Changes

Frontend

• Added many new CSS modifiers
  • empty-cells, hyphenate-character, line-break, orphans, shape-margin, shape-rendering, table-layout, text-combine-upright, text-decoration-skip-ink, text-emphasis-position, text-indent, text-orientation, and text-underline-position
• Query parameters / dynamic parameters are now decoded
  • So for example, https://example.com/?arg=hello%20world will now return "hello world" when you query it and not "hello%20world" as it did before
• We no longer crash on URLs that have extra slashes in them (such as https://example.com/oops//)

Gradle

• Fixed an issue where live reloading would break if you had multiple Kobweb sites that you were trying to develop at the same time in the same workspace.
• We now issue a warning if you do an export --layout static when Gradle detects backend functionality OR if you do an export --layout fullstack when you don't.
  • Give that kobweb export without explicitly passing in a layout does a fullstack export by default, we expect the latter to be more common.
  • This will hopefully help address what has been a point of confusion for new users.
  • No idea what I'm talking about? Check out the docs!

Worker

• Fixed an issue where workers declared in non-root paths wouldn't work(!)
  • This would also affect attempting to call workers from other workers.
• Add support for passing structured clonable objects (like File) and not just transferables with worker messages.
  • ⚠️ As part of this change, we deprecated the class name Transferables and renamed it to the more general-sounding Attachments
• We now surface exceptions if serialization / deserialization of input / output messages fail
  • Before this was swallowed because it wasn't assumed it wouldn't ever happen due to compile-time type safety, but a user showed us a reasonable case for them where it did (they forgot to tag a class @Serializable), and if we had surfaced the exceptions they would have saved a lot of time fixing it.
• Added support for attaching raw json key/value pairs to a worker message (as a useful escape hatch in case Kobweb doesn't support sending a particular class instance now or in the future, although 99.99% of you probably won't ever need to use this)

Thanks

@shaksternano helped us close gaps / fix bugs present in the API for using Kobweb Workers and made some great suggestions on how to improve it. See https://github.com/varabyte/kobweb/issues/708 for an example of an appreciated discourse!

@sandeepjak2007 has continued to help us filling out our CSS APIs. All new CSS modifiers are thanks to his contributions!

Full Changelog: https://github.com/varabyte/kobweb/compare/v0.22.0...v0.23.0