Latest Breaking Version 3.x

[ghiscoding]

Latest Update on the upcoming breaking version 3.x
Anyone having major issues with the new release can report in this thread.

Things left to do to be fully functional and parity with previous version 2.x

• Collection Watch for AutoComplete Filter & SingleSelect, MultipleSelect Filters
  • it's in the work (PR #208), nearly done with the feature, just need few more tests (unit tests + E2E tests)
• RequireJS still throws some errors unless @slickgrid-universal/common is added to the aurelia.json dependencies mapping
  • I know what is causing it, it was identified here with the help of 3cp which was super helpful.

[ghiscoding]

@zewa666 I pushed another version, wanted to push a Beta version but somehow I misconfigured the command to use with standard-version, it was supposed to be a prerelease but that command didn't work so anyway, long story short 3.0.0 is somehow released (even though I'm not totally finished). Give it a try, I've merged the Aurelia-Slickgrid-Demos as well with latest code (note the only difference from the Alpha to now was the grid option registerExternalServices is now registerExternalResources for both Export Services & Components (Migration was updated as well).

P.S. I'm trying out this new Discussion thing, it seems similar to how issues work just without it being an issue hehe

[zewa666]

Yeah perfect wanted to propose this already

[ghiscoding]

@zewa666
So I believe that I fixed everything now, that includes the following

• fixed RequireJS auto-register dependencies (you can now remove all the Slickgrid-Universal mappings, see this demos PR)
  • 3cp helped me identified 2 problems (the invalid browser path in package.json and also some use of require to load SlickGrid plugins dynamically that were actually not loaded at all in RequireJS).
• added the Collection Watch (see Wiki) that was missing from Aurelia-Slickgrid version 2.x (it is now directly in Slickgrid-Universal)

So I think I'm finally done with all of it, let me know if you give it a try, this year or the next 😉

[zewa666]

This is fantastic. Thanks for the efforts and I'll ping you once checked out. As far as I understand now work mainly continues in universal and merely examples plus version bumps happen in this repo right?

[ghiscoding]

Yeah you pretty much sums it all up.
I can finally now do fixes in 1 place and expect them to bubble up to Aurelia-Slickgrid, which was the plan all along 🚀

[ghiscoding]

Well actually now that I think of it, there's actually the subject of proper Dependency Injection but even the manual injection works just fine. The main struggle is to find something that would work on both side, that would require some kind of DI that is framework agnostic. I was close to have something working with some code I found over the net but it starts to fail with 2 things (abstract classes and optional services), I use abstract classes mainly for the pub/sub & translate service which the latter can also be optional... At the end, I might keep the manual DI because it works and it has no cost in size while going for other agnostic DI libs might increase the lib size for no real benefit, except for internal cleaner and more readable code. TypeDI might be 1 of those agnostic DI that could potentially work, will give it a try eventually, just worry about the size that it adds

[ArnaudVanHerck]

The latest version 3.5.0 gives us the following error export 'BackendUtilityService' was not found in '@slickgrid-universal/common'. Somebody else experiencing this?

[ghiscoding]

FYI, you might be thinking that just using the ^ will update all Slickgrid-Universal but it won't and 3cp told me that in another package. I didn't know that 0.x.x have special rule. I might just bump all Slickgrid-Universal packages to 1.x.x in the near future, probably after I get Angular-Slickgrid to use it as well.

[ghiscoding]

another thing you could try is to force the download, though I didn't have to do that last night when I updated the Aurelia-Slickgrid-Demos, is to delete your lock file and the 2 folders in your node_modules\@slickgrid-universal and \aurelia-slickgrid to make sure they download the latest 0.12.0 everywhere. Search for Slickgrid-Universal in your lock file, it should tell you easily what got updated or not

[ArnaudVanHerck]

I got it to work, it was like you said, an issue with npm versions and node_modules not updating correctly. My dev PC doesn't like me I think 😄

[ghiscoding]

nice to hear it works, now you can take advantage of the PR you contributed 😉

[ArnaudVanHerck]

Yes, exactly. Thank you for all your hard work in this repo! 😃