whats-new.md

What's New

Version 3.0 - May 25, 2023

• Toolchain migrated to Vite
• onInit event triggers during the init of jet views
• Predefined _hidden view
• Views can be overridden at runtime
• App can have a custom view loader
• Objects can be used as view params
• Ability to define app and view params through config() or show() commands
• Jetapp view doesn't copy methods of the app on self
• Popup subviews leave empty elements in parent collections

Versions 2.1.1 - 2.1.7

• The ability to use a map of overrides in the view config
• Improved TypeScript support (locate views through generics)
• Correct handling of top-level JetView submodules on navigation
• Fixes to routers

Version 2.1 - July 8, 2019

• Better routing logic (including subviews)
• webix.fullscreen support for JetView elements
• Typed results for navigation rejections (NavigationBlocked error)
• UnloadGuard: optimizations to guard triggers
• Various other fixes

Version 2.0 - February 21, 2019

New Features

• The ability to show views in new windows
• The ability to show windows like other views by including them in the app URL
• Several same-level subviews can have their own app URLs and work independently of each other
• Menu plugin can change URL parameters
• User plugin: the ability to add several pages accessible for non-authorized users
• Locale plugin: additional configuration property for setting Webix locales
• Locale plugin: the ability to split localization and load parts on demand
• Locale plugin: the ability to configure Polyglot
• Locale plugin: the ability to disable locale loading from jet-locales
• UrlRouter shares the same settings with HashRouter
• Webix Jet supports IE11+
• HashRouter works more stable during in-browser navigation
• New SubRouter that enables navigation in sub-modules
• The ability to use Webix Jet without Webpack
• The ability to import Webix code as a module

Changes in API and Inner Logic

• getUrl() and getUrlString() for app and view
• removeView() of Webix widgets triggers destroy() of the Jet views inside them
• getSubView() and contains() can be called for JetApp
• The refresh() method for app and view returns a promise
• view.refresh() works for views with sub-elements
• app.refresh() works when an app is inside a Webix Jet view
• app.refresh() triggers refresh of the top view instead of using its own custom logic
• The order of destroy and init events: first, the old view is destroyed, then the new view is initialized

Version 1.6 - June 26, 2018

• new WJET utility for faster prototyping
• JetView has the refresh() method
• better support for ES6 modules: app.views can return a promise of an ES6 module, which can be used for code-splitting

Version 1.5 - April 24, 2018

• the ability to compile a Jet app into a standalone bundle and use it in other apps or as is
• the ability to compile a Jet app as a component and use it as a Webix widget
• this.$$() returns widgets from the current Jet view only

Version 1.4 - April 11, 2018

• JetView class instances can be created in config()

Version 1.3 - January 11, 2018

• TypeScript support
• new API:
  • getParam and setParam methods to get/set URL parameters
  • getUrl
• UrlParam plugin
• ability to set optional path for the Locale plugin
• "app:user:login" and "app:user:logout" events

Version 1.2 - December 12, 2017

• show and getSubView APIs updated
• this.ui updated
  • allows to define custom HTML parent
  • can be used with JetView classes
• ability to remove "!" from the hash URL
• ability to return a promise from the config method of a view
• HashRouter supports config.routes
• views can define string-to-string mapping

Webix Jet 1.0 - September 26, 2017

Major update after version 0.5:

• views and app modules as ES6 classes
• using Webpack as a module bundler
• ability to choose among 4 routers
• ability to use 6 plugins for common tasks