Version 5.2 of @lipemat/js-boilerplate is now available for public use. Extensions The most exciting feature of this release is the ability to add other packages as extensions. When you find yourself extending this library's configurations in the same way often, you can now create a package for your projects to extend. Extensions override configurations the same way as local overrides. Create a new node package which contains whatever normal modules, types, scripts, etc. you would … [Read more...]

This is the 70th release we have done with this library since it became WordPress-Libs. This release was all about working with resources; taking the repetitive requirements from scripts and styles and making them stable and accessible. New Utility Class for working with colors: We're finding more and more the need for translating colors from rgba to hexadecimal or vice versa. This is most often used for adding or removing transparency from a color set somewhere in the admin. For example, … [Read more...]

Version 2.4.0 of @lipemat/postcss-boilerplate is now stable and ready for general use. This release focused on fixing any outstanding bugs as well as introducing the most requested feature. Generate admin.css simultaneously: From the beginning of this library we have received requests to automatically generate an "admin.css" file using "admin.pcss" as the entry point. This has always been the most requested feature. Previously, if you wanted to generate two separate CSS files from the … [Read more...]

Without further ado, I present to you Version 5 of @lipemat/js-boilerplate. This is a brand new major version which focuses on clearing out previously existing pain points from version 4 and before. Version 5 is stable and ready for general use. Admin.js Support: Previously, if you wanted to add another entry-point to the app, it was possible by using a config override and specifying your entry there. We have found (especially since the implementation of Gutenberg) that within the … [Read more...]

If you have been part of the modern JavaScript community, it is likely you have run across a handy library called Immer. While I won't go too far into detail about what Immer does, the gist is it allows you to mutate immutable objects and pass the changed objects back as a new immutable one. This certainly comes in handy when dealing with React state which works almost exclusively with immutable objects and expects new ones to be passed for state updates. It is equally as likely you have run … [Read more...]