We are very happy to announce the new release of basebox. It is a major update, the most significant changes being:

• New user interface: a modern look with dark mode and vastly improved mobile device support

• Improved app editor with Generator: describe what you need and let AI create the app for you

• Document extraction has been rewritten from scratch: much better performance and results

• OCR: automatic text recognition from images and scanned documents

• Security fixes, performance improvements

• A thousand other details

A New Look & Feel on a New Foundation

Early this summer, we made a bold decision: we decided to rewrite the frontend (user interface) from scratch. The old code base had issues we wanted to not work around, but to fix for good. The goals were mainly:

• Improved maintainability

• Reduced dependencies

• Better performance

• Modern look and feel

Sorry, being a developer myself, I cannot resist giving you 
  some nerdy technical details here:
  
* Switched from React to Vue 3
* Switched from Bootstrap to Halfmoon
* Rewrote everything in TypeScript
* Reduced direct dependencies from 44 to 16
* Reduced dependency installation time from 12 secs to 680ms
* Reduced compile time from 56 secs to 2.19 secs

I think we did reach these goals. How do you like the new UI? We are curious, please share your feedback on LinkedIn or contact us at info@basebox.ai.

What's next?

Of course, we do not stop here. Our growing team is busy preparing many more things to make basebox even safer, nicer and easier to use.

Here are the most important things we are currently working on:

• Speech to text: Talk with basebox.ai

• Kubernetes: Helm Charts for enterprise on-premise installs

• Documentation site: Covering example use cases, on-premise installs, REST-API and more

• Agents, Workflows, MCP

• ISO27001 certification

• Your ideas here

And then?

Having all the frontend rewrite work done and our development process streamlined, we can promise more frequent updates - stay tuned.

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