v2.3.0 - "Elytra"

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bridge. v2.3.0 - "Elytra" marks another milestone release for our team. For this update, we focused on making nearly every aspect of bridge. significantly faster and more reliable. Together with v2.3.0, we also ship a new documentation for our webpage with updated guides and articles on using bridge.

Thanks to everyone who helped make this release possible!

You can try out bridge. v2.3.0 here.

Features:

Instant Data Loading

Data updates are now applied instantly. Downloading a data update now only takes marginally longer than our normal data loading procedure.

Instant Development Environments

We spent weeks of work making bridge. start a lot faster. This work includes delaying permission prompts until they are necessary and heavy optimizations on every aspect of the work we do before bridge. can be used.

New Setup Experience

bridge. no longer requires setup before using it. We have therefore removed the old "initial setup dialog" and now instead display recommended actions within the pack explorer.

New Welcome Screen

We have simplified the welcome screen to only include the command bar and bridge.'s logo.

Command Bar

The new command bar can be found on bridge.'s new welcome screen and it also replaces the old file picker which opened when pressing "Ctrl + P". You can use the command bar to open any file within your project or to trigger quick actions such as creating a new file.

New Directory Viewer (#477)

For bridge. v2.3.0, we built a new directory viewer which now powers the default pack explorer and which can be easily reused across our user interfaces.

• Displaying directories is now notably faster
• Copy & Paste is now supported (with keybindings)
• Support for keyboard navigation with tab
• Support for inline renaming
• Improved file/folder duplication
• Added option to download any file or folder
• Support for creating global files and folders (Blank file #321)
• Support for dragging files and folders into the pack explorer (b2898ab)
• "Open With ..." to choose the way you want to open a file (1868507)

View Folder (08e189a)

You can now use bridge. to open arbitrary folders and edit the files within them. Any folder opened with bridge. will appear within a new sidebar tab and makes use of our new directory viewer.

Open Project Folder (d317f73)

You can now use the new "Open Project Folder" action to open the whole project folder within the "View Folder" sidebar.

File Sharing (7bc6631)

bridge. now supports sharing files with other users.

Tab Loading (1d26797, 1d26797)

bridge. now has a new tab loading indicator that is used to display progress connected to a specific tab. Additionally, the new indicator is now used instead of the loading window upon saving files.

Updated GameTest Support

We now support the "mojang-net" and "mojang-minecraft-server-admin" modules within bridge. In order to use them, set your project as a behavior pack that is intended to be run on the server within the "Create Project" window or directly within the project config.

HTML Previewer (4579a95)

You can now use bridge. to preview HTML files.

Improved TypeScript/JavaScript Experience (#481)

bridge. now loads all JavaScript and TypeScript files from your project to provide you within import auto-completions and rich type imports where applicable.

"com.mojang" Projects (a5ae29d)

bridge. v2.3.0 can once again load projects directly from your "com.mojang" folder.

Toggleable Experimental Gameplay (#404)

It is now possible to toggle experimental gameplay features within bridge.'s project chooser. Thanks to @pascal541 for working on this feature!

New Execute Support (#450)

bridge. now supports auto-completions for the new "/execute" command syntax.

Updated Data

We have updated our JSON schemas to support the latest Minecraft Preview and stable Minecraft release.

Particle Improvements (39cd02a)

• Support for dynamic particle event auto-completions
• Better auto-completions for timeline events
• Support for versioning particle files
• Support for "bezier_chain" particle curve

Rich Deprecation Information (0fe55c9)

bridge. now shows rich deprecation information for renamed and removed components.

Generator Scripts (#132)

You can now use JavaScript and TypeScript files to generate any file within your project. You can learn more about them here.

Extensions

Extensions become even more powerful on bridge. v2.3.0 - "Elytra":

• Added new "Import Folder" API (3e63d47)
• Exposed SidebarAction and SelectableSidebarAction classes
• Exposed DirectoryViewer component
• It is now possible to link to extensions inside of bridge.'s extension store (595270c)
• Extensions can once again link to a README file (c78e3d8)
• API to import a file with bridge.'s default import handlers (7777113)
• New API for persistently storing data (6a9b5df)
• API to add new actions to the command bar (04710fb)
• API to open files (5f6300a)
• Extensions not matching specified app versions no longer execute
• The extension store now always shows the data of the most recent extension version (in case of a local <> online mismatch; 2e1e70e)
• Exposed "fflate" to extensions (f7e6baa)
• "onFileChanged" API (e340846)
• API to add new "Open With ..." handlers to directory viewer (e879579)

Changes:

• Tweaks to how bridge. displays preset requirements for disabled presets
• Better developer actions
• Dramatically improved app start-up times
• Started work on further minifying JSON schemas (f45fd9d)
• GameTest scripts are now created within the "scripts/" folder by default (previously was "scripts/gametest/"; 054f8ed)
• New menu design (6acafac)
• New design for tabs and the sidebar (300195c)
• Themes now load faster
• We have reduced the initial JavaScript payload of our website from ~2200KiB down to ~500KiB. We aim to further reduce this number with future updates.
• Optimized project pack & icon loading (cf30f68, e7bee96)
• Watch Mode is now disabled by default on mobile (Remove watch mode from mobile devices #480)
• There is now a toolbar item for opening a folder (ChromeOS Mojang Folder #380)
• Better handling of virtual files (92e861b)
• Removed "theWildUpdate" experimental gameplay toggle (da9042d)
• Made search inputs lazy by default (4ee39fe)
• Improved recipe file detection
• Support for submenus within context menus
• bridge. now creates a "deno.json" file upon creating your project. It is used to easily run the standalone version of our built-in compiler Dash.
• Added a new "View" toolbar item (3b28a03)
• Sidebar: Support for grouping elements (411ee4b)
• Improved ZipDirectory performance (c90c835)
• bridge. now correctly caches entity tags and scoreboard objectives from JSON files
• Updated Japanese translations (upd: Additional Japanese translation #516; Thanks to @toka7290)
• Updated Dutch translations (255ecfa; Thanks to @pascal541)
• Improved performance of preset window (Optimise preset window #515, 7938af0)
• ".bbmodel" imports now support animations (Support importing .bbmodel #171; Thanks to @pascal541)
• Added more modification operations to UI schema (fc2fa40; Thanks to @pascal541)
• Updated extension store to work offline (2dc3c8e)
• Added link to Minecraft documentation to bridge.'s toolbar (Add the Microsoft Docs on the toolbar. #525)
• Made context menu sections toggleable on mobile
• Improved mobile toolbar
• Rewritten "Find & Replace" tab (Find and replace: Support queries outside of project folder to properly support pack paths #232)
• Improved tree editor performance (Mobile Web App optimizations #522, Scroll Lag #487)
• Improved tree editor selection & open logic (8e05298)
• New logic for running JavaScript and TypeScript files (5c3e455)
• New setting to disable tabs opening in a temporary mode (254f12b)
• Better handling of foreign files: bridge. no longer throws an error when the write request fails and it will correctly keep the unsaved status (2af4983)
• Made windows rounded on all platforms (2889fb7)
• Tree Editor: Further improvements to bridge. predictions (45300fc)
• Improved block presets (Block Preset Improvements editor-packages#26; Thanks to @outercloudstudio)
• Better font selection on supported browsers (Custom Font #326)
• Lang file auto-completions (Lang file auto-completions #492)
• Support for installing extensions globally and locally (Ability to install extensions both locally and globally #56)
• Upgraded bridge. to use Vue 2.7
• Auto-completions for built-in compiler plugins (Project config: Auto-completions for compiler plugin options #537)
• Support for new gametest dependency format (d6757e8)
• Project names are now loaded from the project config instead of using the project folder name (412eb04)

Fixes:

• Fixed error upon evaluating preset scripts
• Fixed validation error when identifier is item and block identifier within recipes
• Fixed error upon loading projects
• Block identifiers now show within loot table correctly
• Fixed tree editor not allowing selection of completion item with tab
• Fixed infinite loading upon saving files (Saving does not always finish #403)
• Deleting files/folders now closes corresponding tabs (1ad3c4d)
• Fixed VirtualFileHandle.isSameEntry() method (ed8491b)
• Fixed initial boot screen showing above app content (0af87e0)
• Deactivating an extension now removes tabs connected to it (06acd21)
• Fixed extension updates incorrectly activating inactive extensions (6a79157)
• Fixed "/playsound", "/stopsound" and "/playanimation" command auto-completions (9bfdd9e)
• Fixed error upon creating "/playanimation" command auto-completions (2678f57)
• Fixed ".bbmodel" import (ffef6ab)
• Fixed folder creation being able to overwrite folder without warning (b9908bb)
• Fixed error upon importing ".mcpack" file (9cc605f)
• Fixed "trigger" event reponse ("trigger" block event response #500)
• Added damage types: "fatal", "attack" & "any" (370ff41, eb3beea)
• Correctly remove duplicates from automatically generated schemas (3744398)
• Fixed "minecraft:rideable" > "interact_text" description (3f5fecc)
• Fixed JSON highlighter: Now handles escaped quotes within strings correctly (a43b767, 1d4108d, 1b01577)
• Command highlighter: Support for "initiator" selector (1c5588a)
• Fixed incorrect molang query (Incorrect autocomplete #514)
• Correctly exclude foreign files from "lightningStore.allFiles(...)" API (Opening external file will add file to Search File list #517)
• Fixed deadlock upon running Dash (e09e844)
• Fixed deadlock upon running pack indexer (071f2c2)
• Fixed error upon using text editor (ERROR: Maximum call stack size... #447)
• Fixed "for_each" MoLang stringification (55a066c)
• Fixed window opening not working correctly (d668821)
• Fixed sound path auto-completions (3479d1e)
• Added fallback font for code (106df82)
• Fixed tree editor overflow behavior (UUID not visible on small screens #305)
• Fixed hover tab to view file path not working (bc8e56c)
• Fixed client animation controller sound effect auto-completions (f1f28bc)
• Fixed sound effect caching within client entities (e38e1f6)
• Fixed identifier auto-completions within "entity_placer" > "entity" item component (9e70d6f)
• Fixed empty strings being casted to 0 (Error with minecraft:recipe_shaped #535)
• Fixed tree editor primitive value display (54cb8ad)
• Fixed forced value not working ("Add Object" fails to add object #483)
• Fixed "suggest-details" header being too large (c6163f4)
• Fixed skin pack creation (89c429f; Thanks to @Gekocaretaker)
• Fixed file type guessing (b4f48bf)
• Fixed asset preview window (Asset preview window freezing #540)

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