We've been collaborating with the Oracle Redwood design development team on the latest version of their starter template for Visual Builder, and it is now available. Note that it requires VB runtime 2401 and the matching JET 15 version – so right now this is available to you if you are using Visual Builder Studio 2401 as your design time.
The new version added multiple features across the templates and components, but we wanted to call out three specific ones.
Built-in Fire Notification Handling
We added code to the shell page of your starter template to handle showing messages triggered using the Fire Notification declarative action. This removes the need for you to define notification handling on your own. If, however, you want to handle messages differently feel free to modify our code. (minute 6:15 in the video)
New Toast Message Event
In addition to the banner messages, a new way to show transient messages is available using the oj-message-toast component. In the starter template there is a built in application level event already setup for this. You can use a Fire Event action in your action chain to trigger showing that toast message – providing your own message as a parameter to the event. (minute 6:45 in the video)
JavaScript Action Chains
All the action chains that are created by the various Redwood templates and patterns have been re-written as JavaScript action chains – making debugging and integrating with new actions easier.
There are various additional features you'll find across the templates and components.
Check out how you can leverage our investment in the Redwood design system in your application.