If `experimental.fullySpecified` is set to `true` in the next config, the Payload admin panel fails to compile, throwing the following error:
```ts
Failed to compile.
../../node_modules/.pnpm/@payloadcms+next@3.25.0-canary.46647b4_@types+react@18.3.1_graphql@16.10.0_monaco-editor@0.40_w3ro7ziou6gzev7zbe3qqrwaqe/node_modules/@payloadcms/next/dist/views/Version/RenderFieldsToDiff/fields/Select/DiffViewer/index.js
Attempted import error: 'DiffMethod' is not exported from 'react-diff-viewer-continued' (imported as 'DiffMethod').
```
The issue stems from incorrect import statements in `react-diff-viewer-continued` 4.0.4. This was fixed in `react-diff-viewer-continued` 4.0.5.
This PR also enables `fullySpecified` in our test suites, to catch these issues going forward.
### What?
Supersedes https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/pull/11490.
Refactors imports of `formatAdminURL` to import from `payload/shared`
instead of `@payloadcms/ui/shared`. The ui package now imports and
re-exports the function to prevent this from being a breaking change.
### Why?
This makes it easier for other packages/plugins to consume the
`formatAdminURL` function instead of needing to implement their own or
rely on the ui package for the utility.
Previously, collections with similar names (e.g., `uploads` and
`uploads-poly`) both appeared active when viewing either collection.
This was due to `pathname.startsWith(href)`, which caused partial
matches.
This update refines the `isActive` logic to prevent partial matches.
This fixes an issue where the active collection nav item was
non-clickable inside documents. Now, it remains clickable when viewing a
document, allowing users to return to the list view from the nav items
in the sidebar.
The active state indicator still appears in both cases.
The `req.url` property at the page level was not reflective of the
actual URL on localhost. This was because we were passing an
incompatible `url` override into `createLocalReq` (lacking protocol).
This would silently fail to construct the URL object, ultimately losing
the top-level domain on `req.url` as well as the port on `req.origin`
(see #11454).
Closes#11448.
### What?
The `locale selector` in the version comparison view shows all locales
on first load. It does not accomodate the `filterAvailableLocales`
option and shows locales which should be filtered.
### How?
Pass the initial locales through the `filterAvailableLocales` function.
Closes#11408
#### Testing
Use test suite `localization` and the `localized-drafts` collection.
Test added to `test/localization/e2e`.
This PR significantly improves performance when navigating through the admin panel by reducing the number of times `initReq` is called. Previously, `initReq`—which handles expensive tasks like initializing Payload and running access control—was called **three times** for a single page load (for the root layout, the root page, and the notFound page).
We initially tried to use React Cache to ensure `initReq` only ran once per request. However, because React Cache performs a shallow object reference check on function arguments, the configuration object we passed (`configPromise`) and the `overrides` object never maintained the same reference, causing the cache to miss.
### What’s Changed
* **New `getInitReqContainer` Helper**
We introduced a helper that provides a stable object reference throughout the entire request. This allows React to properly cache the output, ensuring `initReq` doesn’t get triggered multiple times by mistake.
* **Splitting `initReq` into Two Functions**
The `initReq` logic was split into:
* **`initPartialReq`:** Runs only **once** per request, handling tasks that do not depend on page-level data (e.g., calling `.auth`, which performs a DB request).
* **`initReq`:** Runs **twice** (once for Layout+NotFound page and once for main page), handling tasks, most notably access control, that rely on page-level data such as locale or query parameters. The NotFound page will share the same req as the layout page, as it's not localized, and its access control wouldn't need to access page query / url / locale, just like the layout.
* **Remove duplicative logic**
* Previously, a lot of logic was run in **both** `initReq` **and** the respective page / layout. This was completely unnecessary, as `initReq` was already running that logic. This PR returns the calculated variables from `initReq`, so they don't have to be duplicatively calculated again.
### Performance Gains
* Previously:
* `.auth` call ran **3 times**
* Access control ran **3 times**
* Now:
* `.auth` call runs **1 time**
* Access control runs **2 times**
This change yields a noticeable performance improvement by cutting down on redundant work.
Maintains column state in the URL. This makes it possible to share
direct links to the list view in a specific column order or active
column state, similar to the behavior of filters. This also makes it
possible to change both the filters and columns in the same rendering
cycle, a requirement of the "list presets" feature being worked on here:
#11330.
For example:
```
?columns=%5B"title"%2C"content"%2C"-updatedAt"%2C"createdAt"%2C"id"%5D
```
The `-` prefix denotes that the column is inactive.
This strategy performs a single round trip to the server, ultimately
simplifying the table columns provider as it no longer needs to request
a newly rendered table for itself. Without this change, column state
would need to be replaced first, followed by a change to the filters.
This would make an unnecessary number of requests to the server and
briefly render the UI in a stale state.
This all happens behind an optimistic update, where the state of the
columns is immediately reflected in the UI while the request takes place
in the background.
Technically speaking, an additional database query in performed compared
to the old strategy, whereas before we'd send the data through the
request to avoid this. But this is a necessary tradeoff and doesn't have
huge performance implications. One could argue that this is actually a
good thing, as the data might have changed in the background which would
not have been reflected in the result otherwise.
### What?
This PR reverts a presumably accidental change made in
[b80010b1a1](b80010b1a1),
that broke the email verification feature in v3.24.0 and onwards.
### Why?
Through the missing verify in `const [collectionSlug, verify, token] =
params.segments`, the token value was always the string `verify`
When visiting a collection's list view, the nav item corresponding to
that collection correctly appears in an active state, but is still
rendered as an anchor tag. This makes it possible to reload the current
page by simply clicking the link, which is a problem because this
performs an unnecessary server roundtrip. This is especially apparent
when search params exist in the current URL, as the href on the link
does not.
Unrelated: also cleans up leftover code that was missed in this PR:
#11155
This bumps next.js to 15.2.0 in our monorepo, as well as all @types/react and @types/react-dom versions. Additionally, it removes the obsolete `peerDependencies` property from our root package.json.
This PR also fixes 2 bugs introduced by Next.js 15.2.0. This highlights why running our test suite against the latest Next.js, to make sure Payload is compatible, version is important.
## 1. handleWhereChange running endlessly
Upgrading to Next.js 15.2.0 caused `handleWhereChange` to be continuously called by a `useEffect` when the list view filters were opened, leading to a React error - I did not investigate why upgrading the Next.js version caused that, but this PR fixes it by making use of the more predictable `useEffectEvent`.
## 2. Custom Block and Array label React key errors
Upgrading to Next.js 15.2.0 caused react key errors when rendering custom block and array row labels on the server. This has been fixed by rendering those with a key
## 3. Table React key errors
When rendering a `Table`, a React key error is thrown since Next.js 15.2.0
Continuation of #11008. When `filterOptions` are set on a relationship
field that is _nested within another field_, those filter options are
not applied to `Filter` component in the list view. This is because we
were only shallowly resolving filter options on top-level fields, as
opposed to recursively traversing fields to resolve them even when
deeply nested.
Previously, we were calling `getNavPrefs` (a payload.find call) three times for every single page load.
This PR:
1. Ensures that `getNavPrefs` is called only once per page load, reducing two unnecessary `payload.find` calls every time a page is loaded or navigated to.
2. Adds `pagination: false` to the `payload.find` call, making it more efficient and improving performance.
## How?
We were using React's cache to ensure that navigation preferences (`getNavPrefs`) were fetched only once per request. However, this wasn't working as expected because the first argument of `getNavPrefs` was an object. Each time it was called, a new object reference was passed, preventing React from caching it properly.
To fix this, this PR ensures that only primitive values are used as arguments for caching, following best practices and making the cache function work as intended.
## getPreferences function caching
Our `getPreferences` function used in the ui package is now wrapped in react cache, to minimize the amount of times it runs on a single request. This mimics the behavior of our other `getPreferences` function in the next package.
## getPreferences incorrect behavior
The `getPreferences` function in the next package was passing through the incorrect user slug. This would not have been noticeable in projects with just one users collection, but might break in projects with multiple users collections.
## getPreferences performance optimization
This PR adds `pagination: false` to the getPreferences payload.find() call, which will speed up the query.
## upsertPreferences transaction errors
Due to the potential of preference upsert operations running in parallel (e.g. when switching locales), this PR disables transactions in the preferences creation / update calls. This fixes the transaction errors reported in https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/issues/11310
`getRequestLocale` => `upsertPreferences` is already called as part of `initReq`, yet we were still unnecessarily calling `getRequestLocale` afterwards, which potentially resulted in at least one unnecessary `payload.find()` or `payload.update()` call.
### What?
Adding `assetPrefix` to the `next.config` prevents the hot module
reloading functionality.
### Why & How?
Need to incorporate `assetPrefix` into the URL generated for webpack
HMR.
Fixes#11150
#### Testing
1. Add `assetPrefix: '/test'` to the `next.config.mjs` in the root
folder
2. Run `pnpm test _community`
3. Go to the `_community/collections/posts` config and change a field
4. Open post collection in browser and see no change (if this PR is
checked out then you _**will**_ see the change)
### What?
The admin panel was not respecting where constraints returned from the
readAccess function.
### Why?
`getEntityPolicies` was always using `find` when looping over the
operations, but `readVersions` should be using `findVersions`.
### How?
When the operation is `readVersions` run the `findVersions` operation.
Fixes https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/issues/11240
Restoring a version has two types of messages, success and error, but no
matter if this action is a success or a failure, the toast message is
never displayed.
The fix is to import the toast from `@payloadcms/ui` instead of `sonner`
directly.
Fixes#11059
Removes unnecessary callback args from the `onConfirm` callback in the
new `ConfirmationModal` component. Now, the component will close and
reset `isConfirming` state for itself.
There are nearly a dozen independent implementations of the same modal
spread throughout the admin panel and various plugins. These modals are
used to confirm or cancel an action, such as deleting a document, bulk
publishing, etc. Each of these instances is nearly identical, leading to
unnecessary development efforts when creating them, inconsistent UI, and
duplicative stylesheets.
Everything is now standardized behind a new `ConfirmationModal`
component. This modal comes with a standard API that is flexible enough
to replace nearly every instance. This component has also been exported
for reuse.
Here is a basic example of how to use it:
```tsx
'use client'
import { ConfirmationModal, useModal } from '@payloadcms/ui'
import React, { Fragment } from 'react'
const modalSlug = 'my-confirmation-modal'
export function MyComponent() {
const { openModal } = useModal()
return (
<Fragment>
<button
onClick={() => {
openModal(modalSlug)
}}
type="button"
>
Do something
</button>
<ConfirmationModal
heading="Are you sure?"
body="Confirm or cancel before proceeding."
modalSlug={modalSlug}
onConfirm={({ closeConfirmationModal, setConfirming }) => {
// do something
setConfirming(false)
closeConfirmationModal()
}}
/>
</Fragment>
)
}
```
### What?
Adds new option `admin.components.listMenuItems` to allow custom
components to be injected after the existing list controls in the
collection list view.
### Why?
Needed to facilitate import/export plugin.
#### Testing
Use `pnpm dev admin` to see example component and see test added to
`test/admin/e2e/list-view`.
## Update since feature was reverted
The custom list controls and now rendered with no surrounding padding or
border radius.
<img width="596" alt="Screenshot 2025-02-17 at 5 06 44 PM"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/57209367-5433-4a4c-8797-0f9671da15c8"
/>
---------
Co-authored-by: Dan Ribbens <dan.ribbens@gmail.com>
The `localized` properly was not stripped out of referenced block fields, if any parent was localized. For normal fields, this is done in sanitizeConfig. As the same referenced block config can be used in both a localized and non-localized config, we are not able to strip it out inside sanitizeConfig by modifying the block config.
Instead, this PR had to bring back tedious logic to handle it everywhere the `field.localized` property is accessed. For backwards-compatibility, we need to keep the existing sanitizeConfig logic. In 4.0, we should remove it to benefit from better test coverage of runtime field.localized handling - for now, this is done for our test suite using the `PAYLOAD_DO_NOT_SANITIZE_LOCALIZED_PROPERTY` flag.
It is currently very difficult to build custom edit and list views or
inject custom components into these views because these views and
components are not explicitly typed. Instances of these components were
not fully type safe as well, i.e. when rendering them via
`RenderServerComponent`, there was little to no type-checking in most
cases.
There is now a 1:1 type match for all views and view components and they
now receive type-checking at render time.
The following types have been newly added and/or improved:
List View:
- `ListViewClientProps`
- `ListViewServerProps`
- `BeforeListClientProps`
- `BeforeListServerProps`
- `BeforeListTableClientProps`
- `BeforeListTableServerProps`
- `AfterListClientProps`
- `AfterListServerProps`
- `AfterListTableClientProps`
- `AfterListTableServerProps`
- `ListViewSlotSharedClientProps`
Document View:
- `DocumentViewClientProps`
- `DocumentViewServerProps`
- `SaveButtonClientProps`
- `SaveButtonServerProps`
- `SaveDraftButtonClientProps`
- `SaveDraftButtonServerProps`
- `PublishButtonClientProps`
- `PublishButtonServerProps`
- `PreviewButtonClientProps`
- `PreviewButtonServerProps`
Root View:
- `AdminViewClientProps`
- `AdminViewServerProps`
General:
- `ViewDescriptionClientProps`
- `ViewDescriptionServerProps`
A few other changes were made in a non-breaking way:
- `Column` is now exported from `payload`
- `ListPreferences` is now exported from `payload`
- `ListViewSlots` is now exported from `payload`
- `ListViewClientProps` is now exported from `payload`
- `AdminViewProps` is now an alias of `AdminViewServerProps` (listed
above)
- `ClientSideEditViewProps` is now an alias of `DocumentViewClientProps`
(listed above)
- `ServerSideEditViewProps` is now an alias of `DocumentViewServerProps`
(listed above)
- `ListComponentClientProps` is now an alias of `ListViewClientProps`
(listed above)
- `ListComponentServerProps` is now an alias of `ListViewServerProps`
(listed above)
- `CustomSaveButton` is now marked as deprecated because this is only
relevant to the config (see correct type above)
- `CustomSaveDraftButton` is now marked as deprecated because this is
only relevant to the config (see correct type above)
- `CustomPublishButton` is now marked as deprecated because this is only
relevant to the config (see correct type above)
- `CustomPreviewButton` is now marked as deprecated because this is only
relevant to the config (see correct type above)
This PR _does not_ apply these changes to _root_ components, i.e.
`afterNavLinks`. Those will come in a future PR.
Related: #10987.
This PR fixes an issue where padding around the `DocumentHeader`
component disappears at the `mid-break` viewport size.
The issue was caused by .doc-header applying padding-left: 0 and
padding-right: 0, which overrode the intended padding from the parent
Gutter component in certain scenarios.
If you have multiple blocks that are used in multiple places, this can quickly blow up the size of your Payload Config. This will incur a performance hit, as more data is
1. sent to the client (=> bloated `ClientConfig` and large initial html) and
2. processed on the server (permissions are calculated every single time you navigate to a page - this iterates through all blocks you have defined, even if they're duplicative)
This can be optimized by defining your block **once** in your Payload Config, and just referencing the block slug whenever it's used, instead of passing the entire block config. To do this, the block can be defined in the `blocks` array of the Payload Config. The slug can then be passed to the `blockReferences` array in the Blocks Field - the `blocks` array has to be empty for compatibility reasons.
```ts
import { buildConfig } from 'payload'
import { lexicalEditor, BlocksFeature } from '@payloadcms/richtext-lexical'
// Payload Config
const config = buildConfig({
// Define the block once
blocks: [
{
slug: 'TextBlock',
fields: [
{
name: 'text',
type: 'text',
},
],
},
],
collections: [
{
slug: 'collection1',
fields: [
{
name: 'content',
type: 'blocks',
// Reference the block by slug
blockReferences: ['TextBlock'],
blocks: [], // Required to be empty, for compatibility reasons
},
],
},
{
slug: 'collection2',
fields: [
{
name: 'editor',
type: 'richText',
editor: lexicalEditor({
BlocksFeature({
// Same reference can be reused anywhere, even in the lexical editor, without incurred performance hit
blocks: ['TextBlock'],
})
})
},
],
},
],
})
```
## v4.0 Plans
In 4.0, we will remove the `blockReferences` property, and allow string block references to be passed directly to the blocks `property`. Essentially, we'd remove the `blocks` property and rename `blockReferences` to `blocks`.
The reason we opted to a new property in this PR is to avoid breaking changes. Allowing strings to be passed to the `blocks` property will prevent plugins that iterate through fields / blocks from compiling.
## PR Changes
- Testing: This PR introduces a plugin that automatically converts blocks to block references. This is done in the fields__blocks test suite, to run our existing test suite using block references.
- Block References support: Most changes are similar. Everywhere we iterate through blocks, we have to now do the following:
1. Check if `field.blockReferences` is provided. If so, only iterate through that.
2. Check if the block is an object (= actual block), or string
3. If it's a string, pull the actual block from the Payload Config or from `payload.blocks`.
The exception is config sanitization and block type generations. This PR optimizes them so that each block is only handled once, instead of every time the block is referenced.
## Benchmarks
60 Block fields, each block field having the same 600 Blocks.
### Before:
**Initial HTML:** 195 kB
**Generated types:** takes 11 minutes, 461,209 lines
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/11d49a4e-5414-4579-8050-e6346e552f56
### After:
**Initial HTML:** 73.6 kB
**Generated types:** takes 2 seconds, 35,810 lines
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/3eab1a99-6c29-489d-add5-698df67780a3
### After Permissions Optimization (follow-up PR)
Initial HTML: 73.6 kB
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/a909202e-45a8-4bf6-9a38-8c85813f1312
## Future Plans
1. This PR does not yet deduplicate block references during permissions calculation. We'll optimize that in a separate PR, as this one is already large enough
2. The same optimization can be done to deduplicate fields. One common use-case would be link field groups that may be referenced in multiple entities, outside of blocks. We might explore adding a new `fieldReferences` property, that allows you to reference those same `config.blocks`.
Deprecates all cases where `Link` could be sent as a prop. This was a
relic from the past, where we attempted to make our UI library
router-agnostic. This was a pipe dream and created more problems than it
solved, for example the logout button was missing this prop, causing it
to render an anchor tag and perform a hard navigation (caught in #9275).
Does so in a non-breaking way, where these props are now optional and
simply unused, as opposed to removing them outright.
Due to nature of server-side rendering, navigation within the admin
panel can lead to slow page response times. This can lead to the feeling
of an unresponsive app after clicking a link, for example, where the
page remains in a stale state while the server is processing. This is
especially noticeable on slow networks when navigating to data heavy or
process intensive pages.
To alleviate the bad UX that this causes, the user needs immediate
visual indication that _something_ is taking place. This PR renders a
progress bar in the admin panel which is immediately displayed when a
user clicks a link, and incrementally grows in size until the new route
has loaded in.
Inspired by https://github.com/vercel/react-transition-progress.
Old:
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/1820dad1-3aea-417f-a61d-52244b12dc8d
New:
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/99f4bb82-61d9-4a4c-9bdf-9e379bbafd31
To tie into the progress bar, you'll need to use Payload's new `Link`
component instead of the one provided by Next.js:
```diff
- import { Link } from 'next/link'
+ import { Link } from '@payloadcms/ui'
```
Here's an example:
```tsx
import { Link } from '@payloadcms/ui'
const MyComponent = () => {
return (
<Link href="/somewhere">
Go Somewhere
</Link>
)
}
```
In order to trigger route transitions for a direct router event such as
`router.push`, you'll need to wrap your function calls with the
`startRouteTransition` method provided by the `useRouteTransition` hook.
```ts
'use client'
import React, { useCallback } from 'react'
import { useTransition } from '@payloadcms/ui'
import { useRouter } from 'next/navigation'
const MyComponent: React.FC = () => {
const router = useRouter()
const { startRouteTransition } = useRouteTransition()
const redirectSomewhere = useCallback(() => {
startRouteTransition(() => router.push('/somewhere'))
}, [startRouteTransition, router])
// ...
}
```
In the future [Next.js might provide native support for
this](https://github.com/vercel/next.js/discussions/41934#discussioncomment-12077414),
and if it does, this implementation can likely be simplified.
Of course there are other ways of achieving this, such as with
[Suspense](https://react.dev/reference/react/Suspense), but they all
come with a different set of caveats. For example with Suspense, you
must provide a fallback component. This means that the user might be
able to immediately navigate to the new page, which is good, but they'd
be presented with a skeleton UI while the other parts of the page stream
in. Not necessarily an improvement to UX as there would be multiple
loading states with this approach.
There are other problems with using Suspense as well. Our default
template, for example, contains the app header and sidebar which are not
rendered within the root layout. This means that they need to stream in
every single time. On fast networks, this would also lead to a
noticeable "blink" unless there is some mechanism by which we can detect
and defer the fallback from ever rendering in such cases. Might still be
worth exploring in the future though.
Fixes#10440. When `filterOptions` are set on a relationship field,
those same filters are not applied to the `Filter` component within the
list view. This is because `filterOptions` is not being thread into the
`RelationshipFilter` component responsible for populating the available
options.
To do this, we first need to be resolve the filter options on the server
as they accept functions. Once resolved, they can be prop-drilled into
the proper component and appended onto the client-side "where" query.
Reliant on #11080.
We now properly allow relative live preview URLs which is handy if
you're deploying on a platform like Vercel and do not know what the
preview domain is going to end up being at build time.
This PR also removes some problematic code in the website template which
hard-codes the protocol to `https://` in production even if you're
running locally.
Fixes#11070
### What?
Adds new option `admin.components.listControlsMenu` to allow custom
components to be injected after the existing list controls in the
collection list view.
### Why?
Needed to facilitate import/export plugin.
#### Preview & Testing
Use `pnpm dev admin` to see example component and see test added to
`test/admin/e2e/list-view`.
<img width="1443" alt="Screenshot 2025-02-04 at 4 59 33 PM"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/dffe3a4b-5370-4004-86e6-23dabccdac52"
/>
---------
Co-authored-by: Dan Ribbens <DanRibbens@users.noreply.github.com>
Adds the ability to filter what locales should be available per request.
This means that you can determine what locales are visible in the
localizer selection menu at the top of the admin panel. You could do
this per user, or implement a function that scopes these to tenants and
more.
Here is an example function that would scope certain locales to tenants:
**`payload.config.ts`**
```ts
// ... rest of payload config
localization: {
defaultLocale: 'en',
locales: ['en', 'es'],
filterAvailableLocales: async ({ req, locales }) => {
if (getTenantFromCookie(req.headers, 'text')) {
try {
const fullTenant = await req.payload.findByID({
id: getTenantFromCookie(req.headers, 'text') as string,
collection: 'tenants',
})
if (fullTenant && fullTenant.supportedLocales?.length) {
return locales.filter((locale) => {
return fullTenant.supportedLocales?.includes(locale.code as 'en' | 'es')
})
}
} catch (_) {
// do nothing
}
}
return locales
},
}
```
The filter above assumes you have a field on your tenants collection like so:
```ts
{
name: 'supportedLocales',
type: 'select',
hasMany: true,
options: [
{
label: 'English',
value: 'en',
},
{
label: 'Spanish',
value: 'es',
},
],
}
```
Fixes https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/issues/10940
This PR does the following:
- adds a `useDocumentForm` hook to access the document Form. Useful if
you are within a sub-Form
- ensure the `data` property passed to field conditions, read access
control, validation and filterOptions is always the top-level document
data. Previously, for fields within lexical blocks/links/upload, this
incorrectly was the lexical block-level data.
- adds a `blockData` property to hooks, field conditions,
read/update/create field access control, validation and filterOptions
for all fields. This allows you to access the data of the nearest parent
block, which is especially useful for lexical sub-fields. Users that
were previously depending on the incorrect behavior of the `data`
property in order to access the data of the lexical block can now switch
to the new `blockData` property
Fixes https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/issues/11002
`buildVersionFields` was adding `null` version fields to the version fields array. When RenderVersionFieldsToDiff tried to render those, it threw an error.
This PR ensures no `null` fields are added, as `RenderVersionFieldsToDiff` can't process them. That way, those fields are properly skipped, which is the intent of `modifiedOnly`
This PR moves the logic for rendering diff field components in the
version comparison view from the client to the server.
This allows us to expose more customization options to the server-side
Payload Config. For example, users can now pass their own diff
components for fields - even including RSCs.
This PR also cleans up the version view types
Implements the following from
https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/discussions/4197:
- allow for customization of diff components
- more control over versions screens in general
TODO:
- [x] Bring getFieldPaths fixes into core
- [x] Cleanup and test with scrutiny. Ensure all field types display
their diffs correctly
- [x] Review public API for overriding field types, add docs
- [x] Add e2e test for new public API
## Description
As an author reviewing the versions I have for a document , I would like
to the ability to focus only on the differences I made and not see the
entire document.
[Screencast from 2024-09-05
16-38-40.webm](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/25d44a51-bcac-47d5-a2ec-cadae4d108d4)
A checkbox was added to the Version View allowing user to decide if
he/she wants to see only modified fields or the entire documents.
#7981 - mention this feature and also in discord
- [v] I have read and understand the
[CONTRIBUTING.md](https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md)
document in this repository.
## Type of change
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- [v] New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
## Checklist:
- [ ] Existing test suite passes locally with my changes
(Actually it's stuck on S3 upload test , note related to my code)
One lat question - should we really translate text for all locales ? or
we can leave it undefined for now ?(besides english)
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Co-authored-by: Dan Ribbens <dan.ribbens@gmail.com>
Field validations can be expensive, especially custom validations that
are async or highly complex. This can lead to slow form state response
times when generating form state for many such fields. Ideally, we only
run validations on fields whose values have changed. This is not
possible, however, because field validation functions might reference
_other_ field values with their args, and there is no good way of
detecting exactly which fields should run in this case. The next best
thing here is to only run validations _after the form has been
submitted_, and then every `onChange` event thereafter until a
successful submit has taken place. This is an elegant solution because
we currently don't _render_ field errors until submission anyway.
This change will significantly speed up form state response times, at
least until the form has been submitted. From then on, all field
validations will run regardless, just as they do now. If custom
validations continue to slow down form state response times, there is a
new `event` arg introduced in #10738 that can be used to control whether
heavy operations occur on change or on submit.
Related: #10638