Changelog

This changelog doesn’t follow Semantic Versioning.

• We upgrade the major version when adding a new preset that changes how Next apps are meant to be used/built, resulting in a non-trivial redesign of the NRN base code.
  • Such as the big SSG change in Next.js v9.3 release, which uses a completely different paradigm

This changelog is meant to provide a good overview of the biggest changes in the NRN project, such as a preset release history, but it is not meant to warn about non-backward compatible changes within presets.

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Changes across presets

Most valuable changes

Here is a short list of the most valuable changes and new features.

• 2021-06-24
  • Refactor Amplitude (browser) + add Amplitude to the server side (API)
• 2021-06-23
  • Refactor Sentry + fix Sentry usage in API endpoints
• 2021-06-15
  • NextJS 11
• 2021-06-09
  • Send network speed to Amplitude analytics and Sentry
  • Improve HTTP headers security by default
  • Use main, footer, nav and their ARIA equivalent for better a11y
  • Optimize .vercelignore configuration
• 2021-05-29
  • Fix 404 page generation + refactor all layouts SSG/SSR
  • Upgrade Cypress to v7
• 2021-05-20
  • Preload app-wide shared data
  • Pre-fetch all Locize translations as app-wide static data
  • Enable react strict mode
• 2021-05-20
  • Improve 404 page detection (covers more use-cases) + Don’t serve pages under a locale that hasn’t been enabled
• 2021-05-13
  • Fix - Display deployment’s aliases on PR (regression from #296)
• 2021-05-12
  • Upgrade dependencies
  • Simplify layouts
• 2021-05-10
  • Rework of fonts
  • Optimise cookieConsent to avoid rendering on each page transition
• 2021-05-09
  • GHA - Replace Vercel bash deploy script by “deploy-on-vercel” github action
  • Replace @unly/utils-simple-logger and winston by @unly/simple-logger and chalk (reduces bundle size by 40Kb)
  • Upgrade to Next.js v10.2
• 2021-01-24
  • Feature - Automatically release Vercel deployments as GitHub deployments
  • Optimize GitHub Actions triggers
• 2021-01-20
  • (MAJOR) Massive folder structure refactoring (v2-mst-aptd-at-lcz-sty), using modular approach and module path aliases
  • (MAJOR) Massive folder structure refactoring (v2-mst-aptd-gcms-lcz-sty), using modular approach and module path aliases
• 2021-01-17
  • Add Storybook static site, hosted on Vercel
• 2021-01-13
  • Improve Sentry monitoring for all pages + improve bootstrap error handling and monitoring
  • Improve demo about error handling
• 2021-01-11
  • Implement restore-variable to clean our actions
  • Deps - Upgrade v2-mst-aptd-at-lcz-sty packages (January 2021)
  • Deps - Upgrade v2-mst-aptd-gcms-lcz-sty packages (January 2021)
  • Deps - Upgrade to Emotion v11 (from v10) [BREAKING CHANGES]
• 2021-01-09
  • Documentation update
• 2020-12-30
  • Handle GitHub private repositories
  • Invoke custom webhook url once a Vercel deployment is “completed”
• 2020-12-22
  • DevOps - Resolve app version from git tags, instead of package.json
• 2020-12-19
  • Await Vercel deployment to be ready before running E2E
  • Provide in api/status the git commit metadata (SHA/branch/tag) used to make a Vercel deployment
  • Add an action that releases automatically when a change lands on the main branches + various fixes regarding auto-releasing (WIP)
    • From now on, Next Right Now automatically creates tags and releases. This was WIP at the time, but has been improved by the end of 2020.
• 2020-11-21
  • Update documentation about ENV vars
  • Improve LightHouse performances
  • Migrated “now” and “Zeit” to “vercel”
    • GitHub Actions now uses vercel CLI instead of now which will be deprecated by the end of 2020
  • GHA - Update cypress-io/github-action from v1 to v2 to fix CI/CD due to ::set-env security issue
    • This fixes a recurring crash for all GH Actions since ::set-env support has been dropped by GitHub about a week ago (was mostly affecting Cypress Action)
• 2020-10-21
  • GHA - Auto-alias custom domains
• 2020-10-20
  • GHA - Enable Cypress debug logs for CPU/Memory usage by default
  • Allow triggering workflows manually through GitHub Actions page
    • Wasn’t possible before because there weren’t any workflows in the main branch (gh-pages) - See https://github.community/t/cant-trigger-workflow-manually/121740/53?u=vadorequest
• 2020-10-18
  • Improve GHA - Do not crash Github build when Vercel aliasing fails
• 2020-10-17
  • Manual & remote (HTTP) deployments through GitHub UI/API
• 2020-10-08
  • Added new example with optional catch-all routes
• 2020-09-08
  • Upgraded deps of v2-mst-aptd-at-lcz-sty preset
  • Upgraded deps of v2-mst-aptd-gcms-lcz-sty preset
• 2020-09-07
  • Improved the NRN docs
  • Migrated all v2 presets from v9.4.4 to Next.js v9.5.4-canary.4
• 2020-07-28
  • GDPR - Add cookie consent UI
• 2020-07-21
  • GDPR - Disable Google Click ID being used by default
• 2020-07-20
  • Documentation updates of CHANGELOG and ROADMAP pages
• 2020-07-16
  • Change NRN app publication workflow for all v2 presets
• 2020-06-25
  • Allow custom i18n translations per customer for all v2 presets
• 2020-06-16
  • Allow converting Markdown to JSX at runtime for all v2-*-at presets (Airtable)
• 2020-06-12
  • Automatically run LightHouse on PR commits (CI) for all v2 presets
  • Added “item preview” feature, allowing to preview a NRN record from Stacker CMS for all v2-*-at presets (Airtable)
    • This feature has been renamed “Quick preview” since then
• 2020-06-08
  • Add jest-runner-groups to run tests by group for all v2 presets
• 2020-06-06
  • Add hybrid memory/disk cache storages to optimise Airtable API data fetching during server initial build for all v2 presets
    • This will eventually be moved out of NRN and released as a NPM package
• 2020-06-06
  • Use .env instead of .env.build file for all v2 presets
• 2020-05-31
  • Implement preview mode for all v2 presets
    • This feature has been changed since, to allow “Preview mode” to be used only for the staging environment

Changes workflow

v2-mst-aptd-at-lcz-sty and v2-mst-aptd-gcms-lcz-sty are both kept up-to-date. Changes that aren’t specific to one preset are applied to both.

To see an exhaustive list of changes (added across presets), check out the merged PR.

Most changes are merged through PRs, for easier reviews.

I basically don’t have the time to keep a documented version of what’s included in each preset branch (too much work).

If you want to know what’s included within each preset, the easiest way is to review which commits are included in those presets.

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Presets releases

• 2020-07-16 (v2)
  • Released v2-mst-aptd-at-lcz-sty preset - PR
    • Very similar to v2-mst-aptd-gcms-lcz-sty preset
    • Brings a much better CMS vendor (Stacker) for manipulating database content
      • This replaces our NRN-Admin OSS project (based on React Admin) which hasn’t yielded the expected result
    • Use GraphCMS vendor instead of Airtable vendor (database)
    • Features advanced use-cases with embedded previews from CMS to NRN app
      • Basically, allows to preview a record on Stacker CMS using iframes hosted on NRN app
    • Features advanced Markdown to JSX runtime transform for storing React components within Airtable
  • Changed default preset from v2-mst-aptd-gcms-lcz-sty to v2-mst-aptd-at-lcz-sty
• 2020-02-30 (v2)
  • New major version v2 due to complete refactoring of the whole NRN app (due to Next 9.3/9.4 which completely changed the way to build apps and added the SSG rendering mode)
  • Released v2-mst-aptd-gcms-lcz-sty preset
    • Uses Next v9.4+
    • Supports hybrid SSG/SSR rendering modes
    • New NRN demo and showcase many more examples - See #45
  • Changed default preset from v1-ssr-mst-aptd-gcms-lcz-sty to v2-mst-aptd-gcms-lcz-sty
• 2020-02-28 (v1)
  • New major version v1
  • Released v1-ssr-mst-aptd-gcms-lcz-sty preset
    • Uses Next v9.3.4
    • Doesn’t support SSG, only supports SSR

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