Updates from February 2024

It's been a month since the major release of AdonisJS v6, and we had a lot going on during this month. Some of the work has been shipped, and some are under the experimental phase and will be released soon.

So, let's recap and highlight all the important changes.

Shipping limiter

The AdonisJS limiter package is used to apply rate limits on HTTP requests or general on any given action.

The rate limiter package was incompatible with v6 during the initial launch. However, you can start using the limiter now with new AdonisJS applications. Following are the links to the release notes and documentation.

Adding back database testing utilities

The utilities to migrate, seed, and truncate database tables during tests were missing during the v6 initial launch. They have been added back, and you can find the links to the release notes and documentation below.

A new ace command to install and configure packages

A small quality of life improvement to install and configure AdonisJS packages using a single node ace add command.

Right now, if you want to use an AdonisJS-specific package, the workflow for configuring it might look as follows.

npm i <package-name>

node ace configure <package-name>

There is nothing unusual about this workflow. However, improving it a little won't hurt either. Therefore, we have added a new add command that performs both steps together.

The command will auto-detect the package manager used by your application and will use it for the installation. You can learn more about it in the documentation.

node ace add <package-name>

Adocasts screencasts go public

The first 29 lessons out of 40 on Let's Learn AdonisJS 6 series on Adocasts are now publicly available for free. If you have been waiting to take your first steps with AdonisJS, these screencasts are for you.

Notable Releases

New codemods APIs, ace add command, and experimental assembler hooks
https://github.com/adonisjs/core/releases/tag/v6.3.0
Bug fixes with the @adonisjs/logger package
https://github.com/adonisjs/logger/releases/tag/v6.0.2
Breaking - Switch the default naming strategy on models to camelCase
https://github.com/adonisjs/lucid/releases/tag/v20.0.0
Rewrite the ace.js file when creating the production build
https://github.com/adonisjs/assembler/releases/tag/v7.1.1
Create access tokens table migration when configuring auth package
https://github.com/adonisjs/presets/releases/tag/v2.2.4
Add support for defining multiple CC and BCC addresses when sending emails
https://github.com/adonisjs/mail/releases/tag/v9.2.0
Fix stubs exports parser and create CLI command names in dash-case
https://github.com/adonisjs/application/releases/tag/v8.0.3
Add Basic Auth guard to the auth package
https://github.com/adonisjs/auth/releases/tag/v9.1.0
Add/Export ResponseStatus enum to use descriptive labels for response statuses
https://github.com/adonisjs/http-server/releases/tag/v7.1.0

Notable documentation improvements

Document how the authFinder mixin hashes user passwords
https://github.com/adonisjs/v6-docs/commit/50f746414546370816ad1b8ccf33934f5fe11801
Document usage of the Initialize bouncer middleware
https://github.com/adonisjs/v6-docs/commit/0912db42d5165fc2efa6c2a998100a6faf8239f6
Document usage of the Initialize Auth middleware
https://github.com/adonisjs/v6-docs/commit/ae98fdb9d18d03209f8525f527451e5764e2e831
Document usage of environment variables with the session package
https://github.com/adonisjs/v6-docs/commit/3b29f69a0a1e4eb98560a9c72e5e2ce45693d05e
Document the rewrite of the ace.js file during the build process
https://github.com/adonisjs/v6-docs/commit/3f30a220ee177e3bd1274479fb733c949ce8e080

Published articles

Use TSX for your template engine
https://adonisjs.com/blog/use-tsx-for-your-template-engine
Setting up Kysely inside an AdonisJS project
https://adonisjs.com/blog/kysely-with-adonisjs
Future plans for AdonisJS v6
https://adonisjs.com/blog/future-plans-for-adonisjs-6
Integrating Kysely with the Auth session guard
https://adonisjs.com/blog/kysely-with-auth-session-guard