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v0.36 Highlights 🎉

This is a minor version release with major additions and improvements to Redwood. A massive "Thank you!" goes out to every individual that contributed code, updated docs, submitted issues, and participated in the amazing community. Well done, Team Redwood!! 🚀

⚠️ This release has breaking changes. Please follow the Code modifications section to upgrade your app

📺 Watch the recorded Livestream : Highlights discussion + Upgrade walkthrough

🏎 Performance, Stability, and SEO

With version v0.36, you'll experience much snappier performance and overall improved stability. There's almost too many improvements and upgrades to list here:

  • A overhauled Redwood Dev Server when running yarn redwood dev
  • and an improved API two-step build including ESBuild
  • Webpack v5 and Webpack-dev-server v4
  • Jest v27
  • Storybook v6.3 (supporting Cypress E2E tests) using Webpack v5

Built-in Page SEO Title and Description
PR #3026 adds Helmet configuration by default on generated Pages, providing better SEO out of the box.

🧪 Built-in Testing for Functions and Webhooks

Testing serverless functions and webhooks can be difficult and time-consuming because you have to construct the event and context information that the function handler needs. As of this version, Redwood includes api testing utilities to make this a breeze!

🔐 Redwood Auth updates + new Clerk provider

There's a new loginHandler() for dbAuth. Magic.link and Firebase updates. And added Supabase providers for Twitch and SMS one-time-passwords with Twilio.

And Redwood Auth now has a new provider, supporting Clerk authentication:

👩‍🔬 Contributing to Redwood made (even) easier

In our never ending quest 🐉🤺 for simple Redwood Framework local development, there's a new command and workflow via rwfw project:sync. See the updated Contributing Docs.

And thanks to the fine folks from Gitpod, every Redwood PR can now be reviewed via a Cloud-based dev environment. 🤯 Simply click on the Gitpod "details" link in any PR. Or just use the syntax https://gitpod.io/#<link to PR or branch>. See #3150 for more details.

🗺️ Navigation

navigate() now gives you greater control over just how the browser’s history is updated. By passing in { replace: true } as a second parameter to navigate(), Redwood will use replaceState instead of pushState behind the scenes. There is also a new back() function exported from the router that does exactly what you think it does 🙂 Related PRs #2212 and #3055

⚛️ Coming in the next version v0.37: migrating the GraphQL Server to Envelop+Helix

Since v0.35, Redwood projects have been able to run a preview version of Envelop+Helix as the GraphQL Server. Now that Envelop has reached GA, and after a lot of amazing progress and feedback, we are excited to annouce that Redwood will fully move to Envelop+Helix in v0.37 (which will replace Apollo Server — Redwood will still continue using Apollo Client). As always, we'll do our best to make the switch as painless and clear as possible.

You can learn more about this switch and all the Envelop+Helix has in store via the following Forum Post. Additionally, we encourage you to try out the current preview of Envelop+Helix by following the included instructions:

Changelog

No. of unique contributors: 24
No. of PRs: 85

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Package Dependencies

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Breaking ⚠️

1. Webpack bumped to v5.x

We've taken the leap, and upgraded Webpack to v5 and the Webpack-Dev-Server to v4. If you have any custom Webpack configuration (in ./web/config/webpack.config.js), please make sure all your config and custom plugins have been upgraded to support Webpack 5. The same is true for custom options used with devServer and/or when running yarn redwood dev --forward=... — it's common to have a dev server configuration that needs a bit of tweaking.

See this Forum post Webpack and Jest v0.36 Upgrade Guide

2. Jest bumped to v27

We've migrated the test runner to Jest Circus. For the majority of users, this should be a non-breaking change. In the case you have any custom Jest config or are using custom test environments, this might be one to watch for.

See this Forum post Webpack and Jest v0.36 Upgrade Guide

3. Configuration changes

Very important (but small) changes are required to use this version of Redwood. Please make sure you follow steps 1. and 2. in the "Code Modifications" section.

4. Removed deprecated commands

We've removed some of the old deprecated commands e.g. yarn redwood db and yarn redwood generate util

5. dbAuth: New loginHandler()

For projects using dbAuth, there are two breaking changes related to adding a new loginHandler() function and changes to Login/Signup Components. (PR #3111)

See "Code Modifications" below for required changes.

How to Upgrade

Code Modifications

1. Remove babel config from .api side

Option A If you do not have any custom babel plugins on your api side, simply remove.babelrc.js. 

rm api/.babelrc.js

Option B If you want to use custom babel plugins on your API side, you can create api/babel.config.js file, but you should not import babel preset from redwood or extend the root babel config.

For more information, see #3187

2. How you set your App's title has changed

Please remove any code to set your App's title from ./web/config/webpack.config.js (if you have it). 

// ./web/config/webpack.config.js
module.exports = (config, { _env }) => {
-  config.plugins.forEach((plugin) => {
-    if (plugin.constructor.name === 'HtmlWebpackPlugin') {
-      plugin.options.title = 'Redwood App';
-    }
-  });

  return config;
};

Setting the title is now much simpler, by simply setting the title property in your redwood.toml. We recommend you read the following details here and update your project to take advantage of the improved SEO settings.

3. Upgrade Tailwind dependencies and Config

Upgrading Webpack to v5 made it possible to upgrade other Tailwind dependencies. And for projects running yarn redwood setup tailwind for the first time, they’ll see other config improvements (see related PRs #3087 and #3181):

If your project is using Tailwind, changes are not required. However, we recommend you read this Forum post Tailwind v0.36 Upgrade Guide and update dependencies and config for stability and performance improvements.

4. dbAuth: new loginHandler()

Users who have implemented dbAuth since the last release must add a loginHandler() function in their api/src/functions/auth.js. A new instance of DbAuthHandler is created and passed several options. loginHandler() needs to be added to that list.

See this Forum post for details: dbAuth v0.36 Upgrade Guide and Breaking Changes

Upgrade Packages to v0.36.x from v0.35.x

Run the following command within your App's directory: 

yarn redwood upgrade

Upgrading from an earlier version?

Please follow the "how to upgrade" sections for each newer version here 👉 https://github.com/redwoodjs/redwood/releases, as there may be manual code mods needed for each version.

Upgrading to a version that is not the latest?

The command yarn rw upgrade will always upgrade to the latest (i.e. most recent) Redwood version. If you need to upgrade incrementally to an earlier, specific release, use the --tag option. For example, if you need to upgrade from v0.27.0 to v0.28.4, run the following command: 

yarn redwood upgrade --tag 0.28.4

Need help or having trouble upgrading packages?

See this forum topic for manual upgrade instructions and general upgrade help.

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