Public Routes, Canvas Improvements and Faster Releases

We have been working hard on squashing bugs and improving the Space developer experience. Here are the latest changes to Space Alpha:

Features

Public routes

You can now create routes that are accessible to everyone without authentication:

micros:
  - name: backend
    src: backend
    engine: python3.9
    public_routes:
      - "/test" # exact match
      - "/public/*" # wildcards
      - "/api/*/docs" # wildcards can be placed anywhere

Requests made to your Micro matching any of the routes defined in public_routes will bypass Space’s authentication entirely. Read the docs for more details.

Canvas improvements

• Show when your Builder instance is updating
• Include app installations on the Canvas
• Improve design of Canvas items to make it easier to distinguish Builder instances and projects from normal apps
• Sync Canvas state across devices
• Add Docs app

Faster releases

We’ve made some under the hood improvements of our core platform and creating releases should now be up to 5x faster. ⚡

Our next target is speeding up builds which should be a lot faster soon!

Other additions

• Add Teletype to the docs
• Include logs in response when a Micro runs into a runtime error while handling a request
• Show realtime build logs during space push

Fixes & improvements

• Fix Teletype being accidentally invoked
• Fix timeout issues during build (after space push) for bigger apps
• Fix Builder instance breaking after multiple pushes
• Reuse description of previous release in the CLI if it is not provided
• Various under the hood stability improvements

We are working hard on new features and you can expect big changes coming very soon! Thanks for being a crucial part in the early stages of Space and for all the great feedback we have received.