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Choo v6.0.0 Release Notes

  • 👀 In the past few months we've been able to use choo@5 a bunch, and people seem to like it a lot! In this patch all we're doing is taking choo's existing API, 💅 and polishing the internals. In theory this means breaking changes, but in ⚡️ practice it will mostly mean people need to update their dependencies, and things will work great.

    ⬆️ Choo v6 includes the upgrades to bel@5 and nanomorph@5. This means up to 💻 20x faster server rendering, and up to 10x improved browser rendering speeds. 🛠 We've also fixed DOM node caching, and introduced sibling node reordering.

    🚀 This release also includes an overhauled timing API. We're now capturing more 🌲 events, and are leveraging this in tools like choo-log to provide consistent 🐎 feedback on performance.

    Choo is now also completely prototype based. It not only means faster execution times, and more maintainable codebase - but you can also override methods if you ever need to.

    We've also tweaked the event system a little. All built-in event names are now available as constants under app.state.events. And we've introduced three new events: 'navigate' will trigger whenever a route changes, 'replaceState' can be called to redirect routes, and popState which is emitted when the back 💻 button in the browser is pressed.

    📜 To top things off, we've reintroduced querystring parsing. An object containing the current represenation of the search query (e.g. ?foo=bar) can be found under state.query. We used to do something similar in choo v4 and below, and 🚀 we're happy to reintroduce it in this release!

    ⬆️ And that's about it - we've upgraded a whole slew of deps, and removed a few we didn't quite use. Overall we're quite proud of the new codebase, and filled with joy we didn't have to make any changes to the API - additions only.

    🚀 Thanks heaps for reading this far, we hope you enjoy this release as much as we 🏗 did building it. Happy coding! -Team Choo :sparkles: