position
in pendingTouchDragRef and let the browser keep synthesizing mouse
events for the wokwi-element. If the finger drifts past
DRAG_PROMOTE_THRESHOLD_PX (8 px) onTouchMove cancels the
passthrough and starts a real component drag — dispatching a
synthesized mouseup on the original target so the wokwi-element
doesn't stay visually pressed mid-drag.
Adds a two-card section at the foot of the landing page (before the
brand footer) that surfaces Velxio's licensing model: AGPLv3 for the
public release, commercial license for teams that need to ship
Velxio inside closed-source products. Mirrors the existing
.feature-card visual language so it slots into the page without a
new design system.
Commercial CTA opens a mailto:info@velxio.dev. Open-source CTA links
to GitHub via the existing trackVisitGitHub handler so the analytics
event still fires.
All 9 locales translated.
In digital / analog board-less examples the user clicks a slide-switch
or pushbutton expecting it to flip its state. Until this commit the
component property dialog opened instead and the click never reached
the wokwi-element underneath, so:
- The user couldn't change switch state through the canvas at all.
- With no state change the SPICE solver kept the old netlist, and
every downstream LED stayed dark — the symptom that read as
"voltages change but no LED lights".
Root cause was the gating: SimulatorCanvas only suppressed the
property dialog when `useSimulatorStore.running` was true, but that
flag is bound to an MCU's start/stop. Board-less circuits have no MCU
to start so `running` is permanently false, even when the SPICE engine
has been live since the example loaded.
New derived flag `interactionRunning = running || (boards.length === 0
&& !electricalPaused)` — true whenever the user is in an "interactive"
session, MCU or SPICE-only. Used in three click-handling paths:
- SimulatorCanvas mouse-up handler: dialog is suppressed and the
click falls through to the wokwi-element (line 1395).
- SimulatorCanvas touch-start passthrough: same for touch (line 474).
- SimulatorCanvas touch-end short-tap: same for tap (line 774).
Also propagated to DynamicComponent so the cursor becomes pointer (not
move) for interactive parts in board-less mode — visual cue that the
user can click instead of just drag.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Rotating a part with the 90° button used to leave every wire pinned to
the pre-rotation pixel coordinates — the component visually unhooked
from its cables. Two paths were missing:
1. useSimulatorStore.updateComponent only triggered updateWirePositions
for x/y changes. A rotation went through properties.rotation, so
wires never recomputed.
2. calculatePinPosition didn't know about rotation. Even when called,
it returned the unrotated offset, so the new endpoints would still
have been wrong.
3. recordRotate (undo/redo) skipped updateWirePositions on both legs,
so Ctrl+Z after a rotate left the canvas inconsistent.
Fix:
- calculatePinPosition gets a 5th `rotation` argument. When non-zero,
it finds the .dynamic-component-wrapper ancestor in the DOM, reads
its offsetWidth/Height (layout-only, immune to CSS transforms) to
locate the wrapper centre, and applies a 2D rotation matrix around
that pivot. The wrapper top-left is recovered as (componentX - 4,
componentY - 6) to match the offset convention updateWirePositions
already uses.
- updateWirePositions and recalculateAllWirePositions read the per-
component rotation and thread it through.
- updateComponent recomputes wires whenever properties.rotation
changes, mirroring the existing x/y path.
- recordRotate.execute and .undo both call updateWirePositions so
Ctrl+Z keeps the canvas coherent.
Tests (pin-position-rotation.test.ts, 6 cases): unrotated identity,
90° (left edge → bottom), 180° (point reflection), 360° round-trip,
negative angles, and a store-level integration that rotates a fake
component and asserts wires[0].start moves to the rotated coordinate.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Closes the remaining gaps in cross-board I2C so any topology of
supported boards (Uno↔ESP32, two ESP32s, Uno↔Uno↔Uno, ESP32-C3
connected to anything, etc.) works end-to-end with all I2C
components including write-only sinks (SSD1306, PCF8574, LCD-I2C).
Implementation (6 phases):
1. **BFS routing in I2CBusManager**: connectToSlave + handleExternalConnect
walk the bridge graph with a visited Set so multi-hop chains
(A↔B↔C with the device on C) resolve transparently. A new
forwarder-device shim is installed at intermediate hops so the
existing handleExternalWrite/Read/Stop machinery routes
through without per-method visited tracking.
2. **Per-peer proxy ownership in Esp32BridgeShim**: replaces the
global _proxiedAddrs Set with _proxiedByPeer Map so concurrent
bridges to the same ESP32 (e.g. wired to both Uno and Pico)
don't wipe each other's proxies on teardown. Interconnect's
per-wire teardown calls clearProxiesForPeer(peerBus) instead of
clearAllProxies.
3. **BFS-aware proxy sync**: syncProxyFromPeer now walks the peer
bus + its transitive bridges, so an ESP32 sees devices on
boards two or more hops away. _peerDeviceLookup keeps a flat
addr → device map for write-forwarding and resync.
4. **Periodic resync (250 ms)**: Esp32BridgeShim runs a setInterval
while any proxy is live, re-dumping each device with
dumpRegisters() and pushing updateProxyI2c only when an XOR-
stride hash changes. This keeps RTC time advancing visible to
ESP32 firmware without flooding the WS pipe with static
calibration dumps. Hash is primed during initial sync so the
first tick doesn't push a redundant identical buffer.
5. **Write-forwarding ProxySlave → peer**: backend ProxySlave
buffers write bytes during the transaction and emits a
`proxy_i2c_complete` event on STOP / repeated-START. Frontend
Esp32Bridge dispatches the event to a new onProxyI2cComplete
callback; the shim replays the byte sequence on the actual
peer I2CDevice via writeByte() + stop(). Makes ESP32 firmware
writes to peer SSD1306 actually repaint the OLED, peer PCF8574
latch updates, peer I2CMemoryDevice register mutations propagate.
6. **ESP32-C3 routed as bridge**: Interconnect.isBrowserSim no
longer claims c3/xiao-c3/c3-supermini — they were already
going through Esp32Bridge per the store's ESP32_RISCV_KINDS
routing, but Interconnect was treating them as browser sims
which broke proxy install. isEsp32Bridge now correctly
includes c3 family + ESP32-S3 + Arduino Nano ESP32.
Defensive: addBoard now disposes any existing shim's proxies
before overwriting simulatorMap entry so test reruns don't leak
timers.
Tests:
- 4 BFS multi-hop tests (i2c-multi-board-slave-gap.test.ts)
- 11 cross-board scenarios + per-peer + write-forward + resync
(i2c-esp32-multiboard-bridge.test.ts)
- 1 real-firmware E2E for write-forward via QEMU (compile +
load + observe proxy_i2c_complete arriving with the byte)
- New sketch fixture: esp32_i2c_write_to_peer.ino
Result: 90 test files / 1295 tests pass / 0 fail.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds the transactional email pipeline driven from the Odoo SMTP relay so
new sign-ups get a Velxio-branded welcome and existing users can reset a
forgotten password without us running our own outbound mail server.
Backend:
- PasswordResetToken model: one-time, SHA-256-hashed (plain text never on
disk), TTL 60 min, marked used_at on consume to prevent replay.
- POST /auth/forgot-password — anti-enumeration (always 200 + generic
message), rate-limited 3/hour/user.
- POST /auth/reset-password — verifies token, hashes new password,
atomically marks token used.
- /auth/register hooked with asyncio.create_task to fire welcome mail —
registration is never blocked on Odoo being up.
- New service app/services/odoo_mail.py: async httpx wrapper, fire-and-
forget, swallows every error so the request lifecycle stays clean.
- Settings ODOO_URL / ODOO_API_KEY / ODOO_MAIL_TIMEOUT_S /
PASSWORD_RESET_TOKEN_TTL_MINUTES / PASSWORD_RESET_RATE_LIMIT_PER_HOUR.
Frontend:
- /forgot-password page (single email field + "check your inbox" state).
- /reset-password?token=XYZ page (new password + confirmation, redirects
to /login?reset=ok on success).
- "Forgot your password?" link + green confirmation banner on /login.
- authService gains requestPasswordReset() and resetPassword().
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Implemented `i2c-esp32-real-firmware.test.ts` to test ESP32 I2C communication via backend and WebSocket.
- Created `load-example-transitions.test.ts` to ensure proper loading of examples between board-less and board-based contexts.
- Added `CircuitVerificationModal.tsx` to display circuit verification results before running simulations.
- Developed `circuitVerifier.ts` to perform pre-flight checks for circuit safety, identifying potential issues like short circuits and component overloads.
- Introduced minimal ESP32 I2C master sketch `esp32_i2c_writer.ino` for testing I2C transactions.
- Implement HD44780Decoder for decoding I2C commands to HD44780-compatible LCDs.
- Add bmp280_bridge_reader.ino to read BMP280 chip_id and status registers via I2C.
- Create i2c_scanner_multi.ino to scan I2C addresses and report responding devices.
- Introduce lcd_i2c_hello.ino to demonstrate basic LCD functionality with I2C.
- Implement pcf8574_bidirectional.ino to test bidirectional communication with PCF8574.
- Add pico_i2c_master_reader.ino for reading BMP280 from a Raspberry Pi Pico.
- Create rtc_lcd_clock.ino to display time from a DS1307 RTC on an I2C LCD.
Replace Unix-only shell one-liner (mkdir -p / printf / cp -r) with a
Node.js ESM script (scripts/copy-monaco.mjs) that works on Windows,
macOS and Linux alike. The script still writes public/monaco/.gitignore
to keep copied assets out of git.
- postinstall now writes a '*' .gitignore into public/monaco/ so the
copied monaco-editor assets are never tracked as untracked files
- Also add public/monaco/ to frontend/.gitignore as a belt-and-suspenders
fallback for the same reason
- Add color picker button to SelectionActionBar for wire selections
- Toggle palette using WIRE_KEY_COLORS swatches
- Pass currentColor and onColorChange from SimulatorCanvas
- Reset showPalette on kind/onColorChange change (Copilot suggestion)
- Use t('editor.selectionBar.changeColor') for title/aria-label (Copilot suggestion)
- Add changeColor i18n key to all 9 locale files
Co-authored-by: naweiss <naweiss@users.noreply.github.com>
loadMicroPythonProgram only forwarded main.py (or files[0]) to the
bridge for raw-paste injection. Any auxiliary module the project
imported (mylib.py, drivers, etc.) never reached the device, so
`import mylib` died with ModuleNotFoundError.
Build a Python prelude that writes every other .py file to the
MicroPython filesystem via raw REPL, then runs main.py in the same
paste. JSON.stringify produces an ASCII-safe Python-compatible string
literal for the file body, which keeps the prelude inside the existing
chunked-UART path Esp32Bridge already uses to feed the 128-byte FIFO.
The RP2040 path was already multi-file via sim.loadMicroPython(files),
so it stays untouched.
Reproduces with the project shared in the bug report:
https://velxio.dev/project/ac7e285c-8dc3-4d51-8751-b4aba9912f9e
Block 9 added `const { t } = useTranslation()` at line 50 but forgot the
matching `import { useTranslation } from 'react-i18next'`. The component
then crashes the moment a user clicks a sensor on the canvas with
`Uncaught ReferenceError: useTranslation is not defined`, taking the
whole simulator render tree down.
components-metadata.json is shaped { version, components: [...] }, not a
flat array. The previous test assumed the latter and crashed on
default.find at module load on master, breaking CI for every PR.
The common bundle ballooned to 30KB after Block 15 added the AboutPage
prose, putting Russian translations past DeepSeek's 8192-token output
cap. The editor + about sub-trees (the two heaviest, ~15KB combined)
move to a new common2.json file. Both files now sit at 12-18KB and
translate cleanly.
i18n bootstrap merges common2 into the same common namespace at
load time and lazy-loads it per locale, so every existing t('editor.*')
and t('about.*') call keeps resolving without source changes.
All 9 locales regenerated via DeepSeek. Closes the gap left by the
Blocks 15+16 commit where only zh-cn/common had been refreshed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
AboutPage: ~28 prose blocks across Story / How It Works / Open Source /
Creator / Releases / Quote / Community sections; <Trans> for paragraphs
with inline <strong>, <em>, <a> markup.
15 SEO landing pages now use t() for all user-facing copy under
seo.<page>.* keys: CircuitSimulatorPage, SpiceSimulatorPage,
ElectronicsSimulatorPage, CustomChipSimulatorPage, Attiny85SimulatorPage,
ArduinoSimulatorPage, ArduinoEmulatorPage, AtmegaSimulatorPage,
ArduinoMegaSimulatorPage, Esp32SimulatorPage, Esp32S3SimulatorPage,
Esp32C3SimulatorPage, RaspberryPiPicoSimulatorPage,
RaspberryPiSimulatorPage. Code blocks, FQBNs, JSON-LD schema strings
intentionally stay in English.
The seo bundle (67KB English source) is split into 4 balanced files
(seo.json + seo2.json + seo3.json + seo4.json, ~17KB each) so each
DeepSeek translation request stays inside the 8192-token output cap.
i18n bootstrap merges all 4 halves under the seo.* keyspace.
Translations: 8 locales × 4 seo bundles all regenerated via DeepSeek.
common.json (now 30KB after about additions) only has zh-cn refreshed
so far — the remaining 7 locales' common.json need a follow-up pass
(the bundle is at the edge of DeepSeek's output limit).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
A user reported on Discord: "the Velxio Console doesn't update anything,
it just waits until the very end and displays everything in one go".
True for the async compile path — /compile/status only carried `state`
and the final `result`, so the editor's CompilationConsole stayed empty
during the 5-7 minute cold ESP-IDF builds and dumped 1500 lines at once
when the build finished.
This wires live build output through the whole stack.
Backend (espidf_compiler.py)
- New _run_with_streaming() helper. When a progress_callback is provided
it spawns the subprocess via Popen + stdout/stderr drain threads and
invokes the callback line-by-line. When None it falls back to the
existing subprocess.run(capture_output=True) one-shot path so the
unit-test code that doesn't care about live output is unaffected.
- compile() and _compile_in_dir() take an optional ProgressCallback.
- _run_cmake / _run_ninja closures now go through _run_with_streaming
with that callback. cmake configure (~2-5 s) + ninja (~5-300+ s) both
stream now; the ninja output is the one users actually want to watch.
Backend (compile.py)
- _compile_job seeds COMPILE_JOBS[id]['stdout_buffer'] = '' and defines
on_progress_line(line) which appends to it. Buffer capped at 256 KB
(tail kept) so a runaway build can't OOM the FastAPI process.
- The buffer is preserved on both the success and the error path so
late polls still see the log even after state transitions to
done/error.
- /compile/status now returns the buffer as a `stdout` field.
CompileStatusResponse gains the field with default '' so old clients
that don't read it still work.
Frontend (compilation.ts)
- compileCode() takes a 4th argument: optional CompileProgress
callback fired every poll while state ∈ {pending, running}. Carries
the cumulative stdout (caller computes deltas) plus elapsed seconds.
- Surfaces the new `stdout` field of /compile/status and forwards it
to the callback. Errors thrown from the callback are swallowed —
a faulty UI hook must never break the polling loop.
Frontend (EditorToolbar.tsx)
- Both compileCode() call sites (Run and Compile-All) now pass an
onProgress callback. It tracks `lastStreamedLen` per-compile, splits
each new delta on newlines, and appends them as `info`-typed
CompilationLog entries via setCompileLogs. The Compile-All flow
prefixes each line with the board label so multi-board builds stay
readable.
- After the build settles, the existing parseCompileResult call still
runs and appends the structured analysis on top of the live stream
— that's where FAILED-block detection + the `error`-typed entries
that drive the auto-switch-to-errors filter live.
Net effect on the user complaint: cold ESP-IDF builds now show the
ninja [N/1483] progress lines streaming into the console as they
happen, instead of staring at an empty panel for 5-7 minutes.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Wire useTranslation() + Trans into DocsPage.tsx. ~330 user-facing
strings across 13 sections (intro, getting-started, emulator, riscv,
esp32, rp2040, rpi3, components, roadmap, architecture, third-party,
mcp, setup) plus sidebar nav + page chrome are now keyed under docs.*.
Strings with inline <a>, <code>, <strong>, <em> use the <Trans/>
component with mapped slots; bare prose uses t().
Code blocks, FQBNs, hex addresses, library names visible as link text,
and JSON-LD schema strings stay in English on purpose.
Internal Link to=... wrapped with localize() so /es/docs/... etc.
keep their locale prefix.
The English docs bundle is split in half (docs.json ~22KB +
docs2.json ~22KB) so each fits inside DeepSeek's 8192-token output
window. The i18n bootstrap merges both halves into the docs.* keyspace
under the default common namespace.
All 9 locales regenerated via DeepSeek (parallel run for the two
namespaces).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Wire useTranslation() into Velxio2Page and Velxio25Page: hero badge,
accent, subtitle, CTAs, board/example/outcome cards, OSS section, and
footer links all keyed under landing.v2.* and landing.v25.*.
Split en/common.json (34KB) into common.json (25KB) + releases.json
(9KB) so each translation request stays inside DeepSeek's 8192-token
output cap. i18n bootstrap merges both bundles into the default common
namespace at load time, lazy loader fetches both per locale.
translate-i18n.mjs: set max_tokens=8192 + response_format json_object
on the DeepSeek call so future bundles closer to the cap don't get
silently truncated.
All 9 locales regenerated via DeepSeek (fr/de/es/it/pt-br/zh-cn/ja/ru).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Closes the Phase 2 i18n rollout. Every visitor- and user-facing
surface velxio renders in normal use now reads from t().
AdminPage (admin-only)
- Header (panel title, logout) and the four tabs (Dashboard /
Users / Projects / Boards).
- Setup screen for first-admin creation (title, body, password
fields + mismatch error + create-admin button).
- Not-admin gate page.
- EditUserModal (title, four labels, admin/active toggles,
cancel/save).
- UsersTab: search placeholder, count pluralisation, all 12
table columns, Activity / Edit / Delete actions, empty state,
delete-confirm prompt with username interpolation.
- ProjectsTab: search placeholder, count pluralisation, all 9
table columns, public/private badge labels, delete action +
confirm with project-name interpolation, empty state.
- All error messages (load failed / save failed / delete failed)
fall back through t().
UserProfilePage
- "New project" CTA, loading + empty + not-found states,
"Private" project badge, "Copy shareable link" tooltip.
- The /editor link uses localize() so /es/<username>'s "New
project" button stays in Spanish.
PricingPlaceholder
- Title + the two paragraphs (self-hosted note + hosted Pro
tier note + GitHub source note). Inline links wrapped via
the Trans component so the link surface stays clickable in
every locale without each translation having to re-write the
HTML.
EditorPage shell
- Mobile bottom-tab labels (Code / Circuit), file-explorer
toggle (Show / Hide), View mode aria-label, view-mode
segmented control labels (Code / Both / Circuit), and the
three "Drag to resize" handle tooltips on the panel splitters.
Translations
- en.json hand-curated for the new keys.
- All 8 non-English locales auto-translated via the existing
`npm run translate:i18n` pipeline (DeepSeek, ~5 min for the
whole bundle, sameShape() validates each output before write).
This closes Phase 2 of i18n. Phase 3 (DocsPage prose, AboutPage
long-form paragraphs, the 15 SEO landing pages) is deliberately
deferred — Docs/About are best handled by extracting the prose
into JSON keys and running the same script, while the SEO pages
are intentionally optimised for English keyword targeting and
should not be machine-translated en masse.
This commit closes the cluster of small editor surfaces that touch
the active simulation experience. Every visible control on these
panels now reads from t() keys.
Translated:
- Oscilloscope panel (title, Add Channel button + tooltip, Time/div
label, Run / Pause toggle copy + tooltips, Clear, empty-state copy
+ hint, per-channel remove tooltip).
- ComponentPropertyDialog (close, pin-roles header with two
wire-mode variants, Arduino Pin label, rotate / delete buttons +
the inline confirm-delete prompt with name interpolation).
- SelectionActionBar (toolbar aria-label, Rotate / Delete / Deselect
with kind-aware delete labels for wire / component / board).
- CompilationConsole (Output title, error / warning badge counts
with i18next pluralisation, filter dropdown, autoscroll label,
Clear + Close icon tooltips, empty-state).
- CustomChipDialog (header with chipName interpolation, Examples /
Editor tabs, Attributes panel header, compile status messages
including the "✓ Compiled — N KB" success line, footer
Cancel / Save & Place / Compile first buttons).
- SensorControlPanel (close button).
- BoardPickerModal (Add Board heading).
Translation pipeline
- en.json gets the new keys hand-curated.
- The 8 non-English locales were auto-translated via DeepSeek
using the existing scripts/translate-i18n.mjs pipeline (one
--force run, ~1 min total). Output validated with sameShape()
before write so any LLM-introduced key drift would have failed
loudly.
Quality note
- DeepSeek's translations now cover the entire bundle, including
earlier hand-translated content. Tone may differ slightly from
the prior hand passes but the meaning is consistent and brand /
technical terms (Velxio, ngspice-WASM, ATmega328P, ESP32-C3,
etc.) are preserved unchanged in every locale per the prompt
invariants.
InstallLibrariesModal — auto-install prompt that fires when an
example needs libraries:
- Title, subtitle (with the "Installing X of Y" progress
interpolation, the all-done success state, and the singular /
plural prompt explaining the requirement count).
- Per-row status badges (pending / installing… / installed /
error) plus the Wokwi-hosted-library tooltip.
- Footer buttons: Close / Skip / "Install All ({{count}})" with
loading variant.
SerialMonitor — multi-board tabbed serial console:
- Empty-state when no board is on the canvas.
- Right-side tab controls: Autoscroll checkbox, Clear button +
tooltip.
- The "(Open IoT Gateway)" inline link rendered next to detected
AP IP addresses.
- Output-area placeholders for the running-but-no-data and
before-start states.
- Send button + input placeholder (different copy for MicroPython
REPL vs raw Serial input).
- The line-ending dropdown options (None / Newline / Carriage
return / Both).
Hand-translated for all 9 locales. Hotkeys (Ctrl+C) and dropdown
values stay untranslated (constants the firmware reads).
Pending in Phase 3:
- Oscilloscope panel, custom-chip dialog, sensor control panel.
- ComponentPropertyDialog (per-component property forms).
- Admin / Profile / Project pages.
- Long-form docs prose (DocsPage 2715 lines, AboutPage long
paragraphs).
- 15 SEO landing pages (intentionally English for keyword targeting).
ComponentPickerModal — the "Add Component" dialog:
- Header (title + close button), search input placeholder + clear,
category tabs (All Components / Boards), loading + empty-state
copy, "Clear filters" button.
LibraryManagerModal — the Arduino library browser:
- Window title, Search / Installed tabs, filter input placeholder.
- Search-tab states: searching-for-query, generic loading, no
results (with optional query interpolation).
- Per-library row: "by {{author}}" caption, Install / Installing /
Uninstall / Uninstalling button labels.
- Installed-tab empty-state with the prompt to use the Search tab.
Brand and product names left untouched ("LIBRARY MANAGER" stays
all-caps in English; the localised variants follow each language's
convention for product UI titles). Hand-translated for all 9
locales.
InstallLibrariesModal still pending — it's the auto-install
prompt that fires when an example needs libraries; smaller scope
but lives in the same area.
The /examples gallery is fully localised:
- Header (heading + subtitle).
- Search input placeholder + aria-label + the clear button.
- Match-count tag with i18next pluralisation (handles _one /
_other and Russian's _few / _many).
- Category and Difficulty filter labels + their button labels
(basics / sensors / displays / communication / games / robotics
/ circuits; beginner / intermediate / advanced).
- Per-card "Copy shareable link" tooltip.
- Empty-state copy with two variants (with-search / without-
search) interpolating the search query.
- Reset-filters button.
- The library-install progress overlay copy from
ExamplesPage.tsx ("Installing libraries (N/M)") with done/total
interpolation.
Internal /editor link uses localize() so a Spanish reader who
clicks an example lands on /es/editor.
Hand-translated for all 8 non-English locales. Per-example titles
+ descriptions are NOT i18n yet — they live in the
src/data/examples* tables and would need a separate pipeline.
DocsPage (2715 lines of prose) deferred too — best handled by
running scripts/translate-i18n.mjs once the keys are extracted.
The visible chrome of /about now reads from i18n in all 9 locales:
- Hero title + subtitle
- 7 section headings (Story / How It Works / Open Source Philosophy /
Creator / Recent releases / Community & Press / CTA)
- Final CTA card (title, subtitle, "Open Editor" button)
- Footer copy switched to t('footer.about') so it shows the AGPLv3
About-Velxio paragraph instead of the stale MIT/avr8js credit
- Footer + CTA Links wrapped in localize() so /es/about's "Open Editor"
routes to /es/editor
Long-form prose (Story body paragraphs, Open Source Philosophy
paragraphs, Creator bio, Releases blurbs, Personal-story quote, Press
section) deliberately stays in English in this commit. Each is a
multi-paragraph chunk that benefits from a curated translation pass
rather than an inline machine pass — slate it for a follow-up.
Tech-stack tags (Java, Python, React, Docker, etc.) and the creator's
name + role + GitHub/LinkedIn/Medium link captions stay untranslated:
all proper nouns / brand identifiers.
Both auth forms now go through t('auth.login.*') and
t('auth.register.*'):
- Title + subtitle, email / password / username labels with
username placeholder and password-min-length placeholder.
- Submit button toggles between idle and loading states.
- "or" divider, "Continue with Google" button, and the
switch-to-other-form footer link.
- Inline validation errors: reserved username, username regex,
password length, plus the generic catch-all from the API.
Internal /editor and /login / /register links wrapped in
localize() so a Spanish user who registers stays at /es/editor
after success.
AboutPage (519 lines) deferred to its own commit — too dense for
the same change.
The canvas header (the bar above the simulation area) and the
"Remove board?" confirmation dialog now read from i18n.
Translated:
- Status dot tooltip (Running / Stopped).
- Active board selector tooltip + "No board" placeholder + the
hint that prompts the user to add a board.
- Undo / Redo buttons: aria-label, dynamic title with the action
description and the empty-state fallback. Action descriptions
themselves stay untranslated (they come from the editor history
store as English literals — translating them would mean reaching
into a different store; deferred).
- Serial Monitor and Oscilloscope toggles (button title + label).
- Zoom in / out / reset-view buttons.
- Component count tooltip + Add Component button.
- The error-banner Dismiss button.
- "Remove board" item in the right-click menu, with a localised
"(N wires)" parenthetical via i18next pluralisation.
- The full removal confirmation dialog: title with board label
interpolation, body copy with optional connected-wires sentence,
Cancel + Remove buttons.
Pluralisation uses i18next's _one / _other (and _few / _many for
Russian) suffixes so wire counts read naturally per language.
Hand-translated for all 8 non-English locales. Untouched (deferred):
the property dialog, custom-chip dialog, sensor control panel, and
the various inline tooltips on board pins and wire endpoints —
those are denser and benefit from a separate pass.
The three modal dialogs that fire during the editor's routine save +
share + auth-required flows are now fully localised across all 9
locales.
LoginPromptModal
- Title, body, and the three buttons (Sign in / Create account /
Cancel). Sign in / Sign up Links use localize() so a Spanish
reader prompted to log in lands at /es/login rather than dropping
back to English.
SaveProjectModal
- Title (toggles between Save / Update), name + description fields
with placeholders, save button (toggles between Save / Update /
Saving…), Cancel button.
- Visibility toggle: Public / Private label + hint copy under the
icon.
- All four error paths now go through t() with a {{status}}
interpolation for the generic HTTP failure message.
ShareModal
- Title, public/private label + hint pair, "Make private" /
"Make public" toggle, Copy button, the warning shown when the
project is private, and the Close button.
Hand-curated translations for all 8 non-English locales. Status
codes (403) and shortcut markers preserved.
FileExplorer (sidebar)
- Workspace header label and the new-workspace / save-project icon
buttons now read from t('editor.fileExplorer.*').
- Per-board section: collapse / expand toggle, status dot tooltip
(Running / Compiled / Idle), per-board "new file" button, and the
composite "<board name> — click to edit" hover title (the board
name itself stays untranslated — it's a product noun like
"Arduino Uno").
- File rows: hover title with optional "(unsaved)" suffix,
unsaved-dot tooltip, and the right-click context menu's Rename /
Delete commands.
- Empty-state placeholder when no boards are on the canvas.
- The window.confirm() shown before deleting a file now reads from
t() too, so non-English users see the prompt in their language.
FileTabs (open-tabs strip above the editor)
- Per-tab close button title and the unsaved-changes dot tooltip.
- Inline confirm dialog when closing a modified file: prompt copy,
"Close anyway" and "Cancel" buttons.
Hand-translated for all 9 locales. Hotkey hints (Ctrl+S, Strg+S)
localised per German convention; other locales keep "Ctrl+S" as the
universally-recognised label.
The top toolbar of the editor is now fully localised — compile / run /
stop / reset, the compile-all / run-all variants when multiple boards
are open, the language-mode select, libraries / import / export /
upload-firmware actions, and the missing-library hint banner.
Strings live under editor.toolbar.* in src/i18n/locales/<locale>/common.json.
Hand-translated for all 8 non-English locales. Brand and product
names (Arduino, MicroPython, Ctrl+B, .hex / .bin / .elf / .ihex,
GitHub Sponsors) preserved as-is.
Editor strings still pending: file explorer, file tabs, simulator
canvas, component picker, library manager modal, save / share /
project modals.
Final block. The Support section ("Support the project" / GitHub
Sponsors / Donate via PayPal) now reads from t('landing.support.*'),
and the footer link labels use t('header.nav.*') so they pick up
the same nav translations the header already ships.
This closes the LandingPage rewrite — every visitor-facing string
on velxio.dev/ goes through i18n now. Hand-translated for all 9
locales. "GitHub Sponsors" stays untranslated (proper product name).
Phase 2 remaining work:
- Editor (toolbar, file explorer, simulator canvas, component
picker, library manager, save/share modals, error toasts).
- About / Examples / Docs / Profile pages.
- Login + Register forms.
The Features section ("Everything you need") and the 6 cards
underneath (Real-Time SPICE Analog, 5 Emulation Engines, Custom Chips,
100+ Components, Live Instruments, Monaco Editor + arduino-cli) now
read from t('landing.features.<key>.{title,desc}') for all 9 locales.
Refactor:
- The `features` array in LandingPage.tsx no longer carries title/desc
literals — only an icon + a translation key. The render maps each
card's key to the matching i18n entry. Cleaner and keeps the JSX
structurally stable across languages.
Translations:
- All 8 non-English locales hand-curated. Technical / brand names
(ngspice-WASM, AVR8, ATmega328P, RP2040, ESP32-C3, CH32V003, QEMU,
Cortex-M0+/A53, ILI9341, NeoPixel, Wokwi Custom Chips API,
WebAssembly, .hex/.uf2/.bin, VS Code, arduino-cli) preserved
unchanged in every locale — those are precise nouns where any
translation would degrade meaning.
Replaces the visible header copy of the supported-hardware section
with t('landing.boards.*') keys:
- label "Supported Hardware"
- titleLine1 / titleLine2 ("Every architecture." / "One tool.")
- subtitle (the "19 boards across 5 CPU architectures..." paragraph)
The five engine cards underneath (avr8js, rp2040js, QEMU lcgamboa,
QEMU Xtensa, QEMU ARM) and per-board specs (e.g. "ATmega328p · 32 KB",
"RP2040 + WiFi") deliberately stay in English — those are accurate
technical specs / product names that don't translate, and mixing
locales inside a spec line would hurt readability more than it
helps.
Hand-curated translations for all 8 non-English locales.
Hero strings now go through `t('landing.hero.*')`:
- titleLine1 / titleAccent (split for the gradient span)
- subtitle (one paragraph; "19 boards / 48+ parts" stays inside the
string so locales can phrase the count naturally)
- ctaPrimary / ctaGithub
- trustLine (the "no signup / runs in browser / free & open-source"
reassurance line — was previously emitting NBSP-wrapped middle
dots; the localised versions use plain spaces, which is fine
visually)
- imageAlt (a11y for the editor screenshot)
Internal /editor link now goes through localize() so a Spanish reader
clicking the primary CTA stays at /es/editor instead of dropping
back to English.
Translations are hand-curated for all 8 non-English locales (es,
pt-br, it, fr, zh-cn, de, ja, ru). Brand names (Velxio, Arduino,
ESP32, Raspberry Pi, GitHub, AGPLv3) preserved as-is. The script
arrow "→" is kept in every locale because it carries directional
meaning that translates naturally across languages.
Block 2 (Boards / supported hardware), Block 3 (features grid),
Block 4 (Support / footer copy) and Editor strings still pending.
This is Phase 1 of multi-language support: the visible chrome (header,
footer, language switcher) and routing are wired up for all 9 locales
(en, es, pt-br, it, fr, zh-cn, de, ja, ru) — same set the blog at
velxio.dev/blog/ already supports. The Editor and the long-form
landing-page copy are still English-only and will be translated in a
follow-up.
Infrastructure
- frontend/src/i18n/config.ts: locale registry + LOCALE_META (htmlLang,
native name, og locale, dir). Mirrors pro/blog/src/i18n/config.ts so
cookie sync stays consistent.
- frontend/src/i18n/cookie.ts: read/write the velxio_locale cookie at
Path=/; Max-Age=1y; SameSite=Lax (Secure on HTTPS). The blog reads
the same cookie via an inline script in its Layout.astro.
- frontend/src/i18n/path.ts: getLocaleFromPath / stripLocaleFromPath /
localizedPath / switchLocale / blogUrlFor — match the blog's helpers
one-to-one.
- frontend/src/i18n/index.ts: i18next bootstrap. English bundle is
inlined synchronously for first paint; non-default locales are
lazy-loaded via dynamic import on demand. Initial locale is decided
in priority order URL > cookie > navigator > en.
- frontend/src/i18n/LocaleSync.tsx: top-level wrapper inside <Router>.
On every URL change loads the matching locale bundle, calls
i18n.changeLanguage, writes the cookie, and mirrors the locale onto
<html lang> and dir.
- frontend/src/i18n/useLocalizedNavigate.ts: useCurrentLocale,
useLocalizedHref, useLocalizedNavigate hooks for components that
build internal links.
Routing
- App.tsx: route table extracted to a single ROUTES array, then
registered twice — once at the root (default English) and once
nested under each non-default locale (`/<locale>/...`). Explicit
per-locale parent routes (rather than a generic `:lang` param) so
React Router never accidentally swallows a real top-level path
like `/circuit-simulator` as a locale segment.
Header / Footer
- LanguageSwitcher.tsx + .css: dropdown matching the blog's
LanguageSwitcher.astro. Globe icon + locale code on the trigger,
native names + ISO codes in the menu. Click → `switchLocale()`
rewrites the URL under the new locale; LocaleSync handles the
rest (load bundle, change language, write cookie).
- AppHeader.tsx: every nav label and the auth dropdown copy now
goes through `t('header.nav.*')`, `t('header.auth.*')`. All
internal Links wrapped with localize() so navigation stays
inside the active locale. Added a "Blog" link computed via
`blogUrlFor(currentLocale)` so /es/ → /blog/es/, etc.
- LandingPage.tsx: footer About-Velxio paragraph reads from
t('footer.about').
Translations (Phase 1 strings)
- frontend/src/i18n/locales/<locale>/common.json: nav labels, auth
buttons, footer About copy. Hand-translated for all 9 locales,
AGPLv3 / brand names preserved as-is.
Tooling
- frontend/scripts/translate-i18n.mjs: standalone Node script that
takes the en.json bundles and auto-translates them to the 8 other
locales via DeepSeek (primary) + Gemini (fallback). One LLM call
per (locale, namespace) pair. Run after extracting new strings
with `npm run translate:i18n`.
Phase 2 (deferred)
- Editor (toolbar, file explorer, simulator canvas, component picker,
library manager, error toasts) — hundreds of strings.
- Examples / Docs / About / Profile pages.
- The translate-i18n.mjs script is ready to handle these once the
strings have been extracted into JSON keys.
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