platformOS Status Report — Apr 19, 2021

Articles

UPDATED How We Achieved a 7x Speed-Up of Our Webpack (TailwindCSS) Build: We added an update to this article that describes how we sped up our Webpack (TailwindCSS) build even more from 64 to 9 seconds using TailwindCSS/JIT.

Content production

UPDATED Get Started Hello, World! and pOS Marketplace Template - added a list of recommended resources for learning technologies required for developing on platformOS to Get Started topics.
UPDATED Custom Error Pages - added explanation and examples about other formats
UPDATED Integrating SendGrid Using API Call Notifications - added links to related topics External DNS - Resolving to root domain and External DNS - Resolving to www of subdomain
IN PROGRESS Updates to SendGrid spam protection articles
IN PROGRESS pOS Marketplace Template - Built-In Features
PLANNED Move Notifications out of the Forms section

Improvements, fixes

FIXED reference to context.flash in Handling a Violated Authorization Policy, code wasn’t showing

To learn more about the most recent changes, improvements and fixes in platformOS, check out our latest release note: platformOS Release Note 19 Apr, 2021 — New tags and flags, unbranded timeout error pages

NEW Experimental new tag for changing locale via Liquid - context_rc (_rc suffix to be eventually removed, indicating the syntax might change)
NEW New flag in app/config.yml - slug_exact_match to improve behavior of the routing
NEW Experimental new tag jwe_encode_rc
NEW New flag in app/config.yml - skip_elasticsearch to avoid duplicating data in ES if the application does not use it
IMPROVED Timeout error pages are now unbranded