Improved Bower, integrated Polymer Designer, speed improvements, search options, and more

New features

• improved Bower support
  • added support for most of the semantic version range formats under "dependencies" in bower.json:
    • operators <, <=, >, >=, ~ ("approximate"), ^ ("latest compatible")
    • special tag latest ("latest stable tag")
    • unspecified version defaults to latest)
    • examples: "Polymer/polymer#>=0.4.1 <0.4.3", "Polymer/polymer#^0.4.1", "Polymer/polymer#~0.3.0", "Polymer/polymer#latest"
  • added support for "*" package paths in bower.json: such paths will be resolved using Bower registry based on the package name; e.g. "codemirror": "*"
  • the destination directory for downloaded packages can be configured via "directory" field in hierarchically traversed .bowerrc files (other fields are currently ignored); see Bower configuration page
• alpha version of Polymer Designer integration into CDE; some notes:
  • enabled for all HTML files, but meaningful only for HTMLs with a <polymer-element> at the top
  • very sensitive to the input: may fail to render a design if the internal parsing fails; improvements on the way
  • therefore, the primary indended use for now is to jump-start a new Polymer element from scratch, get it to a workable state, then continue more advanced development manually
  • accessible via a new context menu item in the file tree and via a new floating action button (FAB) in the editor
  • to start a new element design, simply create a new empty HTML and click the Polymer FAB in it
  • generates only the .html source for a design; you will need to manually add any dependencies the design requires to a sibling bower.json and run Bower Install on it
  • the undo stack is properly updated with the generated output: the original source can be restored via the usual Undo action
  • known limitations:
    • <link> tags importing external sources are ignored, including outline stylesheets and polymer components not natively known to the Designer (i.e. ones not found it its design palette); use inline tags wherever possible
    • lists of CSS selectors before a single rule are not supported: use duplicate rules for each individual selector
    • HTML tags containing both text content and sub-tags are parsed incorrectly: the text contents is lost; e.g. Some text in <p>Some text <a>some link</a></p> will be lost on import

Project templates

• the New Project dialog can now also be accessed via a new floating action button (FAB) at the bottom of the file tree view
• the much improved Dart Web App and the newly added Dart Package project templates are now based on Stagehand - a new set of best-of-breed prescriptive templates for creating Dart projects
• Polymer-related project templates now depend on the latest stable versions of Polymer components (depended on master before)
• fixed/upgraded some previously/recently broken templates

Other changes

• significant improvements in the editing speed and responsiveness!
• add options to the Search/Replace dialog (regular expressions, case-sensitive, whole words only)
• enabled syntax highighting for .sql and .sqlite file extensions
• UI tweaks:
  • improved the Live Deploy dialog's UI
  • restricted resizing of the commit message text area in the Git Commit dialog to vertical only (could be resized horizontally before)
  • added 11 light color themes for the editor

Bug fixes

• the undo stack in the editor would reset when the rereading the contents of an externally modified file, making it impossible to go back to the original code
• source navigation would become broken when an involved project got deleted