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Migrating to Bolt 3.x

Loading styles and scripts

If you are migrating to Bolt v3.x from v2.x you may need to update how you load Bolt styles and scripts. We recommend the following document structure:

<html>
  <head>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="./build/bolt-global.css" media="all">
    <script type="module" src="./build/bolt-global.js" async></script>
  </head>
  <body>
    <bolt-text>Hello World!</bolt-text>
  </body>
</html>

Previously, we recommended including the <script> tag just before the closing <body> tag. With the introduction of the async attribute on the <script> tag we can now efficiently load JS in the <head>. That is where we recommend including the <script> tag for v3.x.

Be sure to include type="module" on the <script> tag as well. It is required for async to work. See the V8 docs for more on using JS modules in the browser.

That's it. We no longer support IE11, so there's no need to include any other fallback <script> tags for legacy browsers and no need to inline critical CSS and JS in the <head> as we did in the past.

Configuring .boltrc.js

The following packages are no longer required now that we've dropped IE11 support. Please remove them from .boltrc:

  • postcss-themify
  • components-critical-css
  • components-critical-css-vars
  • components-critical-fonts
  • critical-path-polyfills