Product Updates

DatoCMS changelog for new features and general improvements
Plugins

Squishing big Plugin SDK bugs 🪲

We've gotten rid of a few pesky bugs that were getting in your way when building plugins:

Dark mode inputs now match. In dark mode, text boxes inside plugins were a different shade from the native DatoCMS text boxes, so plugins looked slightly off. That's no longer an issue.

Plugin text size now matches the rest of the UI. DatoCMS shrinks its base font size a tiiiiiny bit on smaller screens, but plugins always stayed at full size, so they looked wonky and oversized next to everything else. Plugins now follow the same sizing and adjust when the screen size changes.

Typing lag in plugins is fixed. This is (was?) the annoying one. The library that plugins use to talk to DatoCMS was doing a lot of unnecessary work on every message, which made typing feel sluggish when plugins were on the page. Processing time per message dropped from about 5–6ms to under 1ms, so typing is noticeably smoother.

Plugins no longer reload when you resize the window. Dragging the editor window across a certain width (1024px) made every plugin reload, and sidebar plugins could lose what was showing. They now stay put in place.

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