v1.42.1 - Simpler self-hosting, Infra cleanup, Cloud Platform API, Service-to-Service streaming, and more

[marcuskohlberg]

We want to ensure it's simple to deploy your Encore application anywhere. In this release, we're very excited to introduce: encore build. It's a much improved version of the old encore eject functionality that makes it simpler to deploy your Encore application and requires much less manual configuration.

Remember to upgrade Encore: encore version update

Deploy anywhere that supports Docker images

You can now build your own Docker image using encore build docker MY-IMAGE:TAG from the CLI.

By default, all your services will be included and started by the Docker image. You can also specify specific services and gateways to include, using the --services and --gateways flags.

Learn more in the docs.

Infra cleanup

Encore's Cloud Platform now shows you if you have any unused infrastructure in your cloud environments and supports deleting unused infrastructure. This is based on Encore's understanding of what infrastructure is used by your application code, and any infrastructure resources that are no longer in use are automatically identified.

To use it, simply open your app in app.encore.dev and go to the Infrastructure page for your desired environment. If you have any unused infrastructure it will be listed in the section Unused infrastructure and by clicking the trashcan icon you can mark it for deletion at the next deploy.

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Cloud Platform API

Encore's Cloud Platform now provides an API to simplify integrations with your existing tooling and systems.

Service-to-Service streaming

Encore.ts now supports streaming APIs between services by importing ~encore/clients.
You can configure the stream to only be reachable by other services in your application (and not from the public internet) by setting the exposed option to false.

Learn more in the docs

encore db shell Roles support

encore db shell is a simple way of connecting to your databases using Encore's CLI.
Based on your feedback and to improve security, the default role is now read-only and we've introduced support for specifying access roles when using the command.

Use the flags --write, --admin and --superuser to modify which permissions you connect with.
For example, to connect to a database using an admin user you can use encore db shell --admin -e staging.

Remember to upgrade Encore: encore version update

Encore.ts custom API error details

Encore.ts now supports the ability to add custom error details to any API error, using the new .withDetails({ key: "value" }) method.
Any details added will be encoded as JSON and added to the API response under the new "details" field (which defaults to null if not provided).

Other improvements & Bugfixes

• runtimes/core: propagate auth error from auth handler by @fredr in runtimes/core: propagate auth error from auth handler #1485
• internal/version: remove PATH arg by @eandre in internal/version: remove PATH arg #1473
• Update pubsub.md by @zarubto4 in Update pubsub.md #1474
• .devcontainer: upgrade to go 1.21 by @echarrod in .devcontainer: upgrade to go 1.21 #1476
• tsparser: fix codegen when file contains a period by @eandre in tsparser: fix codegen when file contains a period #1480
• tsparser: improve api error reporting by @eandre in tsparser: improve api error reporting #1479
• internal/version: capture original path by @eandre in internal/version: capture original path #1481
• .devcontainer: upgrade to go 1.23 by @echarrod in .devcontainer: upgrade to go 1.23 #1483
• cli/daemon/run: avoid double-reporting parse errors by @eandre in cli/daemon/run: avoid double-reporting parse errors #1482
• runtimes/js: fix tsc syntax issues, improve packaging by @eandre in runtimes/js: fix tsc syntax issues, improve packaging #1493
• internal/version: remove PATH from config hash by @eandre in internal/version: remove PATH from config hash #1496
• cli: look up binaries using client PATH by @eandre in cli: look up binaries using client PATH #1498

Thanks to our new Contributors ❤️

• @zarubto4 made their first contribution in Update pubsub.md #1474

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Full Changelog: v1.41.9...v1.42.1

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