The bundle is generated by running “webpack” directly - gulp is no
longer needed as an intermediary. The resulting config is a lot shorter,
although more configuration is pushed into lib.js.
Modules are shared between javascript files as global variables.
Although this global state pollution is a bit messy, I don’t think it’s
practically any worse than the previous state, and it highlights the
heavy coupling between the different packages we have in place.
Reducing the width of the coupling between the core javascript and
add-on modules would probably be a better way of dealing with this than
replacing global variables with some other kind of global state.
The web pack execution seems roughly twice as fast - if I clear out my
framework/client/dist/js folder, it takes 13.3s to rebuild. However,
it’s not rebuilding other files inside dist, only the bundle files.
CSS files are now included from javascript and incorporated into
bundle.css by the webpack. Although the style-loader is helpful in some
dev workflows (it allows live reload), it introduces a flash of
unstyled content which makes it inappropriate for production.
Instead ExtractTextPlugin is used to write all the aggregated CSS
into a single bundle.css file. A style-loader-based configuration could
be introduced for dev environments, if we make use of the webpack live
reloader in the future.
Note that the following features have been removed as they don't appear to be
necessary when using Webpack:
- UMD module generation
- thirdparty dist file copying
LeftAndMain.js deps: Without it, ssui.core.js gets loaded too late,
which leads e.g. to buttons being initialised without this added behaviour.
This caught us out recently where code did a strict type check for `myVar === undefined`.
The var was defined as `let myVar;`, without a value - so the check returned false (it's `null`).
To avoid this situation, we've decided to enforce declarations with values.
Note that preference should be given to single, immutable assignments via const where possible.
See http://eslint.org/docs/rules/init-declarations
Allows actions to make decisions based on the form payload.
For example, a "delete" button can pass the currently edited record ID to its API endpoint.
Standardise template locations
Move CMSSettingsController class to SiteConfig module
Fix CMSMenu behaviour for namespaced admin sections
Split classes into one per file
Manual fixes and cleanup
Convert form and Textfield styles to use Bootstrap
Split out btn styles a bit more clearly defined (BEM)
Toolbar modifier to improve spacing for smaller screens
Use bootstrap spacer styles .m-t-1 (margin-top-1 x spacer) instead of custom spacer
Added a few typography helpers
Tab styles continued although they are hidden (used on AssetAdmin editor panel)
* Swap out .Actions class for bootstrap .btn-toolbar
* Converted all south toolbars to use new toolbar component styles, content and preview styles for scrollbars adjusted where required
