Version Releases

• Begin moving internal plugins to NPM

  Moves our simple-authorization plugin into its own npm package to set up the pattern of installing Reaction API plugins from npm.

• Reaction API fully headless

  The Reaction API now has full GraphQL coverage of functionality previously provided by Meteor, including administrative and operator functionality.

• Plugins as NPM Packages

  Reaction API runs as a Node.js application and it is recommended that plugins be written as NPM packages.

• Permission systems

  Complete overhaul of the permissions system to allow for granular access of every piece of the Reaction API.

• Integration tests

  Improved integration test coverage. Full list of new integrations in Github.

• Improved Developer Experience

  Significant improvements made to startup, restart, and build times for the reaction project by removing Meteor from the Reaction API.

• Reaction Admin

  The Admin UI is now a standalone application in a separate repository.

• Reaction Identity

  The Reaction Development Platform is the best place to start developing with Reaction.

• Getting started with Reaction v3.0.0

  Identity provider for Reaction is moved into a separate service works together with reaction-hydra to enable OAuth2 flows.

• And more

  Mongo 4, default to running public docker images, CLI migration tool, upgrade guide and more. Read the full release notes for details.

• Upgrade tests and security updates

  Adds integration tests for GraphQL API endpoints, security updates and fixes a fulfillment method bug.

• Upgrade and fix Jest tests

  Fixed Jest integration test memory leak issue.

• Filter products by File, for Windows

  Reaction Admin’s filter by file feature is now compatible with Windows.

• The latest Meteor refactors

  As a part of the continuing removal of Meteor, packages are being moved to a new node-app folder.

• Orders

  Reaction Admin users can now filter orders by various search keywords, with a refreshed Catalyst user interface.

• More Meteor refactors

  Background jobs no longer rely on Meteor with a new Jobs API.

• Orders API

  Adds GraphQL API support for filtering Orders by search keywords, status, payment status, buyer address and much more.

• Faster Jest tests

  Jest integration tests are now up to 8x faster.

• i18n translations

  Translations no longer require Meteor.

• Test clean-up

  As part of our move away from Meteor, all Meteor app-tests have been removed.

• Bulk add and remove Tags

  Admins can add or remove tags from products in bulk.

• Refactors

  Image uploading, inviting a shop member, removing an address book and other admin features now use GraphQL instead of Meteor.

• Enhanced product filtering

  Admins can filter products by uploading a CSV in the product admin.

• New Orders UI

  New Orders UI is completely GraphQL-based and allows for updates to multiple fulfillment groups on each order.

• Continuous integration improvements

  Elimination of all ESLint warnings

• New React components for Admin

  Initial work on Catalyst, that will be the foundation for the Reaction Admin.

• Continuous integration improvements

  Fixes to over 500 ESLint warnings and recurring failing tests that will save time during development and continuous integration testing.

Example Storefront

• Server-side rendering by default

  A modern stack including Next.js, Apollo, React and Material UI for fully server-side rendered (SSR) pages.

• Event Tracking & Analytics

  Third-party analytics provider support, including Segment.io for ecommerce tracking events.

GraphQL Dev Server

• Checkout and Order Endpoints

  GraphQL Endpoints for Checkout and Orders

Authentication Service

• Single sign-on

  Universal login and authorization with a Reaction OAuth and OpenID Connect provider

Component Library

• Storefront Client

  React Components for Product Detail Page, Product Grid, Cart, Checkout, and Customer Account Profiles

• Automated Component Testing

  Snapshot testing for React components.

• Automated Continuous Deployment

  Staging deployments and NPM semantic releases automatically built and deployed with every commit

GraphQL Dev Server

• Checkout and Order Endpoints

  GraphQL Endpoints for Checkout and Orders

Reaction

• GraphQL API

  Use GraphQL endpoints in place of DDP Subscriptions for Product Grid and PDP

• Testing

  End-to-end and acceptance testing.

• Continuous deployment

  Staging branch built and deployed with every commit to a release branch

• Keep up with the latest pre-release branch

  Many refactors and fixes for the app, detailed in the pre-release pull request.

GraphQL Dev Server

• More endpoints

  GraphQL Endpoints for Cart, Catalog, Products, Tags, and Accounts with improved pagination

Reaction

• Simplifying Reaction

  Move optional packages out of the core product, for a slimmer, faster Reaction.

• Deploy to Heroku

  Deploy an instance of Reaction with the click of a button.

• Serve Assets from CDN

  Option to serve bundled CSS and JS from a CDN out of the box.

• And more

  Robots.txt files, bundle size reporting for releases and more. Read the full release notes for more.

• Remove legacy revision control

  Improve product grid performance and simplify publication logic by removing the legacy revision control system.

• Meteor 1.7

  Upgrade to the latest Meteor release.

• Introducing the GraphQL Dev Server

  Run a pure Node server for GraphQL development, without involving Meteor.

• Major changes to Catalog and Pricing

  The GraphQL Catalog and Reaction Catalog collection now use a new, better schema, and also introduce a new Pricing object. Read the release notes for more details.

• More GraphQL API endpoints

  Mutations, queries and resolvers for addresses, roles, currencies and more.

• Snyk security

  Add continuous integration tests for security vulnerabilities with Snyk. Read the changelog for more.

• New GraphQL endpoint

  Start GraphQL and GraphiQL API with endpoints for viewers and accounts

• Jest testing

  Introduce Jest specs and patterns to test GraphQL resolvers, schemas and more. Read the changelog for details

• Introducing the Catalog

  A faster, slimmer Catalog for storefront viewing. Read the changelog for details.

• Docker & Circle CI

  Use CircleCI workflows to run automated tests and update Docker to support multi-stage builds.

• Update and dynamically load modules

  Load certain modules dynamically for faster startup speeds, along with removing or replacing large dependencies like ImageMagick.

• Babel 7

  Babel 7, part of the Meteor 1.6.1 upgrade, brings possible breaking changes along with other changes in this release, detailed in the changelog.

• Code linting

  Enforce and establish new code rules for consistency and quality, across all Reaction applications.

• Meteor 1.6

  Enhanced developer tools including native debugging with breakpoints and Chrome DevTools.

• Node 8

  Faster V8 engine speeds.

• Multi-tenant Marketplace

  Onboard and manage multiple branded shops in a multi-tenant marketplace.

• Marketplace Merchants

  Enable and manage multiple merchants or vendors in a single marketplace with split order fulfillment and payment processing.

• Stripe Connect

  Stripe Connect payments for Marketplaces.

• Advanced Permission

  Create and modify groups, roles, and permission sets at a granular level.

• Bulk Order Management

  Change status and process multiple orders.

• One Step Checkout

  Simple one step cart and checkout experience.

• Drag & Drop Merchandising and Product Management

  Arrange order of product’s and its variants in your shop with drag and drop. Clone product variants, manage product options (eg. size/color), related product photos. Edit fields inline.

• Product Publishing Workflow

  Publishing and approval workflow based on revisions and roles.

• Accounts & User Management

  Invite users and grant permissions. User authentication with account profile page, global address book and order history for users.

• Inventory

  Manage product variant line item inventory reservations.

• Search

  Search and filtering for products, orders, accounts, plus search APIs.

• Stripe Payments

  Use Stripe for accepting payments.

• Taxes

  Custom tax rate management.

• Flat Rate Shipping

  Ship your products around the globe.

• Backorders

  Shoppers can purchase products even when quantity runs out.

• Tag Taxonomy

  Uses recursive tag taxonomy for categorization.

• Email Configuration & Templates

  Configuration for over 40+ SMTP and email service providers. Manage and edit email templates for your shop.

• Social Media integration

  Integrated custom product social media messaging (FB, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram).

• i18n and l10n

  Internationalization and localization to translate and localize all content for the world.

• RTL Localization

  Right-to-left language support.

• Multi-Currency Support

  Support for additional currencies beyond US Dollars with auto locale conversion.

• Docker Ready

  Build, ship and run Reaction containers anywhere.

• Integration tests

  End to end integration testing of Reaction and packages for a better codebase.

• Mobile friendly

  Optimized experience for all mobile, tablet, and desktop devices.

• Babel and ES6

  Refactor to ES6, plus package and architecture changes

• Windows friendly

  Cross platform development environment with Linux, OS X, and Windows support.

• Begin moving internal plugins to NPM

  Moves our simple-authorization plugin into its own npm package to set up the pattern of installing Reaction API plugins from npm.

• Reaction API fully headless

  The Reaction API now has full GraphQL coverage of functionality previously provided by Meteor, including administrative and operator functionality.

• Plugins as NPM Packages

  Reaction API runs as a Node.js application and it is recommended that plugins be written as NPM packages.

• Permission systems

  Complete overhaul of the permissions system to allow for granular access of every piece of the Reaction API.

• Integration tests

  Improved integration test coverage. Full list of new integrations in Github.

• Improved Developer Experience

  Significant improvements made to startup, restart, and build times for the reaction project by removing Meteor from the Reaction API.

• Reaction Admin

  The Admin UI is now a standalone application in a separate repository.

• Reaction Identity

  The Reaction Development Platform is the best place to start developing with Reaction.

• Getting started with Reaction v3.0.0

  Identity provider for Reaction is moved into a separate service works together with reaction-hydra to enable OAuth2 flows.

• And more

  Mongo 4, default to running public docker images, CLI migration tool, upgrade guide and more. Read the full release notes for details.

• Upgrade tests and security updates

  Adds integration tests for GraphQL API endpoints, security updates and fixes a fulfillment method bug.

• Upgrade and fix Jest tests

  Fixed Jest integration test memory leak issue.

• Filter products by File, for Windows

  Reaction Admin’s filter by file feature is now compatible with Windows.

• The latest Meteor refactors

  As a part of the continuing removal of Meteor, packages are being moved to a new node-app folder.

• Orders

  Reaction Admin users can now filter orders by various search keywords, with a refreshed Catalyst user interface.

• More Meteor refactors

  Background jobs no longer rely on Meteor with a new Jobs API.

• Orders API

  Adds GraphQL API support for filtering Orders by search keywords, status, payment status, buyer address and much more.

• Faster Jest tests

  Jest integration tests are now up to 8x faster.

• i18n translations

  Translations no longer require Meteor.

• Test clean-up

  As part of our move away from Meteor, all Meteor app-tests have been removed.

• Bulk add and remove Tags

  Admins can add or remove tags from products in bulk.

• Refactors

  Image uploading, inviting a shop member, removing an address book and other admin features now use GraphQL instead of Meteor.

• Enhanced product filtering

  Admins can filter products by uploading a CSV in the product admin.

• New Orders UI

  New Orders UI is completely GraphQL-based and allows for updates to multiple fulfillment groups on each order.

• Continuous integration improvements

  Elimination of all ESLint warnings

• New React components for Admin

  Initial work on Catalyst, that will be the foundation for the Reaction Admin.

• Continuous integration improvements

  Fixes to over 500 ESLint warnings and recurring failing tests that will save time during development and continuous integration testing.

Example Storefront

• Server-side rendering by default

  A modern stack including Next.js, Apollo, React and Material UI for fully server-side rendered (SSR) pages.

• Event Tracking & Analytics

  Third-party analytics provider support, including Segment.io for ecommerce tracking events.

GraphQL Dev Server

• Checkout and Order Endpoints

  GraphQL Endpoints for Checkout and Orders

Authentication Service

• Single sign-on

  Universal login and authorization with a Reaction OAuth and OpenID Connect provider

Component Library

• Storefront Client

  React Components for Product Detail Page, Product Grid, Cart, Checkout, and Customer Account Profiles

• Automated Component Testing

  Snapshot testing for React components.

• Automated Continuous Deployment

  Staging deployments and NPM semantic releases automatically built and deployed with every commit

GraphQL Dev Server

• Checkout and Order Endpoints

  GraphQL Endpoints for Checkout and Orders

Reaction

• GraphQL API

  Use GraphQL endpoints in place of DDP Subscriptions for Product Grid and PDP

• Testing

  End-to-end and acceptance testing.

• Continuous deployment

  Staging branch built and deployed with every commit to a release branch

• Keep up with the latest pre-release branch

  Many refactors and fixes for the app, detailed in the pre-release pull request.

GraphQL Dev Server

• More endpoints

  GraphQL Endpoints for Cart, Catalog, Products, Tags, and Accounts with improved pagination

Reaction

• Simplifying Reaction

  Move optional packages out of the core product, for a slimmer, faster Reaction.

• Deploy to Heroku

  Deploy an instance of Reaction with the click of a button.

• Serve Assets from CDN

  Option to serve bundled CSS and JS from a CDN out of the box.

• And more

  Robots.txt files, bundle size reporting for releases and more. Read the full release notes for more.

• Remove legacy revision control

  Improve product grid performance and simplify publication logic by removing the legacy revision control system.

• Meteor 1.7

  Upgrade to the latest Meteor release.

• Introducing the GraphQL Dev Server

  Run a pure Node server for GraphQL development, without involving Meteor.

• Major changes to Catalog and Pricing

  The GraphQL Catalog and Reaction Catalog collection now use a new, better schema, and also introduce a new Pricing object. Read the release notes for more details.

• More GraphQL API endpoints

  Mutations, queries and resolvers for addresses, roles, currencies and more.

• Snyk security

  Add continuous integration tests for security vulnerabilities with Snyk. Read the changelog for more.

• New GraphQL endpoint

  Start GraphQL and GraphiQL API with endpoints for viewers and accounts

• Jest testing

  Introduce Jest specs and patterns to test GraphQL resolvers, schemas and more. Read the changelog for details

• Introducing the Catalog

  A faster, slimmer Catalog for storefront viewing. Read the changelog for details.

• Docker & Circle CI

  Use CircleCI workflows to run automated tests and update Docker to support multi-stage builds.

• Update and dynamically load modules

  Load certain modules dynamically for faster startup speeds, along with removing or replacing large dependencies like ImageMagick.

• Babel 7

  Babel 7, part of the Meteor 1.6.1 upgrade, brings possible breaking changes along with other changes in this release, detailed in the changelog.

• Code linting

  Enforce and establish new code rules for consistency and quality, across all Reaction applications.

• Meteor 1.6

  Enhanced developer tools including native debugging with breakpoints and Chrome DevTools.

• Node 8

  Faster V8 engine speeds.

• Multi-tenant Marketplace

  Onboard and manage multiple branded shops in a multi-tenant marketplace.

• Marketplace Merchants

  Enable and manage multiple merchants or vendors in a single marketplace with split order fulfillment and payment processing.

• Stripe Connect

  Stripe Connect payments for Marketplaces.

• Advanced Permission

  Create and modify groups, roles, and permission sets at a granular level.

• Bulk Order Management

  Change status and process multiple orders.

• One Step Checkout

  Simple one step cart and checkout experience.

• Drag & Drop Merchandising and Product Management

  Arrange order of product’s and its variants in your shop with drag and drop. Clone product variants, manage product options (eg. size/color), related product photos. Edit fields inline.

• Product Publishing Workflow

  Publishing and approval workflow based on revisions and roles.

• Accounts & User Management

  Invite users and grant permissions. User authentication with account profile page, global address book and order history for users.

• Inventory

  Manage product variant line item inventory reservations.

• Search

  Search and filtering for products, orders, accounts, plus search APIs.

• Stripe Payments

  Use Stripe for accepting payments.

• Taxes

  Custom tax rate management.

• Flat Rate Shipping

  Ship your products around the globe.

• Backorders

  Shoppers can purchase products even when quantity runs out.

• Tag Taxonomy

  Uses recursive tag taxonomy for categorization.

• Email Configuration & Templates

  Configuration for over 40+ SMTP and email service providers. Manage and edit email templates for your shop.

• Social Media integration

  Integrated custom product social media messaging (FB, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram).

• i18n and l10n

  Internationalization and localization to translate and localize all content for the world.

• RTL Localization

  Right-to-left language support.

• Multi-Currency Support

  Support for additional currencies beyond US Dollars with auto locale conversion.

• Docker Ready

  Build, ship and run Reaction containers anywhere.

• Integration tests

  End to end integration testing of Reaction and packages for a better codebase.

• Mobile friendly

  Optimized experience for all mobile, tablet, and desktop devices.

• Babel and ES6

  Refactor to ES6, plus package and architecture changes

• Windows friendly

  Cross platform development environment with Linux, OS X, and Windows support.