Hi everyone,

We've had a great start to 2024 as we made some awesome design and content improvements on Rapidez.io. Take a look and share your thoughts!

And that's not all – we've been busy beyond just website improvements since our last update! Enjoy the first Rapidez update of 2024!

Rapidez showcases

Our partners delivered exceptional work, developing new Rapidez webshops for Rozenkelim.nl and Dorstlust.nl from scratch. Additionally, they've given the existing Ranzijn.nl Rapidez webshop a fresh redesign. Credits to the teams of our partners for these impressive results!!

Changelog

Since the last newsletter, we tagged Rapidez v1!!! 🚀 But... also v2? 👀 What changed?

Rapidez v1
With the Rapidez v1 release, we migrated a lot of Vue/JavaScript stuff to Vue

Use, improved the frontend, added cool new features like categories in the autocomplete, and implemented several other breaking changes.

Rapidez v2
The main change in v2 is that we migrated the cart from the Magento API to GraphQL. Given that this is a major change, we promptly tagged v2 after v1.

New packages 🤩

• rapidez/blade-directives: Collection of additional Blade Directives to make it even more fun to work with Blade.
• rapidez/confira: An even more opinionated addition to the rapidez/checkout-theme with more focus on B2C.
• rapidez/tailwind-ui-theme: Tailwind UI Rapidez theme created for demo purposes.
• rapidez/magento2-compadre: An optional Magento 2 module that adds extra features to Magento.
• rapidez/multiple-wishlists: Makes it possible to have multiple wishlists as an alternative to the existing rapidez/wishlist and rapidez/guest-wishlist.

Roadmap

No dates, just a list where we're going to work on, as we made some promises in the past that we could not fulfill.

• GraphQL checkout
  Just as we migrated the cart in Rapidez v2, we're going to migrate the entire checkout process to use GraphQL.
• Price component + Tierpricing
  One of our partners made 2 different tierprice implementations, we'd like to merge that together into the core.
• Index refactor
  Laravel does have some new features, like batches, that we would like to integrate.
• Reactivesearch alternative
  It works, but to support more engines and integrations, we're going to investigate migrating to the instantsearch and autocomplete libraries from Algolia.
• Vue 3 or Alpine + Turbo partials
  Vue 2 is EOL, so we need to migrate away. This goes hand in hand with exploring the Reactivesearch alternative. Perhaps we make the move from Vue to Alpine; otherwise, we upgrade to Vue 3. 
• Shared account login state
  Currently, only Magento knows if a customer is logged in; we could share the token in a cookie so that even the Rapidez PHP side knows the state, which we can use to improve the logged-in experience.
• Flat table dependency
  Migrate away from it; we're already moving towards a more relation-based model system instead of joining everything together.

Ideas? Questions? Contact us!

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Stay tuned! Greeting from all of us at Rapidez!