API Reference JavaScript SDK Release NotesVersion 8 (WIP, canary)

Version 8 (WIP, canary)

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New Features

basehub/events: a new package used to interact with the Event Block.
basehub and <Pump /> now automatically infer draftMode from Next.js.
<Toolbar /> now includes a Branch Switcher!

SDK Breaking Changes

basehub/analytics has been deprecated in favour of basehub/events . They are slightly different things, but Events should be able to cover analytics use cases, and more.
<CodeBlock />: lang was renamed to language to better match the props of the pre handler in <RichText />
<RichText />: The code handler before received a prop named isInline, but now, it won’t receive that and it will just be used for inline code. The pre handler will be used for full code blocks.

API Breaking Changes

Now, if a Reference Block has just one “allowed type”, we won't type it as a GraphQL Union, but rather, just return the end-type directly. this might break queries that did the ... on SomeType thing.

# before
{
 someReference {
    ... on AuthorComponent {
      name
    }
  }
}

# after
{
 someReference {
    name
  }
}

In our Mutation API, we renamed the following:
- transaction is now transactionAsync
- transactionAwaitable is now transaction

note:

A bit confusing, yes, but we found that transactionAwaitable (which executed the transaction and responded with the result) was much more useful than the old transaction, which fired off a job and then it was up to the developer to poll for the transactionStatus. The name "transactionAwaitable" was a poorly thought out name, and we've taken the opportunity of a breaking version to fix this.

That should be all!