JasmineDesign

Areas we are working on – Last updated 13/02/2025

Product & Services

• We have released a number of updates to the JasmineWS FAQ covering working with code, images and branches. Plus within the JasmineWS Docs last month we released a guide to Domain names along with options when purchasing one.
• We have just released a new website for JorvikPage that focusses on Static and Documentation Websites that are performant, accessible for all and editable. We also cover the benefits of having a automated publishing pipelines for website deployment, plus a look at the options to add automated website testing.
• We have started to release more information about our new product ImgFunction that makes managing Images, Image Storage and CDN straight forward.
• We have released a site that over time will explain StaticPage websites it will outline how to build one and the options and choices available across the Cloud vendors.
• Small changes to a website can make a huge difference in how users see your site, but how do you find and test these changes. Answers coming soon.

Research & Development

• We are currently testing a beta release of a lite version of MinsterCMS this will allow you to add it to an existing website to edit the whole or part of the site.
• With a number of Azure CDN options announcing that they are going to retire. The suggested action is to move to Azure Front Door Standard with a monthly charge of £28.147 plus additional costs or Premium with a monthly charge of £265.380 plus additional costs. Which might be more than some companies are willing to pay for that feature. We plan to explore the current market and what options are available to move to. Any recommendations?
  • Announced Retirement dates for
  • Azure CDN from Edgio was retired on 15 January 2025
  • Azure CDN Standard from Microsoft (classic) will be retired on 30 September 2027
  • Azure Front Door (classic) will be retired on 31 March 2027
• We are adding a ASP.NET .NET 9.0 to our MinsterCMS range, along with Headless CMS support to all versions.
• We are in the late stages of beta testing a Cloud first hosted version of MinsterCMS Headless, more details to be released soon. We are currently writing some front-end examples showing how to use the API's.
• We are updating the PHP version of MinsterCMS to make full use of PHP 8.4 which has just been released.
• We have started to build a few prototypes with Blazor WebAssembly and Blazor Server for our website tooling and control panel. With the aim to provide a richer client side experience for our customers. We are continuing this month as we hope to be able to ship updated tooling and hope to write a little about our findings working with Blazor.
• We are planning to release a number of options for Jamstack websites, which is a modern web development architecture that allow you to create fast and secure sites and dynamic apps with JavaScript, APIs, and prerendered Markup, served without web servers.
• We are look at and testing a number of lightweight, cookieless and privacy-friendly website analytics packages that can ideally be hosted in the UK or just as a replacement for Google analytics. We are actively using Cloudflare Web Analytics on a number of sites and we have been very happy with them. However we still have plans to look at and try out Plausible, Fathom as we heard good things about them. After that we will publish a few guides and our findings.
• We are going to write about some of the areas that Microsoft Power Automate & Azure Functions can bring value to your company, for very little work on your part.
• We will be carrying on our server config project from the last several months, as testing has shown us some major improvements. This now has been expanded to cover Security Headers as well, Security headers are HTTP headers to prevent security vulnerabilities. We plan to split this into two sections firstly required then tailored to website features.
• We are looking at containers to see what benefits they can bring to our products and help with the building of them by providing a stable development working environment that are fully repeatable. These spec's could be very useful for White Label development and hand over.
• We are looking into how we could use DevOps to deliver faster White Label code along with containers using simple reliable tools for continuous delivery and deployment.
• We are looking at ways to deploy and manage .NET 9.0 and ASP.NET within the Linux world.
• We will be carrying on with our new tooling for our static sites which has really taken shape and has shown us great time savings and great rebuild results, currently based around npm run, a template engine and some custom code. Plus we are exploring a new option using Bun at the core. But most of the time we recommend 11ty for projects at the moment.
• We are updating a number of our internal projects to TypeScript 5.7 now that it has been released. Plus we are now looking into Node.js support for running TypeScript directly in Node.js without the need to transpile it first. How does this effect how we build and use TypeScript going forward?

Our Websites & Company

• We are looking to provide better cross site links to topics across our co.uk & .com content and the other JasmineDesign sites.

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