changelog.md

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• Fix: Allow binding tag properties to symbol identifiers
• Report correct location for "Cannot redeclare variable" error (#114)

2.0.0-alpha.172

• Fix: Rendering list inside conditional
• Support css blocks inside conditionals in tag trees
• Warn about interpolated style values outside of tag trees
• Improved specificity for nested css rules

2.0.0-alpha.171

• Fix: Make <global @resize> work correctly
• Fix: Variable resolution for let item = do ... item()
• Fix: Allow ternary in tag trees
• Fix: Allow condition && <tag> in tag trees
• Fix: Ternary parsing cond ? <div> "a" : "b"

2.0.0-alpha.170

• Added @in style modifier for specifying in-only transitions
• Renamed transition hooks to transition-(in|out)-(end|cancel)
• Using <button bind=prop> without a value acts like <button bind=prop value=yes>

2.0.0-alpha.169

• Fix: Various dom regressions in SSR
• Updated default ease duration to 300ms

2.0.0-alpha.168

• Use setAttribute('class') under the hood for svg elements
• Added #afterVisit, #beforeReconcile, #afterReconcile hooks
• Added experimental easing via <my-element ease>, with element hooks #ease-enter, #ease-entered, #ease-enter-cancel, and #ease-exit, #ease-exited, #ease-exit-cancel
• Added ease/e,ease-opacity/eo,ease-transform/et and ease-colors/ec style properties for experimental easing feature
• Fix: Passing slots into child components (#607)
• Allow using setters on #context

2.0.0-alpha.167

• Add support for generic media selectors via @media(some-media) ...
• Fix: Interpolated numeric value for rotate:{val} works i FF
• Add @all and @speech style modifiers (for @media all/speech)
• Fix: Allow empty css selectors
• Fix: Rebuilt prebuilt imba.mjs for web

2.0.0-alpha.166

• Add experimental support for class decorators
• Fix: Apply display:block to global tags without dashed name
• Change: inset:* style shorthand sets position:absolute
• Added <teleport to=(sel/element)> component (#606) by @haikyuu

2.0.0-alpha.165

• Reorganize prebuilt files for jspm support

2.0.0-alpha.157

• Add jspm configuration in package.json

2.0.0-alpha.156

• Add #inited hook for class instance initialization
• All custom components defaults to display:block
• Fix: Don't inject hmr.js script into html assets when building
• Fix: Generate html files in public directory

2.0.0-alpha.155

• Allow $envvar$ as first argument of implicit calls (#571)
• Allow super in extend class/tag
• Add experimental support for extend someObject
• Variable / parameter named self used for implicit self in scope
• Throw error for non-self tags in tag declaration body
• Allow accessing array elements from end with literal numbers like array[-1]

2.0.0-alpha.154

• Include precompiled browser-version of library to make it work with jspm
• Fix issue with html parser
• Fix issue with <input value=...> not working in certain cases
• Add optional static file serving for imba serve

2.0.0-alpha.153

• Fix issue with prop watchers not compiling correctly

2.0.0-alpha.152

• Correctly parse comments inside multi-line tag literals
• Readable names for generated (internal) variables
• Tag literals act as block scopes for variable declarations

2.0.0-alpha.151

• Fix interpolated style values in tag-tree selectors

2.0.0-alpha.150

• Remove charset:utf8 option from esbuild

2.0.0-alpha.149

• Fix regression with font-size presets (#569)

2.0.0-alpha.148

• Allow declaring return type via def method\returntype arg1, ...
• Fix crash when inlining sourcemaps on node 16+ (#567)
• Overhaul extend class code generation for better tooling support
• BREAKING: Compile predicate identifiers name? to unicode nameΦ and dashed identifiers one-two-three to oneΞtwoΞthree to avoid potential naming collisions and improve tooling support. If you previously relied on dashed identifiers converting to camelCase while interacting with an external library - this will no longer work. Ie window.add-event-listener will not work since window does not have an addΞeventΞlistener property. See #568 for more info.

2.0.0-alpha.147

• Fix regression resulting in nested assets being rebuilt in incorrect folder

2.0.0-alpha.146

• Added --asset-names and --html-names build options for controlling the generated paths
• Tweaked format of generated manifest
• Fixed issue with generated stylesheets being blank
• Automatically include Link preload headers when serving through imba
• Allow all valid RegExp flags in literal regexes
• Generate class augmentations (extend class/tag) in tsc mode
• Use setAttribute for non-idl element attributes

2.0.0-alpha.145

• Fix bundler crash when parsing html entrypoints with doctype
• Fix regression where imba -w would not detect changes in unhashed outputs

2.0.0-alpha.144

• Experimental <global> slot to add global listeners from inside tags
• @event.outside modifier that works in conjunction with <global> slot

2.0.0-alpha.143

• Remove use of String#replaceAll (unsupported before node 15.0.0)

2.0.0-alpha.142

• Don't crash when loading tags with @intersect listener on server
• Fix svg parsing issue for large svg files (#543)
• Fix incorrect dehydration when creating custom element on client directly via document.createElement
• Inject asset imports in correct order relative to regular imports
• Add support for .eot font file reference in stylesheets
• Auto-generate combined stylesheet for server and client accessible via <style src='*'>
• Stop auto-injecting styles for referenced assets when rendering <html> on server

2.0.0-alpha.141

• Support webp,avif,apng,gif images in bundler
• Fixed missing first character in non-minified css output
• Expose imba.commit++ on globalThis
• Fix compilation issue with if false inside tag tree
• Respect custom palettes in imbaconfig.json when building
• Allow aliasing palettes in imbaconfig.json
• Support inlined svg elements on server

2.0.0-alpha.140

• Improve output from imba create

2.0.0-alpha.139

• Stop bundler from crashing when generating worker

2.0.0-alpha.138

• Fix incorrect sourcemap paths with esbuild 0.9.7
• Let server fail gracefully when accessing invalid asset urls

2.0.0-alpha.137

• Fix relative path for mac/linux

2.0.0-alpha.136

• Raise default browser-target from edge16 to edge18 due to esbuild warning
• Make imba create executable on mac (#550)
• Set default esbuild target to es2019 to transpile optional chaining++
• Avoid using -ad in generated class-names due to adblockers (#531)

2.0.0-alpha.135

• Minor improvements to sourcemapping
• Fixed import type default compilation

2.0.0-alpha.133

• Improved sourcemapping
• Improved support for type annotations
• Fixed crash in bundler

2.0.0-alpha.132

• Improve windows compatibility for bundler and imba create

2.0.0-alpha.131

• Serve hashed (cacheable) assets with Cache-Control: max-age=31536000
• Remove ?v=xxxxxx suffix from asset references generated with --no-hashing
• Allow "external":["builtins",...] to externalize builtin node modules for other platforms than node
• Add -H alias for the --no-hashing option

2.0.0-alpha.130

• Upgraded esbuild to v0.9.2
• Automatically polyfill built-in node modules like buffer,stream,crypto etc when compiling for browser. Still experimental.

2.0.0-alpha.129

• Prevent touchstart event on iPad Pro in @touch.prevent
• Fixed text in svg <text> elements (#482)

2.0.0-alpha.128

• Fixed image asset urls in SSR
• Make bundler work with client entrypoint without any styles
• Dispatch bubbling resized event from ResizeObserver

2.0.0-alpha.127

• Overhauled @touch to work be more consistent on touch devices
• Add @touch.round event modifier

2.0.0-alpha.126

• Prevent touchstart event on iOS in @touch.prevent

2.0.0-alpha.125

• Make custom events cancelable by default
• Make @-webkit-scrollbar-* style selectors work
• Make core event modifiers work for @touch event
• Fix issue where text selection did not work after @touch
• Make @touch.prevent prevent scrolling via touch-action:none
• Add @important style modifier

2.0.0-alpha.124

• Update built-in colors to follow Tailwind 2.0
• Allow interpolating colors in runtime <div[c:{mycolor}]>
• Fix deep selector >>> with multiple nested children

2.0.0-alpha.123

• Fix router crashing when event-related runtime code is tree-shaken

2.0.0-alpha.122

• Fix issue with type inferencing tags in certain cases
• Add suspend, unsuspend component lifecycle methods
• Improved router interface & internals

2.0.0-alpha.121

• Added imba.serve to index.d.ts
• Fix serious regression in router causing crash

2.0.0-alpha.120

• Parse fn await something correctly
• Improved router internals
• Add internal Node#attachToParent and Node#detachFromParent methods
• Preserve signed zero in output (Fixes #497)
• Make hmr reloading work with raw html assets
• Make --no-hashing cli option actually work
• Build html entrypoints in correct dist folder
• Add imba create command for creating project from template

2.0.0-alpha.119

• Add support for object spread syntax {a:1, ...obj}
• Fix regression causing crash when generating css

2.0.0-alpha.118

• Only call imba.commit when events are actually handled

2.0.0-alpha.117

• Alias tabindex to tabIndex in tag attributes.
• Fix scoping issue with css in tag trees
• Add experimental router aliases/redirects support
• Include preflight.css at root level of package

2.0.0-alpha.116

• Convert durations (1s, 150ms, 60fps etc) to ms-based numbers on compile-time

2.0.0-alpha.115

• Add debounce event modifier

2.0.0-alpha.114

• Add no-minify option to cli
• Always compile html namespaced attributes to raw setAttribute

2.0.0-alpha.113

• Add __realname as an unaltered alias for __filename
• Add support for selectors in tag tree - see #490

2.0.0-alpha.112

• Show full version (including alpha number) in cli imba --version

2.0.0-alpha.110

• Add experimental <tag autorender=interval> inteface
• Add ?v=hash to asset urls when filename hashing is turned off
• Add experimental support for .html entrypoints to imba serve and imba build
• Add abs and rel shorthands for position style property
• Fix memory leak when using imba --watch

2.0.0-alpha.109

• Support extending native tags tag Purchase < form
• Allow defining global tags without dash in name

2.0.0-alpha.108

• Fix issue with @nth-of-type, @nth-child selectors
• Improve internals of intersect event handling

2.0.0-alpha.107

• Add asset.body property for accessing raw content of assets

2.0.0-alpha.106

• Allow passing rootMargin options to intersect event
• Fix issue in router related to hash links

2.0.0-alpha.105

• Fix issue with css property order

2.0.0-alpha.102

• changelog and docs coming soon. see imba.io

2.0.0-alpha.60

• Add route-to.exact modifier to router

2.0.0-alpha.59

• Add support for numeric separator 100_000
• Fix multiline regex parsing issues

2.0.0-alpha.58

• Allow setting innerHTML in SSR

2.0.0-alpha.57

• Update instantiation syntax in tests++

2.0.0-alpha.56

• Add new Foo instantiation syntax
• Deprecate Foo.new instantiation syntax

2.0.0-alpha.55

• Allow local/exportable tags (uppercased tag declarations)
• Allow interpolated tags inside strings in tag trees

2.0.0-alpha.54

• Allow getters and setters in object literals

2.0.0-alpha.53

• Allow media breakpoints in style selectors
• Added max-width breakpoints

2.0.0-alpha.52

• Fix issue with nested $reference selectors
• Allow router to work for regular links
• Add route-to.replace modifier
• Add route-to.sticky modifier

2.0.0-alpha.51

• No longer inheriting from CustomEvent as it is not supported in Safari
• Fix input data binding issue
• Added before and after style property modifiers
• Added prefix as alias for before.content
• Added suffix as alias for after.content

2.0.0-alpha.50

• Fix nested selector bug
• Fix focus-within modifier
• Add :local pseudo-class for only styling local children of component
• Support $reference in selectors for targeting local referenced elements
• Change display style property to accept multiple layout aliases
• Add 1-digit color aliases (blue900 -> blue9 etc)

2.0.0-alpha.49

• Allow border and border-(top|right|bottom|left) to accept a single color value
• Accept rgb/hsl/hex colors in text and border properties

2.0.0-alpha.48

• Added multi-purpose text style property for describing font-family, font-size, font-style, font-weight, text-decoration, text-transform, line-height, letter-spacing and color in a single property
• Added shorthand style aliases for border-_ and flex-_

2.0.0-alpha.47

• Added x, y, z, rotate, scale, scale-x, scale-y, skew-x, skew-y custom style properties
• Extended transition property to accept colors, styles, sizes as properties and custom easings

2.0.0-alpha.46

• Added experimental syntax for css/styling. See #334
• Broke scoped css comment blocks until further notice

2.0.0-alpha.45

• Fix conditional rendering bug (#334)
• Changed event syntax from <div :click.stop.{method()}> to <div @click.stop=method()>
• Allow comments inside multiline tags
• Include left/right event key modifiers
• Improve resize and intersect events
• Always bind data when using <tag[my-data]> syntax

2.0.0-alpha.44

• Improved lifecycle methods for components
• Fix sourcemapping for env-flags

2.0.0-alpha.43

• Add syntax for element references <div$reference>
• Fix problem with missing ResizeObserver in safari

2.0.0-alpha.42

• Fixed webpack imba/loader issues with scoped css
• Add event wrapper for ResizeObserver
• Add experimental router code
• Add basic support for setting dom classes outside of templates
• Allow calling imba.mount with a function
• Rename #context api to $context
• Rename parentContext to $parent

2.0.0-alpha.40

• Introduce decorators with @decorator syntax. See #334
• Allow declaring tag attributes. See #335
• Shorthand ! for invoking parenless methods (object.mymethod!)
• Implicit self is back (for good)

2.0.0-alpha

See #263 for an overview of changes

1.5.2

• Fixed #237 (CSS comments not working in SFC)
• Fixed #240 (Build issues with font-properties in SFC)
• Fixed #239 (Module not found: Error: Can't resolve 'important[...] in SFC)

1.5.0

• Add support for declaring native getters and setters using get/set instead of def keyword
• Add support for compiling props to native getters and setters using native option (prop name native: yes)
• Make svg tags and non-svg tags use same class naming scheme (#230)
• Add experimental support for single-file-components

1.4.8

• Made splats compatible with ES6 containers like Set (#167)
• Cache compilation for node runtime when 'IMBA_CACHE_DIR' process variable is set

1.4.7

• Make puppeteer tests work again
• Fixed #203 (trigger data is null when supposed to be 0)

1.4.6

• Fix crash when packaging for webworker

1.4.4

• Fix bugs in analyzer returning incorrect locations for classes and methods
• Include properties in analyzer entity output

1.4.3

• Support for ** and **= operators (#192 by @taw)
• Fix imbapack crash with newer webpack (#194 by @gdamjan)
• Fix --stdio/-s option for imbac (#178 by @shreeve)
• Make special variables in event handlers default to event methods
• Include all global attributes on Imba.Tag

1.4.2

• Respect empty parens in event handlers (<div :tap.someMethod()>)
• Allow special variables in event handlers (<div :tap.someMethod($event,$data)>)
• Allow all aria-* attributes
• Fixed bug where compiler could end up in faulty state
• Lookup event handlers in owner-scope

1.4.1

• Make Imba.setInterval automatically commit on each interval
• Compile is to === (instead of ==)
• Compile isnt to !== (instead of !=)
• Require Node >=8.0.0

1.4.0

• Introduce new root scope per file for more consistent self
• Fix export const
• Add <input number=bool> for numeric inputs
• Only prevent native click if tap was prevented
• Print out compiler warnings in imbac and webpack loader
• Pass through stdio configuration from imbapack to webpack
• Don't include comments by default in webpack loader
• Disallow cross-scope calling of root 'def' functions (breaking change)

1.3.3

• Don't silence input events for form elements
• Implement style.removeProperty on server
• Improve mount/unmount performance

1.3.2

• Fix webpack4 compatibility
• Improve svg support
• Suppress setValue for input and textarea while editing

1.3.1

• Fix duplicate attributes in serverside rendering
• Make popstate event notify schedulers
• Make event manager delay adding listeners until needed
• Optimize tag tree syncing

1.3.0

• Add support for event modifiers (e.g. <div :keydown.enter.myHandler>)
• Add support for form input bindings (e.g. <input[data:myField]>)
• Allow method definitions inside object literals
• Better error reporting from parser when running through imba cli
• Add automatic cache pruning for loops
• Improve performance of setText
• Improve performance of non-keyed tag lists
• Implement radically improved inline caching strategy
• Improve overall rendering performance
• Allow all attributes on svg elements
• 25% smaller library (now 57k minified, 15k gzipped)
• Remove deprecated selector-syntax
• Remove deprecated methods on Imba.Tag (object,width,height,append,prepend)
• Remove deprecated methods on Imba.Event (keychar,keycombo)
• Remove deprecated Imba.isClient and Imba.isServer

1.2.1

• Allow reconciler to work with tag-like objects
• Make Imba.commit notify schedulers
• Make sure schedulers are correctly activated and deactivated
• Fix issue where process.version was not parsed correctly
• Fix variable naming issue when compiling with sourceMaps
• Fix let scoping where assignment is consumed by statement
• Allow ivar-syntax in plain objects {@ivar: value}
• Allow direct ivar access through object@ivar

1.2.0

• Compile to native let,const and await unless --es5 is specified
• Align await precedence with js
• Support variable shadowing
• Fix fat-arrow template parsing <div.item => ...

1.1.1

• Make imbapack input.imba output.js work without a config

1.1.0

• Introduce module keyword for singleton classes
• Allow aliasing imports with import x as y from ...
• Always escape attributes textContent when rendering on server

1.0.1

• Made Imbapack read options using the recommended way in Webpack 3.
• Made Imba.mount schedule the target by default (fix)
• Compiler returns correct location for classes and constants
• Enable experimental native async/await behind —es6 option
• Make imbapack commands platform-safe (GavinRay97 · pr#102)
• Deprecated implicit Promise.all wrapping of expr in await *expr* if expr instanceof Array

1.0.0

• Require 'imba' in each file - no longer depending on Imba being global
• Introduced imbapack as intelligent wrapper around webpack
• Introduced non-global tags
• Allow multiple adjacent tags inside for-loops
• Add tag.mount and tag.unmount
• Allow setting css inline <div css:height=100>
• Deprecated selector syntax
• Deprecated various tag helpers
• Tons of bugfixes and improvements

0.14.5

• tag.initialize can now be defined / overridden
• Dynamic flags <div .{flag}> works as expected
• Added more missing attributes to html elements
• Allow defining properties with reserved names
• prop watch: now accepts a Function
• Minor bugfixes

0.14.4

• Add trailing semicolon to IIFE wrapper (#67)
• Allow uppercase flags in tag (#64)
• Setters return self by default (#56)
• CLI will find index.imba, if exists within folder
• Improved serverside rendering
• Predeclare _ in global scope

0.14.3

• Mixing tabs and spaces for indentation will now throw error
• Internal refactoring
• Moved internal build over to webpack
• Bugfix: source maps should work again
• Bugfix: compilation on windows finds correct path

0.14.1

• Fixed regression for awakening tags from client
• Add width/height getters for tags
• Add context getter for canvas
• Removed deprecated code in dom.events
• Add Imba.Touch#tx and Imba.Touch#ty for pos relative to target
• Add Imba.Touch#capture for preventing all default behaviour of events
• Handle touchcancel correctly
• Deprecate Imba.Touch#suppress
• Bugfix: right-click caused havok with mousebased Imba.Touch
• Bugfix: watched attribute would not trigger correctly

0.14.0

• Removed IMBA_TAGS (must use Imba.TAGS)
• Groundwork for arbitrary namespaces for tags (and local/private tags)
• Added support for SVG
• attr definitions will preserve dash in generated setAttribute
• Removed description object for plain generated properties
• Allow nested tag definitions (local to the parent scope)

0.13.12

• Error now includes the relevant code/lines in message - contributed by @sleewoo
• Make scheduler register for next tick before running the current ticks
• Bugfix: Regression where methods with trailing comment did not parse

0.13.11

• tag(domnode) will awaken domnode as native type if the custom tag is not defined
• Bugfix: Parser should not treat ] and ) as implicit functions (issue#34)
• Allow methods without body to parse correctly (closes issue#35)

0.13.10

• Bugfix: Regression where indented return broke certain tag trees
• Bugfix: if branches without else does not return 0 when false (inside tag trees)
• Bugfix: Improved error reporting in terminal

0.13.9

• Documented more of the runtime/stdlib
• Adding prelim support for static analysis of tags,classes,methods++
• imba analyze now takes --entities flag to export entities
• Removed several undocumented and deprecated methods
• Cleaned up code UglifyJS warned about when minifying runtime
• Add failing test for known scoping bug (fix is underway for next release)
• Bugfix: temp vars were declared (but not used) in certain situations

0.13.8

• Added scheduler for an official/approved way to schedule rendering

0.13.7

• Reworked tag rendering to work with non-string textual nodes again

0.13.5

• Fixed yet another regression

0.13.4

• Throw error when trying to spawn undefined tag
• Fix regression with serverside rendering from 0.13.3

0.13.3

• Optimized rendering further
• Bugfix: native tags no longer spawn with empty class attribute
• Bugfix: wrong cachekeys in certain nested trees
• Bugfix: (cond && ) were not cached in static trees
• Bugfix: numerous edgecases with static trees

0.13.2 (2015-10-09)

• cache tags in for-loops by default (inside static trees)
• call render in tag#commit by default
• Improved sourcemaps
• Tap and click events handled in more consistent manner
• Added version of compiler that can run in a WebWorker
• Various bugfixes

0.13.1

• Rework tag class structure

0.13.0 (2015-09-19)

• Bugfix: safe call object:key?.method parses correctly
• Added support for data-attributes through tag#dataset method

0.12.2 (2015-09-18)

• Bugfix: parsing tags inside object literals
• Bugfix: methods with optional arg and block arg compiles correctly
• Bugfix: tag#prepend works for empty tag
• Internal refactoring

0.12.1 (2015-09-04)

• Fix standalone compiler for browser
• Renamed packaged compiler from compiler.js to imbac.js
• Export standalone compiler to Imbac instead of imbalang
• Returning self from default constructors

0.12.0 (2015-08-24)

• Preliminary support for source maps (through --source-map-inline option for ̀imba watch and imba compile)

0.11.6 (2015-08-23)

• Added imba export-runtime command to export the latest imba.js runtime.
• Fix imba watch on Windows (issue #11)

0.11.5 (2015-08-20)

• Don't single children in Imba.static
• Reworked how setHandler to bind directly to outer scope
• Guard against loading the library multiple times

0.11.4 (2015-08-19)

• Added minified version of library and compiler
• Remove need for classList (to support ie9)

0.11.3 (2015-08-15)

• Now caching static attributes on tags
• More improvements to reconciler

0.11.2 (2015-08-14)

• Added window, document, parseInt, parseFloat as implicit global variables

0.11.1 (2015-08-12)

• Fixed issue in dom reconciler

0.11.0 (2015-08-11)

• Allow new and char as varnames
• tag#render is called by default from tag#build
• Slightly improved error reporting when using : in control-flow (like python)
• Massively improved algorithm for reconciling dom trees (rendering for-loops etc will now be much more efficient) - contributed by @judofyr
• Fixed issue when requiring imba through browserify

0.10.0 (2015-08-05)

• Add support for guarded loops: ... for x in ary when x > 10
• Add dynamic cachekey for tags using <node@{mykey}> inside loops
• Add support for if/forin as first/only argument to implicit calls
• Fixed bug where for-in could not be the first/only indented child in a tag.
• Fixed regression with multiple nested parens in !(expressions)
• Improved error reporting from terminal

0.9.3 (2015-08-04)

• Register 'module' as an automatic global variable, along with 'global', '__dirname', 'exports', 'console', 'process', 'setTimeout', 'setInterval', 'clearTimeout', 'clearInterval'. The timeout/interval are likely to be deprecated in next version.
• added support for shebangs to top of files. #!/usr/bin/env imba or similar shebangs will be kept and converted in the compiled js (to #!/usr/bin/env node etc)
• Improved preservation of linebreaks, and removal of parens in compiled code.