2.0.0-beta.6

remoteStorage 2.0.0 is a mostly non-breaking update for app developers. It contains a few important bugfixes and a lot of enhancements. However, most of the work has been done under the hood, and on the development and documentation tools.

The source code has been ported to TypeScript, in order to facilitate safer and easier refactoring of the codebase. Thus, JS API documentation has been switched from JSDoc to TypeDoc, and the ReadTheDocs build environment had to be creatively adapted to support more modern node.js and TypeScript functionality. You can also access documentation for different versions there now, with the 2.0.0 docs being available under the "latest" tag.

Many thanks to all the good people who contributed to this release — you rock! In alphabetical order: @darkdread, @DougReeder, Eddie Dunn, @galfert, @johannesjo, @iLiviu, @kevincox, @michielbdejong, @pjbollinger, @raucao, @rosano, @sebastc, @silverbucket, @ssisk.

Breaking changes

• Remove Bower package support (#1231)
• Minimum sync interval is now 2000ms (#1260)
• Dropbox back-end supports and requires permission scopes now (#1274, also see docs)

New features

• Convert source code to TypeScript, publish type definitions with library/module (#1175, #1196, #1199, #1211, #1214, #1233, #1239, #1249, #1266)
• Allow to connect via URL (#1250)
• Dropbox back-end: Support PKCE, and use refresh tokens to obtain new access tokens (#1274)

Enhancements

• Update dependencies (#1206, #1226, #1272)
• Switch from Travis CI to GitHub Actions (#1223, #1224, #1225)
• Don't add trailing slash as only pathname to redirect_uri param (#1213)
• BaseClient#getObject: Throw error instead of string when JSON parsing fails (#1215)
• Improve documentation (#1219, #1227, #1241, #1242, #1265)
• Make ReadTheDocs work with current node.js/npm, TypeDoc, etc. (#1220, #1230, #1273, #1276)
• Don't include unnecessary files in npm package (#1232)
• Improve validation of custom sync interval settings (#1260)
• Throw if connect() is called before claiming access (#1269)
• Port tests to Mocha and Chai (#1271, #1274)

Bugfixes

• Fix WireClient initialization when localStorage settings data corrupted/missing (#1210)
• Handle Google Drive paths with special characters (#1181)
• Fix potentially wrong command in warning message (#1218)
• Don't list trashed files in GDrive folder listings (#1257)
• Fix case preserving for Dropbox (#1275 )
• Fix race condition causing item maps to be inconsistent with actual data (#1279)