What's New

Version 3.0 - May 25, 2023

• Toolchain migrated to Vite

• onInit event triggers during the init of jet views

• Predefined _hidden view

• Views can be overridden at runtime

• App can have a custom view loader

• Objects can be used as view params

• Ability to define app and view params through config() or show() commands

• Jetapp view doesn't copy methods of the app on self

• Popup subviews leave empty elements in parent collections

Versions 2.1.1 - 2.1.7

• The ability to use a map of overrides in the view config

• Improved TypeScript support (locate views through generics)

• Correct handling of top-level JetView submodules on navigation

• Fixes to routers

Version 2.1 - July 8, 2019

• Better routing logic (including subviews)

• webix.fullscreen support for JetView elements

• Typed results for navigation rejections (NavigationBlocked error)

• UnloadGuard: optimizations to guard triggers

• Various other fixes

Version 2.0 - February 21, 2019

New Features

• The ability to show views in new windows

• The ability to show windows like other views by including them in the app URL

• Several same-level subviews can have their own app URLs and work independently of each other

• Menu plugin can change URL parameters

• User plugin: the ability to add several pages accessible for non-authorized users

• Locale plugin: additional configuration property for setting Webix locales

• Locale plugin: the ability to split localization and load parts on demand

• Locale plugin: the ability to configure Polyglot

• Locale plugin: the ability to disable locale loading from jet-locales

• UrlRouter shares the same settings with HashRouter

• Webix Jet supports IE11+

• HashRouter works more stable during in-browser navigation

• New SubRouter that enables navigation in sub-modules

• The ability to use Webix Jet without Webpack

• The ability to import Webix code as a module

Changes in API and Inner Logic

• getUrl() and getUrlString() for app and view

• removeView() of Webix widgets triggers destroy() of the Jet views inside them

• getSubView() and contains() can be called for JetApp

• The refresh() method for app and view returns a promise

• view.refresh() works for views with sub-elements

• app.refresh() works when an app is inside a Webix Jet view

• app.refresh() triggers refresh of the top view instead of using its own custom logic

• The order of destroy and init events: first, the old view is destroyed, then the new view is initialized

Version 1.6 - June 26, 2018

• new WJET utility for faster prototyping

• JetView has the refresh() method

• better support for ES6 modules: app.views can return a promise of an ES6 module, which can be used for code-splitting

Version 1.5 - April 24, 2018

• the ability to compile a Jet app into a standalone bundle and use it in other apps or as is

• the ability to compile a Jet app as a component and use it as a Webix widget

• this.$$() returns widgets from the current Jet view only

Version 1.4 - April 11, 2018

• JetView class instances can be created in config()

Version 1.3 - January 11, 2018

• TypeScript support

• new API:

  • getParam and setParam methods to get/set URL parameters

  • getUrl

• UrlParam plugin

• ability to set optional path for the Locale plugin

• "app:user:login" and "app:user:logout" events

Version 1.2 - December 12, 2017

• show and getSubView APIs updated

• this.ui updated

  • allows to define custom HTML parent

  • can be used with JetView classes

• ability to remove "!" from the hash URL

• ability to return a promise from the config method of a view

• HashRouter supports config.routes

• views can define string-to-string mapping

Webix Jet 1.0 - September 26, 2017

Major update after version 0.5:

• views and app modules as ES6 classes

• using Webpack as a module bundler

• ability to choose among 4 routers

• ability to use 6 plugins for common tasks