HISTORY.md

1.1.3

• Bug fixes for AMD environments

1.1.2

• Bug fix for broken build, companion dependency was incorrect.

1.1.1

• added lazy loading callback handlers
• support for xhr timeouts
• added a code of conduct

1.1.0

2015-06-11

• update to backbone 1.2.1 and all it's goodness, older versions of lodash will break with this change set. lodash.mixin should allow for a fix
• add x-http-method-override to allow for the 'emulateHTTP' property in backbone.

1.0.5

2015-05-15

• bug fix for require js race condition when rendering views
• lazy loading now takes fetch_options to set any of the fetchOptions, same object as in the controller
• lazy loading now takes fetch_spec to allow for multiple models / collections to be loaded for a view on the client-side, this spec is the same as a controllers fetch spec.

1.0.4

2015-05-8

• Routes can specify custom headers
• Allows for a custom layout filename
• Bugfix: Case where some views were rendered twice
• Allow for custom template finder, option for the app
• allows readFromCache to be set to true / false in the fetch spec
• Pass a templateEngine to the template adapter, at the application level.
• Dependency updates

1.0.3

2015-03-27

• Bug fix for Require.js Needs to statically analyze the include in shared/app.js for the router.

1.0.2

2015-03-26

• Fixes / Updates to make Rendr work with require.js
• added ability to pass in template adapter instance
• move towards pulling the view layer out
• allows watchify / browserify to rebuild single files rather than the entire package

1.0.1

2015-02-26

• upgrade dependencies
• express
• underscore
• rendr-handlebars
• chai
• sinon-chai
• fix a few cases where window.$ was being accessed instead of Backbone.$
• fix for collection store when lazy-loading a collection (two collections were in the store, now only one)
• fix for restAdapter that was putting ? when req.query was an empty object

1.0.0

2015-02-11

• upgrade to express 4.11.0
  • added errorhandler instead of using the express.errorHandler that is deprecated
• breaking dropped node 0.8 support
• breaking dropped express 3.x support
• added support for node 0.12
• removed noop definition in favor of _.noop
• breaking removed postInitialization callbacks
• fixed issue with collection where a re-fetch call will override parameters with an empty object
• v8 runtime optimizations
• fixed the way view keeps track of it's childViews
• updated all devDependencies
• updated request to use latest version - security fix
• added .jshint
• moved from qs to qs2 to support q[]=1&q[]=2 parameters for arrays by default
• breaking removed match function from the server
• breaking removed checkFresh - changed to use expireSeconds for the store so the store can check instead

0.5.2

2015-01-9

• parseModelAndCollection optionally parses sub-models / sub-collections
• fix for the re-rendering the view on a refresh event when the view is hydrated
• upgrade to dev dependency for rendr-handlebars to 0.2.2
• parse collections into an instance of a collection if it isn't already

0.5.1

2014-12-11

• Changed how views are attached to the document, now calls the render method when given the appropriate flag.
• Added tests around base/view.js
• Added a clear method to the model and collection stores
• Fixed model collection from the store, will no longer create new instances of the model
• Added the ability to pass a JSON object to fetch_params when lazy loading views. This way we can pass multiple parameters to those models / collections.
• Upgraded qs dependency
• Fixed query string attribute when loading collections, now will properly send data on client and server.
• Fix in the view's parse options to not override the model / collection attribute after they've been re-inflated.
• Added fix for the parse method to allow for sub-models / sub-collections
• Upgrade to Backbone 1.1.2
• Added support for nested params in ServerRouter

0.5.0

2014-02-25

• [deprecation] use initialize instead of postInitialize
• Fix serverSide redirectTo with rootPath != default.
• [breaking] Removed use of options.emulateJSON and options.data in clientSync
• [breaking] Removed addApiParams from syncer
• Many more tests.
• [breaking] Moved AppView to client/ from shared/.
• [breaking] Added support for AMD (RequireJS), which resulted in many methods becoming asynchronous instead of synchronous (Fetcher, BaseView, ModelUtils, etc.
• [breaking] Removed global entryPath; no longer referencing rendr as a global.
• [breaking] Refactored server code to greatly reduce amount of boilerplate needed to set up a Rendr app. Rendr now owns its own Express app, which can be mounted on existing Express apps as a simple middleware.
• [breaking] server/server.js now exports a class constructor rather than a singleton.
• [breaking] Removed unused ServerRouter#stashError() method.
• [breaking] modelUtils object is now ModelUtils class.
• Added DataAdapter base class and fleshed-out RestAdapter, which is the default DataAdapter used by a Rendr server.
• More flexibility with placement Rendr app files within an Express project. app, and support for multiple Rendr apps in a single Express app.
• Support passing appAttributes to initApp middleware as either object or function, which takes req and res as arguments.
• Added viewing property to BaseView for better introspection of current view state.
• Fix bug where collection params weren't properly passed to collections upon view hydration.
• Attach req to App instance on the server-side.
• Switched default CommonJS packaging to Browserify from Stitch.
• Added examples/ dir, deprecating separate rendr-app-template project.
• Fix bug where resources fetched by the Fetcher using spec keys other than model or collection would be not hydrated properly by BaseView.
• Don't intercept clicked links if 'shift' or 'meta' keys pressed.
• Make it easier to use custom AppView class.
• Add support for RegExp routes.
• Only attempt to use pushState to redirect if the path matches one of the app's routes.
• Trigger action:error event in ClientRouter if there was an error caught while running a controller's action.
• Allow customizing the app's root path.
• Added better support for options.error callback for Backbone.sync() in the client-side.
• Automatically add X-Forwarded-For header in apiProxy middleware.
• Support using functions for BaseView#id, BaseView#className, and BaseView#tagName.
• Support passing options.status to ServerRouter#redirectTo().
• Use sanitizer module instead of un-maintained validator module for XSS protection.
• Update versions of dependencies: underscore, qs, request.
• Much more unit tests.
• Added Istanbul code coverage tool.

0.4.10

2013-08-02

• Increment to bump rendr-handlebars version.

0.4.9

2013-07-27

• Support multiple layout templates.

0.4.8

2013-07-26

• Use rendr-handlebars module instead of handlebars module and utilize new templateAdapter semantics (thanks @hurrymaplelad).
• Fix XSS vulnerability in ServerRouter#escapeParams().
• Fix bug in ServerRouter#getParams().
• Change viewEngine module to be a class constructor ViewEngine.
• Make sure to pass app instance to collections in Fetcher#hydrate().

0.4.7

2013-06-27

• Fix for allowing port in absolute model URL.
• Style tweaks for comments, binding to a context in this.on-type events.
• Added Fetcher.prototype.needsFetch method, for custom model caching logic in controllers.
• Fix for syncer.checkFresh (thanks @eleventigers).
• Fix for view path on Windows (thanks @vincejl).
• README updates (thanks @jacoblwe20).
• Performance improvment by caching Express router in ServerRouter instead of rebuilding it between requests (@jlogsdon).

0.4.6

2013-06-01

• Support specifying multiple API hosts for models & controllers (thanks @technicolorenvy!).
• Support subdirectories for views & templates, and allow omitting view path in controllers, in which case view path defaults to ":controller/:action" (thanks @technicolorenvy!).

0.4.5

2013-05-27

• Use ES5 native methods instead of Underscore methods: Array.prototype.map, Function.prototype.bind, Object.create, etc. NOTE: For IE<=8 compatibility, include es5-shim and es5-sham from kriskowal/es5-shim as client-side dependencies in your app.
• Windows-compatible postinstall script.
• Customize Handlebars each helper to pass through _app, _view, etc. into the child context, allowing cleaner {{#each}} {{view "my_view"}} {{/each}} semantics.
• Allow passing absolute URLs for models and collections, which will bypass the API proxy in the client-side.

0.4.4

2013-05-06

• In BaseView::getAttributes(), call toString() on model.id, for better support of Mongoose.
• In BaseView::getAttributes(), support custom this.model.idAttribute.
• Remove reference to global.isServer in BaseView; easier to standalone test.
• Default replace: false in ClientRouter::redirectTo().

0.4.3

2013-04-30

• Support redirect option in routes file.

0.4.1

2013-04-29

• Allow accessing this.parentView in BaseView during rendering.

0.4.0

2013-04-29

• Converted all CoffeeScript files to JavaScript.

0.3.4

2013-04-25

• No more globals for Backbone, _, Handlebars.

0.3.3

2013-04-25

• Updating to handlebars@0.1.10 to get bundled runtime file.

0.3.2

2013-04-19

• Ensuring that ModelStore passes app to models when instantiating them.

0.3.1

2013-04-18

• Added apiProxy middleware, pulled from rendr-app-template.

0.3.0

2013-04-18

• Breaking change: Renamed dataAdapter.makeRequest to dataAdapter.request.

0.2.4

2013-04-17

• Removing bundled jQuery. App should provide its own.

0.2.3

2013-04-17

• Allow passing {pushState: false} to ClientRouter::redirectTo() to do a full-page redirect.

0.2.2

2013-04-08

• Fixed bug where status code of CRUD errors were not properly passed down from syncer.

0.2.1

2013-04-07

• Fixed bug where models within collection wouldn't have this.app set after view hydration.
• Converted fetcher object to Fetcher class. Prefer to access it via app.fetcher.

0.2.0

2013-04-05

• Breaking change: Passing real req as first argument to dataAdapter.makeRequest.
• Fixing bug in ClientRouter when no querystring.
• Also return @collection.meta and @collection.params in BaseView::getTemplateData().
• Support passing three args to App::fetch().

0.1.1

2013-04-01

• ClientRouter params include querystring params, just like ServerRouter.

0.1.0

2013-04-01

• Initial release.