Dev Log: July 27 Wrap-up

Overview

Today was a classic mix of the visual and the invisible. I spent the morning building out a new landing experience for our partner portal and the afternoon wrestling with local proxy settings to make sure the frontend actually talks to our newer backend services.

What I Worked On

Making a Good First Impression

I spent a good chunk of time working on a new onboarding module. When a partner logs into the CRM for the first time, we don't want to just throw them into a sea of tables and charts. I added a 'Get Started' view that acts as a bit of a hero page.

I wanted it to feel modern and welcoming, so I played around with some dynamic background elements—basically some CSS-heavy ambient 'blobs' that give the page some depth without being distracting. It’s a small thing, but it makes the platform feel alive. The focus here was summarizing the ecosystem—things like lead scoring and partner tiers—so users know exactly what they're looking at before they dive deep.

Fixing the Plumbing

After the UI work, I had to deal with the less glamorous side of things: proxy.conf.json. We've been rolling out new services for workflow management and some new chat-based elements, but my local environment wasn't aware of them yet.

I had to map a few new paths to our development server. It’s one of those tasks that feels like a chore until it's done and everything finally connects. I added proxying for our workflow engine and the new AI-driven components we're testing.

// Keeping the local dev server in sync with the remote environment
"/new-service-endpoint": {
    "target": "https://dev-environment-backend.com",
    "secure": false,
    "logLevel": "debug",
    "changeOrigin": true,
    "pathRewrite": {
        "^/": ""
    }
}

Setting logLevel to debug saved me some headaches today. It’s always better to see exactly where a request is hanging up rather than guessing why a service is returning a 404.

Wrapping Up

It's nice to see the portal starting to look like a finished product rather than just a collection of tools. Tomorrow, I'll probably spend some time testing those new proxy routes to make sure the data flow is actually stable. Catch you later.