Release Notes

February 2021

  • Theme switcher
    • Dark mode support
    • Theme drawer for user selection of themes
    • Style dictionary integration, ensuring design tokens are available in CSS, SASS and JavaScript (for 11ty data)
  • Themes
    • 7 themes – Light, Dark, Coral Light, Coral Dark, Forrest, Greyscale and Pixely 2020
    • Light and Dark as new default options
  • PWA Manifest
    • Updated SVG favicons
    • Basic PWA manifest

January 2021

  • Migration from Gatsby to Eleventy
    • Reduced JavaScript footprint
    • Parcel.js asset build process
    • Performance improvements
    • Accessibility improvements (tap sizes)
    • Liquid templating
    • Font loading improvements
    • Sitemap and feeds
  • Improved image optimisation
    • Full responsive markup for post images
    • JPG and WebP support
    • Lazy loading
    • Async decoding
    • Intrinsic sizing
    • Same-domain hosting
  • Embeds
    • Allow posts to have custom components embedded within them from Liquid templates
  • Lighthouse CI
    • Lighthouse CI runs on push/PR
    • Push results to Lighthouse CI Server to track scores over time