Quasarians in Action #27. 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).

In the News

The New Browser Extension (BEX) Mode is here!!! You can now use Quasar to build Browser Extensions for Firefox and any Chromium based web browser. You can find more info in the docs section dedicated to the new mode! Awesome thanks goes to Quasar team member Allan Gaunt for this spectacular work!

The Quasar Docs site is now a PWA (with SSR). This means, you can use the docs completely offline. How cool is that?

Interested in using TypeScript with Quasar? Now, when creating a new app with the Quasar CLI, you’ll be asked if you want to use TypeScript and if you acknowledge, your project will be “TS ready”. Awesome thanks goes to Quasar team member Paolo Caleffi for his hard work on making this happen!

Tutorials and Articles

Scott Molinari of the Quasar Team wrote up an article series on using Quasar with Apollo Client (GraphQL) and how to use it instead of Vuex for client state management.

KD Jayakoda wrote an article on How to Make a Simple Text to ASCII Converter Using Quasar

Quasar Awesome Example Applications

Staff Pick
Jona Frank Created an app to track the Corona Virus

Bianca Silva wrote a Pomodoro Timer app

Patrick Montiero improved his Charts demo app

Diego Souza created a really neat image cropper component. He’ll hopefully be making it into an app extension soon too.

Community Member Jaxon introduced us to his Landlord app. More info on it in our forum.

Community Member Nuclear Rodent also made a Covid-19 tracker app.

Community Member Mayur created the first Browser Extension using the new BEX Mode in Quasar called Turbo Tabs.

Here it is in the Chrome Web Store.

Reported and Fixed Issues to Quasar Core Repos

Kevin de Melo reported the issue QStepper - DoneColor which was fixed by a Fix for #6801 - “QStepper: done-color is not respected”
J reported the issue Unable to build with capacitor which was fixed by a fix(#6768): Removed double quotes to allow resolving of Android Studio path when opening IDE.
Nikolay Georgiev reported the issue quasar dev cannot find multiple core-js/modules/es6 dependencies (Electron, Linux) which was fixed by a feat(docs): Update minimum nodejs version #6741 #6745
Sylvester Nielsen reported the issue quasar dev -m capacitor command fails to open android studio on windows which was fixed by a fix(app): Capacitor mode - correctly escape default path #5556

Submitted PRs

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

Lev Khruschev submitted a PR Fixed proxy in quasar-serve
Dragomir Denev submitted a PR fix: QStepper done-color is not respected (fix #6801)
Patrick Monteiro submitted a PR Add BEX to the documentation
Ray Hu submitted a PR Add path on Windows
Matthew Sweeney submitted a PR Remove ZEIT Now as Deployment Option
Jack Thompson (Jaytee) submitted a PR fix(#6768): Removed double quotes to allow resolving of Android Studi…

Releases

@quasar/cli-v1.0.7
quasar-v1.9.15
@quasar/app-v1.7.1
@quasar/app-v1.7.0
@quasar/cli-v1.0.6
@quasar/extras-v1.6.3
@quasar/app-v1.6.2

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

Repository Activity in the Past Week

quasarframework/quasar

• Contributors - 5 (commits authored by Quasar community members)
• rstoenescu - 14
• webnoob - 9
• pdanpdan - 2

quasarframework/app-extension-typescript

• Contributors - 5 (commits authored by Quasar community members)

quasarframework/quasar-starter-kit

• Contributors - 1 (commits authored by Quasar community members)
• rstoenescu - 6
• hawkeye64 - 1

quasarframework/app-extension-icon-genie

• rstoenescu - 26

quasarframework/quasar-ui-qmediaplayer

• hawkeye64 - 2

quasarframework/app-extension-dotenv

• hawkeye64 - 1

App Extension PRs

quasarframework/app-extension-typescript

Paolo Caleffi submitted a PR One-shot TS upgrade for existing codebases
Complete and deprecated

Thank you for your valuable time in making Quasar a better framework! Stay tuned for next week’s QIA!

Call to action
Please share important or interesting contributions, Quasar community news, tutorials, videos or great goding tips and tricks. Those which you would like to see in the next Quasarians in Actions. Please use Quasar chat preferable in channels #i-made-this, #offtopic or #other AND tag @Stanislav (EN/CZ-eu).

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[Allan-EN-GB]

Lots of work by the community in this one - great work guys.

[Hawkeye64]

Amazing job by everyone involved!