Rationale for nonsensical major version bump: around Nativefier 8.x,
versions of Nativefier and Electron aligned, by release schedule coincidence.
Since Nativefier has little breaking changes, it was great: as Electron
releases are breaking, Nativefier had no breaking changes, I bumped our
major version on new major Electron, and everything was good.
Except *now*, as I have a breaking change, that would bump Nativefier to
12.x, which would be confusing since we'd still default to Electron 11 :-/ .
-> To keep respecting semver and reduce confusion, bumping Nativefier
version to something far ahead. No it doesn't matter, version
number are meaningless anyway (well, outside of semver, whose
respect is precisely the point here).
Verifies short arguments do not contain an extra dash ( right: `-h`, error: `--h` )
Verifies long arguments contain at least two dashes ( right: `--help`, error: `-help` )
This PR adds better Typescript support when using the Node module directly:
1. Generate type declarations when running `tsc`
2. Created the `NativefierOptions` type for the `buildNativefierApp` function instead of using `any`
1. Fix (broken since 2016): Notifications broken by lambda constructor
2. Fix: `--processEnvs` broken by additional processEnvs object, the result was:
`processEnvs: {processEnvs: {...}}` which caused the conversion of the inner object into string `[object Object]`, no nesting allowed there probably. Compatibility introduced.
3. Fix: package.json missing `prepare` (or even prepublish), which breaks using as git dependency.
## Breaking changes
- Require **Node >= 8.10.0 and npm 5.6.0**
- Move to **Electron 8.1.1**.
- That's it. Lots of care went into breaking CLI & programmatic behavior
as little as possible. **Please report regressions**.
- Known issue: build may fail behind a proxy. Get in touch if you use one:
https://github.com/jiahaog/nativefier/issues/907#issuecomment-596144768
## Changes summary
Nativefier didn't get much love recently, to the point that it's
becoming hard to run on recent Node, due to old dependencies.
Also, some past practices now seem weird, as better expressible
by modern JS/TS, discouraging contributions including mine.
Addressing this, and one thing leading to another, came a
bigger-than-expected revamp, aiming at making Nativefier more
**lean, stable, future-proof, user-friendly and dev-friendly**,
while **not changing the CLI/programmatic interfaces**. Highlights:
- **Require Node>=8**, as imposed by many of our dependencies. Node 8
is twice LTS, and easily available even in conservative Linux distros.
No reason not to demand it.
- **Default to Electron 8**.
- **Bump** all dependencies to latest version, including electron-packager.
- **Move to TS**. TS is great. As of today, I see no reason not to use it,
and fight interface bugs at runtime rather than at compile time.
With that, get rid of everything Babel/Webpack.
- **Move away from Gulp**. Gulp's selling point is perf via streaming,
but for small builds like Nativefier, npm tasks are plenty good
and less dependency bloat. Gulp was the driver for this PR: broken
on Node 12, and I didn't feel like just upgrading and keeping it.
- Add tons of **verbose logs** everywhere it makes sense, to have a
fine & clear trace of the program flow. This will be helpful to
debug user-reported issues, and already helped me fix a few bugs.
- With better simple logging, get rid of the quirky and buggy
progress bar based on package `progress`. Nice logging (minimal
by default, the verbose logging mentioned above is only used
when passing `--verbose`) is better and one less dependency.
- **Dump `async` package**, a relic from old callback-hell early Node.
Also dump a few other micro-packages unnecessary now.
- A first pass of code **cleanup** thanks to modern JS/TS features:
fixes, simplifications, jsdoc type annotations to types, etc.
- **Remove GitHub integrations Hound & CodeClimate**, which are more
exotic than good'ol'linters, and whose signal-to-noise ratio is too low.
- Quality: **Add tests** and add **Windows + macOS CI builds**.
Also, add a **manual test script**, helping to quickly verify the
hard-to-programatically-test stuff before releases, and limit regressions.
- **Fix a very small number of existing bugs**. The goal of this PR was
*not* to fix bugs, but to get Nativefier in better shape to do so.
Bugfixes will come later. Still, these got addressed:
- Add common `Alt`+`Left`/`Right` for previous/next navigation.
- Improve #379: fix zoom with `Ctrl` + numpad `+`/`-`
- Fix pinch-to-zoom (see https://github.com/jiahaog/nativefier/issues/379#issuecomment-598612128 )
- Add a new `clearCache` option and `--clear-cache` parameter
to trigger session cleanups upon window launch and close
- Covers the feature request from issue #316
- Use case example: Forcing authentification / login between sessions without limiting cache size
This adds a new flag, allowing the user to define global shortcuts that trigger input events within the main window.
That way, I could easily wrap SoundCloud and Deezer to create a native app which reacts on my keyboard media buttons.
