v0.3.5: Favorites ♥️, Ollama List 🦙, Encryption 🔐, Persistent Settings ⚙️

[ianarawjo]

This update adds four features for when ChainForge is running locally:

• You can now Favorite ♥️ your nodes and models (at their precise settings), to recreate them later.
  • To favorite a node, just right-click it and hit "Favorite".
  • To favorite a model, open the model's settings screen and click the Favorite button in the top-right.
  • Favorites persist across sessions.
• Global Settings ⚙️ now persist across sessions, by storing a settings.json file to the same directory as Saved Flows.
• If you are running Ollama 🦙 locally, the menu model list now autopopulates for easy access (refresh the page if it doesn't show up).
• You can now password-encrypt 🔐 the locally Saved Flows and settings config file, if you want. Just add the flag --secure when running chainforge serve. See chainforge serve --help for options. (The "Export" and "Import" UI buttons will continue to only serve unencrypted flows.)
  • This is useful if you want to store API keys on the front-end UI, using the new Global Settings storage, but are worried about saving such information in a text file. There's a 'settings' option that will only encrypt this settings file.
• The Nodes list in Add Nodes is a bit nicer and has a nested menu.

This is part of an effort to make ChainForge more customizable.

As a bonus, the update adds support for OpenAI GPT-4.1 and Google Gemini 2.5 Pro models.

This update required some rearranging to improve code quality. The App.tsx file now uses a custom NestedMenu, and same with the models dropdown, since Mantine ContextMenu was too limited. The nodes menu in App.tsx is also closer to a JSON spec rather than written as React elements.

Warning

This update introduced a significant number of changes to the codebase, including a number of refactorings. If you encounter any issues, please raise an Issue.

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