Changelog

Nov 13, 2023
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Launch week

We just wrapped up our launch week! Five days, five huge announcements.

Day 1 - New and improved ways to craft targeting rules

Day 2 - Brand new hints UI component and the ability to add custom fields to component blocks

Day 3 - In-product analytics features to help you understand how your Dopt flows are doing

Day 4 - All the new developer tool upgrades such as SDK improvements as well as new API clients and reference documentation

Day 5 - Enhancements to our example pages

Check out the more details on our blog →

Oct 31, 2023
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SDK and API performance improvements

Latency reduction

In the last few weeks, we’ve reduced peak p95 and p99 latencies for our blocks and users SDKs and APIs by over 56% through better caching, database indexing, and horizontally scaling our services.

We’ve also shipped performance improvements for our analytics and user flow monitoring workflows.

Dopt React 4.0 SDK

Now, with even more of the things you love! Our SDKs have always supported cross-tab, cross-device usage, and we’ve always relied on websockets and pub-sub to push changes to client state and user properties to our SDKs as quickly as possible.

With @dopt/react 4.0, we’ve made our react SDK more resilient and performant by:

  • improved session reconnectivity — when your connection to Dopt goes down, we’ll wait for it to come back and pick up where you left off
  • fewer API calls — we’ve moved our flow /start requests into our API so that the SDK doesn’t have to manage starting flows
  • better hook caching — we’ve reduced the number of updates our hooks trigger by simplifying our dependencies and leaning on refs.

We love all our SDKs, and we’ve folded these changes into @dopt/javascript and @dopt/vue as well — we didn’t publish major changes there since those packages were already previously rewritten deeply when we first built out support for Vue.

SDK changelogs:

Other improvements

  • We added search on the users page. You can search over user identifier and email (if you identified it to us).
  • Text areas for string fields now wrap.
  • Paths are easier to connect because we made the drop zone larger and eliminated a dead spot zone.
  • Tab selection on the flow view panel is now sticky, so if you select “Fields” on a block, if you navigate to a new block you’ll stay on the “Fields” tab.
  • It’s easier to pan on the flow view while holding the space bar.
  • When you switch workspaces, you’ll now land on the flows page rather than a URL.
Sep 20, 2023
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Getting started checklist

We updated our new user onboarding experience by creating a checklist. The checklist includes key steps needed to start using Dopt. We of course used Dopt to create the checklist with our own custom components ✨.

Billing page

The new billing page lets you see your plan, details about your MTU and flow usage, and the ability to upgrade plans. If you’re on a paid plan, you can access your invoices. You can access the billing page in Settings → Billing.

Billing page

We've also updated our Free plan experience to better display your usage in the main navigation.

Essential setup example

We released a new Dopt example: setup experiences. Setup experiences are useful for walking a user through crucial steps that might be necessary to get running in your product such as connecting to data sources or installing browser extensions. They are also helpful for gathering contextual information about a user to aid in building customized experiences in your app.

Check out the interactive setup example and code repo →

Other improvements

  • We’ve updated our Vue docs and in-app usage guides. In addition to the SDK’s README and technical typedocs, we’ve added a new in-depth guide that walks through how to use blocks, flows, and fields within your Vue app. We’ve also added pointers to each of our Vue composables, allowing you to directly and headlessly work with our Checklist, Tour, Modal, and Card components in your apps.
Sep 12, 2023
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Introducing the new Dopt Vue SDK

We’re super excited to release our Dopt Vue SDK, a new SDK that makes it easy to build better onboarding and education experiences in any Vue app.

Our Vue SDK offers a convenient way to access, update, and react to flows and blocks to build onboarding experiences. The SDK exposes a DoptPlugin which you can add to your Vue app. Once you’ve added the plugin, you can use our composables to bind Dopt state with your own UI.

The Vue SDK has full parity with our React and JavaScript SDKs, and our composables allow you to work headlessly with all of Dopt’s components like our Tours and Checklists.

It’s published to npm as @dopt/vue, and you can dig into our implementation by visiting Github (dopt/odopt).

See an example tour built with our Vue SDK →

Improved users pages

We enhanced the users pages to show the user’s email if the user has been identified with an email property. This should make it much easier to view and understand your users.

Dopt users page

If a user doesn’t have an email property, we’ll show their identifier instead.

Learn more about identifying users in Dopt →

Other improvements

  • We added framework-specific guides for Next.js, Remix, and more when working with our React components.
  • We made our JavaScript SDK a lot easier to work with. It’s now updated to support full reactivity for all flows, blocks, and components. You can access these instances at any time and always receive updates when they change. The SDK also supports use as a singleton in your application (i.e. creation at application start and subsequent reconfiguration when users, flows, etc., change). Under the hood, we use our improved JavaScript SDK to power our new Vue SDK. You can see a detailed changelog for 3.6.0.
  • You can now use the delete key in addition to backspace to delete things on the flow canvas.
  • We now keep your environment setting sticky across all pages.