RELEASE NOTES

v2.y.z

Support UMD modules with npm run build:

So far only standard node modules where produced when invoking npm run build. However, to ease migration of older code bases UMD modules have been introduced which are standalone (i.e. browserfied) scripts executable in a browser context.
Optional support UMD modules with npm run -- build --prepack:

Introduced --prepack option to allow UMD support. Since standalone UMD modules can be relatively large, they are minified automatically (which can be suppressed by appending --no-minify).
Support for ES6 via esm and esmify:

While so far it was possible to use ES6 import and export statements in the source code, it was neither possible to write test cases with import statements, nor possible to browserify such ES6 code (e.g. when babel was deliberately switched off).

With the esm package and the esmify plugin (for browserify) both problems have been fixed.
Bundling via webpack:

Replaced the browserify bundler with webpack, which required the addition of a webpack.config.js configuration to the project. Also, the esmify plugin is longer required, while esm still is – due to it being used in npm test.

Refactored the run-{lint, build, test} CLI scripts:

As a result of this refactoring the --no-lint and --no-build command line flags became completely independent of each other, while before there was an undesirable interdependence.
Support for npm run clean:

Cleans the ./dist folder except for the .gitignore and .npmignore files, to ensure correct behaviour w.r.t. npm run -- build --prepack. Also, npm run clean is automatically invoked prior to any npm run build (or npm run test), where this behaviour can be suppressed with the --no-clean flag.
Integrated generator tests with CI:

The JavaScript, CoffeeScript and TypeScript project generators are now automatically verified with npm test, which is also run by the https://travis-ci.com continuous integration service. The entire list of generated files is checked, plus the full content of package.json.
Support for npm run docs for JavaScript:

Enabled documentation generation, where the jsdoc tool is used to parse the comments embedded within the source code to extract the necessary information.
Support for npm run docs for CoffeeScript:

Enabled documentation generation, where the jsdoc tool is used to parse the comments embedded within the source code to extract the necessary information.
Support for npm run docs for TypeScript:

Enabled documentation generation, where the typedoc tool is used to parse the comments embedded within the source code to extract the necessary information.

Node.js module generator (based on Yeoman) with support for JavaScript, TypeScript, and CoffeeScript (plus Babel.js).
Support for Windows: Eliminated problematic usage of the npx execution helper.

Supports building, linting, testing, continuous integration and coverage checks for all three languages.
Support for building without linting, linting with auto-fixing, testing and coverage checks without re-building.
Support for optional --typescript and --coffeescript flags after yo @dizmo/dizmo --upgrade.