ScandiPWA Updates: May 29 (Issue #50)

ScandiPWA
Progressive Web Apps
3 min readMay 29, 2020

Welcome to the 50th issue of weekly ScandiPWA updates! 🥳 Discover new ScandiPWA use cases, new release notes, updates in ScandiPWA docs page, and more in today's update post!

New ScandiPWA Use Cases

Thrilled to see yet another ScandiPWA use case!

Buki.lv is a new store powered by ScandiPWA! Buki.lv is an online bookstore with the widest assortment of books published in Latvia!

The project was launched by ScandiPWA partner agency Scandiweb, and running on ScandiPWA Cloud solution (that soon will be open for everyone and now available in FREE BETA).

Sportland

In case you missed the recent update post, check out the Sportland’s 3 new PWA stores:

Sportland is the largest sporting goods and athletic leisure fashion retail chain in the Baltic states.

Search page, Performance Optimization & More in ScandiPWA 2.13.1

Right after releasing support for Magento 2.3.5 version, the ScandiPWA development team prepared another impressive update! Here's what's new in ScandiPWA 2.13.1:

Performance improvements

The module scandipwa/catalog-graphql received a massive update bringing the performance up a bit. Expect much faster loads for the category pages of configurable products.

Search and product processing should also work faster now!

Search page

The long-awaited search page is back! Access it by pressing enter while searching!

Category CMS block support

You can now select CMS blocks for the category page, and they will appear underneath a product list.

Checkout routing

Now, when switching between checkout steps, the URL changes. It allows redirecting, for instance, to /checkout/success, which was necessary for some payment-providers.

As usual, all new releases comes out with a list of bug fixes. Read more about the release and get the latest files on our Github:

ScandiPWA Documentation Updates

Search added

Now you will be able to navigate faster, as we've added the search into https://docs.scandipwa.com/ hope you will like it!

Also, the article on BEM was ported back from original docs — https://docs.scandipwa.com/docs/development/coding-standard/

Expect this article to grow alongside our custom ESLint rule-list and stay tuned, updates will follow!

ScandiPWA Extensions Mechanism. Ask-Us-Anything!

We are starting a series of educational content related to the Extensions Mechanism that will be available in the upcoming ScandiPWA 3.x version.

Ask us any questions related to extensions in ScandiPWA, and we will make sure to address them during the Community Sessions with Developers and in the FAQ post!

Submit your questions here: https://forms.gle/dVpUM2FL7F63MVrs8

Weekly community session

We hope you enjoyed the latest ScandiPWA updates. Follow us on Twitter or join the first Magento PWA community in our Slack channel where you can stay up-to-date with our work, explore the latest technical progress, ask questions and meet other enthusiasts!

ScandiPWA is the first open-source PWA theme for Magento

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