soto0/fastdoc-backend

FastDoc is a tool that makes it easy to read GitHub release notes. Instead of scrolling through long, cluttered release pages, you search for a project, pick a version, and get a clean, well-organized summary in seconds. This repository contains the backend API that powers that experience, working hand-in-hand with a separate frontend app. Here is how it works behind the scenes. When you search for a repository, the backend asks GitHub for matching projects and returns the top results sorted by popularity. Once you select a project, it fetches the list of stable releases. When you pick a specific version, it grabs the raw, often messy release notes from GitHub and sends them to an AI model that reformats everything into a clean, structured summary. The backend also remembers recent requests for five minutes, so if you or someone else looks at the same release again, it doesn't need to call GitHub or the AI a second time. This tool is built for developers, project managers, or anyone who tracks open-source projects but gets frustrated digging through raw GitHub release pages. For example, if a team relies on a library like Next.js and wants to quickly understand what changed in the latest version, they can use this tool to get a concise, readable changelog instead of parsing GitHub's default formatting. The frontend also syncs the selected repository and version to the URL, so you can share specific changelinks with teammates. One notable design choice is that it deploys to Cloudflare Workers, a platform designed for fast, globally distributed applications. It also uses an OpenAI model with a strict structure for the output, which helps ensure the reformatted notes are consistent and reliable. The project includes built-in API documentation that developers can browse interactively, making it easier to understand and test the available endpoints.