package spin

0.6.0 - 2020-05-17

This release is a complete rewrite of Spin.

Since the beginning of the project, a lot of learnings have been made and this new version incorporates these learning to build a solid foundation for the future of Spin.

Added

• New template DSL
• Template inheritance with the (inherit ...) stanza
• Documentation of the CLI and template DSL.
• The CLI now provides a verbose flag to increase the verbosity
• The git templates are now cached

Changed

• Calling spin without a subcommand now displays a simpler usage documentation. The man page is available with spin --help
• Better man page documentation
• Better error messages
• Improvements of the configuration prompts using Inquire
• Update native templates to follow best practices (e.g. name of libraries)
• The official templates are now embedded. No need to download a git repository, and the project generation works offline.

Fixed

• Bucklescript templates now fallback to using npm when yarn is absent

0.5.1 - 2020-03-17

Added

• Add versionning for the official templates to ensure updates on the templates don't break old version of Spin.
• Sort spin ls result by name.

Templates

• Rename react to bs-react. All the upcoming Bucklescript templates will be prefixed by bs-.
• Add a lib template that is releasable on Opam.
• Make the cli and ppx templates releasable on Opam.
• Add support for Alcotest as an alternative to Rely in the native templates.
• Add support for Opam as an alternative to Esy in the native templates.
• Stop using Pesy and the dune files manually in each sub-directories.
• Move the test_runner to a subdirectory support in test.
• Extract the Contributing section of the README to a CONTRIBUTING.md file.
• Add a CHANGES.md file that complies with dune-release requirements.
• Use dune-release in the release scripts.
• Remove homebrew Formula from the cli template that was a bad practice and didn’t allow users to update the generated projects.
• Enable Windows in CI/CD of generated projects

0.5.0 - 2020-03-07

Added

• Before generating a template, Spin will check if the user has all the dependencies installed and exit gracefully if not. (by @citizen428)
• Add a condition field in the postinstall stanza for the templates.

Changed

• Print a warning when the update of the official templates failed, but continue the execution.
• Do not update the official templates when running new with a local path or a git repository.
• Remove some runtime dependencies to reduce Spin's binary size.

Fixed

• Trying to generate a file that already exists now raises an error instead of overwritting the file.
• Fix to output a proper message when no generator exist for the current project.
• Exit gracefully when failing to download a git repository or the initial templates for the first time. (by @citizen428)

0.4.8 - 2020-01-14

Added

• Support user configuration file that stores general configuration such as the user's name, Github username, etc.
• Provide a config subcommand that can be used to change the user configuration.
• The generators can now print a message when the generation succeeds with the message stanza.

0.4.7 - 2020-01-13

Added

• post_install stanza to run commands after installing a template now supports the working_dir stanza. The command will be executed in the given working directory.

Changed

• Removed unused starting_command stanza.
• Removed unused tutorial stanza.

Fixed

• Failure to parse a template file now prints an error with the file that cannot be parsed.

0.4.6 - 2020-01-11

Changed

• Redirect stderr to dev null when calling git commands.

Fixed

• Fix a wrong exit code when calling a generator that does not exist.
• Rename Homebrew formula to prevent duplication with existing spin formula.
• Fix installation from NPM using yarn

0.4.5 - 2020-01-11

This release has been unpublished.

0.4.4 - 2020-01-11

This release has been unpublished.

0.4.3 - 2020-01-11

This release has been unpublished.

0.4.2 - 2020-01-06

Fixed

• Fix release artifacts on linux that was using darwin binaries.

0.4.1 - 2020-01-04

Changed

• Use master branch of spin-templates.
• The template argument in spin new is not required. To use the minimal template, you can run spin new native.

Fixed

• Use HTTPS instead of SSH to clone spin-templates.
• Remove duplicated git clone logs.

0.4.0 - 2020-01-02

Added

• Create new projects from official templates with spin new TEMPLATE.
• Create new projects from git repositories with spin new TEMPLATE.
• Create new minimal projects with spin new when no argument is provided.
• Generate new modules in existing Spin projects with spin gen [GENERATOR].
• List existing official templates with spin ls.
• Install with Homebrew.
• Install with a bash script.