Hello Quasar Community,

Razvan has been feeling under the weather this past week and the illness wasn’t getting better, so he went to the doctor. In short, his doctor has given him strict instructions not to do any work related activities. It’s not covid related, so don’t worry.

With this in mind, he won’t be around on discord or online much at all for that matter. There shouldn’t be many reasons to ping Razvan directly, because the Quasar Team and regular community members do an awesome job of helping out others. Nonetheless, if you do have a pressing matter that might need Razvan’s attention (invoicing, billing etc), then please ping me directly and we’ll go from there.

What will be impacted?

Quasar.Conf
Unfortunately, this does mean that Razvan is going to miss our awesome Quasar.Conf scheduled for Sunday. But, don’t worry! We’ll schedule him in for next time! And Quasar.Conf is still going to happen.

Updates
As it stands, we’ll only be issuing urgent fixes as updates so our regular update cycle will be held back for now. This will be up to the discretion of the Quasar Core Team but PR’s and bug fixes will continue to be worked on until our normal update cycle resumes.

Sponsorships
If you sign up as a GitHub sponsor, please DM me, so your role can be adjusted on Discord.

With Razvan taking time off, we’re obviously a man down. If you would like to take this opportunity to help, then feel free to head over to GitHub and answer any issues you feel comfortable answering. This would be a massive help.

I’m sure you’d all like to join me in wishing Razvan all the best and a speedy recovery!

Update:

Razvan continues to improve and is hoping to be back with us all over the next couple of weeks

https://github.com/quasarframework/quasar/releases/tag/%40quasar%2Fapp-v1.7.0

New build mode!

With this new release we’re pleased to announce the much anticipated new build mode for the Quasar App CLI: “bex” - browser extensions!

More information: https://quasar.dev/quasar-cli/developing-browser-extensions/introduction

Fixes

Important fix for Windows developers: removed double quotes to allow resolving of Android Studio path when opening IDE in Windows #6788

We are in need of funding, so if your pockets can afford please drop an eye on https://donate.quasar.dev
Thank you!

Great pick of the week!

@FrankRuss Morning!

Four years ago, I left my job as a successful senior manager at a software company to start out on my own, write software and clean windows (physical, not the OS ) as a way to get by until such a time that the software paid the bills. I have a wife and 2 children.

4 years later, I’m in the core team within Quasar, I spend a considerable amount of time helping out where I can in Quasar and even my wife and kids know what Quasar is. The point? Quasar has had a big impact on a lot of people, myself included. I’m paying my bills, I’m writing software and simply put, I’m in the best position I’ve been in for a long time.

When I started writing my software (which I have since shelved in favor of doing contract work / awaiting a migration to Quasar v1) - https://www.myserviceplanner.com - I found lots of component frameworks, lots of handy standalone Vue components, lots of libraries to do what I wanted - you get my point.

THEN I found Quasar.

For me, I was sold in version 0.14. Even though the API was a lot different to the one you see now it was easy to see the dedication, the vision and the simply the genius in the framework. Quasar was on a mission to making developers lives easier and as a family man, I needed that.

I needed a JS framework - Quasar filled those boots.
I needed SPA and Mobile - Quasar did it.
I needed a community that could help in areas I fell short in (JS was very new to me at the time) - Quasar had it. (p.s If the forum is a little Quiet, try discord )
I needed a framework that provided solutions to problems I didn’t know I had - Quasar did it (things like SSR for SEO didn’t occur to me back then)

What I’m trying to say is you’re not “betting” your job on anything, I firmly believe you’re guaranteeing your position within the company by taking them in a forward thinking, secure and firm direction using Quasar.

Worth noting, I’ve just done EXACTLY the same: I’ve been on a 4 week trial for a longer term contract. My job was to build a browser extension. I could have done this in various ways but I believe in the direction of Quasar so much that even though Quasar didn’t support Browser Extensions, I sold the idea to the customer and implemented the new mode myself - I can’t share the results of that work just yet but I can say that I’ve landed that longer term contract. Because of Quasar.

It’s not just me that made this investment - it was my wife and kids and we have absolutely ZERO regrets.

What does this mean for you?
1.0 is a number. Quasar could have been 1.0 back at 0.14 and we could now be on v4.1 but Razvan and in turn his team have high standards and nothing but the best would do. IMO there are no bets using Quasar, it’s a like a secure blanket in this cold and dreary node_modules filled world

Anyways, I’ve waffled enough. Hit us up on Discord or here on the forums if you have any other questions

Regards,
Allan

Great - first my wife, then my kids … Now even my framework is getting sassy with me …

You need to set the popupContentClass against the QSelect, that will then allow you to target the menu / options.

Scott’s point is great and summarises the teams feelings; for some more detail:

Razvan is full time on this project alone? Does he have another job or is full time really on this project?

Razvan’s main job is Quasar, the donations received for this project directly support the running and maintenance of Quasar (servers, domains, etc etc). Razvan will also do some contract work to top things up as and when but I’ll restate the point Quasar is Razvan’s main job.

if Razvan being sick holds back the project to just urgent updates

Holding back updates is our “short term” plan. Obviously with anyone taking time off, it’s never planned so we have to be reactive to the situation. The current plan is to see how Razvan is over the next week and take it from there.

Holding back updates is not a long term plan and the Quasar Team have all they need to support Quasar and provide updates with new features going forward should the need arise to do so without Razvan being around.

project getting abandoned if Razvan stops development

I and many of the core team rely on Quasar for our day to day work so this will not happen. As I’ve said, despite Razvan being the main contributor on GH, the team puts in a lot of work behind the scenes to support and grow Quasar.

I understand this is a risk you take with open source but if we make an assumption that

Razvan will not be working on this project what are the teams plan? Will someone from the team takeover as full time developer as we continue to donate to the project?
At this point in time, this is not something we’re thinking too much about. Do we have people who want to work full time for Quasar? Yes. We do. That being said, we expect Razvan to be back and working as normal once he’s rested.

It’s worth stating at this point though that we do have a disaster plan in place for Quasar to take the “bus factor” into account should the worst happen to any one of us (of course with Razvan being most crucial).

It’s important to note, the only reason we’re all here discussing this is because of how hard Razvan works. If Razvan regularly took time off (as he should) then taking a couple of weeks off wouldn’t be noticed. It’s only because he works tirelessly for Quasar and it’s community that it’s noticed.

In short - donate. Support Quasar. It hasn’t let anyone down yet and it won’t in the future.

Thanks for all your well wishes for Razvan

QAutomate v1.0.0-alpha.2 Released!
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Just as a update to calm people’s nerves: Razvan is still feeling unwell but is recovering 110% (his words).

All your well wishes are clearly working! Keep it up

Can you show your background-hooks and content-hooks code please (slimmed down to show the issue).

The content hooks can respond / send events to the background so that’s not the problem here.

A diagram of the flow you want would be good. When you want to communicate from and to etc.

Sorry about that! I’ve had some stuff going down on my end so I’ve not been able to push for a final release. It’s still on my todo list though so please hold tight, I’ll get to it ASAP!!

Note: Given Walfin is an active member of the Quasar community (and even presented on the Quasar conf) - I’ll let this stay here although we’d normally not condone advertising, this is free after all

Great work Callo

Nice work Jeff

As it stands, I don’t have a roadmap I can give. We have the ball rolling on Vue 3 but no decisions made just yet.

When Razvan returns next week (all being well) we’re going to have a discussion and make some plans at which point we’ll update the community.

Big shout out to @Hawkeye64 for all the icon work!

Enjoy!

https://github.com/quasarframework/quasar/releases/tag/quasar-v1.12.13

New

• feat(VirtualScroll): keep scroll on bottom if the scroll is on bottom #7438
• feat(QIcon): Add support for SVG-use #7410

Fixes

• fix(QLinearProgress): sync styl with sass (was causing problems in codepens) #7456 (#7457)

New Icon Support!

• Fontawesome updated to 5.13.1
• Ionicons updated to 5.1.2
• Material icons webfont updated to v53
• Material icons webfonts Outlined and Round updated to v22
• Material icons webfont Sharp updated to v23
• Material SVG icons (baseline) updated to latest icons v11 (previous count 959, new count 1293)
• feat: new Material SVG icons for Outlined, Round and Sharp v11. Requires @quasar/extras v1.9+ and quasar 1.12.13+
  • usage: (baseline) matThumbUp, (outlined) outlinedThumbUp, (round) roundThumbUp, (sharp) sharpThumbUp
• feat: new Quasar icon sets svg-material-icons-outlined, svg-material-icons-round and svg-material-icons-sharp. Requires quasar 1.12.13+

Awesome extras update for you!

https://github.com/quasarframework/quasar/releases/tag/%40quasar%2Fextras-v1.9.0

New

• Fontawesome updated to 5.13.1
• Ionicons updated to 5.1.2
• Material icons webfont updated to v53
• Material icons webfonts Outlined and Round updated to v22
• Material icons webfont Sharp updated to v23
• Material SVG icons (baseline) updated to latest icons v11 (previous count 959, new count 1293)
• feat: new Material SVG icons for Outlined, Round and Sharp v11. Requires @quasar/extras v1.9+ and quasar 1.12.13+
  • usage: (baseline) matThumbUp, (outlined) outlinedThumbUp, (round) roundThumbUp, (sharp) sharpThumbUp
• feat: new Quasar icon sets svg-material-icons-outlined, svg-material-icons-round and svg-material-icons-sharp. Requires quasar 1.12.13+