With WaveMaker 10.6.0 Release on 08 December, 2020, see what’s new, and features that were requested, and reported bugs. To learn about our detailed list of features and fixes, see WaveMaker Release Notes 10.6.0.

Here are some highlights of what's in this release.

A Wavemaker Application typically comprises of many pages, and each page consists of various widgets. When certain actions are performed on the page, it results in changes to the state of the application. Some of the examples are:

• Switching between different tab panes in a Tabs widget.
• Switching between different accordion panes in an Accordion widget.
• Selecting items in a List widget and navigating between different pages of the List(pagination).
• Searching, Sorting, Row Selection, and Pagination in a Data Table widget.

Here is another update on the Theme builder app. After the first release of theme builder, we thought of adding few more features and enhancements to enable our users to create great themes to get their web, mobile applications looking well finished.

WaveMaker has added support for importing API that are documented using OpenAPIs, Swagger specification in 10.4. However building a robust OpenAPI support is very important as different API while using OpenAPI/Swagger document their endpoints in subtly different ways. We tried importing OpenAPI documents from different API sources. One such example is when we tested an OpenAPI document generated through PostgREST. In this blog we'll discuss what changes we have made in 10.5 in order to support OpenAPI documents generated from such sources.

WaveMaker product team is able to make weekly patch releases and, feature packed releases every alternate months. Typically product releases involve testing of several micro services, API’s and User interface, functionality etc. WaveMaker platform is composed of several such services, and functional testing can be only done by building apps using visual drag-n-drop studio. To ensure the best product quality for releases, our QA process involves building automation tests for APIs as well as UI functionality using Selenium.

Uploading files from a mobile phone is a common use case that every mobile app has. Until last release, WaveMaker UI to select files had the following problems.

1. Failing to honor multiple/single flag in some of the cases.
2. UI for selecting images and UI for selecting videos are completely different.
3. There is no option to select files from Google drive or Cloud drive.
4. UI to select files (filetype: file) is very basic and doesn't provide much file information (thumbnails, last modified time etc.,).

Performance is key to the success of any application. Even though an app is feature-rich if it's not responsive to user actions it might lose its userbase. WaveMaker is a platform enables our users to develop web, mobile applications. We strive to enable top notch performance of these apps. Towards this goal, with each release, WaveMaker introduces changes aiding in optimization of generated apps in terms of code, build outputs & serving of the apps. The optimizations are made available to the customers out of the box. It requires minimal or no changes to be done by low code developers while building an app in WaveMaker, thus easing the process of building faster apps.

With working from home as a new normal, we have released yet another major update with some of the most interesting features in it. To learn about our detailed list of features and fixes, see WaveMaker Release Notes 10.5.

As a modern development team, we are adapting to the latest technology trends. If there is something you feel WaveMaker should have, do let us know here.

Now, let's jump straight to see what's new in this release!

Today it is becoming more and more common to break down a monolithic architecture into micro services, thereby you get many small APIs that work independently. In micro services architecture, a bunch of services are broken down into independent smaller services which expose standard REST APIs to interact with.

Creating and customizing the look and feel of WaveMaker applications is just a few clicks away now. We have introduced a theme building tool for changing color schemes and creating branding specs. Theme-builder brings the benefit of codeless theme creation in a few simple steps. With a built-in code editor, one can make changes and see custom styles instantly applied to the web components.