Vue Storefront 1.9.0-rc.1

Added

• Payment Request API integration - @qiqqq (#2306)
• The Url Dispatcher feature added for friendly URLs. When config.seo.useUrlDispatcher set to true the product.url_path and category.url_path fields are used as absolute URL addresses (no /c and /p prefixes anymore). Check the latest mage2vuestorefront snapshot and reimport Your products to properly set url_path fields - #2010 - @pkarw
• Unit tests of cart module written in jest - @lukeromanowicz (#2305)

Fixed

• Gallery low quality image in offline mode when high quality already cached - @patzick (#2557)

Changed / Improved

• The core/helpers parsing URL methods exchanged to query-string package - @pkarw (#2446)
• Unit tests in Karma are now removed in favor of jest - @lukeromanowicz (#2305)
• Material Icons are loaded asynchronously - @JKrupinski, @filrak (#2060)
• Update to babel 7 - @lukeromanowicz (#2554)