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surface v0.5.0 Release Notes

Release Date: 2021-06-17 // almost 3 years ago
    • Add <:slotname> shorthand for <#template slot="slotname">
    • Introduce block expressions for surface templates (e.g., {#if}..{/if})
    • Introduce {#if} block expression with support for {#elseif} and {#else} sub blocks
    • Introduce {#for} block expression with support for {#else} sub block
    • Introduce {#unless} block expression
    • Introduce new shorthand notation for dynamic attributes/props using the {... } tagged expression
    • Introduce new shorthand notation for attribute assignment using the {= } tagged expression
    • Support private comments using {!-- --} for comments that are not supposed to hit the browser
    • Introduce s- prefix as an alternative to : for directives (i.e. s-if and :if are now equivalent)
    • Introduce :values directive for generating multiple phx-value- attributes
    • Added a convert task to aid migrating to the new syntax
    • Evaluate literal attribute values at compile time instead of runtime
    • Fix compile error when using single quotes as attribute value delimiters
    • Add quote_surface/2 macro to generate Surface AST from template snippets.

    💥 Breaking Changes

    • Replace the sigil ~H with ~F to avoid conflict with HEEx
    • Replace interpolation delimiters {{ and }} with { and }
    • Remove support for interpolation inside <style>...</style> and <script>...</script> nodes
    • ErrorTag: Renamed prop phx_feedback_for to feedback_for
    • Slot directive :props has been renamed to :args
    • Option :props for the slot/2 macro has been renamed to :args
    • The use of <template> has been removed in favor of <#template>
    • The use of <slot> has been removed in favor of <#slot>
    • The use of <If> has been removed in favor of {#if}...{/if}
    • The use of <For> has been removed in favor of {#for}...{/for}
    • MacroComponent.eval_static_props!/3 evaluates and returns only props with option static: true

    🗄 Deprecations

    • Support for passing non-string attribute values as literals (i.e. selected=true or tabindex=3) has been removed. Any non-string value should be passed as an expression (i.e. selected={true})