ProcessWire Weekly #124

The 124th issue of ProcessWire Weekly brings in all the latest news from the ProcessWire community. Modules, sites, and more. Read on!

Welcome to the latest issue of ProcessWire Weekly. This time we've got plenty of news to share: the soft launch of ProcessWire 3.0, new GitHub repositories, and much more. As if that wasn't quite enough, we've also got a pretty neat new module to introduce, useful recipe of the week to share, and of course a brand new site of the week.

Thanks to all of our readers for being here with us again, and as always, any feedback is most welcome – please don't hesitate to drop us a line if there's anything in your mind you'd like to share with us. Enjoy our latest issue and have a great weekend!

Soft launching ProcessWire 3.0, new GitHub repositories, ProcessWire on Packagist, and more

Ryan is back from his well deserved vacation and that shows – this week is pretty huge in terms of new announcements. Just to summarise, here are some of the topics Ryan covered in his latest post at the processwire.com blog:

  • Soft launch of ProcessWire 3.0
    There's still plenty of stuff to do particularly in terms of getting our supporting materials updated, but we're live now: no more devns branch – 3.0 is our latest stable release. Go get it!
  • Three new GitHub repositories
    As of 3.0 our primary GitHub repository is processwire/processwire, but we also have three other repositories to introduce: processwire-issues for issue reports, processwire-requests for feature requests and soon processwire-legacy for 2.x.
  • New GitHub responsibilities
    Benjamin Milde and Francesco Schwarz are now helping with the management of issues and requests repositories. Big thanks to both Benjamin and Francesco for donating their time to the ProcessWire project!
  • ProcessWire 3.0 added to Packagist
    ProcessWire has just been added to Packagist, which means that it can be added to an existing project with composer require processwire/processwire – or used to set up a new project with composer create-project processwire/processwire.
  • New README and CONTRIBUTING documents
    Our README has been trimmed to contain just what is actually important for most users, and a new CONTRIBUTING document has been added, with instructions for contributing to the project.
  • New documentation section (install)
    This new documentation section contains instructions for installing and updating ProcessWire, and also troubleshooting possible issues raised during this process. This information used to be in our README, but makes more sense here.
  • $config improvements
    Config settings can now be defined using a brand new method syntax, like this: $config->imageSizerOptions('quality', 70). Also a whole new config setting, $config->fileCompilerOptions, has been added. This can be used to alter the default behaviour of FileCompiler.

For more details about the updates mentioned above, don't forget to check out Ryan's latest post at the processwire.com blog. Thanks!

New module: Sassify provides an easy API for compiling SASS / SCSS files

This time we're thrilled to introduce a brand new module known as Sassify. Built by Rudy Affandi and released under the MIT license Sassify is a template level tool for easily compiling SASS/SCSS files. Behind the scenes Sassify makes use of scssphp, which in turn is a SCSS compiler written in PHP.

Getting started with Sassify is actually really simple: just install it like any other module and use the static Sassify::css() method with proper params in your template files. Two basic examples borrowed from the Sassify GitHub repository:

<!-- Single SASS/SCSS file -->

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<?php echo Sassify::css('sass/my_style.scss'); ?>">

<!-- Array of SASS/SCSS files -->

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<?php echo Sassify::css([
    'sass/style_1.scss',
    'sass/style_2.scss',
    'sass/style_3.scss',
]); ?>">

As you can see, with the Sassify module making use of SASS/SCSS for your stylesheets becomes a downright trivial task, and with this there's one less (pun intended) reason not to jump into the SASS/SCSS bandwagon. Give it a try and see how it feels; you can always go back to plain old CSS if SASS/SCSS doesn't suit your needs.

Big thanks to Rudy Affandi for building and sharing this module with us. There's always demand for simple yet useful modules like this. Keep up the good work!

Site of the week: Enovity

Our latest site of the week is fresh out of the oven and belongs to Enovity, a company that provides various engineering and commissioning services for their clients. In their own words they are "engineers who operate, maintain, and optimize facilities to deliver sustainable environments where people and organizations prosper".

The site of Enovity is the work of Twenty20 Marketing and lights and colors and was launched earlier this week. Based on the Uikit frontend framework, the site has a clean and crisp design and feels comfortable to browse regardless of screen size. In fact the mobile experience feels perhaps even more streamlined than the "big screen" version, but this might, of course, be a question of preference: some of us prefer simplicity.

Page speed feels good enough, the site is based on a recent version of ProcessWire, and – as we already mentioned – the frontend is based on the Uikit framework. Apart from that, one very specific highlight is the use of Google's reCAPTCHA for the contact form; definitely a major improvement over a regular CAPTCHA in terms of usability.

Congratulations are in place, for both Enovity and the team behind the implementation – there's no doubt that this is a job well done, and we hope it serves it's purpose well!

Stay tuned for our next issue

That's it for the 124th issue of ProcessWire Weekly. We'll be back with more news, updates, and content Saturday, 1st of October. As always, ProcessWire newsletter subscribers will get our updates a few days later.

Thanks for staying with us, once again. Hope you've had a great and productive week, and don't forget to check out the ProcessWire forums for more interesting topics. Until next week, happy hacking with ProcessWire!

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