7.0.0 Features/Roadmap - HUGE MAJOR RELEASE

[Ks89]

From this summer I'm working on angular-modal-gallery 7.0.0

Expected changes 7.0.0

• add carousel features (big feature)
• add carousel's previews features (big feature)
• gallery ids must be unique across the whole application, so if you are using the library in multiple components of the same application, you must use different numeric ids (I suggest 0,1,2,3, 100,101, 200, 201 and so on) BREAKING CHANGE
• new main example with 3 pages and navigation to split carousel, modal and plain gallery
• require rxjs >= 6 (remove rxjs-compat) BREAKING CHANGE
• change preview's sliding behaviour (simple and cleaner then before, taken from carousel's previews) BREAKING CHANGE
• re-write tests for previews component in modal view with the new logic
• it will require Angular >=7 (probably also Angular 6, but this time I won't promise anything) BREAKING CHANGE
• switch to the official ng lib features in angular-cli >= 6 with the new Angular specification BREAKING CHANGE
• add new method into galleryservice called 'navigateGallery'
• new doc website https://github.com/Ks89/angular-modal-gallery-2018-v7.github.io
• update all local examples
• add carousel, plain and modal images to readme.md
• update stackblitz example
• test id-validator.service
• add configurable breakpoints to carousel's previews
• test carousel component
• test carousel-previews component
• update doc website with this info (Lazy loading image URLs from the backend #141) [requested by @dbayonacode]:

  please don't use "this.images.push(img);".  When you want to modify images, you have to re-assign 
  the array to the images input because I'm using OnPush strategy to improve performance.
  So, don't do this.images.push, but instead:
  const newImageArray= ....;
  this.images = newImageArray;
  otherwise change detection won't be triggered.
  

Expected changes 7.1.0 -> 7.X.X

• add carousel features also to modal view (requested by @hn6pot in Make image change on specific Timestamp #152)
• fix: Add output to ModalGalleryComponent emitting whenever the image is changed (requeste by @ srtab in Add output to ModalGalleryComponent emitting whenever the image is changed #165)
• investigate about image download with a better approach

Next:

• add image rotation feature with a new upper button (probably also with some shortcuts) Hi, I'm searching a way to rotate images inside the gallery. #143 [MORE DIFFICULT THAN EXPECTED BECAUSE OF https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16301625/rotated-elements-in-css-that-affect-their-parents-height-correctly]

Feel free to propose new features.

Public branch available here 7.0.0
I want to release this major version during the autumn with angular 7 support.

[Ks89]

I started to work on a new big feature: carousel

[Ks89]

New documentation website (still not updated to 7.x.x) with better accessibility, performance and SSR support with angular-universal: https://github.com/Ks89/angular-modal-gallery-2018-v7.github.io

I'll update and publish it after the first alphas of the library :)

[Ks89]

@ks89/angular-modal-gallery version 7.0.0 will require rxjs 6 (no more rxjs-compat). So the minimum version of Angular will 6.0.0 as already anticipated.

[Ks89]

If angular-cli 7 will force all library developers to switch to Angular 7, also @ks89/angular-modal-gallery will require angular 7.

[Ks89]

I need at least another beta to fix some stuff on mobile devices, before to go to RCs.

[Ks89]

Beta 3 will be released in some days. I also added a new api to add responsive breakpoints to carousel's previews. This is a way to fix responsiveness on previous betas, but also a way to configure heights on previews.

[Ks89]

Finally in beta 4, I fixed everything except for a stupid issue on IE11, that I'll fix before the final release.

Next releases will be RCs. If you want to use this library in your project, now you can, because apis are quite stable. Please give me all feedbacks.

[Ks89]

7.0.0 RC.1 released :)

The library is stable, or at least I hope.
I have to improve unit testing before the final release, but the library itself it will be the same as RC1

[Ks89]

I'm working on RC2 and hopefully the last RC before to release the final version.
I'm writing unit tests for the two new components. So in RC2 I'll improve input validation and so on, to prevent possible issues.

Please be patient. The final version will be released this month.

[Ks89]

RC2 is out.
I'm sorry for the delay but I was really unexpectedly busy this month.
I'll release the final version in 1 or 2 weeks.

[Ks89]

7.0.0 will be released today evening :)

[Ks89]

7.0.0 final is finally available on npm