[ANN] Serenade 0.2.0

[jnicklas]

Hi everyone,

It's been a while, but I've finally been able to push out a new release. I still consider this release to be alpha level, but nevertheless, it should be a lot more stable than the 0.1.x series. Please let me know if there are any issues. We'll try to move to a faster release cycle with more iterative releases in the future.

Please note that this release breaks the public API in a number of significant ways, hopefully for the better. Read on to find out more:

[Changed] Controller actions now receive different arguments, it used to be just the event object, now it's `model, target, event`, instead.

[Changed] View and model are no longer automatically assigned to the controller.

[Changed] Collection.prototype.select has been renamed to Collection.prototype.filter in accordance with the ECMAScript standard

[Changed] Collection methods now return Collections where appropriate, instead of returning Arrays (e.g. map)

[Changed] When reaching into collection to specify nested dependencies, use a colon `:` as the separator. E.g. `dependsOn: "todos:done"`.

[Changed] Changed some of the arguments to various events fired to be more consistent.

[Changed] Properties.format has been removed, instead Properties.get takes an additional parameter, which when `true` uses the given formatter.

[Removed] Global formatters. Use globally defined functions instead.

[Added] The special method `loaded` is called on the controller after the view has been rendered.

[Added] Controllers can be functions, in which case they are treated as constructors and initialized with the model (and possibly parent controller)

[Added] Two way bindings via the new `binding:change=something` syntax in the view. See the README for more details.

[Added] `unless` instruction as an inverse of `if` (and a crutch to work around the absence of `else`)

[Added] Collections are now compatible with CoffeeScript array comprehensions and iterations (`for foo in bar`)

[Added] Pretty much all array methods from the ECMAScript spec have been added to Collection, with polyfills for IE where appropriate (except for the second parameter to indexOf, cause it's stupid)

[Added] Other methods on Collection.prototype: toArray, first, last, includes, clone, toJSON

[Added] `Serenade` is now a decorator which can be used to create dynamic models.

[Added] Properties can have defaults

[Added] Properties can be redefined

[Added] Properties are automatically added when an unknown property is set

[Added] Build on Travis CI

[Fixed] Identity map now works as expected, thanks to the release of a new CoffeeScript version.

[Fixed] Collections no longer need to track their members, which prevents memory leaks

[Fixed] Collection length is zero when empty

[Fixed] Helper nodes no longer cause errors when part of collections

[Fixed] sortBy now works with serenade models in IE

[Fixed] Raise an error when there is more than one root node in a view

[Fixed] No longer necessary to depend on both collections and reaching into it

[Fixed] If statements can be immediate children of collections

[Fixed] Completely rewrote dependency system, should fix infinite loop edge cases and other weirdness

[Fixed] Collection.prototype.delete works as expected when the item to be deleted is not in the collection

[Fixed] When `save` is called on a document with localStorage, it is always persisted.

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Many thanks to all contributors who made this release possible!

/Jonas

[Anton Lindqvist]

Great job!

I'm currently updating an existing Serenade application to 0.2.1. Since the model is no longer assigned to the controller per default is the new way recommended way to use the first parameter (which is the model)?

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