Changelog (Beta)

Beta versions are released on the beta stream. The latest beta can be installed with npm install skynet-js@beta.

For the latest stable changes, see CHANGELOG.md.

[3.0.2-beta]

Added

• Add portalUrl response field to getFileContents and getMetadata.

Changed

• Fix a bug where registry entries with empty data were rejected.
• The bundle size when building with webpack has been further reduced.

[3.0.1-beta]

Changed

• A new optimization causes db.setJSON to complete significantly faster.
• The size of the bundled SDK has been reduced by more than 60% by changing crypto dependencies.

[3.0.0-beta]

Updating Guide

This beta version is released on the beta stream. It can be installed with npm install skynet-js@beta.

Added

• getFileContent and getFileContentHns methods have been added for getting the content of a file from a skylink or Handshake domain without downloading the file in-browser.

Changed

• [Breaking change] Entry revisions are now bigint instead of number.
• [Breaking change] Upload methods return full objects instead of just a skylink string.
• [Breaking change] Upload request methods were removed.
• [Breaking change] getMetadata returns a full object containing the metadata in a subfield.
• [Breaking change] The registry timeout has changed to take seconds instead of milliseconds.
• [Breaking change] db.getJSON can return destructured nulls instead of null
• [Breaking change] registry.getEntry only returns null on entry-not-found.
• Almost every API method now has the potential to throw. A common cause would be wrongly-typed inputs to a method, which are now checked.

Removed

• [Breaking change] executeRequest was removed.