1.1 beta release - ready for testing

There is now a Fractal 1.1 beta release ready for testing. It includes a number of bugfixes and a few minor feature additions. See below for a full list of changes.

In addition there is also a 1.1 beta version of Mandelbrot and a 1.2 beta of the Handlebars adapter available. If you have not customised either of these you should get the new versions automatically when you install the 1.1 Fractal beta. If you have installed these separately you will need to update the versions you are using in your project to get the beta releases.

Installing

Install the global CLI helper (the new version can still run projects using an older local version):

npm i -g @frctl/fractal@next

To update your project version (run the command from within your project repository):

npm i @frctl/fractal@next  --save

You can install the beta releases of Mandebrot and the Handlebars adapter in you project using the following commands:

npm i @frctl/mandelbrot@next  --save
npm i @frctl/handlebars@next  --save

Notes/main areas for testing

• The static site ‘builder’ has seen some pretty large refactoring, so please check that this isn’t causing any issues.
• Component/collection preview templates - it is now possible to define a file named preview.hbs (or preview.njk etc) within your component folder to use as the preview file for your component, instead of specifying another component to use as the preview in the component’s configuration. You can also add a preview.hbs file within a collection (similar to a collection config file) and have it be used by all children of that collection, unless otherwise overridden. This should not clash with any existing use of component-based preview templates, but any feedback would be appreciated.
• Short config file names are now supported - so you now no longer need to use button.config.yml but can use just config.yml instead for compound components and collections. One less thing to rename if you move things around. But does this clash with real-world naming conventions in any projects?

Changes

• [NEW] Add support for component and collection preview templates
• [NEW] Add support for ‘short’ non-component-name-prefixed config files for collections and compound components
• [NEW] Provide meta component/docs config namespace for arbitrary user-defined metadata (#89)
• [NEW] BrowserSync config option watchOptions.ignored can now be used to prevent ignored files from causing a UI reload (#134)
• [NEW] Web config option builder.static.ignored can now be used to prevent ignored files in the static directories from being copied when building. (#120)
• [NEW] Context data is now resolved when the data tree is rebuilt to allow synchronous retrieval via new entity.getContext() method.
• [FIX] Prevent arrays being merged during context data inheritance (#123)
• [FIX] Default variant view template issue (#67)
• [FIX] Patch issue with commands not exiting in latest version of Vorpal
• [OTHER] Refactor Builder class to better match Server class structure.

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I’ve just released v1.1-beta.4 which addresses the issue people have been seeing where Fractal was failing to re-parse the filesystem after changes had been made.

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There also seems to be an issue with the watch behaviour and config file changes not being picked up on which I’m looking into.