What is Joomla 4 going to offer you?
I’m going to overview a few of what I consider some of the key features of Joomla 4!
New Media Manager
We have all known that Joomla’s Media Manager has been one of the poorest user experiences of the entire Joomla system. We’ve reworked this from the ground up with the help of our awesome New Media Manager Team. This now has a clean fluid interface. We’ve also moved this to be a Vue.js application, so that means no page refreshes with the clunky iframe as in 3.x.
New Joomla Installer
For our installer we have taken some inspiration from Wordpress and their infamous 5 minute installer. Our installer has been simplified of many options that can be set after the user has completed installation, and turned into a single page javascript application:
Code Cleanup
Currently there are nearly 1000 deprecated classes and functions in Joomla 3.8 (omitting our framework packages). It’s also been more than 5 years since Joomla 3.0 was released. To avoid a Joomla 1.5 style migration in the future due to the amount of deprecated code becoming overwhelming it’s important to have a clean up now where we can give progressive upgrade paths to extensions rather than forcing them to jump. This will also make things easier for people using our docs as there should be new clear standards for how to build extensions rather than competing things based on new and legacy approaches.
An Improved Upgrade Experience
OK, so I’m cheating slightly by calling this feature a 4.0 feature. Actually we loved it so much we put it into Joomla 3.9 to make your upgrade experience as simple as possible. You can see in an instant the compatibility of your existing 3.x install with the version you will upgrade to - useful when trying to look at which of your extensions are using Joomla 4 already!
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