wurmlab / sequenceserver

Intuitive graphical web interface for running BLAST bioinformatics tool (i.e. have your own custom NCBI BLAST site!)
https://sequenceserver.com
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Add a client side version checker #730

Closed tadast closed 6 months ago

tadast commented 6 months ago

Pings a backend that notifies if a new version of the gem is available. It 'caches' the call in a cookie, so it won't be calling this endpoing more than once a day.

When an update is available, it displays a link to the changelog reading "New version v${version} is available".