Release February 2024 Maintenance Release · ayushsharma82/ESP-DASH

What's Changed

Combination of 1+2+3+4+5+6 + websocket reload fix by @mathieucarbou in #183
Fix auth by @mathieucarbou in #187
Many changes regarding Json support and memory improvement by @mathieucarbou in #195

Changed card and stat names to const char* to improve memory usage. This makes them immutable and require to use constants but avoids a memory copy on heap of all the string values
Help mitigate concurrency issue with isAsyncAccessInProgress() to avoid updating cards while the layout is being generated from the async_http task
Support both ESPAsyncWebServer Ws buffer API and yubox-node-org/ESPAsyncWebServer buffer API (which as a better api for sending websocket buffers and dealing with concurrency)
Supports WebSocket batching to avoid crash with the initial layout sending. Batch sizes can be controlled with DASH_JSON_SIZE and DASH_JSON_DOCUMENT_ALLOCATION (Arduino Json 6)
refreshLayout() refactoring in order to avoid too many layout refresh requests when updating components dynamically: let the caller trigger a layout refresh once.
Removed refreshStatistics() because it it not refreshing the stats only but all the updated cards also
Removed update calls when adding / removing cards and stats in order to avoid trigger a sequence of full layout updates: this is u to the user to call refreshLayout() when he has finished
DASH_MAX_WS_CLIENTS allows to configure the max WS clients: the default value being set by the ESPAsyncWebServer lib. I recommend setting this value to 1 or 2.

Full Changelog: v4.0.3...v4.0.4