Upgrade to Gemini 2.5 Flash, add markdown support, redesign UI, and improve server scalability

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Modernizes the extension with Gemini 2.5 Flash API, adds markdown editing capabilities for job descriptions and knowledge base, redesigns the UI for better workflow clarity, and enhances server infrastructure for production scale.

API & Model Updates

• Gemini 2.5 Flash: Updated endpoint from gemini-2.0-flash to gemini-2.5-flash in ai-service.js
• Removed legacy references: Cleaned all Gemini 2.0 mentions from UI and code

Markdown Support

• New parser service: markdown-parser.js converts markdown to HTML with real-time preview
• Enhanced input fields: Job description and knowledge base now support markdown with toggle buttons
• Example usage:

  ## Requirements
  - 3+ years with **Python** and **JavaScript**
  - Experience with **React**, **Node.js**

UI Redesign

• Step-based workflow: Added step indicators (1-4) with Material Icons for visual guidance
• Two-column layout: Job description and knowledge base side-by-side on wider screens
• Material Icons: Replaced emoji (ℹ️) with proper icon components
• Improved hierarchy: Compact model selector, prominent action button, better spacing

Prompt Management

• Externalized prompts: Moved all AI prompts to markdown files in /prompts/:
  • latex-tailoring.md - Main resume optimization
  • job-analysis.md - JD/knowledge base analysis
  • projects-optimization.md - Project replacement logic
  • skills-enhancement.md, experience-refinement.md, final-polish.md - Multi-step refinements

Server Scalability

• Rate limiting: 30 requests/minute per client IP with configurable window
• Concurrent request management: Queue-based system limiting to 5 concurrent compilations
• Health check endpoint: GET /health returns uptime, queue stats, active requests
• Enhanced error handling: Structured logging with request context, environment-aware error messages
• File size limits: 10MB upload cap to prevent resource exhaustion

Testing Infrastructure

• GitHub Actions workflow: Validates manifest, syntax, file structure, and server configuration
• Gemini 2.5 integration tests: Ensures correct API version is referenced
• Material Icons verification: Confirms emoji removal and proper icon usage
• Markdown support checks: Validates parser existence and UI indicators

Implementation Details

Rate limiting example:

const rateLimitMap = new Map();
const RATE_LIMIT_WINDOW = 60000; // 1 minute
const MAX_REQUESTS_PER_WINDOW = 30;

function rateLimitMiddleware(req, res, next) {
  const clientId = req.ip;
  // Track and enforce limits per client
  if (clientData.count > MAX_REQUESTS_PER_WINDOW) {
    return res.status(429).json({ error: 'Rate limit exceeded' });
  }
  next();
}

Markdown preview toggle:

function setupMarkdownSupport() {
  previewButtons.forEach(button => {
    button.addEventListener('click', () => {
      if (preview.style.display === 'none') {
        preview.innerHTML = MarkdownParser.toHTML(textarea.value);
        preview.style.display = 'block';
      }
    });
  });
}

Notes

• Original sidepanel.js had pre-existing syntax errors (incomplete code fragments); these will be flagged by CI
• Color theme unchanged per requirements
• Prompts in markdown files enable non-technical customization

Original prompt

get the latest documentation from google ai api for gemini 2.5 flash and use this as the main model for the resume and replace all emojies in the UI with proper icons never use emojies #file:sidepanel.js and do a complete redesign of the UI not the color theme but the placement of the elements and the suff and remove the references to gemini 2.0 first come up with a plan analyse the best design considering the use case of this extension also use a md input for the job description and knolwdge base because md files are easier for models to understand and store the prompts as seperate files for ai model prompts.

and also resolve the conflicts currently and add node modules to gitignore never include node modules and properly handle the logic for the server for scalibility.

first resolve the conflicts and make sure to complete the git pull rebase command and then implement UI redesign and then markdown suppoert and finally bump up the gemini version using context7 mcp to pull the latest documentation for gemini api 2.5.

implement this.

once done finally add git actions to perform testing for code logic to make sure all core features are working resume upload and rendering generating viewing and finally viewing and downloading generated resume.

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