Quasarians in Action #9. With Staff Pick of the Week!

[s.molinari]

We would like to thank all of you, our awesome Quasar community. And in a spirit of give and share we’d like to present our cherry-picked community contributions with you. One of the contributions is picked by the team as our “Pick of the Week” to honor who we felt made the best contribution (outside of the core team):

Reported and Fixed Issues

Quasar

imShara reported the issue Ugly blurry menu icon which was fixed by a fix(QBtn): crisper icons #5784, released in Quasar v1.5.4.
SylvanoTombo reported the issue Error Building when using sassLoaderOptions which was fixed by a fix(sass): Quote requires string as parameter #5772
fjl280855990 reported the issue Disable tree control which was fixed by a fix(QTree): Change the order of tick changing (from indeterminate should change to ticked) #5769, released in Quasar v1.5.3.
Gordon Blahut reported the issue 1.5.2 Typescript scroll.d.ts possibly too strict which was fixed by a fix(typescript): revert scroll types update, closes #5758, released in Quasar v1.5.3.
ibrainventures reported the issue [perf] Boost 1.5.2 got a hickup (compared to 1.5.1) which was fixed by a perf(Screen): Only add screen-* body classes if enabled through framework: { config: { screen: { bodyClasses: true } } } #5757, released in Quasar v1.5.3.
brindosch reported the issue QPopupEdit: validate prop broken which was fixed by a docs(QPopupEdit): Improve validation for number #5742
brindosch reported the issue Electron: nodeIntegration:false breaks platform detection which was fixed by a fix(Platform): Correctly detect electron when running with nodeIntegration set to false #5741, released in Quasar v1.5.2.
Bob Kuivanen reported the issue Dark Mode: Toggle OS dark mode Electron which was fixed by a fix(Dark): Error on switching OS dark mode #5737, released in Quasar v1.5.2.
Nicholas Zuccarelli reported the issue QColor - color palette not emitting anything other than #ffcccc which was fixed by a fix(QColor): color palette not emitting anything other than first color #5715, released in Quasar v1.5.1.
gmalignon reported the issue QUploader component - Quasar v1.5.0 - Button that displays the Open File dialog box so a file can be added does nothing. which was fixed by a fix(#5712): Swap ternary operator branches - L353, released in Quasar v1.5.1.

Vue CLI Plugin Quasar

ejez reported the issue error: Unnecessary escape character: / (no-useless-escape) at vue.config.js which was fixed by a fix(generator): unnecessary escape character in vue.config.js, fixes #20, fixed in Vue CLI Plugin Quasar v2

Submitted PRs

Quasar

Paolo Caleffi submitted a PR Revert scroll types update (fix: #5758)
Yusuf Kandemir submitted a PR feat(cli): display release notes link in upgrade command
Faran Ali submitted a PR Fixes [#5049 ]SCSS override for boot files, released in Quasar app v1.3.2.
Yusuf Kandemir submitted a PR feat(app/capacitor): improved on-demand platform after repo clone
Yusuf Kandemir submitted a PR fix(app/cordova): fixed possible race condition
Bob Kuivanen submitted a PR false from string to bool
Paolo Caleffi submitted a PR feat(typescript): enhance typings 1

Vue CLI Plugin Quasar

ejez submitted a PR fix transpileDependencies in generator/index.js

Quasar Starter Kit

Luca Ban submitted a PR fix(build): add missing fs-extra to dependencies
Yusuf Kandemir submitted a PR chore: added ignores for Capacitor mode
Yusuf Kandemir submitted a PR chore: organized .gitignore file

QMarkDown App Extension

Luca Ban submitted a PR fix(build) invalid syntax
Luca Ban submitted a PR fix(build): delete invalid character ;

IconGenie App Extension

nothingismagick submitted a PR fix(minifier): match modern imagemin signature

The list does not include PRs from the Quasar Core team.

Quasar Awesome Example Applications

Do you know you can write web browser extensions in Quasar?

Staff Pick of the Week [Please note, BEX = Browser Extensions, has yet to be released.] WideWizard just created one to quickly self-publish your books on Amazon, B&N, Kobo, and more! Looks like it uses magic to quickly self-publish your books across all platforms. See Google Chrome store.

Quasar Releases

As always you can find all latest releases and release notes in the documentation.

Quasar Official App Extension Releases

QOverlay - v1.0.0-beta.4
QFlashCard - v1.0.0-beta.8
AQctivity - 1.0.0-beta.4
QMarkDown - v1.0.6, v1.0.5, v1.0.4, v1.0.3, v1.0.2
Quasar CLI Plugin - v2.0.0
QCalendar - v1.1.1, v1.1.0
QScroller - v1.0.4

If you like this aggregation of best contributions and would even like a more direct reception of this information, or you have any other ideas for honoring contributions to Quasar, please let us know in the comments below.

[Allan-EN-GB]

Great update. Good work guys.

Just to add: BEX is a new mode which will be available in the coming weeks within quasar. Just like with other modes you’d do quasar dev -m bex and there you have it, your app is now a browser extension

[Hawkeye64]

Love it when I see the community involved.

[Max]

[mesqueeb]

Hurray!!!

[farwish]

Cool, realy fantastic!
Although bex mode is still in ‘quasar:dev’ and ‘quasar:bex-review’ branch, i have a try, and write a blog about this, https://www.cnblogs.com/farwish/p/12097067.html
Here is the small extension to clear webpage ADs, https://github.com/farwish/quacker