@ou-imdt/create/changelog.md

Command line tool to create team boilerplate.

# CHANGELOG

**CHANGELOG KEY**:
 `📦 NEW`, `👌 IMPROVE`, `🐛 FIX`, `📖 DOC`, `🚀 RELEASE`, `🤖 TEST`, and `‼️ BREAKING`.

### RELEASE: 3.0.0 (08/08/2025) 🚀

- ‼️[Vite v7](https://vite.dev/blog/announcing-vite7) support for Vanilla and Vue templates
- 📦 Added external data handling and dynamic content replacement in the store
- 📦 Added testing support with Vitest
- 📦 Added `vite-plugin-vue-devtools` and updated dependencies in Vue boilerplate
- 👌 Improved request timeout handling and error reporting in version check for `@ou-imdt/create`
- 👌 Updated dependency installation messages for clarity
- 👌 Refactored data fetching and enhanced external config handling
- 🐛 Removed global package checks to streamline dependency installation

### RELEASE: 2.1.0 (01/04/2025) 🚀

- 👌 Global data handling: Replaced userKey with currentUserId and urlParams._u
- 👌 Updated dependencies - @ou-imdt/css, @ou-imdt/utils
- 📖 Created new VLEAPI/stores related documentation.
- 📖 Added more useful info on the use of `public` and `assets` folders.

### RELEASE: 2.0.1 (26/02/2025) 🚀

- 🐛 Added missing method (serialiseDataForSave) in Vanilla template.
  
### RELEASE: 2.0.0 (18/02/2025) 🚀

- 📦 Added global package checks for improved dependency management.
- 📦 Added custom elements support to the VUE template.
- 📦 Added subset of icons for improved performance.
- 👌 Commented out icon imports in CSS files for optional usage.
- 📖 Updated CONTRIBUTING.md with clearer beta publishing instructions.
- 🐛 Fixed description input validation.
- 👌 Improved input validation and cleaned up ask.js and questions.js.
- 👌 Updated VLEAPI stub version.
- 🐛 Removed .ico extension from Git LFS attributes to fix the intermittent “Object does not exist error“.

### RELEASE: 1.3.0 (12/12/2024) 🚀

- 👌 Refactored store.js files for both Vanilla and VUE templates.
- 👌 Upgraded dependency packages to new versions.
- 🐛 Log functions (warn, log, error) now report the correct environment.

### RELEASE: 1.2.8 (11/11/2024) 🚀

- 🐛 Git credentials not retrieved on macOS

### RELEASE: 1.2.7 (06/11/2024) 🚀

- 👌 Updated to IMDT/CSS 3.0.0.
- 👌 Added host parameter to npm run dev script for BrowserStack testing.
- Note:  v1.2.6 is obsolete due to a change to the --host parameter (not specifying a hardcoded IP). Please upgrade to v1.2.7 if you have installed v1.2.6.

### RELEASE: 1.2.5 (01/11/2024) 🚀

- 👌 Added try...catch for parsing empty VLE data

### RELEASE: 1.2.4 (22/10/2024) 🚀

- 👌 Metadata initials are taken automatically from git credentials.

### RELEASE: 1.2.3 (08/10/2024) 🚀

- 👌 VleUtils structural changes e.g. via VleModule, path updates in store.js.
- 👌 @ou-imdt/utils dependency updated.


### RELEASE: 1.2.2 (19/09/2024) 🚀

- 📦 metadata file is placed in build files so that the testing extension can detect upload date.
- 👌 updated ESLint and Prettier configs to match the latest versions.
- 👌 updated dependencies.

### RELEASE: 1.2.1 (05/09/2024) 🚀

- 👌 default data store setup call removed in Vanilla template. 
- 👌 package dependencies updated.
- 📦 npm script added to remove _testData from dist.
- 👌 updated folder structure from an array to an object in the data store.
- 📦 📖 How to support SISE (Students in Secure Environments) with single file plugin is added in the README.
- 👌 general pipeline improvements, default removed and pipeline will run only for main.

### RELEASE: 1.1.13 (08/07/2024) 🚀

- 🐛 npmignore updated to make sure specific directories and files are included correctly.

### RELEASE: 1.1.12 (04/07/2024) 🚀

- 👌 Making Fetch and Save awaitable
- 👌 Updated dependencies

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### RELEASE: 1.1.11 (02/07/2024) 🚀

- 🐛 Wrong utils version 

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### RELEASE: 1.1.10 (01/07/2024) 🚀

- 📦 Added utils functions to store for Vue Template
  - Includes save helpers, VLE param retrieval, attachment and folder parsing, etc.
- 📦 Added utils functions to store for Vanilla Template
  - Includes save helpers, VLE param retrieval, attachment and folder parsing, etc.

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### RELEASE: 1.1.9 (31/05/2024) 🚀

- 👌 Vite dev and prod modes added
- 🐛 data-theme removed from vanilla template

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### RELEASE: 1.1.8 (02/05/2024) 🚀

- 👌 Updated IMDT CSS version
- 👌 Fixed issue where release directory wasn't created

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### RELEASE: 1.1.7 (02/05/2024) 🚀

- 📦 Added version checking utility

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### RELEASE: 1.1.6 (30/04/2024) 🚀

- 📦 Added ESlint config (default from Vite/Vue create tools)
- 📦 Added Prettier config (default from Vite/Vue create tools)
- 📦 Added production logging prevention (Re-enable via verbose query param)
- 📦 Added rainbow text for Create title
- 👌 Utilising IMDT CSS datavis pallette 
- 👌 Removed Bootstrap icons

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### RELEASE: 1.1.5 (09/04/2024) 🚀 

- 📦 Vite.js config, build targets are changed to `esnext` - version bumped

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### RELEASE: 1.1.4 (09/04/2024) 🚀 

- 🐛 Vite.js bug fix - version bumped

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### RELEASE: 1.1.0 (09/04/2024) 🚀 

- 📦 Data from attachment JSON file with local fallback via URL parameters.
- 👌 Docs improvements on file handling, installation guides.
- 👌 Updated to the latest VLEAPI.

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### RELEASE: 1.0.2 (08/01/2024) 🚀 

- `‼️ BREAKING` imdt-create and imd-create packages deprecated and merged into one package, and is now called 'Create`.

- 👌 Simplified props. e.g. template (Vanilla JS or VUE), widget name, descriptions and author.

- 📦 Support added for zipping script for VUE template.

- 📦 Populates the readme.md, index.html and package.json with dynamic templating in VUE template.

- 📦 Automatically adds node.js and npm versions used in built to README.

- 👌 Cache logic improved for credentials, checking name in the order of git credentials||cache||prompt.
  
- 📖 docs improvements.

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