We've removed the ability to directly reference JS and CSS files
for form fields and other SilverStripe features in favour of a common bundle built by Webpack.
The logical next step is to make the framework module free of frontend dependencies,
which should simplify its operation, and avoid another time intensive "npm install" on a module.
Used in iframe, so can't be rolled into other code.
Moved in admin/ since that's easier for now with Webpack entry points,
and we'll move all JS/CSS into admin/ anyway soon.
There's not a lot of benefit in packaging these separately in terms of initial CMS load size,
so let's simplify the setup. They'll eventually become lazy loaded chunks in a React-based setup
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
