Migrating from A2 Version 0.4

Migrating version 0.4 isn't that hard, but there are some changes you'll need to make, otherwise your content will seem to vanish. Which is very distressing, I'm sure you'll agree.

• In package.json, change all dependencies on modules with names starting with apostrophe from 0.4.x to 0.5.x. Change any dependency onuploadfsorsanitize-htmlto1.x`.

• Run npm update.

• Back up your database if there is no other copy (you should test this entire process in a dev environment, never with your live production site).

• Migrate your data:

    node app apostrophe:migrate

Without the migration step you'll wonder where your content went.

• In your templates, replace all occurrences of .areas with the empty string. Be thorough. This one will dog you if you don't catch them all.

• In your templates, replace all occurrences of .typeSettings.tags with .withTags.

• Replace all other occurrences of .typeSettings with the empty string.

• In your project level .js files (NOT the Apostrophe core modules), carry out the same replacements.

• In outerLayout.html, calls like this:

aposSnippetsMenu({ edit: edit })

Should become simply:

aposSnippetsMenu(permissions)

IMPORTANT: this change applies to the modules based on snippets, like blog, events and your custom subclasses. It DOES NOT apply to aposMediaMenu and other things unrelated to snippets.

• In outerLayout.html, after the apos-admin-bar div, add the new context menu:

{{ aposPagesMenu({ contextMenu: contextMenu, page: page, bottom: true }) }}

You can also tuck it inside the admin bar div and pass bottom: false. We recommend letting it appear in the lower left corner as it will with bottom: true.

That should do it! For much less common issues, see the official bc break notices in the Apostrophe google group.