Docs: Enhance API Documentation with JSON:API Guide, Polling vs Webhooks, and Core Examples

.cursor/rules/core.mdc

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+---
+description: 
+globs: 
+alwaysApply: true
+---
+# General Principles
+
+### Accuracy and Relevance
+
+- Systematically ensure that all generated responses directly align with user requests.
+- Thoroughly understand, gather, or validate relevant context using appropriate built-in tools before responding.
+
+### Validation Over Modification
+
+- Prioritize extensive validation and comprehensive understanding of existing code and its operational context before introducing alterations or creating new artifacts.
+
+### Safety-First Execution
+
+- Perform in-depth analyses of dependencies and interconnected components.
+- Achieve comprehensive comprehension of workflows and meticulously evaluate potential risks before implementing modifications.
+- Maintain clear and proactive communication regarding identified risks, dependencies, or implications.
+
+### User Intent Comprehension
+
+- Employ analytical methods to explicitly and accurately confirm user intentions.
+- Evaluate context and tools rigorously to ensure precise fulfillment of user requirements.
+- Continuously validate adherence to user-defined or inferred objectives.
+
+### Mandatory Validation Protocol
+
+- Enforce rigorous validation, verification, and double-checking as fundamental operational practices.
+- Prioritize validation to ensure accuracy, prevent errors, and maintain a consistently high standard of quality assurance.
+
+### Reusability Mindset
+
+- Foster a strategic orientation towards reusability in decision-making and operational processes.
+- Proactively utilize built-in tools (`codebase_search`, `grep_search`, and the command `tree -L {depth} | cat`) to identify and leverage pre-existing solutions.
+- Advocate for reusability to enhance consistency, minimize redundancy, and improve maintainability.
+
+### Contextual Integrity and Documentation
+
+- Do not rely solely on user-generated documentation (e.g., README files, inline documentation) as authoritative sources.
+- Use documentation primarily as supplementary context or as a validation and verification resource.
+
+# Tool and Behavioral Guidelines
+
+### Rigorous Path Validation for File Operations
+
+- Conduct repetitive and thorough validation of file paths using commands such as `pwd` and `tree -L {depth} | cat` to ensure correctness.
+- Explicitly confirm the working directory and clearly specify the `target_file` attribute as the file path relative to the workspace root for all file edits and creations.
+- Evaluate potential reusable resources before initiating file operations.
+
+### Systematic Use of the `tree -L {depth} | cat` Command
+
+- Regularly use the `tree -L {depth} | cat` command for a comprehensive visualization of directory structures.
+- Critically analyze the visualized structure to identify existing reusable resources, ensuring accurate and deliberate placement of file operations.
+
+### Mandatory Replacement of `read_file` Tool with Terminal Command
+
+- Never utilize the built-in `read_file` tool under any circumstances.
+- Always use the terminal command `cat <file_path>` to read file contents.
+- Conduct detailed analyses of file content via the terminal command to determine reusability, dependencies, and logical structures, ensuring thorough context acquisition before making modifications.

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+nodejs 22.2.0

API-Documentation-Improvement-Tracker.md

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+# Terminal49 API Documentation Improvement Tracker
+
+## Progress Overview
+
+| Category | Status | Completion % |
+|----------|--------|--------------|
+| Getting Started | In Progress | 75% |
+| In-Depth Guides | In Progress | 60% |
+| API Reference Examples | In Progress | 25% |
+| Tutorials | Not Started | 0% |
+| General Documentation | In Progress | 40% |
+
+## Pages Changed/Added
+
+| Page | Type | Description of Changes |
+|------|------|------------------------|
+| `docs/api-docs/getting-started/start-here.mdx` | Updated | Improved introduction, clarified setup process, added more context about the API architecture |
+| `docs/api-docs/getting-started/capabilities-overview.mdx` | Updated | Enhanced capabilities listing, added examples of what can be accomplished with the API |
+| `docs/api-docs/in-depth-guides/json-api-guide.mdx` | New | Created comprehensive guide explaining JSON:API concepts, structure, and how Terminal49 implements the specification |
+| `docs/api-docs/in-depth-guides/polling-vs-webhooks.mdx` | New | Added comparison guide detailing the differences, advantages, and use cases for polling vs webhooks |
+| `docs/api-docs/in-depth-guides/webhooks.mdx` | New | Created detailed guide for webhook implementation including endpoint setup, registration, testing, and management |
+| `docs/api-docs/in-depth-guides/authentication.mdx` | New | Created comprehensive authentication guide with API key management, examples in multiple languages, security best practices |
+| `docs/api-docs/api-reference/tracking-requests/create-a-tracking-request.mdx` | Updated | Enhanced documentation with clearer examples, added business use cases, improved response explanations |
+| `docs/docs.json` | Updated | Updated navigation structure to include new guides and improve organization |
+
+## Completed Updates
+
+- [x] Improved introduction and setup guidance in `docs/api-docs/getting-started/start-here.mdx`
+- [x] Enhanced capabilities overview in `docs/api-docs/getting-started/capabilities-overview.mdx`
+- [x] Created JSON:API guide in `docs/api-docs/in-depth-guides/json-api-guide.mdx`
+- [x] Updated tracking request documentation in `docs/api-docs/api-reference/tracking-requests/create-a-tracking-request.mdx`
+- [x] Created "Polling vs. Webhooks" comparison guide in `docs/api-docs/in-depth-guides/polling-vs-webhooks.mdx`
+- [x] Created Webhook implementation guide in `docs/api-docs/in-depth-guides/webhooks.mdx`
+- [x] Created Authentication guide in `docs/api-docs/in-depth-guides/authentication.mdx`
+- [x] Fixed MDX parsing errors to ensure compatibility with Mintlify
+
+## In Progress
+
+- [ ] Updating webhook API reference documentation
+- [ ] Creating Terminal49 data model guide
+- [ ] Improving error handling documentation
+
+## Next Steps
+
+1. **Immediate Focus (Next 48 hours):**
+   - Develop error handling and troubleshooting documentation
+   - Add examples in multiple programming languages for remaining endpoints
+
+2. **Medium Priority (Next Week):**
+   - Enhance all endpoint documentation with consistent format and examples
+   - Create step-by-step tutorials for common use cases
+   - Add more detailed error code documentation
+
+3. **Future Improvements:**
+   - Add interactive API explorer
+   - Create video tutorials for complex integration scenarios
+   - Develop SDK documentation
+
+## Notes on Implementation
+
+Our approach focuses on:
+1. Ensuring consistent format and style across all documentation
+2. Adding practical examples that demonstrate real-world usage
+3. Improving navigability to help users find relevant information quickly
+4. Following JSON:API specification accurately in our examples
+5. Providing clear guidance on webhooks vs. polling approaches
+
+All documentation is being developed to align with OpenAPI specifications and Mintlify standards to ensure compatibility with the documentation portal.