Gasket v7.0
Announcing Gasket v7: Simplified, Flexible, and Fully Integrated
We are thrilled to announce the next major release of Gasket, packed with powerful new features, improvements, and optimizations that make building applications with Gasket easier and more flexible than ever before. This release introduces a range of enhancements that help launch your development experience to new heights.
Key Updates in Gasket v7
Less Magic, More Transparency
In Gasket v7, we’ve taken significant steps to reduce the magic and increase
transparency, providing developers with a more intuitive and straightforward
development experience. One of the key changes is the removal of "magic files"
in the lifecycles directory. This reduces the complexity around Gasket
lifecycles and makes it easier to understand and customize the behavior of your
Gasket applications.
Framework-First Approach: No More Gasket CLI
Gasket v7 no longer relies on the Gasket CLI for core tasks. Instead, we now delegate responsibilities such as transpilation, bundling, and other optimizations to the primary framework in use. This shift allows the core framework to handle crucial tasks, making your Gasket apps lighter, faster, and better aligned with the ecosystem you’re already using.
ESM-Ready
Gasket apps are now fully aligned with ECMAScript Modules (ESM), bringing modern JavaScript standards to the forefront of the development process. This allows for more modular, future-proof codebases and better integration with modern build systems.
Full TypeScript Support
Whether you’re building Gasket apps or in-app plugins, Gasket v7 now offers full support for TypeScript. This update improves both development speed and reliability, with enhanced type checking, better tooling, and internal JSDoc typings for a smoother TypeScript experience across the board.
Next.js 14 Support
We’re proud to announce full support for Next.js 14, with both the App Router and Page Router, as well as a custom server option for more advanced routing needs. This unlocks using React Server Components and other potential future features of Next.js.
While Gasket v7 unblocks App Router with React Server Components, using it to meet our app requirements at GoDaddy is still ongoing. If you want to get involved, chime in on the github repo.
Introducing Gasket Actions
A major new feature in v7 is Gasket Actions — a powerful new pattern for
accessing and setting data on demand in Gasket applications. This feature
reduces the need to decorate req/res objects or rely on middleware,
offering a cleaner, more flexible method to manage application data.
Gasket Actions provide a reliable and intuitive way to work with dynamic data
without adding complexity to your app’s architecture.
Increased Flexibility and Portability
Gasket v7 is now more flexible and portable, taking a less opinionated approach to app development. By eliminating the need for the Gasket CLI, you can simply import Gasket wherever you need it. Additionally, users now have the ability to create multiple Gasket instances, offering greater versatility and control in how you structure your applications. We've made it easier than ever to integrate Gasket with the frameworks and tools you already know and love.
Easier Contributions
We’ve aligned our testing framework with Jest, one of the most widely used testing libraries in the JavaScript ecosystem. We have refined our TypeScript types and connected them with the code using JSDoc imports to assist in better code completion and type checking, without sacrificing the debug ability of JavaScript.
What’s Next?
The release of Gasket v7 marks a significant milestone in our journey to provide a powerful, flexible, and developer-friendly framework. Whether you're working with JavaScript or TypeScript, server-side or client-side rendering, Gasket v7 gives you the tools you need to build applications faster and with more flexibility than ever before.
Follow the Upgrade Guide today and explore the new features and improvements that make Gasket v7 the best version yet. Happy coding!
