0.9 Milestone

[Nicu Micleușanu]

Support Node.js only from version 8.0

• Partial use of ES6 features

  ES6 features which should be used (minimal support version Node v6):

  • Object literal extensions
  • Template literals
  • Arrow functions
  • Class syntax
  • Symbols
  • Object.assign
  • Array and String new methods

• Use of newest node API

Add multi cluster support

• Add workers (delayed for other time)
• Remove domain module usage

Update dependencies and parallel projects

• Add support for Express-like API for template engines (via simples-engineer)
• Update simpleT to 0.3.0
• Update recache to 0.4.0 (removed recache dependency)
• Use external UTF8 validation for WebSocket (created uv)
• Use external browser simplified WebSocket client (created simples-ws)

Other breaking changes

• Remove support for multiple routes with the same listener
• Remove any .destroy(), .leave() or .unuse() method to avoid mutation in the internal stack
• Remove .middleware() method of http hosts in favor of .use() method
• Remove WS host .config() method
• Set all filter options to be functions intead of regular expressions

0.8.x changes (can be delayed for 0.9.0)

• Add support for virtual hosts defined with wild cards (added in 0.8.6)
• Add host.data (added in 0.8.6)
• Add additional middleware functional like .use() and .unuse() (added in 0.8.6)
• Add form validation (planned for 0.8.7, delayed for 0.9.0 because of breaking changes)
• Add support for FormData in simpleS client API (planned for 0.8.7, delayed for 0.9.0 because it is not that significant for the whole framework)

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