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Apostrophe 2.9.0 released: major update with AJAX support, built-in cursor filters for schema fields

#1

2.9.0

  • Two major new features in this release: built-in filters for most schema fields, and built-in AJAX support for apostrophe-pieces-pages. These combine to eliminate the need for custom code in a wide array of situations where you wish to allow users to browse and filter blog posts, events, etc. In most cases there is no longer any need to write your own cursor.js or your own AJAX implementation. The provided AJAX implementation handles browser history operations, bookmarking and sharing properly and is SEO-friendly.

See the official summary of the pull request for details and examples of usage.

  • We also fixed a bug in the refinalize feature of cursors. state.criteria is now cloned before finalize and restored after it. Otherwise many criteria are added twice after refinalize which causes a fatal error with a few, like text search in mongodb.

  • In addition, we merged a contribution from Fotis Paraskevopoulos that allows a bodyParser option with json and urlencoded properties to be passed to the apostrophe-express module. Those properties are passed on to configure those two body parser middleware functions.

#2

This is a huge update. I popped in some piecesFilters on a project yesterday and it worked great.

In case anybody missed it, the cursor documentation has been updated to include information about these new tools.