rivet 2.0.0

A blazing-fast, type-safe backend framework for Dart with auto-generated Flutter clients

Changelog

2.0.0 - 2025-12-16

🔥 Major Features

• Hot Reload: Added backend hot reload with rivet_dev.sh runner.
• Client Generation: Added dart run rivet generate to create type-safe API clients.
• Universal Generator: Client generator now supports pure Dart (CLI/Server) and optional Flutter/Riverpod integration.
• Decorators: Added @RivetController, @Get, @Post, @Auth, @CacheResponse for declarative routing.
• Auth System: Integrated JWT and OAuth (Google/GitHub) handling.
• Caching: Added in-memory LRU cache with decorator support.

🛠️ Improvements

• Security: Hardened security practices, removed sensitive info from examples.
• Performance: Optimized request handling pipeline.
• CLI: Introduction of bin/rivet.dart CLI tool.
• Validation: Added @Validate decorators for request body verification.

gBreaking Changes

• Moved from functional routing to Controller-based routing (functional routing still supported but discouraged for large apps).
• RivetServer.listen now accepts hotReload parameter.

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1.2.0 - 2025-11-01

• Initial stable release.
• Functional routing system.
• Basic middleware support.
• Native compilation benchmarks.