UPDATE TIME! Just published Floppy version 1.9.0 which includes new features and bug fixes.
First and foremost, this release updates the Floppy element documentation to be more correct/clear about how and in what way the various Floppy actions are synchronous with respect to other workflow actions. A new “Sync Trigger” action and Sync Trigger section in most of the other Floppy actions allows for more fine-grained control in triggering subsequent workflows via a set of new events (Sync Trigger A through G). Workflows triggered by those events also generate a new event (Sync A through G Workflow Complete) so you can do something only after the triggered workflow is complete. A video on this to come.
This version also fixes a bug in Floppy and Floppy Reader whereby lists of range data types (e.g., date ranges and numeric ranges) would fail to publish if they contained empty values.
Floppy Expression Watcher has a new “long text” field that you can use (instead of the short input field) for the Scalar Expression. This is useful if you want to use Floppy Expression Watcher as a custom state for long text values (you know, like the sort you’d put in a text element). For a quick explanation of what this feature is useful for, see this forum reply.
There’s also a mysterious new element called “Floppy Hacker” – which is still sort of a work-in-progress. At the moment it exposes the unique ID for the Bubble Session ID (which might be useful in certain cases). It also has an Action that allows you to generate a Bubble style UUID (unique ID) – in fact, it uses the same function that Bubble uses internally to generate such UUID’s. Going forward, there may be other weird and possibly useful features incorporated. (The general idea with this guy is to expose some of the more interesting info and functions that Bubble exposes on the window.)
If you’re not familiar with Floppy yet, see the initial post and following video demos/explorations in this thread. The Floppy plugin page is here: Floppy: localStorage, Lists & more! Plugin | Bubble