Npm dependencies

luctho · March 30, 2022, 9:06am

I found an 6 year old thread about npm dependencies in controllers.
link

According to the thread this was planned to implement.
Is this now possible?

tom · March 30, 2022, 9:13am

I’m using the Webpack starter for my XP-projects, and I can use npm-packages.

Not everything will work if they rely on APIs that are not provided by XP, but it is possible to polyfill some missing things.

– Tom Arild

luctho · March 30, 2022, 11:27am

Thx. Tom for your answer.
Do you know which parts of the starter are necessary to use npm-packages in the controller?
I do not any client-stuff here !

Thomas

tom · March 30, 2022, 3:25pm

The short answer is: if you remove this line, you can pretty much rip out all the client stuff:

github.com

enonic/starter-webpack/blob/master/build.gradle#L93

      
        
                exclude 'assets/styles/**/*.scss'
                includeEmptyDirs false
            }
            
            
jar {
                exclude 'assets/styles/**/*.less'
                exclude 'assets/styles/**/*.sass'
                exclude 'assets/styles/**/*.scss'
                exclude 'assets/styles/**/*.js'
            
            
    dependsOn += clientWebpack
                dependsOn += serverWebpack
            }
            
            
jar.outputs.dir "${buildDir}/resources/main"
            
            
def nodeEnvironment() {
                def environments = [ prod : 'production', dev: 'development' ]
                def nodeEnv = environments[hasProperty( 'env' ) ? env : 'prod']
                return nodeEnv != null ? nodeEnv : 'production'
            }

tsi · April 6, 2022, 7:37am

Hi @luctho - Did you get the answer you were looking for?

luctho · April 6, 2022, 8:05am

Hi @tsi,

yes works for me.

Thomas