v4.3.9

4.3.9 (2019-10-26)

Bug Fixes

• Add jsonwebtoken TypeScript type dependency (317c80a)
• Only initialize default Express session if oAuth is actually used (#1648) (9b9b43f)
• Small type improvements (#1624) (50162c6)

A minimalist real-time framework for tomorrow's apps.

• Separate API providers into feathers-rest, feathers-socketio and feathers-primus
• Make Feathers universal (isomorphic) (#193)
• Change websocket service paths to use parent application mountpoint
• Migrate codebase to ES6

For a 2.0 migration guide see here

Stability and smaller features

• Service setup called before app.io instantiated (#131)
• Allow to register services that already are event emitter (#118)
• Clustering microservices (#121)
• Add debug module and messages (#114)
• Server hardening with socket message validation and normalization (#113)
• Custom service events (#111)
• Support for registering services dynamically (#67, #96, #107)

Release 1.0.0: Express 4 and SocketIO 1.1, final API

Milestone

• Upgrade to SocketIO 1.0 (#70)
• Upgrade to Express 4.0 (#55, #54)
• Remove app.lookup and make the functionality available as app.service (#94)
• Allow not passing parameters in websocket calls (#92)
• Add _setup method (#91)
• Throw an error when registering a service after application start (#78)
• Send socket parameters as params.query (#72)
• Send HTTP 201 and 204 status codes (#71)(#54))
• Allow service methods to return a promise (#59)
• Allow to register services with custom middleware (#56)
• REST provider should not be added by default (#53)

Socket event filtering

This release adds an event filtering mechanism for SocketIO and Primus Socket connections so that event data can be modified and only dispatched to certain clients. Also adds support for a patch service method.

• Allow socket provider event filtering and params passthrough (#49, #50, #51)
• Added patch support (#47)
• Allow to configure REST handler manually (#40, #52)

Primus and custom server support, better configuration

• Added Primus provider (#34)
• app.setup(server) to support HTTPS (and other functionality that requires a custom server) (#33)
• Removed bad SocketIO configuration (#19)
• Add .npmignore to not publish .idea folder (#30)
• Remove middleware: connect.bodyParser() (#27)