Re: [pgadmin-hackers] [pgAdmin4][Patch]: Load module's JS files onlywhen required

Hi

On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 10:22 AM, Surinder Kumar
<surinder.kumar@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> Hi Dave,
>
> Please find attached patch for minifying CSS files and optimize images using
> Webpack.
>
> Steps to run:
>
> 1) After applying patch, go to web directory and run npm install on terminal
> to install packages which are used to parse/minify CSS files.
>
> 2) Run npm run build which creates dist folder inside web/pgadmin/static/
> directory to store processed images, fonts and css files.
>
> 3. Set DEBUG = False in config_local.py and then run python pgAdmin.py to
> start server.
> I kept generated main.css and overrides.css conditional in base.html to load
> them only when debug mode is False
>
>
> After running "npm run build", following files/directories are generated:
>
> 1) main.css -  about 20 vendor CSS files are packed into this file and more
> importantly the paths to images are preserved.
>
> 2) overrides.css - it contains bootstrap.overrides.css and pgadmin.css, they
> has to be packed separately and loaded after all CSS files are loaded
> because the purpose of these files is to override the vendor or modules css.
>
> 3) img - it contains the images used in CSS files. The name of image files
> can also be hashed names for caching purpose which we can use.
>
> 4) fonts - it contains the fonts used in fontawesome.css and other css
> files.
>
> This is a simple patch to demonstrate how CSS files will be minified with
> Webpack.

I think this is a good, simple method. It handles debug v.s release,
and of course, any plugin modules can include their own images/CSS
without even having to worry about webpacking if installed later.

> For now it minifies only vendor CSS files, I will add modules static files
> in the list later on.

I think we need to do that to get a better idea of the benefits. We
also need to get some of the JS code in there as well (Ashesh should
be able to help with that - he told me he's de-templatised a lot of
that now).

> Any thoughts on minifying template CSS files which are built dynamically and
> loaded with dependency on other modules?

Let's look at why they are templates. Is that required, or could they
be made static?

> Also, I looked into Flask-webpack which generates bundled assets using
> Webpack(webpack.config.js) and provide additionally global template tags to
> use in Jinja templates.
>
> But it might not work with latest version of Webpack as this repo is not
> updated since last 2 years. I need to check with latest version and I will
> update on this.

Given how straightforward this seems to be, I'm not sure it's needed.

Joao, any comments?

Nice work - thanks!

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