layout: post
author:
name: Steve Gill
url: https://twitter.com/stevesgill
title: "Cordova Browser@5 & Cordova Serve@2 Released!"
categories: news
tags: release tools browser
We just released an update to cordova-browser
and cordova-serve
Release Highlights:
- cordova-browser: Added
manifest.json
to browser projects. This enables basic Progressive Web App support
- cordova-browser: Implemented
PlatformApi
.
- cordova-serve: Removed Q dependency in favor of native javascript promises.
- cordova-serve: Changed default behavior of which browser is launched during serve. Now the serve command will use the system default browser instead of opening a new instance of chrome. You can still pass in a specific target
To upgrade:
cd my_project
cordova platform update browser@5.0.0
To add it explicitly:
cordova platform add browser@5.0.0
Please report any issues you find at issues.cordova.io!
Changes include:
cordova-browser
- CB-13214 Updated
cordova-serve
dependency to 2.0.0. cordova serve
command now opens system default browser instead of a new instance of chrome
. A specific target can still be passed in.
- CB-13214 Updated checked-in
node_modules
- CB-13188 fixed issues with run and build scripts.
- CB-12895: set up
eslint
and remove jshint
- CB-11181 add default favicon
- CB-11710 Add missing 'clean.bat' file
- remove old
xhr-activex
Windows code, update to use pagevisibility
instead of webkitpagevisibility
- CB-12804:
manifest.json
added to Browser during create. Adding basic PWA support
- CB-12762 Point repo items to github mirrors
- CB-12617 : removed node 0.x support and added engineStrict. This closes #27
- CB-12847 added
bugs
entry to package.json
.
- CB-12527 large refactor. Implemented
PlatformApi
- CB-12114 added travis and appveyor files
- Add github pull request template
cordova-serve
- CB-13188 set serve to use default system browser if none is provided.
- Change to
eslint
instead of jshint
- remove
q
dependence completely. Added server.spec
- added browser tests
- Convert
src/browser
to use Promise api
- Add License, Contributing, Notice, pr-template, etc
- CB-12785 added travis and appveyor
- CB-12762: updated common, fetch, and serve pkgJson to point pkgJson repo items to github mirrors
- CB-12665 removed enginestrict since it is deprecated
- CB-11977: updated engines and enginescript for common, fetch, and serve