Redesigning Cycles Transaction History

Earlier this year, Replit introduced Cycles, a virtual token that can be earned or purchased to enhance compute power and functionality for Repls, and hundreds of thousands of transactions have since been made. The platform is now evolving to allow community members to earn Cycles through bounties, and improvements are being made to the transaction history page to provide clearer insights into how Cycles are spent or earned. The project aims to make the transaction page extensible for future products, surface unique transaction IDs, and categorize transactions for better understanding. The engineering challenge involved simplifying the existing Google Cloud Spanner transactions table to retrieve detailed information efficiently using a new metadata column. As a result, users can now more easily access contextual information about their Cycles transactions. The updated transaction history will be gradually rolled out, with plans for additional features such as linking power-ups to specific Repls and filtering transactions by category or date. This project was an enriching experience for the intern involved, who expressed gratitude for the opportunity and excitement for future developments.