TypeScript (and winter) is coming!

[eandre]

Encore v1.29 is out with a whole bunch of quality-of-life improvements and bugfixes.

As always, get the latest version with encore version update!

TypeScript update

We're making rapid progress on Encore's TypeScript support, and plan to have an initial release out in the coming weeks. In the meantime, join us on Slack and let us know if you're interested in participating in the private beta.

API Schema Validation & Autocomplete

Encore now validates and autocompletes request payloads via the API Explorer and Service Catalog! Check it out in action:

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Streaming Traces

Encore now streams traces to the Encore Platform as they're happening, instead of waiting for the request to complete. This dramatically improves trace ingestion latency and reduces the memory usage of Encore applications. The new functionality is automatically enabled, starting with your next deploy. (See #944 and #976)

Go Workspaces

Encore now supports Go workspaces! This enables more seamless development of multi-module applications. (See #975)

CORS Improvements

Encore's CORS handling now automatically allows User-Agent to be allowed for incoming requests. (See #956)

Deleted environment handling

The Encore Platform now supports viewing environments that have been deleted. This is particularly useful for Preview Environments since they're automatically deleted on PR merge.

Shadow Databases

Encore now supports creating "shadow databases" for use with tools like Atlas and Prisma Migrate. A shadow database is an empty database that can be used by migration tools to compare the current state with the desired state.

Encore supports using shadow databases with the encore db commands you already know by passing in the --shadow flag. For example, encore db reset --shadow --all resets all shadow databases back to their empty state, while encore db conn-uri --shadow provides a connection string for use in tools like Atlas and Prisma Migrate.

We've updated the docs to use this functionality for a better integration with Atlas.

(See #949)

Bugfixes

Beyond this, a whole slew of bugfixes and other improvements:

• Fixed initialization race in metrics (metrics: fix initialization race #978)
• Fixed new traces incorrectly appearing in the local developer dashboard when running multiple applications (dash: propagate app id for new trace events #960)
• Fixed metrics collection on startup and shutdown (runtime/metrics: don't collect on startup or shutdown #953)
• Fixed duplicate trace spans for stdlib queries (storage/sqldb: fix duplicate trace spans for stdlib queries #952)
• Fixed error reporting when having multiple migrations with the same migration number (parser: catch invalid migration numbers #945)
• Improved graceful pod termination when running in Kubernetes (Support graceful pod termination in Kubernetes #938)
• Added support for having an empty migration directory (Support not running DB migrations #936)
• Fixed code rewriting edge case with a file containing nothing but "package " (rewrite: support insert at end of file #979)
• Members are now correctly allowed to manually trigger deployments
• Links to code viewer now work correctly with a custom app root directory
• Fixed trace replay pane scrolling
• Improved Connect Cloud documentation and copy to make it clearer
• Infrastructure Edit panel for Cloud Run now supports setting min==max

Thanks to all contributors

🙏 We continue to be overwhelmed by your support, feedback, and suggestions!
Together we're building the future of backend development and we couldn't be more excited.

❤️ As always, we're excited to hear what you think!
Please share your feedback on Slack.

Full Changelog: v1.28.0...v1.29.2

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