Webiny's monthly updates are here! In this update - ⚡learn about the new scaffolding utilities and improved development workflows, and what's New in Webiny. Let's get started ⬇️
🙌 Community Updates
⚙️ New Scaffolding Utilities and Improved Development Workflows
With the recent Webiny releases, we've introduced a significant improvement to the existing scaffolding utilities and development workflows.
In this article, Webiny’s lead developer Adrian talks about these improvements with a demo in action!
🔐 Tutorial on Securing Your Application
Learn how to secure your Webiny Application, check out our new tutorial on Webiny Security Framework! In this tutorial you will learn how to secure your GraphQL API and Admin Area modules, using a couple of built-in concepts and utilities.
⏱️ Revisit the New Watch Command
The new webiny watch command brings the development experience to a whole new level!
In this blog post, Adrian will give you a short overview of the command's most important features with a demo.
🆕 What's New in Webiny?
Webiny 5.8.0 and 5.9.0 released in the past month. Also, we shipped our latest release 5.10.0 in early July and here are some of the highlighted release updates:
🚀 Features
Node 12 Runtime and a New Sharp Layer #1738
With AWS deprecating Node 10 Lambda runtime, we've also upgraded all of our Lambda functions to use Node 12 (you may have noticed that File Manager Lambdas were using node 10). With that, we also released a new version of the Sharp layer, which is twice smaller, and also supports Node 14, so we have peace of mind for the near future.
Admin Area React Application - Reduced Deployment Time #1740
Prior to 5.10.0 release, every time we'd deploy the Admin Area project application (apps/admin), all of the React application's production build files (JS, CSS, images) would be re-uploaded from scratch, even if we didn't perform any changes in our application code.
From now on, files whose content didn't change simply won't be uploaded. This will significantly speed up the deployment of the Admin Area project application.
Improved Scaffolding and Development Workflows #1720
We've gone through a complete overhaul of the existing GraphQL API Package and Admin Area Package and significantly improved the GraphQL and Admin Area scaffold along with various visual improvements.
Preloading and Caching Improvements #1753
Improvements to the prerendering service, handling of missing cache-control response headers and enchantments to asset preloading will improve the page load times for pages created with Webiny Page Builder.
Reorganization of Security Packages #1693
The security layer in Webiny consists of plugins spread across several packages. Up until now, it was difficult to navigate these packages and understand the responsibilities of each one of them. We've restructured and refactored the code into packages with better naming, proper separation of concerns, and we've also introduced several new plugins to make integrations and extending easier.
🐞 Bug Fixes
Handling emails that contain special characters #1693
There was a bug with user's emails containing special characters, like john+doe@email.com. The + would crash the app entirely once it made its way to the URL, like /users?login=john+doe@email.com. This is now sorted, and email addresses are now properly encoded/decoded.
A shoutout to @xintellion for spotting and reporting this one! 🙌
Serving non-image files from CDN #1710
When files are uploaded via File Manager, ultimately, they must always be served to users over a CDN Amazon Cloudfront. This was true for images, but in every other case, files would be directly served from S3, making the actual file download less optimal.
This has now been taken care of. Whenever possible, all types of files will be served from a CDN.
⬇️️ Try the Latest Release
Give Webiny a try by following our Quick Start, which will guide you through the initial setup steps. If you have an existing Webiny project, you can follow the upgrade guide.
🤝 Get Involved
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- ✅ Developer-friendly environment
- ✅ Open Source Project
- ✅ Community 💛 Join us today
🚀 We Are Hiring!
Webiny is looking for full-stack JavaScript engineers to join the core team!
You will be helping us in creating the best open-source platform to build applications on top of the serverless infrastructure ⚡.
If you are interested? Apply for Full-Stack JavaScript Engineer the role.
