🚀 WP Rig v3.2.0: Leveling Up Your Development Workflow!

We are thrilled to announce the release of WP Rig v3.2.0! This update is all about professional-grade stability, performance insights, and a smoother developer experience. Whether you're building a bespoke client site or a high-performance theme, v3.2.0 brings the tools you need to build with absolute confidence.

🛠 What’s New and Exciting?

• Robust E2E Testing with Playwright: Say goodbye to manual "click-testing." We’ve integrated Playwright to handle End-to-End testing, covering everything from accessibility and navigation to essential smoke tests.
• Performance Insights with Lighthouse CI: Want to know your SEO and performance scores before you even go live? New Lighthouse CI configurations help you monitor speed, accessibility, and best practices directly in your workflow.
• Rock-Solid Code with PHPStan: We’ve added PHPStan for static analysis, helping you catch bugs in your PHP code before they ever hit a server.
• Theme-Level Blocks, Your Way: To maintain peak compatibility with the WordPress.org theme checker, theme-level blocks are now an opt-in feature via a dedicated script. You choose when and how to use them!
• Polished Mobile Experience: We’ve overhauled the default mobile navigation to be smoother and more reliable, fixing pesky transition issues to ensure your site looks great on every screen.
• Modern Dev Server & PHP Types: We’ve refined our modern development server and improved PHP type declarations across the board for a faster, more intelligent coding environment.

💪 Performance & Stability

On top of the big features, we’ve done a spring cleaning of the codebase:

• Optimized Dependencies: Cleaned up package.json to keep your project lean.
• CLI Improvements: Prevented common CLI errors for a more reliable terminal experience.
• Bundled Test Data: We've included test data to ensure your E2E tests are ready to run right out of the gate.

✨ Props to the Community

A massive thank you to @robruiz for the incredible work on this release, pushing WP Rig toward a more modern, automated, and professional future.

Ready to dive in?
Update your local environment and take the new Playwright tests for a spin! As always, WP Rig is licensed under the GPL—so go make something cool, have fun, and share what you’ve learned! 🥂

What's Changed

• V3.0.1 by @robruiz in #871
• V3.0.2 by @robruiz in #872
• Bugfix Comments by @erdmann040 in #873
• Bugfix/js minification by @erdmann040 in #878
• Feat: Integrate theme.json for block editor settings by @SinghCod3r in #891
• Fix(a11y): Prevent output of hidden site branding (#758) by @SinghCod3r in #892
• Fix(nav): Resolve mobile navigation and submenu toggling (#697) by @SinghCod3r in #890
• Fix: No more npm run dev crashes on PHP file editing by @erdmann040 in #885
• Fix/issue #875 by @erdmann040 in #888
• Update/prevent corruption for filesToCopy files while bundling by @skywardpro in #882
• Fix issue #895 by @erdmann040 in #897
• Fix/issue#889 by @erdmann040 in #894
• empty file deleted and added one line to the CHANGLOG.md by @erdmann040 in #898
• include .jsx files in esbuild pipeline to fixes #899 (broken options) by @erdmann040 in #900
• chore(build-css): fix ESLint no-shadow (no functional change) by @erdmann040 in #901
• replaces the eclinrc.json in the gulp folder by @erdmann040 in #902
• Build/ignore i18n sourcemap by @erdmann040 in #909
• fix(lint): make Flat Config work with ESLint 8; remove legacy config; scope to assets/js/src by @erdmann040 in #911
• fix: add chokidar-cli so watch:css works (fixes #912) by @erdmann040 in #913
• Fix/gulp linting by @erdmann040 in #916
• Fix: Silence deprecation warnings on Options page (minimal change) by @erdmann040 in #917
• Fix/919 css sourcemaps v3 by @erdmann040 in #921
• v3.0.3 by @robruiz in #893
• Childify by @robruiz in #927
• v3.1 by @robruiz in #930

New Contributors

• @SinghCod3r made their first contribution in #891
• @skywardpro made their first contribution in #882

Full Changelog: v3.0.3...v3.1

• Reorganization of the CSS source files. Props @robruiz
• Fixed js minification and removes obsolete dev dependency. Props @robruiz
• Fixed corruption for files during the bundle for filesToCopy files. Props @skywardpro
• Minor accessibility improvements to navigation. Props @SinghCod3r
• Improvements to eslint system, TS compiling, styles and js minification. Props @erdmann040
• Improvements to asset bundling. Props @robruiz
• Theme.json file now created when block-based conversion is run. Props @SinghCod3r
• New relative image path generation during css transpile. Props @robruiz
• Added new cli command to auto-generate menu items. Props @robruiz
• Fixed initial tests. All tests should pass now on fresh install. Props @robruiz
• Removed outdated/deprecated/unnecessary deps. Props @robruiz
• Fixed a bug that caused Gulp to crash frequently. Props @erdmann040
• Fixed CSS source maps; now consistent & configurable. Props @erdmann040
• Removed package-lock.json from repo. Devs should manually add this. Props @robruiz

What's Changed

• V3.0.2 by @robruiz in #872

Full Changelog: v3.0.1...v3.0.2

• Removed some Gulp plugin deps and replaced with custom ones to ensure compatibility with Node versions 22 and up.
• Addresses issue #865 - thanks @welbinator
• Cleaned up come command line messaging
• Updated some other packages

Version 3 - Major Release

• Complete Rewrite of JavaScript and CSS build systems. Introduced esbuild and Lightning CSS. Props @robruiz
• Full Typescript support added. Props @robruiz
• Added base CSS framework for layout purposes. Props @robruiz
• Min version of PHP bumped to PHP 8. Type checking added. Props @robruiz
• React-based options/settings page framework for theme devs added. @robruiz
• Removed support for AMP Plugin. @robruiz

• Updated some dependencies
• Updated WPCS to V3.1. Props @robruiz
• PHPCS silencing contribution. Props @erdmann040
• All WPCS errors addressed. Clean install now yields zero errors. Props @robruiz
• Updated many packages and dependencies for security and compatibility reasons. Props @robruiz
• Now compatible with up to PHP 8.1. 8.2+ remains untested but might work. Props @robruiz

What's Changed

• Updated WPCS to V3.1. Props @robruiz
• PHPCS silencing contribution. Props @erdmann040
• All WPCS errors addressed. Clean install now yields zero errors. Props @robruiz
• Updated many packages and dependencies for security and compatibility reasons. Props @robruiz
• Now compatible with up to PHP 8.1. 8.2+ remains untested but might work. Props @robruiz

Massive improvements to mobile navigation. Extended support for block-based features. Added WPCS 3

Updated packages for babel and eslint. This now allows for using newer JS operators like optional chaining and null coalescent. We also added a slight tweak to style preloading to allow for auto-loading of preloaded styles.

What's Changed

• PHP 8.1 Compatibility by @robruiz in #814
• Bump jsdom and jest by @dependabot in #819
• Bump axios and localtunnel by @dependabot in #817
• Bump lodash from 4.17.15 to 4.17.21 by @dependabot in #815
• Bump shell-quote from 1.6.1 to 1.7.4 by @dependabot in #816
• Bump engine.io and browser-sync by @dependabot in #818
• Bump socket.io-parser and browser-sync by @dependabot in #821
• Updated a lot of packages by @robruiz in #832

Full Changelog: v2.2.1...V2.3