When is Spree 5 due

[code-bunny]

Just a quick question on when are we expecting Spree 5. I have a clients site on Heroku and an old version of Spree 3.something which is still on Ruby 2.7.5 and Heroku will be kicking things off around May.

They aren't keen on putting out money upgrading, so I want to do the minimum amount of work which is to get them onto the latest Spree, a TailwindCSS based front end were I can reuse ViewComponents already built for other projects and move the deployment to Kamal 2 on some $3.99/month Hetzner server.

I considered upgrading it to a 4.something but that would mean writing the FE myself with TailwindCSS which would be way past the clients budget (Think less than £500).

[damianlegawiec]

Hey @code-bunny

You can check out the preview now - https://spreecommerce.org/docs/developer/getting-started/quickstart

We'll be doing the official release in the next couple of weeks after updating documentation and finishing some last items - https://github.com/spree/spree/milestone/49

If you're planning to start new projects, go ahead and use v5. New storefront is based on Tailwind.

You can use

rails g spree:storefront:theme MyTheme

to get all the templates and start customizing them. Tailwind files are also there,

You can check the documentation about the new theme editor / page builder. We're working on technical documentation counterpart.

[code-bunny]

Ah, fantastic! That timing works out great. I'll try it out in them morning.