coralproject/talk v4.3.0

v4.3.0: Notifications and Rich Text

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Features

• Introducing Email Notifications! ⏰

  • You can enable core notifications support via talk-plugin-notifications (server & client)
  • Commenters can manage their email notification settings within the Settings Tab on their My Profile
  • Commenters will need to verify their email to receive notifications
  • Supports SMTP email notification sending & ability to override this if you are using an ESP
  • Supports ability to override email templates
  • Learn more about How to Setup Email Notifications
  • Read Docs and Advanced Configuration
  • Notification Categories available:
    • talk-plugin-notifications-category-reply: Sends a notification if a commenter receives a reply to their comment
    • talk-plugin-notifications-category-staff-reply: Sends a notification if a commenter receives a reply from a staff member
    • talk-plugin-notifications-category-featured: Sends a notification if a commenter's comment is featured
  • Notification Digests available:
    • talk-plugin-notifications-digest-hourly: Digests notifications by the hour
    • talk-plugin-notifications-digest-daily: Digests notifications by the day

• Introducing Rich Text support for comments! ⌨️

  • You can enable rich text support via this plugin:
    • talk-plugin-rich-text (client & server)
  • Supports Bold, Italic, and Blockquote
  • Supports both stream-side comments and comments displayed in the Admin
  • Ref: #1460

Plugin Support 🔌

• Introducing Plugin Debug! 🐛

  • plugin_config changed to plugins_config (both are still supported, plugin_config is marked as deprecated)

  • Passing debug:true to the plugins_config highlights the slots and when you hover over them you get a tooltip with the name of the slot. This is a simple, interactive and helpful tool to see which slots are available.

    plugins_config: {
      debug: true
    }

  • We've also enabled this in our beta version of Coral DevTools Browser Extension ⚙️

• Adds slotSize support for Slots; now you can dictate how many plugins are acceptable for a Plugin Slot and the preference will be dictated by their ordering in plugins.json (ref: #1402)

Dev Support

• Introduces Yarn Workspaces to reduce package size and simplify plugin flow
• postMessageAPI:
  • Replaces the localStorage events edition of syncing the access tokens with the Window.postMessage API
  • Allows Talk to work flawlessly when 3rd party cookies are disabled/blocked by using cross origin safe communication means
  • Also patches the storage service to use sessionStorage if localStorage is not accessible (like when 3rd party cookies are blocked)
• Quieter logs on production mode (ref: #1395)
• Adds pre-commit linting (ref: #1400)
• Adds a metadata object to the Setting model, we can leverage all current Plugins hooks to let plugin authors have their own configurations for plugins in the administration dashboard (you know, that place with the other <ConfigureCard>s) (ref: #1403)
• Adds support for CircleCI 2.0 (ref: #1407)
• Improvements to asset scraping (ref: #1425,
• Restores the userCreated event (NOTE: External plugins utilizing the Users service's user create methods must adjust their call signatures to pass in the context) (ref: #1441)
• Uses asset.url as a fallback when asset.title is missing (ref: #1442)
• Improvements to Slots and GraphQL framework (ref: #1446)
• CSS loading enhancements:
  • React CSS styling is now extracted into bundle.css and included before Custom CSS which solves priority issues with CSS overwrites
  • Removes hard-source webpack plugin as we ran into cache issues
  • Cachse babel-loader instead branch wide in the CI
  • Webpack output files now include a hash in the filename, which helps dealing with cache issues with an exception forembed.js
  • resolve method is now available in templates, helping to resolve an unhashed filename to the correct one.

Documentation

• Lots of new and enhanced docs! 📚
  • We now have a Talk Plugin Directory!
  • Tons of FAQ's explaining how to customize and integrate with Talk, including a Guide to Building your own Auth Plugin and a Guide to Integrating your CMS and Managing Assets with Talk
  • Guide to Build a Basic Plugin
  • Guide of What to do once you've installed Talk
  • Improved API docs covering our Plugin APIs for both Server and Client, and our GraphQL API, including a GraphQL Guide for Talk
• Moved Docs from Jekyll to Hexo; now to run the docs locally:
  • Run yarn start in the docs folder,
  • Visit http://localhost:4000

CLI

• By popular demand, restores bin/cli users create to our CLI tools
• Ability to disable jobs via the CLI:
  • You can now run application with ./bin/cli serve --disabled-jobs mailer or yarn start --disabled-jobs mailer to disable the jobs listed (you may specify more than one using a comma to separate them like: yarn start --disabled-jobs mailer,scraper)

Translations

• Talk now supports Arabic! (thank you to @memz)

Fixes & Enhancements

• Show banning and suspension time in days and hours
• Made User Info tooltip in Admin > User History more readable
• Moved Ignored Users to new Settings Tab on My Profile
• Blank states for Ignored Users and Comment History in My Profile
• Improvements to Admin > User History > Account History tab
• Purges config.auth_token from redux on logout (fixes: #1393)
• Better styling for permalinked comment (ref: #1406)
• Adds a username collision test for new external users. Currently if there is already a user of the format _, no one with the same name will be able to sign up using an external SSO like Facebook or Google. This patch checks for collisions, and if found, adds a random number to the end of the username.
• Fixes a bug when a user tries to logout without having an authenticated request
• Fixes bug with password reset