Separate linting from testing as follows:
- `yarn jscs`: Run JSCS.
- `yarn jshint`: Run JSHint.
- `yarn lint`: Run all linters, i.e. ESLint, TSLint, JSHint, and JSHint.
- `yarn test-node`: Run Mocha tests in Node.js environment.
- `yarn test-electron`: Run tests in Electron environment via Grunt.
- `yarn test`: Run all tests.
CI
- Align Travis and AppVeyor scripts as much as possible.
- Run linting before tests to fail fast.
- Run Node.js (headless and fast) tests first.
- Run Electron tests last (Travis seems to require custom setup in `travis.sh`).
It only has the minimum required dependencies:
- `linkify-it`: Best-in-class link detection library with support for
Unicode/IDN.
- `escape-html`: Standalone dependency for escaping HTML.
- `uc.micro`: Standalone dependency of Unicode data files.
Quite a bit of change here.
First, the basics:
- New dependencies were added: react, typescript, tslint, and react-styleguidist
- A new npm script: transpile. It uses typescript to process .tsx files in js/react, putting .js files next to the original file. It's part of the watch functionality of grunt dev as well as the default task run with just grunt (used to build the app prior to release). A lighter-weight to get watch behavior when just working on React components is to run yarn transpile --watch.
- yarn run clean-transpile will remove generated .js files
Style guide via react-styleguidist. Example site: https://react-styleguidist.js.org/examples/basic/
- Start with yarn styleguide
- Component.md files right next to the .tsx file
- jsdoc-style comments are picked up and added to the generated part of the styleguide - the overall summary and a table listing methods and properties of the component
- It has hot-reloading!
- It uses webpack, which means that our app now pulls in webpack though we don't use it to generate anything for the production app.
- I did a bunch of work to enable the use of Backbone views in this context, which will allow us to move smoothly from the old world to the new. First, add all the permutations in the old way, and then slowly start to re-render those same views with React.
A bit of dependency cleanup to enable use in React components:
- moment was moved from our Bower dependencies to our npm dependencies, so it can be used in React components not running in a browser window.
- i18n was moved into the new commonjs format, so it can be used in React components even if window is not available.
Lastly, a bit of Gruntfile cleanup:
- Removal of Chrome App-era modifications of background.js
- Make jshint/jscs watch more targeted, since more and more we'll be using other tools
Split out test-specific and general utility react components too.
And moved our test/legacy* files for the Style Guide into a styleguide/
subdirectory of test/.
I think we'll be able to live in this directory structure for a while.
Update to electron 1.8.4 (#2186)
Migrate all attachments from IndexedDB to file system in the background (#2208, #2193, #2165, #2162, #2129)
Save attachments to disk when importing Chrome app export (#2212)
Fixed: Read receipts setting would not be synchronized along with re-link (#2218)
Fixed: Clicking conversation in left pane when already selected would remove focus on message composition field - thanks
@colefranz! (#2032)
Fixed: Searching for the phone number of an existing contact, then selecting 'start conversation' would erase contact details (#2191)
Fixed: Selecting Settings menu option multiple times would open multiple instances of settings view - thanks @navdeepsinghkhalsa (#2167)
Dev:
- Relax Node.js version requirements (#2203)
- Fix a few typos in documentation - thanks @Vinnl (#2171)
- Update issue template to mention that translation should be via Transifex (#2157)
Due to a number of hacks, the style guide can be used to show Backbone
views. This will allow a smooth path from the old way of doing things to
the new.
npm run transpile
Works on files under js/react/
Outputs files right next to the .tsx file
This is part of our `grunt dev` task, as well as the default grunt task,
which does everything else necessary to get a raw git checkout ready to
run.
Fixed: White block at bottom of conversation panel in iOS theme
(#2144 and #2153)
Fixed: Would attempt to rotate signed prekey every five seconds,
forever, after app discovers it is unlinked
(1c6d91b59c)
Dev:
- Introduce IndexedDB index on `messages` store tracking
`schemaVersion` (#2128)
- Preparation for encrypted backups
(cea42bde7d)
- Updates to structure of exported data - messages.zip, flat list of
attachments (6d8f4b7b6e)
Backup creates, in a target directory:
- An attachments folder, with all attachments, each named for their
parent message's id - a GUID. If there is more than one attachment
in a given message, each attachment beyond the first will end with
'-N', zero-indexed.
- A file named messages.zip. It contains exactly what went to disk in
the original export code, but zipped up.
Export is now only 'light,' and in this new messages.zip format.
Import supports both the new format and the old format. If the target
directory has a messages.zip file, we'll treat it as the new format.
Next up: Encrypting attachments and the messages.zip!
New option in settings: delete all application data
(383e02edc4)
Remove all configuration in database when we discover we are unlinked
(9acb189650)
Delete everything in database when we link with a different phone number
from previous link (9acb189650)
Windows: Delete all data on uninstall
(c8555974e4)
Dev:
- Switch to a new service for debug logs, since GitHub is retiring
anonymous gists (#2111)
- Redact file paths in anything that goes to the log on disk (#2110)
- When top-level process errors happen, don't show dialog with stack
trace (#2110)
- Add `nsp` to CI runs
(fd056e1b4c)
- Add eslint-plugin-mocha to disallow exclusive tests using *.only
(#2110)
The plan is to use this for our future HTTP needs as it is:
- modern
- promise based
- popular
- likely to support custom certificate authorities (CAs)
Chosen over the following alternatives:
- superagent (older, promises added later, potential lack of custom CA support)
- axios (no team experience with it; less popular than `got`)
- request (older, heavy-weight, promises not native)
- jQuery (old, trying to move away from jQuery altogether and move towards
declarative UIs)
- `fetch` (too low-level, no native timeout support)
Upgrade to the latest version of Electron, 1.8.2 (#2066)
Replace custom notification sound with system sound (#2108)
Update menus (#2078 and #2099)
- A few copy changes to make things clearer
- Settings now available via the File (Windows/Linux) or Signal
Desktop (macOS) OS menu
- Eliminate the triple-dot menu in the top-center of the screen
Fix: Hitting enter after entering device name on install would not move
to next screen (#2085)
Dev:
- Ensure consistent builds using `yarn --frozen-lockfile` (#2098)
- Update code to match eslint-enforced formatting (#2077)
- Upgrade to latest version of electron-builder and associated
packages (#2066 and #2097)
