We continue to strengthen Litium Commerce Cloud to make our customers fast and flexible. We continue advancing into a decoupled, headless, and API-first architecture, by introducing new abilities in the React accelerator and the Storefront API. Also introducing version .NET 7 for the platform.
Highlights
Litium 8.13
React accelerator release candidate 2
- Ability to show a product page
- Ability to use an article page
- Ability for user to get an order confirmation
- Ability to handle permanent redirects
- Ability to use website strings
Storefront API release candidate 5
- Ability to get fields in field groups
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Ability to use .NET 7
We've updated the .NET framework to version 7. Microsoft emphasizes the performance enhancements as the key component of .NET 7, as well as being a modern, unified and simple to use framework.
Read more: Update to .NET 7
Read more here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/whats-new/dotnet-7
React accelerator RC 2
The React accelerator is release in RC2. Release candidate is the first stage with official support and when we recommend partners to start using it in projects. Features are not ported 1:1 from the MVC accelerator, so please update yourself on the details by reading the docs and checking whether the features you need are built or still planned.
Read more about features being built or still planned
The React accelerator is only accessible to customers running on Litium Commerce Cloud and please note that you can run it locally and in your own development environments. Support for running it in Litium serverless cloud will come later this October.
The headless React accelerator is built on React and Next.JS and has all the tools and frameworks you would expect from a modern single page application. It is designed mobile first for a better and updated user experience.
The new react accelerator has its own description and release notes, but here are some of the new things delivered this time.
Ability to show a product page
The new product page in the React accelerator has a modernized design and a mobile first design. The information structure is improved with expandable sections for product fields, instead of tabs. Also viewing images in zoom has a completely new improved look and functionality.
Product page in desktop
Product page in mobile
New product image zoom
Ability to use an article page
The new article page in the React accelerator has been improved to handle both blocks and a left menu for subpages. There is a convenient setting to show or hide the left menu increasing the versatility of the page. It also comes with a modernized design.
Article page in desktop
Article page in mobile
Ability for user to get an order confirmation
With this ability there are two new features introduced. First, a new a new order confirmation page and second, the ability for the React accelerator to send an order confirmation email to a user who has placed an order.
Order confirmation page in desktop
Ability to handle permanent redirects
With this ability you can configure permanent redirects for a React accelerator installation.
Ability to use website strings
With this ability you can configure and use website strings in the React accelerator to handle translations.
Litium Storefront API RC 5
The Storefront API is released in release candidate stage, which means it is officially suppported and recommended to use in customer projects.
Coverage of new functional areas in this release are:
- Ability to search and filter using the Storefront API
- Ability to get base product and it's variants specific data API
Storefront API introduction
Storefront API functional areas
Ability to get fields in field groups
With this ability it is possible to get data for field groups and fields from the Storefront API.
Bug fixes and improvements
All bug fixes and smaller improvements are found in the release notes.
See the release notes here