Migration Guides

This area will contain the Migration steps to follow for upgrading your store to new Front-Commerce versions.

Our goal is to make migrations as smooth as possible. This is why we try to make many changes backward compatible by using deprecation warnings. The deprecation warnings are usually removed in the next breaking release.

2.0.0-rc.2 -> 2.0.0

Over the years, we’ve deprecated a lot of code and provided backwards-compatible adapters to cope with API changes in dependencies. This release is about removing all this code, and upgrading all dependencies to their latest version.

All deprecated code has been removed. If your application relied on it (deprecation warnings in 2.0.0-rc.2 or earlier), please update your code.

We’ve done our best to document every changes so you could upgrade your application with confidence, however it should be handled with attention and care.

We highly recommend you to plan the 2.0.0 in two steps: first migrate to 2.0.0-rc.2 and ensure that no deprecation warnings are triggered, then migrate from 2.0.0-rc.2 to 2.0.0 and do a full round of testing to ensure your app works as expected.

Compatibility with Magento modules 1.x+ only

Feature flags were implemented in the core to support 3-years old Magento modules. We’ve dropped this support and recommend that you ensure to have a Magento module version greater than 1.0.0!

Sharp and libvips minor update

sharp has been updated from 0.23 to 0.25, which requires libvips v8.9.1 (instead of v8.8.1). You may have to rebuild it by removing your node_modules folder or run npm rebuild.

Further details available on https://sharp.pixelplumbing.com/changelog.

date-fns isn’t a Front-Commerce dependency anymore

date-fns has been removed from dependencies in favor of a native winston plugin that timestamps log entries, and custom functions elsewhere.

It allows developer to choose the version of date-fns they prefer and reduce the bundle size. Please ensure you are not using date-fns in your application, or install it in your project. The version in Front-Commerce was 1.30.1, and the latest available is 2.14.0.

For backwards compatibility, you can run:

npm install --save date-fns@1.30.1

Logging format update: a timestamp is now automatically added to log messages as the timestamp field of each entry (in GMT time). date fields were removed. You can update your custom logs to do so too.

See this commit and this one for an overview of those changes.

Make linting pass again

Dependencies were updated, a first step would be to automatically update as much as your codebase as possible to ensure it matches the latest conventions and good practices. You can run:

npm run lint -- --fix

Below are the main updates to be aware of.

Prettier updated to 2.x

We’ve updated Prettier to its latest version (1.x -> 2.x). It will not cause any issues to your application, but may break snapshot tests. Your code will have to be reformatted with the latest Prettier version.

It introduced trailing commas, parents for single param arrow functions and other changes. You can read Prettier 2.0 “2020” blog post for further details.

ESLint and rules updated to 7.x

ESLint (and related rules) have been updated to their latest version. Please ensure your code match the latest rules if your app uses Front-Commerce’s default rules.

See Migrating to v7.0.0 for further details.

ElasticSearch related changes

@elastic/elasticsearch must be installed

Recent versions of the official @elastic/elasticsearch client are versioned against the corresponding ElasticSearch version they are compatible with. We decided to make it a peer-dependency of front-commerce‘s package instead of being a direct dependency to allow developers to choose the exact version they need.

You must install it in your application, with the version matching your server version. For now, only 6.x is supported.

npm install --save @elastic/elasticsearch@6

This library had several breaking changes that only applications with custom queries should care about. If your application is using the standard ElasticSearch integration (with configurations and no custom layers etc…) then you won’t be impacted.

For applications with custom querying, the most important change to be aware of is that client.search now returns an object instead of the body. You will have to update your code as below:

- const body = await queryBuilder.products(request);
+ const { body } = await queryBuilder.products(request);

See the official documentation for further details.

Deprecations removed

The deprecations introduced in 2.0.0-rc.2 have been removed. Ensure that your FRONT_COMMERCE_ES_ALIAS only contains the index prefix for instance.

You will very likely have to change FRONT_COMMERCE_ES_ALIAS=magento2_default to FRONT_COMMERCE_ES_ALIAS=magento2 in your .env file (the _default will be appended from your stores.js configuration).

It is important to acknowledge Elasticsearch related changes from our previous release if you are upgrading from an earlier version.

GraphQL Dataloaders: loadMany() change

The dataloader library has been updated to 2.0.0. There is only one important API change to be aware of.

The loadMany() method will now return an array that may contain Error instances along with valid results when a key failed instead of rejecting the promise. Please read the release notes for further information.

For a fully backward compatible change, you can refactor your code as below (or leverage this new feature for a more resilient app):

const ids = [1, 2, 3];

- return loader.loadMany(ids);
+ return Promise.all(ids.map(
+   (id) => loader.load(id)
+ ));

graphql-tools now in 6.x: remote schema stitching need changes

graphql-tools has been migrated to its latest version (v6). This is a huge improvement for the library: after years of slow developments, the project has been taken over from Apollo by the Guild team. Front-Commerce now uses modules from the @graphql-tools monorepo, a new and fresh version of this library. See https://the-guild.dev/blog/graphql-tools-v6 for more context.

You shouldn’t worry if you are using Front-Commerce’s GraphQL modules. However, if you are using remote schema stitching features, you will have to update your code according to our latest documentation: see GraphQL Remote schemas for an updated guide.

TL;DR:

• GraphQL modules using remote schema must now provide a custom executor (that will execute remote fetching queries), instead of the deprecated apolloLinkHttpOptions and linkContextBuilders options (we shipped helpers to help in this task)
• GraphQL transforms such as FilterRootFields must now be imported from @graphql-tools/wrap instead of graphql-tools.

Here is an example from Front-Commerce’s Magento 2 GraphQL remote schema module’s migration:

- import { FilterRootFields } from "graphql-tools";
- import authenticateRequest from "./authenticateRequest";
+ import { FilterRootFields } from "@graphql-tools/wrap";
+ import makeExecutor from "server/core/graphql/makeExecutor";
+ import withMagentoAuthorizationHeaders from "./withMagentoAuthorizationHeaders";
import log from "../../../../scripts/log";

// […]

    const uri = config.magento.endpoint + "/graphql";

    return {
      uri: uri,
      transforms: [
        new FilterRootFields(
          (operation, rootField) =>
            operation === "Query" && rootField === "storeConfig"
        ),
      ],
-      linkContextBuilders: [authenticateRequest()],
+      executor: makeExecutor(uri, {
+        fetchOptionsAdapter: withMagentoAuthorizationHeaders(),
+      }),
    };
  },
};

axios: double-check custom interceptors

axios has been updated from 0.15.3 to 0.19.2. This change won’t affect you if you are using the default Front-Commerce factories when using axios. If you did, here is what will impact you:

The most notable breaking change is related to how duplicate headers are handled (see https://github.com/axios/axios/pull/874 and the whole changelog if interested). It should not impact your application though.

Another low-level change from 0.17 is that the base url is now prepended to the config.url AFTER interceptors (and not BEFORE). If your app relies on custom interceptors, please ensure they are still working correctly. You can use the finalUrlFromConfig helper function from a helper module added to mimic axios core feature. See this commit for an example.

react-intl: changes for strings containing HTML tags

react-intl was updated from 3.x to 4.x. The main breaking change is that missing tags will now throw errors if your i18n messages contain HTML tags. Please pass additional rendering parameters for these tags in your intl.formatMessage calls.

Here is what to do:

1. search for HTML tags into your translation files
2. use the translation id to find its usages in your components
3. for each one, update your code as below

- intl.formatMessage("Hello <strong>Bob</strong>");
+ intl.formatMessage("Hello <strong>Bob</strong>", {
+   strong: (text) => <strong>{text}</strong>,
+ });

Front-Commerce’s core only had 1 usage (id: modules.Checkout.CartRecap.titleCount) that you may have to fix yourselves if you overrode the theme/modules/Checkout/CartRecap/CartRecap.js component.

You must also ensure that your app doesn’t use <FormattedHTMLMessage> or intl.formatHTMLMessage that have been removed. See the list of breaking changes.

formsy-react updated to 2.x

formsy-react has been updated from 1.1.5 to 2.0.3. Some internal methods have been renamed and subtle low-level behavior changes were introduced (required errors by default in errors etc…).

If you were using Front-Commerce’s wrappers introduced in 2.0.0-rc.0 you might not encounter any issues. Otherwise, we recommend to refactor your code to use them!

See Formsy’s upgrade guide for exhaustive details about low-level changes.

Stripe embedded payment updated

Stripe libraries were updated.

The stripe Node.js library was updated from 7.15.0 to 8.60.0. See the migration guide in case your application relies on advanced features.

The react library has bigger changes. Front-Commerce is now using the official and rebranded @stripe/react-stripe-js instead of the deprecated react-stripe-elements library. If you overrode Stripe components, please check the “migrating from react-stripe-elements” guide for migration instructions (imports etc…).

We rewrote default components to use new Stripe components:

• the <StripeCheckoutElement> has been simplified in FC, please reapply your changes to the latest version if you overrode it
• the <StripeCheckout> component was totally rewritten to use hooks. It is very unlikely that you overrode it, but if you did please update your override.

Miscellaneous and unlikely impacting backwards incompatible changes

Some minor changes were introduced in dependencies or while removing deprecated code. They are unlikely impacting a standard application, but worth mentioning in case you relied on some low-level APIs.

• The <ExistingAddress /> and <NewAddress /> components used in the checkout were updated to use the <Checkbox /> component as they were using a deprecated one. Make sure it doesn’t have an impact on your styles, or update your imports if you overrode them.
• i18n-iso-countries has been updated to 6.x, if your application was using its getNames() helper function, please ensure it works with the new API
• webpack’s url-loader updated from 3.x to 4.x. It may cause different mimetypes for rare types (see their CHANGELOG)
• graphql has been upgraded from 14.6.0 to 15.1.0. It is very likely backwards compatible for your app, even though backward incompatible changes were introduced for subtle use cases: see v15.0.0 release notes if curious
• SitemapLoader (and makeMagentoPaginationWalker helper) were removed from magento1 and magento2 modules (file magento(1|2)/store/loaders). They were unused in the core. If your application used them, please refactor it to use the loader from Front-Commerce’s core. See our documentation about Sitemap to learn about the feature.
• The ProductStockLoader no longer takes the FeatureFlag loader as parameter. Please remove this parameter if you were instantiating it manually.
• loaders.Url.matchBy has been removed from Magento2’s module. It was only used for the deprecated Query.matchUrls field and might not impact your codebase, but it’s worth mentioning in case your relied on it since it wasn’t issuing deprecation warnings itself.
• Convict has been upgraded to 6.0.0. You may have to install additional packages if your application uses custom configuration providers with one of the following format in their schema: "email", "ipaddress", "url", "duration" or "timestamp". See their migration documentation for further information
• FRONT_COMMERCE_USE_SERVER_DYNAMIC_ENV can be removed from your .env file, it is not used anymore
• The Wishlist feature is now always enabled for Magento 2
• The Sitemap generation script has been revamped to use the latest version of the underlying library that contained heavy changes (it would be safe to double check that no regression was introduced in your context and we’d appreciate an issue if you find something ;))

2.0.0-rc.1 -> 2.0.0-rc.2

IMPORTANT: this release should be the last one before 2.0.0. It means that you MUST ensure that your application does not trigger any deprecation warnings so you could upgrade to future Front-Commerce releases.

Cache must be emptied upon first deployment

If your store was running on 2.0.0-rc.1, you should empty the application cache (usually Redis) upon deployment. It is required to solve an issue with incorrect category urls being cached in Redis (see #204).

More flexible store URLs

It is now possible to use a base url for your stores that contain a base path. This means that in config/stores, the url key can now contain an URL looking like https://www.example.com/fr. In previous versions you could only use subdomains like https://fr.example.com.

Please refer to Configure multiple stores for more details.

With this change we now have an official alternative to web/core/UNSAFE_createFullUrlFromPath. If you were using it, please switch to web/core/shop/useFullUrl. We also removed process.env.PUBLIC_URL in favor of this useFullUrl hook. Please refer to Configure multiple stores to learn about its usage.

Improved manifest.json generation

The manifest.json used to declare your website as a PWA will now be configurable by store. This means that you can have both the french version and the english version of your website installed on your phone. This is still early stages but this is a first step that ensures that URLs are always correct. In the future you can expect further customizations based on the store in use.

IntlDecorator in Storybook is now a ShopContext

In storybook you could change the language by using the IntlDecorator. This is no longer needed and will now be handled by using a ShopContext that is available in all your stories without any specific code on your side. This ensures that if there are additional configurations based on the selected store/shop, they are still handled properly.

Since IntlDecorator is no longer needed, it is now deprecated and you can remove it from your stories.

New parameter for Magento2’s CustomerLoader

If you were manually building a Magento2 CustomerLoader instance, be aware that it should now receive a StoreLoader instance as its third parameter.

Elasticsearch related changes

Improved configuration

Elasticsearch configuration is now more robust and support multi-store configuration. You may have to update your environment variables to match the stricter constraints:

• FRONT_COMMERCE_ES_DISABLE MUST now be set to true if your application does not leverage Elasticsearch
• FRONT_COMMERCE_ES_HOST MUST otherwise be set and not end with a trailing slash
• FRONT_COMMERCE_ES_ALIAS SHOULD now be the index common prefix shared across stores. The store code is now appended by Front-Commerce. You will very likely have to change FRONT_COMMERCE_ES_ALIAS=magento2_default to FRONT_COMMERCE_ES_ALIAS=magento2 in your .env file (the _default will be appended from your stores.js configuration).

Deprecated APIs

Some internal signatures have been updated for Elasticsearch-related factories. Front-Commerce is backward-compatible but will show you deprecation warnings so you could easily update your code accordingly.

If you’ve created custom Elasticsearch related features (sort orders, facets, pagination, loaders etc…) you may see them pop a lot!

We encourage you to read every deprecation warnings and enable traces with the TRACE_DEPRECATION=* environment variable to find where your code has to be updated. It usually will be a matter of removing or adding parameters to a few function calls. Here are commits with similar changes for Magento2 and Magento 1 modules in Front-Commerce’s core.

Please contact us if do not understand what change needs to be done.

2.0.0-rc.0 -> 2.0.0-rc.1

Magento 2.3.4

The 2.0.0-rc.1 supports Magento 2.3.4. If you upgrade to Magento 2.3.4 there shouldn’t be any impact. However if you install a new 2.3.4, please make sure that in config/website.js the key search.ignoredAttributeKeys has url_key. Indeed the url_key is now searchable by default in Magento but shouldn’t be displayed in the facets of a layered navigation.

Dynamic URLs

Some URLs are too dynamic to easily predict what kind of pages we are to display. This is solved in Front-Commerce by using the route query in GraphQL and the Dispatcher component.

We have improved those in this release to avoid any duplicate content by forcing a redirection to the canonical page. However, to do so, we needed to change the url field in the Routable GraphQL interface.

Thus, if you’ve overridden the theme/modules/Router/DispatcherQuery.gql, please make sure to replace url by path. If you’ve changed the Dispatcher.js itself, please contact us.

Removing LinearIcons in favor of SVG icons

LinearIcons was based on a font containing all the icons. It can behave weirdly when the users have a slow connection or specific font settings. We’ve removed it in favor of SVG based icons.

If you are using a font icon in your project, please make sure that everything still works as expected. If not, you can copy the content of the file "~theme/components/atoms/Icon/UNSAFE_LinearIcons" in your own CSS to get the old behavior back.

All <ResizedImage /> components removed in favor of <Image />

The <Image /> component that is an improved version of the deprecated <ResizedImage /> is now in place in all the components that need to display an image in Front-Commerce.

This also means that if you didn’t override a component using <ResizedImage /> but still relied on the class .image in your CSS, this could change how it is displayed. Please check for reference of .image in your CSS to make sure that everything still works as expected.

Search now only returns relevant results

In previous versions, we displayed search results by sorting by relevance. However this means that if you typed “skirt” you could have some bags popping at the end of the search. To avoid any weird results, we are now only displaying relevant results. This also means that there are more scenarios where you can have no result.

If you need to get the old behavior back on your project, please contact us.

1.0.0-beta.3 -> 2.0.0-rc.0

1.0.0-beta.4 and 1.0.0-beta.5 versions were bugfixes releases which required to be done so that some projects could move forward. It was safe and seamless to update to these versions.

If you are migrating from a 1.0.0-beta.3 version to the 2.0.0-rc.0, here is the guide.

Linting

The previous linting was usually linting your code AND Front-Commerce’s code which was a waste of time. This is no longer the case and you can lint your code however you want.

But if you don’t want to have complicated eslint configurations, you can use Front-Commerce’s by creating a .eslintrc.js file at the root of your project with the following code:

module.exports = require("front-commerce/.eslintrc.js");

You can now launch the linting by using npx front-commerce lint.

Please note that we no longer use prettier by default in the eslint configuration. It is instead executed when running npx front-commerce lint.

You can still use npx front-commerce lint --fix if you want to fix prettier or eslint errors automatically.

This also means that you can now upgrade prettier to its latest version without breaking Front-Commerce’s tooling.

Avoid commonjs syntax

The linting will now prevent you from using commonjs syntax in your project. You should instead use the ES modules syntax (import/export).

This will allow better tree shaking and a better validation of your builds in the future. This is also what allows us to upgrade to the latest dependencies for the libraries used in Front-Commerce.

Dependencies upgrade

We’ve been accumulating technical debt about upgrading the libraries Front-Commerce depends on for a bit of time because our server code mixed syntaxes between commonjs and ES modules. This means that we now have upgraded everything to their latest version and you will need to update your code accordingly.

Here the list of the main updates you need to be concerned about:

• react and react-dom: 16.8.6 -> 16.8.9 New deprecations have been put in place by React itself. We’ve fixed them in Front-Commerce, but you will most likely have them in your own codebase. Please update your code accordingly. Details

• autoprefixer: 6.7.6 -> 9.6.1 Please define your browserslist in package.json. For instance it could look like this:

    "browserslist": [
      "last 2 version",
      "> 0.25%",
      "not ie <= 9",
      "Firefox ESR"
    ]
  

• formsy-react: 0.20.1 -> 1.1.5 It should be compatible. However you will have warnings if you use formsy-react-2. Simply rename it to formsy-react. Please have a look at the Abstract Formsy section below to learn about broader changes regarding the form inputs.

• react-helmet -> react-helmet-async It should be compatible. However you will have warnings if you use react-helmet. Simply rename it to react-helmet-async. The goal is to have a better SSR support.
• react-intl: 2.4.0 -> 3.2.3 It should be compatible for the use cases in FC. If you use specific features, please check them and fix them. FormattedMessage no longer insert spans around your messages. This might lead to some styling issues. Add manually a span around your message if this is the case.
• react-paginate: 5.0.0 -> 6.3.0 It should be compatible unless you were using breakLabel.
• react-responsive: 3.0.0 -> 8.0.1 Should be compatible since we are using a facade in FC theme/components/helpers/MediaQuery. If you are using something else, please make sure your code still works.
• react-router: 4.3.1 -> 5.0.1 See CHANGELOG for more details.
  • Make sure that you always import your components from the react-router or react-router-dom and no longer use react-router/XXX or react-router-dom/XXX.
  • You no longer have access to the old context. Please use withRouter or <Route /> instead.
• recompose: 0.26.0 -> 0.30.0 mapPropsStream works but triggers warnings because of `react@16.9.0. Please useweb/core/utils/mapPropsStream.js` instead.
• migration of loadable-components@1.1.1 -> @loadable/component@5.10.2
  • Rename your imports to @loadable/component
  • Rename LoadingComponent to fallback
  • Use an ErrorBoundary rather than the ErrorComponent
  • Add %%__HEAD__%% and %%__SPLIT__%% to your template/index.html if you have one.

Display error pages

Error pages now have their own template: template/error.html. Please override it in your module if you need to customize it.

This template is used for the following pages:

• Offline
• Maintenance (503)
• ServerError (500)

Better SSR fallback

Previously, when the SSR failed, we displayed a “Loading…” string before trying to render the page client side. This is no longer the case. We instead display the theme/pages/SsrFallback component which is overridable. You could for instance replace it with a custom loader.

Please note that in dev mode, this page won’t show and you will get an error message instead. The goal here is to catch the errors early and make sure that things keep running smoothly. If you happen to stumble upon these errors, please fix them by checking your server’s console.

If you still want to display the theme/pages/SsrFallback in dev mode, add FRONT_COMMERCE_DEV_SSR_FALLBACK_DISABLE=true to your environment variables.

Responsive images

Your previous images will still work. However we have added a new component in theme/components/atoms/Image that will always give the proper image size to your browser.

• Supports srcset and webp
• Improved lazy loading
• Same API as <ResizedImage />
• Improved DX by explicitly failing in dev mode and failing silently in production mode

We will migrate progressively the components in Front-Commerce’s core, but feel free to start migrating your own code for improved performance and UX.

Only thing to consider: if you had some images in one of your public/images/resized folder, they will no longer work in dev mode because these images will be resized on the fly just like your images at the /media endpoint. However, in your production environment you will still see the image.

This release also contain a utility library that makes adding your own media proxy a breeze. Please read the related documentation to know more.

Abstract Formsy

The goal here is to allow an easier migration out of Formsy.

If you don’t plan to move out of it, you don’t need to change anything. However, if you want to keep your codebase up to date with Front-Commerce, please consider using withFormHandlers instead of withFormsy.

Please note that some improvements comes with withFormHandlers. The most notable change is that inputs won’t display errors on first user’s change, but on the first blur. This should make form completion less frustrating for the users. The second change is that you can decide to opt-out of Formsy any time by passing an onChange property directly.

For more information, please have a look at how to create new input types.

For existing projects, the goal would be to replace formsy-react‘s HOC by withFormHandlers. The best way to migrate components you have overriden in your project is to look at the core’s implementation of form inputs like Input, Textarea, Checkbox or Select.

Move to a file first routing declaration

Previously, if you needed to use new routes or sub-routes, you needed to do one of the following:

• override the web/Routes.js file
• add the route using the web/moduleRoutes.js file
• or declare sub-routes in existing pages

This led to several issues:

• developers needed to handle code splitting themselves, which could led to bigger initial javascript load
• it was hard to have a global vision of the existing routes in a Front-Commerce application
• Front-Commerce couldn’t optimize page loads by preloading components or data since nothing mapped an URL to a route

This is why we’ve decided to implement the solution available in many Javascript Frameworks: Next.js, Gatsby, NuxtJS, Sapper, etc.

The TL;DR of the new routing system is that you now have a web/theme/routes folder available in your modules which can contain 5 kind of files:

• normal routes files like about.js which will map the exported component to the /about url
• index.js: maps the exported component to the / url
• _layout.js: wraps the routes in the same folder with the exported component
• _inner-layout.js: wraps the routes in the same folder with the exported component but won’t discard the parent’s layout
• _error.js: exports the component that will displayed in case there’s a 404 error or if one of the component does not manage to render

For more information, please have a look at the Routes reference.

    module.exports = {
      name: "Front Commerce DEV",
      url: "http://www.front-commerce.test",
      modules: ["./src"],
      serverModules: [
        { name: "FrontCommerce", path: "server/modules/front-commerce" },
        { name: "Magento2", path: "server/modules/magento2" }
    -  ]
    +  ],
    +  webModules: [{ name: "FrontCommerce", path: "front-commerce/src/web" }]
    };

        module.exports = {
          name: "Front Commerce DEV",
          url: "http://www.front-commerce.test",
          modules: ["./src"],
          serverModules: [
            { name: "FrontCommerce", path: "server/modules/front-commerce" },
            { name: "Magento2", path: "server/modules/magento2" }
          ],
        -  webModules: [{ name: "FrontCommerce", path: "./src/web" }]
        +  webModules: [
        +    { name: "FrontCommerce", path: "front-commerce/src/web" },
        +    { name: "MyModule", path: "./src/web" },
        +  ]
        };

ID types in GraphQL definitions

In order to improve consistency of the GraphQL schema accross platforms, we have also made some changes to the GraphQL schema.

All ids now leverage the ID type instead of being Int or String. This will allow better compatibility across platforms since ID allow for Int or String values as identifiers. It shouldn’t affect the final behavior of your components. If you had some in your own schemas, we suggest to also convert them to ID.

The only thing that you need to make sure of is to run npm run lint on your project. This should allow you to see errors on overridden GraphQL files.

Please note that if in your code, you relied on some int types, there might be cases where identifiers comparison won’t work. All code within the core’s module has been updated to avoid as much compatibility issues as possible. However keep in mind that if you rely on some strict equality (===) and static identifiers, this could lead to issues.

Better sitemap declarations

First things first, if you didn’t customize the sitemap, you can skip this section. If you did though, you will need to change the way you customized the Sitemap loader.

Previously, in order to change the sitemap loader, you had to override the default resolver for Query.sitemap and add your own nodes to the default ones. From now on, you will instead need to register nodes dynamically. Please follow the Sitemap guide for more details.

Caching update

The caching layer has been improved to enable a wide-range of possibilities.

You will have to update your caching.js configuration file to the new configuration format. Front-Commerce will display a warning if you use the previous format but is backward-compatible.

This refactoring allowed us to leverage strategies decorators to implement something that Magento store owners will appreciate: a PerMagentoCustomerGroup caching implementation. We now recommend Magento 1 and Magento 2 users to cache all dataLoaders in a persistent cache (such as Redis), with the PerMagentoCustomerGroup strategy for the CatalogPrice dataLoader.

Here is how it would look:

export default {
  strategies: [
    {
      implementation: "Redis",
      supports: "*",
      config: {
        host: "127.0.0.1"
      }
    },
    {
      implementation: "PerMagentoCustomerGroup",
      supports: ["CatalogPrice"],
      config: {
        defaultGroupId: 0
      }
    }
  ]
};

With this configuration, your Front-Commerce will not do any Magento API calls for guest users… and they will notice the difference!

1.0.0-beta.0 -> 1.0.0-beta.3

1.0.0-beta.1 and 1.0.0-beta.2 versions were bugfixes releases which required to be done so that some projects could move forward. It was safe and seamless to update to these versions.

If you are migrating from a 1.0.0-beta version to the 1.0.0-beta.3, here is the guide.

HTTPS

We wanted to explicitly prevent usage of Front-Commerce in production mode in a non secured environment. From now on, accessing an application in production mode using the http protocol will automatically redirect to https.

If you experience issues after the upgrade, here are the things to ensure:

• start the application with the FRONT_COMMERCE_UNSAFE_INSECURE_MODE set to true to see if that solves your issue
• if the above manipulation worked, ensure that your proxy (if any) forwards the protocol using the X-Forwarded-Proto HTTP header

If you still experience issues, please contact us.

Embedded Payments

Previously, when a payment needed to set custom information, there were two steps: one for validating the payment information, and one for placing the order.

This is no longer the case, which improves the Customer experience. But this means that AddtionalPaymentInformation components need to use the new behavior, which is to use theme/modules/Checkout/Payment/SubmitPayment when validating the additional payment information.

You will need to do so if you are using Stripe or Payzen and have customized how these forms are displayed in an existing project. If you need help, please feel free to contact us.

Please note that if you made some changes to some payments only because you wanted to change the submit button, this will no longer be needed. You will be able to remove your override, and only override theme/modules/Checkout/Payment/SubmitPayment. The additional benefit is that it will let you have the exact same submit button across all your payment methods.

Magento 2 Authenticated Remote schema stitching

If you had a custom remote schema stitching module with Magento 2, you could reuse the authentication middleware from Front-Commerce to access resources under the currently logged in user by leveraging the new HTTP headers customization feature.

Here is how it might look:

const { FilterRootFields } = require("graphql-tools");
+const authenticateRequest = require("server/modules/magento2-graphql/authenticateRequest");

const m2GraphQLEndpoint =
  process.env.FRONT_COMMERCE_MAGENTO_ENDPOINT + "/graphql";

module.exports = {
  namespace: "Acme/Magento2GraphQL",
  dependencies: ["Magento2GraphQL"],
  remoteSchema: {
    uri: m2GraphQLEndpoint,
    transforms: [
      new FilterRootFields(
        (operation, rootField) =>
-          operation === "Query" && rootField === "myField"
+          operation === "Query" && rootField === "myField" ||
+          operation === "Query" && rootField === "customer"
      )
-    ]
+    ],
+    linkContextBuilders: [authenticateRequest()]
  }
};

1.0.0-alpha.2 -> 1.0.0-beta.0

Versions

We are now entering a beta phase. Be sure to update your dependency as follow:

npm install --save git+ssh://git@gitlab.com/front-commerce/front-commerce.git#semver:^1.0.0-beta

Same goes for the Magento 2 module. Please update your PHP dependencies by using the latest beta in your Magento project.

IMPORTANT: please ensure to keep your FRONT_COMMERCE_MAGENTO_MODULE_VERSION up-to-date in the .env file of your Front-commerce application. It should now be 1.0.0-beta.

Translations

We have introduced the mechanism of Translation Fallback. This is means that you will have fewer conflicts during next upgrades.

Improved search experience

While working on our compatibility with Magento 2.3, we decided to use ElasticSuite. Learn more about it in our announcement.

During this change, we needed to update some parts of the GraphQL schema. If you don’t use our implementation, this won’t impact you. However, if you do, here is what changed in the schema:

• AttributeBucket.swatch was removed in favor of AttributeBucket.productAttributeValue.swatch. The reasoning behind this is that what’s interesting is not the swatch itself but the whole attribute which is available at AttributeBucket.productAttributeValue.
• Layers related types are now interfaces (Bucket, DynamicFacet, FixedFacet) with concrete implementations (AttributeFacet…).
• DynamicFacet.bucket has been renamed in DynamicFacet.buckets (plural).
• SearchResult.layer was renamed to SearchResult.products

Please check your front-end queries to ensure to update them accordingly. If you need any help about these, feel free to contact us.

Wishlist

A basic wishlist is now available in Front-Commerce by default with the Magento2 module. However, for existing shops, you need to check a few things in order to make sure that the wishlist is available for your customers. Indeed, the impacted components are likely to have been overridden.

1. Upgrade your front-commerce/magento2-module to version 1.0.0-beta.1 or higher.
   • make sure to update FRONT_COMMERCE_MAGENTO_MODULE_VERSION accordingly
2. Check that the wishlist is available in the customer’s account
   • the route must exist (node_modules/front-commerce/src/web/theme/pages/Account/Account.js)
   • a link must in the account navigation (node_modules/front-commerce/src/web/theme/modules/User/AccountNavigation/AccountNavigation.js)
3. Check that the user can actually add the product to their wishlist
   • either on the product page itself (node_modules/front-commerce/src/web/theme/modules/ProductView/Synthesis/Synthesis.js)
   • or on the product item used for product listings (src/web/theme/modules/ProductView/ProductItem/ProductItemActions/ProductItemActions.js)

Storybook 5

Your styleguide is now powered by Storybook 5. This might have an impact on the organization of your custom stories but they will still appear in your styleguide.

To move your stories in the correct sections, please set your story name like this: section|path.of.your.story.Component

Payments

Stripe

We have added an initial implementation of Stripe’s embedded payments. This is still in early stage but will let your customers pay your order successfully. See Stripe.

Integrations

Previously, some payment React components were loaded by default in the Checkout even though those payment methods were not used. This resulted in a heavier js bundle. This, we have removed those components by default.

If you relied on them, you will now need to add them manually. We are still in the process of documenting it, but you can find the main informations in this issue at the moment.

Deprecations

• Environment variables from your .env will in the future be loaded dynamically. You won’t need to rebuild your server to update your server’s environment variables. To ensure that you have the newest behavior, please set FRONT_COMMERCE_USE_SERVER_DYNAMIC_ENV=true. To keep the deprecated one, please use FRONT_COMMERCE_USE_SERVER_DYNAMIC_ENV=false. See How to update environment variables.
• While upgrading the search behavior, we have also changed deprecated the search.blacklistKeys configuration in config/website.js. This now should be search.ignoredAttributeKeys which is less offensive and more explicit. Moreover, search.fixedFacets and search.categoriesField are no longer used.
• While upgrading the search behavior, we have split the core’s search definition from the Magento 2’s implementation. This means that future integrations will let you use different backends while keeping your frontend intact. We’ve grouped the core’s search functionality in server/modules/front-commerce/search. This means that we have also moved server/modules/front-commerce-core to server/modules/front-commerce/core. By default, .front-commerce.js should now use server/modules/front-commerce, in order to load both the core and the search.

Branching model

Please note that from now on, all developments will happen on the main master branch. If you want to be on the edge you must now use the master branch instead of the develop (now removed).

1.0.0-alpha.1 -> 1.0.0-alpha.2

GraphQL

graphql-js has been updated to a new major version (0.13.2 -> 14.1.1) that includes several breaking changes. There is only one breaking change that may impact your current application: scalar types are now checked more rigorously (see the PR), meaning you may have to convert strings to numbers (etc.) in your application.

The symptoms are errors of this type in your application:

Expected type Int; Int cannot represent non-integer value: “1”

See v14.0.0’s releases notes for an exhaustive list of breaking changes and other minor releases for new features.

Atoms refactoring (#178)

One of the goals of 1.0.0 is to rewrite our CSS classes to make it easier for new external contributors to dive into Front-Commerce. However, this is a lot of work because of the many features already implemented in Front-Commerce. Thus, we’ve splitted this in 5 smaller iterations (see (#97) for more details). This release is the first step towards this goal.

This means that:

• CSS classes of atoms are no longer used directly in other components
• CSS classes of atoms now respect the BEM convention. However we are not too rigid about this convention because avoiding dependencies between components is our first priority. (Currently in the process of writing a documentation page explaining the whys behind this decision.)

On your part, the changes that will affect you the most are about the following components:

• <Button>: changed the classes and gathered the styles properties under an appearance property
• <Link>: changed the classes and use the classes of the <Button> if you use the buttonAppearance property. This is relevant because for UI reasons you might want to render a Button, but it should still redirect to a new page under the hood.
• <ResizedImage>: added a surrounding div and changed classes to better handle fluid vs fixed images. Moreover, you can now update only the components that handle the markup of a ResizedImage without overriding the core component. Please refer to Image, ImageLoading and ImageNotFound in theme/components/atoms/ResizedImage folder.
• <Input>: changed input classes
• <NumberInput>: changed the style to add +/- buttons next to the input button.

You should also check that if you have overridden some of the other components.

Variant properties

For style variants of a component we had several behaviors in place:

• type property which was an enumeration of the variants
• variantName properties (for instance primary and warning for <Button>)

To improve consistency, we’ve decided to change this by always using an appearance property which will be an enumeration like what was done with the type property.

The goal is to avoid variants collision and to make it explicit when a variant only affects the style of a component.

These changes are backward compatible. Deprecation warnings will appear if you keep using the old properties.

Files loading in a Scss file

Until now, files used in a .scss file were to be loaded from the public directory or by using long and tedious file paths. This is no longer the case. You can now use relative imports.

For instance, if you have a theme/components/atoms/Icon/_Icon.scss file, you will be able to import the font file directly:

-src: url('../theme/components/atoms/Icon/font-awesome-4.7.0/fonts/fontawesome-webfont.woff2') format('woff2'),
+src: url('./font-awesome-4.7.0/fonts/fontawesome-webfont.woff2') format('woff2'),

This is usually done for background-images and fonts. Please look for any url keyword in your scss files to make sure that you update your paths accordingly.

Cart refactoring

The Cart was one of the most outdated part of our code. This is no longer the case! Components and styles have been refactored to better match the style of the checkout and account pages. This is a great step forward because it is rarely heavily customized by online shops and it will now be a nice default.

Translations

Since few integrators had the opportunity to customize the existing Cart, the main changes you will need to take care of are the translations.

Please refer to the translations files in the core of front-commerce to get the new translations within your application. This process should be easier in the future by using translations fallbacks that is under development.

Styles

If you have overridden the theme/modules/_modules.scss file and didn’t import the front-commerce/src/web/theme/modules/_modules.scss file, you will need to add the new styles for the Cart:

+@import "~theme/modules/Cart/EmptyCart/EmptyCart";
+@import "~theme/modules/Cart/CartTitle/CartTitle";
+@import "~theme/modules/Cart/CartContent/CartContent";
+@import "~theme/modules/Cart/CartContent/CartHeader/CartHeader";
+@import "~theme/modules/Cart/CartItem/CartItem";
+@import "~theme/modules/Cart/CartItem/CartItemInfos/CartItemInfos";
+@import "~theme/modules/Cart/CartItem/CartItemStatus/CartItemStatus";
+@import "~theme/modules/Cart/CartItem/CartItemQuantityForm/CartItemQuantityForm";
+@import "~theme/modules/Cart/CartItem/MiniCartItem/MiniCartItem";
+@import "~theme/modules/Cart/CartFooter/CartFooter";
-@import "~theme/modules/Cart/ProductItemCart/ProductItemCart";

If you have overridden the theme/components/_components.scss file and didn’t import the front-commerce/src/web/theme/components/_components.scss file, you will need to add the new styles for the new components that have been added for the Cart’s modules:

+@import "~theme/components/atoms/Typography/Sku/Sku";
+@import "~theme/components/atoms/Form/Input/NumberInput/NumberInput";
+@import "~theme/components/molecules/Form/FormTitle/FormTitle";

Checkout refactoring

The checkout was already pretty clean. Since it is a crucial part of any e-commerce application, we invested in it to make it a good default.

However, the Address components were a bit confusing in the Checkout because these were used in the Account too. To make it clearer for integrators, we’ve moved the generic Address components to theme/modules/User/Address. This means that in this folder you will now find:

• Address components (previously in theme/components/molecules/Address) to display an address in different formats
• Forms components (previously in theme/modules/Checkout/Address) to create, edit or remove an address
• EditableAddress (previously in theme/modules/Checkout/Address) that lets you display an Address and lets the User edit and Address if they need to

Styles

If you have overriden the theme/modules/_modules.scss file and didn’t import the front-commerce/src/web/theme/modules/_modules.scss file, you will need to add the new styles for the Cart:

-@import "~theme/modules/Checkout/Address/Address";
-@import "~theme/modules/User/Address/AddressRemover/AddressRemover";
+@import "~theme/modules/User/Address/AddressForm/RemoveAddressForm/RemoveAddressForm";