Codegen utilities addition, few breaking changes and many small improvements

8.0.0 (2026-02-25)

Check 8.0.0 pre-releases to get a better sense of what's added and changed

Breaking changes

• In this release we have renamed the following hooks and added a few new one's.

  - onSourceFileChanged
  + fileChanged
  
  - onDevServerStarted
  + devServerStarted
  
  - onBuildCompleted
  + buildFinished
  
  - onBuildStarting
  + buildStarting
  
  + fileAdded
  + fileRemoved
  + devServerStarting
  + testsStarting
  + testsFinished

• Support Node 24 and above
• Use @poppinss/ts-exec instead of ts-node
• Remove concept of assets bundler in favor of inbuilt integration with Vite

Features

• add helpers to extract class methods, validator direct usage and method arguments (73ab533)
• add paths resolver (af7ce8d)
• add routes scanner (b6a4926)
• add support for invalidating controllers (1c57e01)
• add dev server shortcuts (#83) (fcef8f4)
• makeEntityIndex: allow transforming name and output (194861c)

What's Changed

• Refine Wording When Copying ace.js by @marcuspoehls in #81
• feat: add dev server shortcuts by @Julien-R44 in #83
• fix: extractor bug regex by @Julien-R44 in #84
• fix: move watcher to assembler and send IPC messages for file changes by @Julien-R44 in #85
• feat: improve codemod errors and support custom directories by @RomainLanz in #86
• feat: add raw assembler hooks and imports to rcFile by @kerwanp in #87
• feat: add comment option to IndexGeneratorSource by @kerwanp in #89

New Contributors

• @marcuspoehls made their first contribution in #81
• @kerwanp made their first contribution in #87

Full Changelog: v7.8.2...v8.0.0

Allow adding comments to auto generated files using the IndexGenerator

8.0.0-next.33 (2026-02-12)

Features

• add comment option to IndexGeneratorSource (#89) (4037aab)
• allow comment flag to be a boolean (c5a7932)

What's Changed

• feat: add comment option to IndexGeneratorSource by @kerwanp in #89

Full Changelog: v8.0.0-next.32...v8.0.0-next.33

Bug fixes in choosing VITE_HMR_PORT and ValidatorExtractor

8.0.0-next.32 (2026-02-01)

Bug Fixes

• await getRandomPort method call (02c92fc)
• support ctx.request.validateUsing with ValidatorExtractor (dd07eb2)

Full Changelog: v8.0.0-next.31...v8.0.0-next.32

Add more codemods

8.0.0-next.31 (2026-01-22)

Features

• add codetransformer.addControllerMethod codemod (adfc592)
• add codetransformer.addLimiter codemod (040e0b7)
• add CodeTransformer.addValidator codemod (1c3a8e8)
• add support for applying mixins to a model (d66f850)

Full Changelog: v8.0.0-next.30...v8.0.0-next.31

Choose random VITE_HMR_PORT and inject DEV_MODE environment variable to dev server process

8.0.0-next.30 (2026-01-10)

Features

• remove noisy logs of index generator initial generation (71921ce)
• use a random VITE_HMR_PORT and inject DEV_MODE env var when running dev server (443ffc9)

Full Changelog: v8.0.0-next.29...v8.0.0-next.30

New codemods

8.0.0-next.29 (2026-01-07)

Features

• add CodeTransform addNamedImport, addDefaultImport and raw assembler hooks (#87) (c17c6a9)

Improve codemod errors and read custom directories from adonisrc.ts file

8.0.0-next.28 (2025-12-31)

Features

• improve codemod errors and support custom directories (#86) (b855b2b)

What's Changed

• feat: improve codemod errors and support custom directories by @RomainLanz in #86

Full Changelog: v8.0.0-next.27...v8.0.0-next.28

Use `InferInput` instead of `Infer` for Routes Scanner

8.0.0-next.27 (2025-12-19)

Bug Fixes

• use InferInput instead of Infer within RoutesScanner (7337ca5)

Add support for filtering routes via RoutesScanner

8.0.0-next.26 (2025-12-18)

Features

• export filter function to filter out routes from being processed (3fc4a6c)

Full Changelog: v8.0.0-next.25...v8.0.0-next.26

Share hooks with the init hook to allow registering additional hooks 😅

8.0.0-next.25 (2025-12-18)

Features

• remove skip array rules in favor of filterFn in routes scanner (954b673)
• share hooks instance with the init hook (2c6bc0d)

Full Changelog: v8.0.0-next.24...v8.0.0-next.25