MODX3
Status report: MODX3 Alpha 1
The MODX3 Plan
- Login screen
- Dashboard
- UX improvements
- Extract dependencies
- Extra added features
Login Screen
- Customizable view
- Advanced help button for agencies
- Fancy background images (Photo contest!)
- More secure forgot-password flow
Dashboard
- Redesign Dashboard
- Quick buttons
- Recent changes widget
- Welcome widget (to do)
- Community widget (to do)
- Backwards compatible
UX Improvements
- More cohesive
- More intuitive
- Less clutter, remove unnecessary buttons
- Better überbar, more customizable
- Make the content field more prominent
Are we there yet?
Extract dependencies
- xPDO
- Smarty
- PHPMailer
- phpthumb
- AWS SDK
- Guzzle (added)
- Flysystem (added)
- Emogrifier (added)
Added: Composer
- MODX is now composer-installable
- Install MODX through the CLI (testing)
$ composer create-project modx/revolution YOURFOLDER 3.x-dev
$ cd YOURFOLDER
$ composer install
$ php ./_build/transport.core.php
Added: Flysystem
- Out of the box support for: Filesystem, FTP, AWS
- Flysystem supports a wide variety of adapters/sources
Flysystem brings us:
- State of the art technology
- Performance (yes, also for AWS)
- 41 million downloads, 6500 stars + 148 contributors on Github
Added: Template preview
- Improve the way clients create resources
- Simplified dialog window to start off with
- Preview of the template
- Only relevant resource fields
- Can be disabled
Added: Better upload workflow
- No more stupid dialog windows
- No more unnecessary queuing
- Way less clicks
Added: New emails
- Pretty emails (we're 2018 after all)
- Your own logo
- Signed with your website name
- One CSS file, embedded in HTML-mails using Emogrifier
Added: Markdown support for extras
- Changelog/readme and license support markdown
- No more messing around with plain text
What's next?
2.6.4, 2.6.5 and 2.7
Which is later merged into 3.x
MODX 3 Alpha 1 is out!
Community involvement has been great, lots of testing!
Polishing
More testing & bug fixing
Moving towards release
Stay in the loop
modx3.org/updates & twitter.com/gpsietzema
DEMO TIME!
MODX Meetup München
By Gauke Pieter Sietzema
MODX Meetup München
Presentation for the Munich MODX Meetup on July 18th.
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