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Breaking changes

This version contains major performance improvements, particularly for rendering of pages with thousands/millions of elements. The changes in this release should allow a stable v1.0 to soon follow.

Reworked internals to avoid all copies where possible/desired:

• Added internal mutable structure to allow std::move out of initialiser_list.
• While the shape of the interface has not changed, the move/copy behaviour has, and thus implementations that are dependent on webxx's current copying behaviour, and not move-ing any supplied values, may cause breakages. See docs.

Compute component IDs at compile time:

• The component ID hashed that enable scoped CSS are now created via constexpr.
• While something of an internal implementation detail, the generated hash values differ from previous implementations as a result.

New features

• Added loop utility function: The second parameter of the callback is supplied with a Loop object containing information such as index and total count. See docs.

• Added 'head elements' to components: Components can now be constructed with a third parameter containing elements that will be collected into the new headTarget element. This is useful for preloading component assets. See docs.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/rthrfrd/webxx/compare/v0.8.1...v0.9.2

Breaking changes

This version contains major performance improvements, particularly for rapid rendering of pages with thousands/millions of elements:

Reworked internals to avoid all copies where possible/desired:

• Added internal mutable structure to allow std::move out of initialiser_list.
• While the shape of the interface has not changed, the move/copy behaviour has, and thus implementations that are dependent on webxx's current copying behaviour, and not move-ing any supplied values, may cause breakages (docs will be updated to reflects this).

Compute component IDs at compile time:

• The component ID hashed that enable scoped CSS are now created via constexpr.
• While something of an internal implementation detail, the generated hash values differ from previous implementations as a result.

New features

• Added loop utility function: The second parameter of the callback is supplied with a Loop object containing information about the loop such as item index and total item count.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/rthrfrd/webxx/compare/v0.9.0-alpha...v0.9.1-alpha

• Start of a simpler and more flexible mechanism for collecting items from components.

• Added "as" and "blocking" attributes.

• Allow CSS properties to own their values (this is consistent with HTML nodes).

• Added the ability to hook into the render, so now it is possible to stream the output.
• Added lazy blocks, so now it is possible to defer generating nodes until rendering starts.

See the updated docs for info on both: https://github.com/rthrfrd/webxx#5-rendering

• Dropped redundant component ID hashing.
• Existing APIs should hopefully now be stable, will move to v1.0.0 in due course.

Dropping C++11 to target C++17, such that std::string_view can be supported without adding a lot of macro complexity.

Significant change to component API:

• Implemented CRTP pattern to remove need for setting component string names.
• Improved performance with usage of typeid() to identify components.
• Reintroduced optional component ID hashing.

• Introduced placeholders.
• Made string ownership/access more predictable.
• Temporarily removed component name hashing (to be re-introduced in future).