New Version 5.0.0-rc.1

March 19, 2018

I'm really happy to announce the new Hemera 5 release!

This release is a ground-breaking refactoring of the core. The goal was to simplify but also to make the lifecycle of extensions and middlwares more predictable.

In summary:

Refactor extension lifecycle and handling
Refactor plugin management
Simplify payload validator and codec interface
Brand new Documentation with https://docusaurus.io/

Breaking changes:

Removed Reply.end()
Removed hemera.root property
Removed Hemera.reply() in favor of hemera.reply.next() to send multiple responses in a row
Removed configuration properties crashOnFatal, shouldCrash. The developer is responsible to catch fatal errors
Removed CodecPipeline
Removed encoder, decoder. We provide setter functions for client and server encoding
Removed support to register multiple plugins at once with hemera.use
Removed plugin$, plugins property, remove hemera.setOption(), hemera.setConfig() methods
Removed functionality to to send a response inside serverPreResponse. This was confusing because the payload is already set at this point
Load plugins only on hemera.ready() not when hemera.use() is called
We break the support of returning values in add or middlewares without the use of callback or resolved promises

New features:

Implement schemaCompiler to archive better abstraction for payload validators
Support for async schemaCompiler
Encapsulate extensions, codec and schemaCompiler
Provide setter functions for client and server encoding

Modified packages

hemera-joi Remove post validation
Remove support for hemera-nsq and hemera-controlplane
hemera-plugin you can skip the creation of a plugin scope with scoped:false

Bug fixes

Fixed issue in add middleware. Passed errors didn't lead to cancellation