Changes

This document highlights the most important fixes, improvements, and features, that were introduced in Webiny 5.7.0.

Webiny CLI

Brand New CI/CD Scaffold (#1633)

With this release, we’re introducing a brand new CI/CD scaffold, which will set up a CI/CD workflow for your Webiny project in no time!

New CI/CD Scaffold

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Currently, you can set up your CI/CD via GitHub Actions only. But note that in the future, we would certainly like to bring support for more providers, depending on the interest from the community.

For more information on how to use the new scaffold, make sure to check out the also new Set up CI/CD how-to guide.

Improved--debugArgument (webiny deployandwebiny destroyCommands) (#1624,@ankurvr)

From this release, passing the --debug flag upon running the webiny deploy and webiny destroy commands will also include additional deployment-related information and logs.

The following example shows how you can use it with the webiny deploy command:

This improvement will be very useful because without it, upon experiencing deployment-related errors, users simply wouldn’t receive enough information, which would make debugging much harder and in certain cases, even almost impossible.

Improved API Error Output (#1622)

From now on, when DEBUG=true is set in your <projectRoot>/.env file, React apps will be able to render a proper error overlay with details about GraphQL operation and actual error that was thrown.

GraphQL Error Overlay

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Other

ApolloDynamicLink

With addition of the error overlay Apollo link, to handle API errors, we noticed that the amount of custom Apollo links is starting to grow, and it’s becoming a bit crowded in the app setup code.

We introduced a new ApolloLink - ApolloDynamicLink, to be the only custom link Webiny needs in the Apollo Client setup. This new link will look for plugins of type apollo-link on every request and allow you to modify the operation (headers, query, etc.). This also solves the problem of apollo-link plugins being lazy loaded, in which case they wouldn’t even be part of the ApolloClient request processing.

Extend Page Data and Queries/Mutations

You can now also extend Page Builder Page and its settings with custom fields, in both the GraphQL API and admin app. How-to guides will be published in the upcoming days, where we’ll guide you through the plugins you need to use to make this work.

Plugins as Class Instances

The previous two upgrades led us through an interesting discovery process. We realized that we can, in some cases, greatly improve the DX by providing not just the TS interface for plugin implementation, but actual plugin classes with default logic.

Starting with this 5.7.0 release, we’ll be experimenting more and more in this field, and will be rolling out more plugins which you’ll be able to just use. We’re very excited about this so stay tuned for more information on our journey to better and faster development.

Documentation

New CI/CD Key Topics

We’ve just published the brand new CI/CD key topics section, which, as you might’ve already guessed, covers everything that there is to know about setting up a CI/CD workflow for your Webiny projects.

Security Framework Key Topics

We’ve finally put together several articles explaining what Webiny Security Framework is and how everything is tied together on both API and React side.

Multi-Tenancy Key Topic

Learn about multi-tenancy in Webiny. Note that this feature requires an Enterprise License. If you’re a company interested in building multi-tenancy applications, get in touch.