Update EmDash

[PierreFouquet]

I'm being a little stupid here - how do I update EmDash once I've created my own? I have a Github repo created but as it's not forked so I can't just pull in updates from upstream.

Would I just need to run the npm create after cloning the repo, or make a new build via dashboard?

[long202258]

I’d like to know about this too. I don’t know how to code, so I’m not sure how to sort this out.

[MattieTK]

@PierreFouquet @long202258 EmDash is still very early so there will be lots of updates with what are called 'breaking changes' which specifically mean that upgrades are not necessarily drop-in replacements, other code might have changed in the theme, database, or elsewhere which means that you might need to do work to update.

We document these changes in the releases list as 'Major changes' https://github.com/emdash-cms/emdash/releases

If the version you are on and the version that you are moving to has a Major change between it then you'll need to take action as instructed (or ask Claude).

But if not you can bump the EmDash packages together with the following

pnpm add emdash@latest @emdash-cms/cloudflare@latest \
    @emdash-cms/plugin-forms@latest \
    @emdash-cms/plugin-webhook-notifier@latest

[long202258]

Thank you. I hope EmDash stabilises soon; I’m really keen to move away from WordPress.

[jaypatrick]

So say we all