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How to Upgrade to StealJS 1

Chasen Le Hara

Learn how to upgrade a Angular 2, CanJS, jQuery, React, or Vue project from StealJS 0.16.x to 1.x!

posted in Open Source, Development, StealJS on January 20, 2017 by Chasen Le Hara


How to Upgrade to StealJS 1

Chasen Le Hara by Chasen Le Hara

StealJS 1 has been released! It’s a major new version with some breaking changes, but our migration guide has everything you need to upgrade your app or plugin today.

It is so easy to upgrade a StealJS 0.16.x project to StealJS 1.x that in this post we’re going to upgrade five projects:

 

Quick Start example

We’ll start with a really simple example that shows using StealJS to load jQuery and some CSS.

Because both steal and steal-tools are devDependencies in package.json, we’ll run the following to upgrade both packages:

npm install steal@1 steal-tools@1 --save-dev

Now the latest 1.x versions of steal and steal-tools are installed!

This project uses npm run build to create the distributable files; after running that command, we get the following error:

ERROR: Error loading "stealjs@1.0.0#styles.css" at file:/quick-start/styles.css.js
Error loading "stealjs@1.0.0#styles.css" from "stealjs@1.0.0#index" at file:/quick-start/index.js
ENOTDIR: not a directory, open '/quick-start/styles.css/index.js'
ERROR: 
Build failed

StealJS 1 no longer includes the steal-css plugin in the steal npm package, so we’ll need to install it as a dev-dependency and use the new plugins configuration.

First, let’s install steal-css from npm:

npm install steal-css --save-dev

Next, we’ll add the plugins configuration to package.json (and use steal instead of system):

{
  ...
  "steal": {
    ...
    "plugins": ["steal-css"]
  }
}

The last thing we’ll do to take advantage of StealJS 1 is use the pre-configured steal.production.js file.

In our index.html, we’ll replace this:

<script src="./node_modules/steal/steal.production.js" main="index"></script>

With this:

<script src="./dist/steal.production.js"></script>

Less code and configuration, hurrah!

For this simple example, those are the only changes required to upgrade our project to StealJS 1. You can see all of these changes in a pull request in the quick-start project.

quick start.png

 

Angular 2 example

The StealJS Angular 2 example includes steal ^0.16.12 in its package.json dependencies, so we’ll upgrade it to 1.x:

npm install steal@1 --save

Now that the latest 1.x version of steal is installed, if we load the index.html page in a browser, we’ll see this error in the console: Error loading "styles.less" from "main"

angular error.png

StealJS 1 no longer includes the steal-less plugin in the steal npm package, so we’ll need to install it as a dev-dependency and use the new plugins configuration.

First, let’s install steal-less from npm:

npm install steal-less --save-dev

Next, we’ll add the plugins configuration to package.json (and use steal instead of system):

{
  ...
  "steal": {
    ...
    "plugins": ["steal-less"]
  }
}

After those changes, our project will load correctly! You can see all of these changes as part of a pull request that upgraded the project to the latest version of Angular 2 and StealJS.

angular.png

 

CanJS example

The StealJS CanJS example also includes steal ^0.16.12 in its package.json dependencies, so we’ll upgrade it to 1.x:

npm install steal@1 --save

Now that the latest 1.x version of steal is installed, if we load the index.html page in a browser, we’ll see this error in the console: Error loading "index.stache!stache" from "app"

canjs error.png

When we migrated to CanJS 3, we installed steal-stache as a dependency, and in StealJS 1 we need to use the new plugins configuration for it to work correctly. StealJS 1 also no longer includes the steal-less plugin in the steal npm package, so we’ll need to install it as a dev-dependency.

First, let’s install steal-less from npm:

npm install steal-less --save-dev

Next, we’ll add the plugins configuration to package.json (and use steal instead of system):

{
  ...
  "steal": {
    ...
    "plugins": ["steal-less", "steal-stache"]
  }
}

After those changes, our project will load correctly! You can see all of these changes in a single pull request.

canjs.png

 

React example

The StealJS React example includes steal ^0.16.4 in its package.json dependencies, so we’ll upgrade it to 1.x:

npm install steal@1 --save

Now that the latest 1.x version of steal is installed, if we load the index.html page in a browser, we’ll see this error in the console: Error loading "steal-react-example@1.0.0#world.jsx"

react error.png

Previous versions of StealJS would load the package.json files for all of a project’s immediate dependencies, which isn’t as efficient as the new plugins configuration. In StealJS 1, we’ll add the plugins configuration with steal-jsx to package.json (and use steal instead of system):

{
  ...
  "steal": {
    ...
    "plugins": ["steal-jsx"]
  }
}

After those changes, our project will load correctly! You can see all of these changes as part of a single commit.

react.png

 

Vue.js example

The StealJS Vue.js example includes StealJS 0.16.x in its package.json dependencies, so we’ll upgrade to 1.x:

npm install steal@1 steal-tools@1 --save

Now that the latest 1.x version of steal is installed, if we load the index.html page in a browser, we’ll see this error in the console: Error loading "steal-vuejs-example@1.0.0#styles.less"

vuejs error.png

StealJS 1 no longer includes the steal-less plugin in the steal npm package, so we’ll need to install it as a dev-dependency and use the new plugins configuration.

First, let’s install steal-less from npm:

npm install steal-less --save-dev

Next, we’ll add the plugins configuration to package.json (and use steal instead of system):

{
  ...
  "steal": {
    ...
    "plugins": ["steal-less"]
  }
}

After those changes, our project will load correctly! You can see all of these changes as part of a pull request that upgraded the project to the latest version of Vue.js 2 and StealJS.

vuejs.png

Migrate today

The migration guide is a great resource for upgrading your project to StealJS 1 today. In it, you’ll find all of the information that was used in this blog post, and more!

If you have any questions about migrating, please post in our forums or Gitter chat!

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