Configure the controller, host and ctl packages as optional peer
dependencies to prevent them being pulled in and installed by plugins in
environments that don't have them. This means that a host only install
with a plugin that uses both host and controller will not cause the
controller package to be installed as well.
The web_ui package is only used when building the web interface. This
only happens during development and is thus adequatly covered by the
existing entry of web_ui in the devDependencies specification.
Removing web_ui from peer dependencies prevents it from being pulled in
by npm during a regular installation. Since it's never used in a
regular installation this removed a whole lot of bloat.
Migrate the usage of CommonJS specific code and imports to ESM. Roughly
summarised this:
- Changes all require() calls to import statement or expressions.
- Changes usage of module.exports to export statements.
- Replaces require.resolve with import.meta.resolve.
- Replaces conditional imports with conditional subpath imports.
- Replaces module === require.main with import.meta.main.
- Adds the full filename with extention to all relative imports.
- Changes all usage of __dirname and __filename to their import.meta
equivalents.
- Sets "type": "module" in package.json files.
- Removes usage of "use strict".
- Adds .ts an an alias of .js for the webpack build.
Due to differences in how require and import resolves files the plugin
entrypoints will have to include the filename and extension after this
migration in order to work.
These packages are obsoleted by the promises API to the built-in Node fs
module. The fs-extra package is also causing problems with broken APIs
that don't behave the same as Node's fs module, and throwing errors
without code properties on them.
Use a separate folder for the TypeScript build for Node.js in the dist
folder. This makes each type of build consistently have its own output
folder instead of being interleaved with the Node.js build.
Change the expected exported name of plugin declarations to be "plugin"
at the main entrypoint instead of the default export. This makes the
plugin's code organisation more flexible especially when using CommonJS
JavaScript modules as they can export additional symbols from the
plugin declaration file.
Clean up the configuration for compiling TypeScript for the Web
interface to us its own tsconfig.web.json config files and reference the
TypeScript source files directly in the configuration and imports
instead of files compiled to dist.
To properly support recompliation with TypeScript's projects feature
each package's tsconfig.web.json file is set to output the build to
dist/web_build which is then ignored in .npmignore. Webpack is still
used to create the proper build in dist/web, so this is mainly to make
TypeScipt's compiler happy but it also allows the root tsconfig.json
file to include the web interface code, meaning running the build script
now also checks the typing of the web interface.
Final part of #491.
Be consistent with the usage of tabs as indents in all JSON files in the
project. This makes it easier to configure editors to emit the right
indents when manually editing these files.
* .js to .ts
* Allow access to _items entries; getItemCount return number
* add permission field to PluginPage interface
* port plugins to typescript
* update Request classes
* fix IpcFlowType
* .js to .ts
* translate
* update paths to dist/plugin
* add "tsc --build" to prepare
* use field main in package.json de find info
* tsc --build need to append before webpack
* update test and use for plugins package.main
Update non-web related dependencies to their latest version were
possible. It appears yargs has changed its parsing of command line
options to no longer remove a layer of quotes.
The LTS releases for v12 and v14 are already end of life and the v16 is
end of life in under two months from now on. Bump supported version up
to v18 as it does not make sense to continue to support EOL releases.
Even if we wanted to keep supporting them, our dependencies will not.
Note that Node.js v18 is currently not avaliable via the NodeSource PPA
on Ubuntu 19.10 and below or Debian 9 and below.
The prepare script runs before publishing a package, after installation
of a package from source, and when running npm install without
arguments in the repository. These are the times where a build of the
web interface files are required to make the web interface work and
removes a manual step from using the package(s). The "build" script on
the other hand is never automatically invoked by npm.
Arvids Godjuks