Devlog 3
A public demo, backend and all, with no backend
The problem with showing WeekLog to anyone outside my team: it needs a Cloudflare Worker, a D1 database, and R2 storage to do anything. You can’t just hand someone a link and let them click around. So for a Stardance demo I needed a version that runs entirely in the browser, with realistic data, that nobody can break.

Here’s the thing that made it almost free to build: every single data call in the app already went through just four functions in one file (api.ts). I set it up that way months ago so the UI never talks to the network directly. So to fake the entire backend, I didn’t touch a single feature screen. I swapped those four functions to delegate to an in-browser mock instead of fetch, ported the red/amber/green compliance logic verbatim out of the Worker, and seeded sample data into localStorage with dates relative to today so the demo always shows a realistic spread of healthy and flagged days. A little “DEMO · Reset” pill in the corner lets anyone wipe it back to clean.

The lesson worth stealing: if every network call in your app funnels through one tiny choke point, you can replace your whole backend with a fake one without rewriting the app. This is the second time that one boring decision has paid off (the first was dropping in a full redesign without touching the logic).

It’s honest about its own shortcuts, documented in a DEMO.md: uploaded image blobs live in memory so they show a placeholder after a refresh, and the ZIP export downloads a manifest instead of real zipping. Real Supabase magic-link auth is kept so the sign-in flow is genuine; everyone who logs in is just made an admin over the sample data.
40/40 tests pass, clean production build, tsc clean. Live as a static site on Cloudflare Pages, no Worker behind it. More to come: wiring the real Google Drive connector, a proper compliance summary view, and per-file delete.

Next up: wiring the real Google Drive sync, a team-wide compliance summary view, and per-file delete.