State of Craft 2019

The opening keynote for Dot All 2019 (https://dotall.com/2019), with an overview of Craft’s accomplishments in 2019 thus far, a look at Craft 4.0 (coming in 2020), and the announcement of Craft Cloud (https://craft.cloud), “Headless Craft as a service”.

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1. State of Craft
25. Craft Commerce
27. • Lite edition • Subscriptions • Donations • User registration on checkout • Strong customer authentication
29. • Back-end order creation • Back-end order editing • More coming soon
32. Project Config allowAdminChanges setting Soft deletes storeUserIps setting Environmental CP settings disabledPlugins setting Garbage collection gc command System Messages utility index-assets command Cross-domain Live Preview update command Search keyword exclusion backup command Plugin editions restore command
36. Draft autosave Multi-site element queries Multi-site drafts New table column types Preview targets Sortable custom fields Headless previewing Element index pagination Propagation methods Element exporting Temp Uploads Location maxRevisions setting Testing framework {% dd %} tag “Edit images” permission attr() fucntion “Impersonate users” permission withoutKey filter
37. GraphQL API hiddenInput() function Built-in GraphiQL IDE input() function Headless Mode tag() function URL-less single sections attr filter Template block & macro profiling append filter Full stock trace views for admins prepend filter Environment variables in preview targets purgeStaleUserSessionDuration setting
46. Headless Craft as a service
47. • No templates • No plugins or modules • No DevOps or software updates!
48. Launching next year.
49. https://craft.cloud
52. • Accessibility • Collaboration • Content modeling • Element index views
53. Accessibility • Full keyboard control • Mobile drag-n-drop • Better responsive table implementation • High contrast mode • Dark mode
54. Collaboration • Multi-author alerts • Delta merging
55. Content Modeling • Conditional fields • New UI elements in field layouts (Grid, Horizontal Rule, Field Set) • Nestable Matrix fields • Field instances
56. Element Index Views • Replace current “element sources” • 100% user-defined • UI-defined element criteria • View modes (Table, Tree, Gallery, Calendar, and Board) • Access controls (Everyone, User Group, Private)
57. Coming next year.
58. To recap… • 3.1 – Project Config & soft deletes • 3.2 – Draft improvements & headless preview • 3.3 – GraphQL & Headless Mode • 4.0 – AX, accessibility, collaboration, & content modeling • Craft Cloud – Headless Craft as a service
59. Thank you!