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Announcing Vendure v0.15.0

June 09, 2023

Michael Bromley

Michael Bromley

CTO & Co-Founder

We are excited to announce the release of Vendure v0.15.0! Read this blog post to learn about the major new features and breaking changes in this release.

List type in Custom Fields

Custom fields enable the built-in entities (Order, Customer, Product etc) to be extended with new data fields specific to your business needs. With this release, custom fields can now be lists (arrays) of the specified type. For example, you may wish to define "keywords" on your Product entity for use in SEO. This can be done with a list of strings:

export const config: VendureConfig = { // ... customFields: { Product: [ { name: 'keywords', type: 'string', list: true, // < this makes it a list } ], } }

In the AdminUI you'll then see a list UI which lets you add, remove and re-order the list items:

Channel-aware Orders

Orders are now associated with Channels. This means that if you have more than one Channel set up, e.g. Shop1 & Shop2, then an Order created on Shop2 will not be visible to Administrators who only have access to Shop1. This marks a step towards support for the multi-tenant (marketplace) model, one of the most-requested features from the community.

Note that this change makes a careful database migration necessary - see the breaking changes section at the end of this post.

New Promotion options

We're re-worked the way that Promotion conditions and actions are handled internally, making it easier to implement certain rules and UI controls for them. This made it possible to ship a couple of useful new promotion conditions:

  • If cart contains more than x of a specific ProductVariant

  • If Customer belongs to a specific CustomerGroup

We've also added a new promotion action:

  • Discount on specific products

There is also a brand-new Promotions guide which contains detailed instructions on creating your own custom promotion conditions and actions.

New developer guides

We've added some much-needed documentation to the developer guide:

We've also improved the documentation for the underlying APIs which these are built on: ConfigurableOperationDef.

Other notable improvements

  • Brazilian Portuguese translations for the Admin UI

  • A new removeAllOrderLines mutation to clear the cart in a single operation

  • Pagination & filtering of product variants in the Admin UI

  • Ability to filter search results by a Collection's slug, in addition to id.

See all changes in the v0.15.0 Changelog

BREAKING CHANGES

Due to some of the new features described above, there are a bunch of breaking changes which you'll need to account for when updating to v0.15.0. For general instructions on upgrading, please see the new Updating Vendure guide.

Database migration

  1. Generate a migration script as described in the [Migrations guide]({{< relref "migrations" >}}).

  2. Now that Orders are associated with Channels, you'll need to manually add the following query to your migration at the end:

    // Assuming the ID of the default Channel is 1. // If you are using a UUID strategy, replace 1 with // the ID of the default channel. await queryRunner.query( 'INSERT INTO `order_channels_channel` (orderId, channelId) SELECT id, 1 FROM `order`', undefined, );
  3. IMPORTANT test the migration first on data you are prepared to lose to ensure that it works as expected. Do not run on production data without testing.

Changes to Admin UI custom field controls

If you use custom field controls in the Admin UI, you'll need to slightly modify the component class: the customFieldConfig property has been renamed to config and a required readonly: boolean; field should be added. This is part of an effort to unify the way custom input components work across different parts of the Admin UI.

// before export class MyCustomControl implements CustomFieldControl { customFieldConfig: CustomFieldConfigType; formControl: FormControl; } // after export class MyCustomControl implements CustomFieldControl { config: CustomFieldConfigType; readonly: boolean; formControl: FormControl; }

Type definitions changes

  • If you have created custom CollectionFilters of PromotionActions/Conditions using the 'facetValueIds' type for an argument: the 'facetValueIds' type has been removed from the ConfigArgType type, and replaced by 'ID' and the list: true option.

  • The ID type in @vendure/common/lib/generated-types & @vendure/common/lib/generated-shop-types is now correctly typed as string | number, whereas previously it was string. If you are using any generated types in your plugin code, this may lead to TypeScript compiler errors which will need to be corrected.

Community contributions

Thank you to the following community members who contributed to this release:

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