What's new at Sjabloon?

news August 2019

200 sales since December 2018

This week Sjabloon crossed 200 sales total since launch in December. This means more than 200 people can now more easily build and ship great looking web products faster.

Getting your product in the hands of actual users and customers is key for your product to survive. It too helps with motivating you, as the maker, to continue working on the product.

Here’s to helping the next 200 people ship beautiful products faster the coming months.

update July 2019

Another set of bugfixes and an all-new UI component

An all new release is out. v0.14.2 is mostly a bugfix release. Also some documentation is updated around billing. But v0.14.2 also add a sparkle new UI components to validate forms using Stimulus.

update June 2019

Bugfixes + Minimal google analytics

A new release was just launched. Version 0.14 brings mostly some bugfixes that cropped up in specific cases from the latest releases. Next is a new option to add Minimal Google Analytics as your analytics provider. It’s a great option for those that (want to) use Google Analyitcs, but don’t need all the features and also want a smaller footprint (1.5kB for this snippet, versus 73kB for the official snippet).

release June 2019

Choose your authentication model + act as person

Release 0.13 comes with the option to change your User model to Account or Person. From a semantic point of view you don’t always want to call your authenticated model User, now you can easily change this. No extra work needed. Also added is the option to ‘act as person’ using the devise_masquarade gem. This lets you login as a certain person in your app. I find this especially useful early on when I develop my apps and can easily see how things look (and work) for them. For this to work, the current user has to have admin set as true in their record. A small, but handy feature is that you can now select pry-rails as your debugger tool of choice (instead of the default byebug). Lastly the custom error pages have gotten a new coat of paint.

release May 2019

Payments with Stripe is here

After quite some time in beta, one of the most requested features is here: billing with Stripe. From the start the aim was to make it as easy as possible to set up. So for your next new app, you only have to take three steps: grab your API keys from Stripe, add your product’s plans in Stripe and lastly run the command to fetch your plans to your app. That’s all needed to accept payments. Sjabloon handles everything from creating your pricing page to accepting credit cards to sending your users their receipts by email. For more information, quick start guide and a FAQ see the extra README that comes with every new app.

release May 2019

Added Rollbar and updated to Tailwind Css v1

Today adds Rollbar as an option for your error monitoring needs. Also Tailwind Css v1 was released. Although Sjabloon, and its many users, were already on the bleeding edge version for some time, after today Sjabloon boosts the latest official v1 release for Tailwind.

update April 2019

Easier browsing of UI components

The UI components library are loved by many of you and are used in many different projects already. These UI components are all custom-designed exclusively for Sjabloon. Over the past months many new componens were added and as such it became cumbersome to scroll this ever-growing list. Thus today, I added some navigation so you can easier browse and discover all the UI components.

release March 2019

All-new, beautiful custom theme and homepage

Just a few days after the last release that upgraded Sjabloon to bleeding-edge version of TailwindCss, comes a big new release with an all-new theme and and a complete overhaul of the homepage. A beautiful and custom design that surely will help you market your new product in better ways. This release also comes with two complete new UI components to help you build great-looking UI by simply copy and pasting code!

release March 2019

Updated to the beta version of TailwindCss

The v1 release of TailwindCss is around the corner. As this beta version is a real stable version already and big changes are very unlikely, I updated all of the Sjabloon (including this very page you look at) with the latest release. It’s currently locked at the next release, and will be switched to the official release number once it’s out. This new release brings mostly some consistency around the codebase, but most notably holds a complete new colour palette.

update March 2019

Many new UI components added

Many new UI components are added to Sjabloon. From buttons and custom checkboxes to a complete new sign up / log in component. These UI components are built using Tailwind’s utility classes and are one of the most popular features in Sjabloon. It helps you build a beautiful UI quickly and easy.