- The frontend proxy is meant to be a way to pass critical internal pieces of Ghost core into the frontend
- These fundamental @tryghost packages are shared and can be required directly, hence there's no need to pass them via the proxy
- Reducing the surface area of the proxy reduces the proxies API
- This makes it easier to see what's left in terms of decoupling the frontend, and what will always need to be passed (e.g. api)
Note on @tryghost/social-urls:
- this is a small utility that helps create URLs for social profiles, it's a util for working with data on the frontend aka part of the sdk
- I think there should be many of these small helpers and we'll probably want to bundle them for the frontend at some point
- for now, I'm leaving these as part of the proxy, as need to figure out where they belong
refs https://github.com/TryGhost/Team/issues/472
The current `{{price}}` helper only works with `amount` to convert it into right value but doesn't allow any formatting with currency etc, leaving most of the work to theme. We want to be able to output well formatted prices. E.g. the API returns 5000 for 5 EUR but we want to output €5.
The updated {{price}} helper can take a plan object or plan amount currency and use them to output a well formatted price. It works with JS's built in Intl.NumberFormat behaviour to return output in different formats, also allowing theme devs to override formatting with options.
Examples:
With Plan object => `{{price plan}} → "€5"`
With Plan object and custom number format => `{{price plan numberFormat="long"}} → "€5.00"`
Output only currency symbol => `{{price currency='EUR'}} → "€"`
- The proxy is not a helper, we want the helpers folder to only include helpers
- The proxy is also meant to be the interface to Ghost for the helpers, and we want to enforce that
- This is a small step on the way
- the proxy should always be used to access other parts of Ghost, including the urlService etc
- use consistent ES6 style for requires
- minimise use of lodash where possible
- remove circular dependency between proxy and template util
- End goal here is to enforce that the only link between helpers + the rest of Ghost is the proxy
no issue
- This helper allows to format currencies that use decimal normalization. For example 19.35 USD is served as 1935 from the API which always needs to be divided by 100 to get a dollar ammount.
