changelog.md

1.4.0

• Introduce new root scope per file for more consistent self
• Fix export const
• Add <input number=bool> for numeric inputs
• Only prevent native click if tap was prevented
• Print out compiler warnings in imbac and webpack loader
• Pass through stdio configuration from imbapack to webpack
• Don't include comments by default in webpack loader
• Disallow cross-scope calling of root 'def' functions (breaking change)

1.3.3

• Don't silence input events for form elements
• Implement style.removeProperty on server
• Improve mount/unmount performance

1.3.2

• Fix webpack4 compatibility
• Improve svg support
• Suppress setValue for input and textarea while editing

1.3.1

• Fix duplicate attributes in serverside rendering
• Make popstate event notify schedulers
• Make event manager delay adding listeners until needed
• Optimize tag tree syncing

1.3.0

• Add support for event modifiers (e.g. <div :keydown.enter.myHandler>)
• Add support for form input bindings (e.g. <input[data:myField]>)
• Allow method definitions inside object literals
• Better error reporting from parser when running through imba cli
• Add automatic cache pruning for loops
• Improve performance of setText
• Improve performance of non-keyed tag lists
• Implement radically improved inline caching strategy
• Improve overall rendering performance
• Allow all attributes on svg elements
• 25% smaller library (now 57k minified, 15k gzipped)
• Remove deprecated selector-syntax
• Remove deprecated methods on Imba.Tag (object,width,height,append,prepend)
• Remove deprecated methods on Imba.Event (keychar,keycombo)
• Remove deprecated Imba.isClient and Imba.isServer

1.2.1

• Allow reconciler to work with tag-like objects
• Make Imba.commit notify schedulers
• Make sure schedulers are correctly activated and deactivated
• Fix issue where process.version was not parsed correctly
• Fix variable naming issue when compiling with sourceMaps
• Fix let scoping where assignment is consumed by statement
• Allow ivar-syntax in plain objects {@ivar: value}
• Allow direct ivar access through object@ivar

1.2.0

• Compile to native let,const and await unless --es5 is specified
• Align await precedence with js
• Support variable shadowing
• Fix fat-arrow template parsing <div.item => ...

1.1.1

• Make imbapack input.imba output.js work without a config

1.1.0

• Introduce module keyword for singleton classes
• Allow aliasing imports with import x as y from ...
• Always escape attributes textContent when rendering on server

1.0.1

• Made Imbapack read options using the recommended way in Webpack 3.
• Made Imba.mount schedule the target by default (fix)
• Compiler returns correct location for classes and constants
• Enable experimental native async/await behind —es6 option
• Make imbapack commands platform-safe (GavinRay97 · pr#102)
• Deprecated implicit Promise.all wrapping of expr in await *expr* if expr instanceof Array

1.0.0

• Require 'imba' in each file - no longer depending on Imba being global
• Introduced imbapack as intelligent wrapper around webpack
• Introduced non-global tags
• Allow multiple adjacent tags inside for-loops
• Add tag.mount and tag.unmount
• Allow setting css inline <div css:height=100>
• Deprecated selector syntax
• Deprecated various tag helpers
• Tons of bugfixes and improvements

0.14.5

• tag.initialize can now be defined / overridden
• Dynamic flags <div .{flag}> works as expected
• Added more missing attributes to html elements
• Allow defining properties with reserved names
• prop watch: now accepts a Function
• Minor bugfixes

0.14.4

• Add trailing semicolon to IIFE wrapper (#67)
• Allow uppercase flags in tag (#64)
• Setters return self by default (#56)
• CLI will find index.imba, if exists within folder
• Improved serverside rendering
• Predeclare _ in global scope

0.14.3

• Mixing tabs and spaces for indentation will now throw error
• Internal refactoring
• Moved internal build over to webpack
• Bugfix: source maps should work again
• Bugfix: compilation on windows finds correct path

0.14.1

• Fixed regression for awakening tags from client
• Add width/height getters for tags
• Add context getter for canvas
• Removed deprecated code in dom.events
• Add Imba.Touch#tx and Imba.Touch#ty for pos relative to target
• Add Imba.Touch#capture for preventing all default behaviour of events
• Handle touchcancel correctly
• Deprecate Imba.Touch#suppress
• Bugfix: right-click caused havok with mousebased Imba.Touch
• Bugfix: watched attribute would not trigger correctly

0.14.0

• Removed IMBA_TAGS (must use Imba.TAGS)
• Groundwork for arbitrary namespaces for tags (and local/private tags)
• Added support for SVG
• attr definitions will preserve dash in generated setAttribute
• Removed description object for plain generated properties
• Allow nested tag definitions (local to the parent scope)

0.13.12

• Error now includes the relevant code/lines in message - contributed by @sleewoo
• Make scheduler register for next tick before running the current ticks
• Bugfix: Regression where methods with trailing comment did not parse

0.13.11

• tag(domnode) will awaken domnode as native type if the custom tag is not defined
• Bugfix: Parser should not treat ] and ) as implicit functions (issue#34)
• Allow methods without body to parse correctly (closes issue#35)

0.13.10

• Bugfix: Regression where indented return broke certain tag trees
• Bugfix: if branches without else does not return 0 when false (inside tag trees)
• Bugfix: Improved error reporting in terminal

0.13.9

• Documented more of the runtime/stdlib
• Adding prelim support for static analysis of tags,classes,methods++
• imba analyze now takes --entities flag to export entities
• Removed several undocumented and deprecated methods
• Cleaned up code UglifyJS warned about when minifying runtime
• Add failing test for known scoping bug (fix is underway for next release)
• Bugfix: temp vars were declared (but not used) in certain situations

0.13.8

• Added scheduler for an official/approved way to schedule rendering

0.13.7

• Reworked tag rendering to work with non-string textual nodes again

0.13.5

• Fixed yet another regression

0.13.4

• Throw error when trying to spawn undefined tag
• Fix regression with serverside rendering from 0.13.3

0.13.3

• Optimized rendering further
• Bugfix: native tags no longer spawn with empty class attribute
• Bugfix: wrong cachekeys in certain nested trees
• Bugfix: (cond && ) were not cached in static trees
• Bugfix: numerous edgecases with static trees

0.13.2 (2015-10-09)

• cache tags in for-loops by default (inside static trees)
• call render in tag#commit by default
• Improved sourcemaps
• Tap and click events handled in more consistent manner
• Added version of compiler that can run in a WebWorker
• Various bugfixes

0.13.1

• Rework tag class structure

0.13.0 (2015-09-19)

• Bugfix: safe call object:key?.method parses correctly
• Added support for data-attributes through tag#dataset method

0.12.2 (2015-09-18)

• Bugfix: parsing tags inside object literals
• Bugfix: methods with optional arg and block arg compiles correctly
• Bugfix: tag#prepend works for empty tag
• Internal refactoring

0.12.1 (2015-09-04)

• Fix standalone compiler for browser
• Renamed packaged compiler from compiler.js to imbac.js
• Export standalone compiler to Imbac instead of imbalang
• Returning self from default constructors

0.12.0 (2015-08-24)

• Preliminary support for source maps (through --source-map-inline option for ̀imba watch and imba compile)

0.11.6 (2015-08-23)

• Added imba export-runtime command to export the latest imba.js runtime.
• Fix imba watch on Windows (issue #11)

0.11.5 (2015-08-20)

• Don't single children in Imba.static
• Reworked how setHandler to bind directly to outer scope
• Guard against loading the library multiple times

0.11.4 (2015-08-19)

• Added minified version of library and compiler
• Remove need for classList (to support ie9)

0.11.3 (2015-08-15)

• Now caching static attributes on tags
• More improvements to reconciler

0.11.2 (2015-08-14)

• Added window, document, parseInt, parseFloat as implicit global variables

0.11.1 (2015-08-12)

• Fixed issue in dom reconciler

0.11.0 (2015-08-11)

• Allow new and char as varnames
• tag#render is called by default from tag#build
• Slightly improved error reporting when using : in control-flow (like python)
• Massively improved algorithm for reconciling dom trees (rendering for-loops etc will now be much more efficient) - contributed by @judofyr
• Fixed issue when requiring imba through browserify

0.10.0 (2015-08-05)

• Add support for guarded loops: ... for x in ary when x > 10
• Add dynamic cachekey for tags using <node@{mykey}> inside loops
• Add support for if/forin as first/only argument to implicit calls
• Fixed bug where for-in could not be the first/only indented child in a tag.
• Fixed regression with multiple nested parens in !(expressions)
• Improved error reporting from terminal

0.9.3 (2015-08-04)

• Register 'module' as an automatic global variable, along with 'global', '__dirname', 'exports', 'console', 'process', 'setTimeout', 'setInterval', 'clearTimeout', 'clearInterval'. The timeout/interval are likely to be deprecated in next version.
• added support for shebangs to top of files. #!/usr/bin/env imba or similar shebangs will be kept and converted in the compiled js (to #!/usr/bin/env node etc)
• Improved preservation of linebreaks, and removal of parens in compiled code.