DevForum: Webpack for Invenio

Monday 8 May 2017, 16:00 → 17:00 Europe/Zurich

31/S-023 (CERN)

16:00 → 16:10 Invenio News

Speaker: Lars Holm Nielsen (CERN)

• Invenio Sprint:
  • Week 20-21 (i.e. May 15-26)
  • Planning this week, kick-off next week.
• Maintainer system:
  • MetaInvenio: CLI tool to manage GitHub, Travis, ..., based on YAML file.
  • Documentation: Invenio Governance RFC, Maintainer's guide
  • Architects and maintainer teams will be created this week.
• Repositories:
  • (pending deprecation) ​​​Flask-Security-Fork: Merged back into Flask-Security. Our fork will be closed down.
  • (new) Invenio-Archivematica (@remileduc)
  • (new) PyNPM, PyWebpack, Flask-WebpackExt (being presented today)
• Releases:
  • xrootdpyfs (v0.1.4): Pins PyFilesystem dependency as v2+ is incompatible with XRootDPyFS.

16:10 → 16:30 Webpack for Invenio

Speaker: Lars Holm Nielsen (CERN)

• What do we have to day and why?
  • webassets, Flask-Assets & RequireJS
• What are the problems?
  • Extendability
  • ES6  + JavaScript import
  • CleanCSS
  • Bundling
• Webpack:
  • Concepts: Entry points, output, loaders, plugins
  • Users: Angular, React, Vue, ....
• Webpack + Python + Flask:
  • Flask-WebpackExt, PyWebpack & PyNPM
• Why now? Before v3
• How?
  • Integrate webpack in Invenio-Assets.
  • Keep existing webassets + friends in v3.0 with deprecation warning. Remove in v3.1