2.0.4.5 release notes (LWC beta support)

Post date: Dec 13, 2018 3:20:28 PM

2.0.4.5

Lightning Web Components (LWC) Support (beta)
- Note that you must also have access to an LWC-enabled early access organization until the feature is released for general-availability
- Implemented
  - LWC development in both traditional/MDAPI and Salesforce DX projects
  - Code completion for standard and custom LWC components and their attributes
  - Reference injection/navigation for usages of ES6 properties and methods in template markup braced expressions
  - Integrated documentation for standard and custom LWC components and their attributes
  - Tabbed editor support for LWC bundle files
  - Tight integration with IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate Edition and WebStorm ES6 editor capabilities including:
    - Web Components template markup support
    - NPM-based dependency resolution - right-click on package.json and choose Run 'npm install' to instruct the IDE to resolve all NPM dependencies
    - Multi-language refactoring capabilities - renaming an ES6 property or method will update references in template markup braced expressions
  - File template-based creation of LWC components and supporting files:
    - Template markup
    - Component ES6 class/module
    - CSS style
    - meta.xml file
    - ES6 support/helper classes
    - Jest tests
- Not Yet Implemented / Known Issues
  - ES6+ support in IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition (CE). The limited support for JavaScript and CSS in CE is provided by a JavaScript parser without ES6+ support and with no knowledge of technologies such as NPM. As a result, JavaScript features in CE will be very limited relative to the experience offered by IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate Edition (UE) and WebStorm (WS) which include JetBrains' full HTML5/JavaScript/CSS editors and framework support. While I may look for an alternative JavaScript parser to provide better ES6 handling in CE, the LWC experience will always be dramatically better when using IC with either UE or WS.
  - Proper handling of special import...from '@salesforce/* directives in ES6 files. This will be be addressed shortly.
  - Code completion for component attributes with constrained/enumerated values. This information is not yet available in Salesforce's standard component definitions.
  - Some valid attributes of system components are also missing from Salesforce's standard component definitions and will therefore not be offered as code completions until those omissions are addressed.
  - Fully-integrated Jest testing. IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate Edition and WebStorm provide first-class support for Jest test execution. However, currently there is some configuration/context that must be provided to the test runner for LWC Jest tests to execute successfully. I will be working with Salesforce to resolve this issue so that Jest tests can be executed in a first-class manner. In the interim, it is possible to execute Jest tests from the npmtool window (right-click on package.json and choose Show npm scripts, then double-click test:unit).
  - Tooling API-based deployment of LWC bundle files in traditional/MDAPI projects. There doesn't appear to be support for (typically faster) REST-based updating of LWC bundle files as there is for Aura bundle files. If/when the Tooling API provides support, IC will be updated accordingly. In the interim LWC components are always deployed via the Metadata API.
  - LWC deployment errors are not well-structured at this point. IC currently attempts to process deployment error messages to determine the correct associated source files for accurate error annotation, but there may still be unexpected/unhandled patterns and/or incorrect inference of the associated source file.